There’s a new blog post from the Rector available on the school website.
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Making Maths Count Initiative
“Making Maths Count” is a Scottish Government national initiative that has two broad aims:
- To encourage greater enthusiasm for maths amongst children and young people, their parents, carers and the wider public
- To provide support for teachers and help raise attainment in Mathematics National Qualifications.
To encourage engagement from the wider general public an online questionnaire has been developed to look at how people feel about maths, how they use maths and how confident they are with their maths skills.
Health and Resilience
Life often throws challenges our way. It could be the death of a close family member or friend, a serious illness, the loss of a job or the breakdown of a relationship. ‘Resilience’ means our ability to cope with these events.
As parents and carers, you play a vital role in helping to prepare your children for the difficult times that life brings.
Lern more at the Place2be website
National Approach to Anti-Bullying – Parents’ Consultation
The Scottish Government is updating the National Approach to Anti-Bullying for Scotland’s Children and Young People. The purpose of this is to help adults who are in contact with children and young people to prevent and deal with bullying in similar ways.
The Scottish Government are consulting children and young people and their parents as part of the process of updating the National Approach. There is a short questionnaire with a view to gathering the views of parents on anti-bullying. Please note the closing date is Friday 19 February.
Welcome to 2016
Happy new year and welcome to 2016, a new year and school term. To start the year we thought it might be useul to provide a one-stop summary of all the ways to stay in touch with what’s happening at the school and Parent Council. Feel free to pick those that suit you best.
School
The school has a website and it is updated regularly and the Rector’s blog is usually updated once each week. The school also provides a number of Twitter feeds:
- The school’s main Twitter feed.
- Trinity Sports
- Trinity Music
- Trinity Academy Sports Council
- Trinity Academy Professional Learning
Some of the Twitter feeds are private which means you need approval (and a Twitter account) to follow them.
Parent Council
Most of our communication is posted to this website but we also update our Twitter feed and Facebook group regularly. Please feel free to follow any of those accounts and we’d love to hear your feedback too.
Communities
One of our school pupils, Jack Liddell, has written a blog post where he talks about the importance of his school community.
Trinity Academy Podcast
FESH are a group of S2 pupils with an interest in audio podcasting. Their aim is to bring you regular podcasts with news, features and interviews with a Trinity Academy viewpoint.
Your Future In The Past
Young people, career starters and S4-S6 secondary school students are invited to a free Careers Fair on Friday 20 November 2015 in Edinburgh. This event will demonstrate how an interest in the past can open the door to a huge range of careers in heritage, such as education and outreach, archaeology, technology, maths and gaming.
Booking is essential.
Trinity Academicals Rugby club
Here’s some information about Trinity Academicals Rugby club written by David Barnes, a former pupil of the school.
TRINITY ACADEMICALS RFC has had an encouraging start to the 2015-2016 season, having won two of their first three matches, and with player numbers up on recent years, the club has high hopes of winning promotion into BT East League Division One at the end of the campaign.
The current 1st XV squad contains a strong contingent of proud Trinity Academy alumni, who either view the club as the final destination in their rugby career, or as an excellent stepping stone to one of the several senior clubs in the area with whom we have forged strong working relationships.
We are very keen to further strengthen our links with the school, which we recognise as playing a very important role in developing the next generation of rugby players in north Edinburgh, and welcome any suggestions and recommendations which may help us attract new supporters.
Please email us with any queries you may have.
We pride ourselves on being an open, inclusive and family orientated club which caters to all ages. To that end, we promise a warm welcome to both new members and infrequent guests at our Bangholm base. If you manage to make it along on match day then please introduce yourself to our president, Ross Findlay who is sure to buy you a beer (or a coffee from our newly installed commercial coffee machine). The cosy member’s bar at Bangholm is open from an hour before kick-off, and pies are available at half-time.
Training is on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (starting at 7pm), while our fixture schedule can be found on the Scottish Rugby Website.
Teen Triple P
Te
en Triple P is a 9-week practical parenting programme which can help parents and carers cope positively with some of the common issues associated with raising a teenager.
The City of Edinburgh Council runs Teen Triple P groups in each area of the city in venues such as community centres, schools and libraries. Programmes run during the day and in evenings. They are free for parents and carers of children who live or attend school in Edinburgh. Find details of local groups at www.joininedinburgh.org/parenting-programmes/teen-triple-p/
The programme can help parents and carers to:
- Cope positively with some of the common issues associated with raising a teenager
- Build a stronger relationship with their teenager
- Resolve conflict in the family
- Manage problem behaviour
- Help their teen stay safe.