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TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL
& SIXTH FORM CENTRE
Part of Bordesley Multi Academy Trust
www.trinity.worcs.sch.uk Newsletter No.5 July 2021
Dear Parents and Carers
CONTENTS
It has been quite a year. We started and ended the year in bubbles and had lockdown in the
HEADTEACHER’S middle! Understandably this has curtailed many of the activities such as Sports, Music, Drama
and Duke of Edinburgh Award, that are an important part of life at Trinity.
MESSAGE
With the announcement that schools will return to ‘normal’ from September I hope that we will
be able to resume all of our after school and extra-curricular activities as well.
SCHOOL NEWS
Despite the restrictions placed upon schools we have done our best to offer students as many
opportunities as we can. Much of this is included in this last newsletter of the year, and I hope
SPORTS NEWS you enjoy reading it.
We are saying goodbye to a number of staff this week: Mrs Lane who has been with us for 18
EPRAISE months as a Progress Assistant; Mr Geyl who has spent this year at Trinity as a Geography
teacher and Mr Cross who has been at Trinity for three years teaching PE and is now moving to
pastures new in Dubai. We are also saying goodbye to more longstanding staff; Mrs Burns who
DATES FOR THE joined us as an NQT and is leaving teaching after nine years to work with the family business.
DIARY
Mr White is retiring after 26 years at the school. He joined the Abbey High School in 1995 as
Head of PE and Manager of Community Developments, he continued this role from 2001 when
COMMUNAL the school became Trinity High School. He was instrumental in gaining the Sportsmark awards
NOTICES for the school, and also became Director of Studies for Sixth Form in 2008. From 2009-2013 he
was heavily involved in the Initial Teacher Training in school and dedicated many hours
mentoring and coaching the many PGCE student teachers that had placements at the school. Mr
White retired from teaching in 2013 and became Post 16 Pastoral Manager. He will be greatly
missed by all students, colleagues and in the wider community where he played a huge part in
extra-curricular activities and sports fixtures with other schools. We wish Mr White a very happy
and long retirement.
We also have colleagues who will be getting married over the summer; we wish Miss Dilay, Miss
Henman and Miss Styler very best wishes for their big day. They will be returning in September
as Mrs Lall, Mrs Brooks and Mrs Loader respectively.
Finally, I would like to thank you all for your support over the last year. It has made our jobs
much easier. I hope you are all able to enjoy the summer break, and I look forward to seeing
many of you in September. To those Year 11 and 13 students who are moving on to pastures
new, we wish you all the best and look forward to hearing about your adventures and
achievements.
Best wishes
Adrian Ward
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
DURING
NEWS
PANDEMIC
The winter months unfortunately saw us having to provide virtual learning during periods of
isolation and lock down. Here are a few of the ‘highlights’ during this time.
A VIRTUAL LEARNING CURVE FOR US ALL
It was a real learning curve for us all and whilst we
experienced a few minor technical difficulties, our staff
and students truly embraced a completely new way of
teaching.
We received lots of excellent and positive feedback, from
parent and carers.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you We have been so pleased and impressed
and all of the teachers for all of your efforts during with how COVID is being dealt with at
this period of isolation. Thank you to you all for Trinity, especially during this isolation
what you are delivering in such challenging and periods. Your teaching staff have been
unprecedented times amazing in their lessons and are so well
organised.
From Year 11 Parent/Carer
From Year 9 Parent/Carer
January saw us in another lockdown, which meant that ……..
SOME TEACHERS STANDING, SOME SITTING DOWN …
WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD OF LIVE LESSONS!
We started our online learning on 6th January, with a
monumental effort from our students, parents, carers and staff
to enable us to get this up and running so successfully.
My daughter is thriving and enjoying the online lessons that
have taken place during the pandemic, I think what you have
provided so far has been exceptional'
From Year 9 Parent/Carer
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
DURING
NEWS
PANDEMIC
The return of our students on 8th March meant the start of the Lateral Flow tests, which ended on 19th
March with us being able to test over 85% of our students three times.
The testing team were encouraging and
supportive and did a great job. The students BEFORE ...
were fantastic in getting tested, and showed
maturity and behaved impeccably.
Students are now able to test at home.
Many thanks to the students and parents/
carers who have supported the school in
this.
