Trinity Newsletter

News of the School for the Community it Serves; published every Friday

Friday 10th February 2012

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 20

The Lionheart Challenge

Last week, all students in Year 9 had a special curriculum day based in the sports hall.

The ’Lionheart Challenge’ allowed students to work in groups to consider issues of personal safety in today’s society and, at the conclusion, to make group presentations to explain their findings and recommendations.

A range of business people supported the Challenge and were extremely impressed with the Trinity students, who they described as ’courteous’, ’truly outstanding’ and ’enthusiastic’. They also paid tribute to the ‘effort, thought and dedication’ put into the final presentations.

The Ghyll Head Challenge

Year 10 students, Morgan Depasois, Dominique Tomlin, Sara Abdul, Victor Ingham, Robert Ingham, Bobola Apampa, Ayo Adelusi, Edyta Nowak, Jake Virdee-Reynolds and Pippa Whittle, recount their recent experiences in the Lake District:

“We all had a great time at Ghyll Head. On the Friday we left at 1pm and arrived at the Lake District at 3pm. Then we wandered around the village for something to eat and had to be back for 4pm. On the first night we went to do our first activity, navigation. You will be happy to know that Parrswood set off before Trinity and we arrived first at the finishing point!

When we got back we had to go to bed at 10:30pm. The next day, Saturday, we went on a hiking activity and walked for nearly 4 hours. The wind was horrendous, but we didn’t give up even though we were really cold. When we got back we had chicken, vegetables, potatoes and gravy—it was delicious. We had sticky toffee pudding to follow, which was the best we have had. After dinner we had to do two more activities: making a parachute strong enough to hold an egg which wouldn’t break.

We then had to throw it off a 15m tower without it breaking. The second task was to plan for the ‘Kath Wright Challenge’ on Sunday. We all enjoyed the day’s challenges and used teamwork to help us get through it. We then had to leave for Manchester at 4pm. We said thank you to the Ghyll Head team. We all had a great time.”

Mr Glover, Head of Geography, commented:

“The students were a credit to the school as the conditions were the most challenging I have encountered in ten years of taking teams to the Lakes. All team members contributed positively and, I believe, thoroughly enjoyed the experience.”

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme

DofE Coordinator, Mr Davis, writes:

“This year’s Duke of Edinburgh Award students have been undertaking the skills requirement of the award in the evenings after school.

The Bronze candidates have been working towards a first aid qualification with St John’s Ambulance, run by Mr Worsley.

The Silver candidates are developing skills in self defence under the guidance of visiting self defence trainer Mr Lee-Baron.”

Swimming Gala Results

Superb performances from Rebekah Cowtan, Y8, and Leon Gledhill, Y9, and the full list of results is as follows:

	1st	2nd	3rd
Year 7	AKI: 49 points	CHO: 46 points	KWA: 44 points
Year 8	LBA: 56 points	ZZA: 47 points	LBR/NKI: 23 points
Year 9	TCA: 57 points	TKE: 50 points	RCO: 47 points
Year 10	RHU: 39 points	TGU: 27 points	AHA: 14 points

Well done to everyone who took part and, in so doing, earned valuable House points.

British Gymnastics

Year 9 student, Jade Stedford, is only one of sixteen young people in the country to have been selected to attend the Women’s Artistic World Class Potential Squad training camp at Loughborough University.

Good luck Jade!

Music Students Charity Event

Mr Bowden writes

“Last week, a group of Y11 music students met with representatives from the Christie Hospital’s fundraising team to present their ideas and to make final plans for an event as part of their coursework.

Our students were well prepared and conducted themselves with professionalism and maturity. The students have been working very hard as part of a team to organise the school’s first ‘Open-Mic Night’.

Full details will be published very soon for what promises to be a fantastic event for a great cause.”

The Greater Manchester Lieutenancy Service

… held on Sunday, 5 February, at Manchester Cathedral, in the year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, was attended by a number of distinguished guests including Bishops, Mayors and, of course, the Lord Lieutenant.

Year 10 students, Efe Otobrise, was asked to read a lesson, which she did impeccably.