… after
SCHOOL NEWS
SUCCESS FOR OUR PUBLISHED POETS
Every year at Trinity we ask our Year 9 students to
enter the ‘Young Writers’ charity poetry competition,
where the top five students picked by the publishers
have a chance of winning £100.
With the lockdown that began before Easter, it meant
that the competition was not able to run as normal
this year. However, we did have time to send off a
number of our best poems before the lockdown began
and to our surprise the charity were able to publish
their anthology, ‘Through Their Eyes’ in November.
This did mean that the Year 9 students who wrote the
poems were, of course, Year 10 students!
Our congratulations went to: Freya H, Nathan
R, Thomas S, Kirsty R, Luke M, Imogen K, Eva G,
Liam C, Mohammed A, Mark T, Owen G, Leo K,
Joey P, James C, Ethan K, Ameena I, Freddie C,
Haris R, L Shakeel, Jacob L and Adam B.
SCHOOL NEWS BUSINESS MENTOR SCHEME Rachel Maclean, MP for Redditch, met with Max on Friday 27th November following his success from the Business Mentor Scheme. Max met, virtually, with Rachel, Julie from Heller and Simon from FAUN Zoeller (UK) Ltd and they talked about Max’s business which he set up with his mum, the sale of the business and his new venture. They commented how talented and inspiring Max is, who himself said he had gained a valuable insight into the business world from the mentor scheme. SPORTS TIES We were able to hold a ‘Covid secure’ assembly for students in November who had been awarded a sports tie. The black and silver sport ties were awarded for their hard work, dedication and representing the school, during many sports fixtures last year. The students will wear their sports ties with pride and be proud of what they have achieved.
SCHOOL NEWS NON-UNIFORM DAY FOR CHARITY—FRIDAY 28TH MAY 2021
LEARNING DURING LOCKDOWN REWARDING OUR HOME LEARNERS…. To encourage our students to work as hard as they could, we introduced our weekly Facebook reward post for outstanding work completed remotely. We had so many fantastic pieces to choose from, and each piece that made it onto Facebook received a £5 reward voucher. Here are a selection on work during this time, which we think you will agree is excellent.
SCHOOL NEWS
Although Christmas was a little different this year and could not celebrate in the normal way, we
were able to put our festive spirit into helping charities
CHRISTMAS CHARITIES
During the run up to Christmas, Trinity students and staff were involved in supporting a number of
charities.
• The Sixth Form have donated essential items to St
Basils youth homeless charity.
• The whole school have collected donations of non-
perishable food items for the Batchley Support
Group foodbank.
• Christmas Jumper day was on Friday 11th
December. Students wore a Christmas jumper in
exchange for donations to the food bank.
SCHOOL NEWS
VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT
It was an absolute pleasure that the school was able to
hold its first ever, Virtual Christmas Concert. It had been
a difficult term and not being able to run any extra-
curricular activities or a concert was disappointing.
Thanks to our Year 13 music group, they all worked very
hard to put together a little Christmas treat.
The Virtual Christmas Concert 2020 was released on
YouTube, in December, and student and parents were
able to donate to the students chosen charity.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/trinity-high-
virtual-concert
LIGHT THE DARKNESS
On Wednesday 27th January at 8pm, Trinity High School
staff and students came together to remember those
who died during the Holocaust, and genocide since.
While we were not be able to be together, our online
community, The Hub was filled with beautiful images of
candles burning brightly to #LightTheDarkness.
DONATION OF LAPTOPS
During the spring term, a Redditch electronics company donated 20 laptops and 10 wireless dongles to
help students at Trinity High School who were learning from home. Provided by Solid State PLC, the
donated devices made a huge difference towards enabling local students to engage and interact within
lessons to ensure their education continued.
We also have had other donations from the school community, parents, governors and staff, and we
were extremely grateful to everyone who donated during this difficult time.
LEARNING DURING LOCKDOWN NANDO’S COMPETITON In February, Mrs Kirk, launched a challenge to students to come up with items for the Nando’s menu, which was very kindly sponsored by Nando’s Redditch. We had some fantastic entries with really creative ideas. It was a really tough decision to choose the top entries, let alone the winner, and Mrs Kirk had to get help from all the staff to choose the winner. The winner who received a Nando’s Platter was Anya O, well done we may well see your dishes on the menu by the end of the year. PIZZA COMPETITION Following on from the Nando’s challenge, Mrs Kirk set another culinary challenge, a Pizza competition, again we had fantastic entries and really creative ideas. After lots of debate and judging, we had a winner, Lucy H who received a Pizza Hut bundle. VALENTINE’S COMPETITION The final ‘at home’ challenge set by Mrs Kirk was to create a Valentine treat. This was the hardest to judge yet and after lots of debate and judging, the winner was Lizzie W.
SCHOOL NEWS FACE MASK DONATION We were extremely grateful to have received a wonderful donation of facemasks, visors and hand sanitiser from a member of our community. Money was raised via TikTok followers of Tracey Thomas, who had a child at Trinity a few years ago. Tracey had been raising funds through her account and using the money to purchase products which would help to keep students and staff safe during COVID times. Mr Ward, Headteacher, commented, ‘We are very grateful for this support and wish Tracey well in her future fund raising endeavours’. WE DID SUPPORT SAFER INTERNET DAY Safer Internet Day 2021 was on 9th February and was celebrated with the theme ‘An internet we trust – exploring reliability in the online world’. Safer Internet Day inspires a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically, and creatively. Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre, the celebration sees thousands of organisations get involved to promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. This year in the UK, Safer Internet Day explores reliability online. Safer Internet Day was celebrated globally with the slogan: Together for a better internet. Making sure our students understand how to stay safe online is crucial – particularly at the moment when the lack of social contact means they're spending a lot more time surfing the net. But as well as ensuring children keep personal information to themselves and don't access unsuitable websites, it's also vitally important they can spot ‘fake news' and misleading or untrustworthy information online, and that's why the theme for this year's Safer Internet Day in February was ‘An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world'. “As lockdowns continue to disrupt education and everyday life, it's more important than ever that young people are given the tools and understanding they need for safe internet use,” Please use this link for more information: PARENT RESOURCE
SCHOOL NEWS WELLBEING DAY Students took a break from lessons before Easter to participate in our Wellbeing Day, with the focus of looking after and improving their wellbeing. Students had conversations with their tutors via teams and were able to choose activities from a wellbeing grid that could be completed at home. These included tasks regarding mental, physical, social, creative and community wellbeing, from having a bath with candles to having a friendly chat with a neighbour, making a COVID time capsule or to having a go at yoga. Students who were in school were also able to take part in various activities including Sport, Photography, Gardening and Cooking, some of the food creations are seen above. BEAR GRYLLS ADVENTURE—NEC Year 12 Sport students went to Bear Grylls Adventure Indoor/Outdoor Activity Centre at the NEC on Friday 9th July. All of the students that attended had a fantastic attitude towards each activity, behaved extremely mature throughout the day and all passed the outdoor and adventure section of their course. Activities included: indoor rock climbing, outdoor high ropes course and an obstacle course.
SCHOOL NEWS YEAR 11 CAREERS EVENT All of Year 11 were involved in a Careers Event ‘Looking towards your Future’, on Tuesday 25th May. The day started with Luke Carnie From Aim Higher and Uni Connect with a positive outlook on the future for our young people. The students then had a carousel of activities with ‘Help in getting a part-time job and money matters.’ delivered by our new Enterprise Advisor, Diana Sharpe. Then there was a presentation by the British Army about opportunities and prospects within the forces. The last session was ‘Different Interview Tips’ presented by Luke Carnie. We finished with a talk from Nick Elston , an Inspirational speaker about resilience and mental well-being. GOOD LUCK We said au revoir to our Year 11 and Year 13 students on 28th May. Year 13 were able to say goodbye to friends and staff at their Leavers’ Breakfast and Year 11 were able to sign each others shirts before they left. It had been another difficult year for those leaving school, with GCSE and A Level exams being ‘cancelled’ and replaced with end of year assessments for teachers to determine an estimated grade. We hope that you will all achieve the grades that you all so much deserve in August. We will be welcoming back some of the Year 11 students in the Sixth Form in September, but we wish you all good luck for your futures – you have been great, you have overcome the adversity of the last two years, and you all now have the chance to succeed in your chosen paths. RESULTS DAYS A reminder that exam results will be emailed to student’s school email address on:- • Year 13 Tuesday 10th August • Year 11 Thursday 12th August
SCHOOL NEWS
We had a further two cookery challenges at Easter and half term, which has certainly showcased our
students’ culinary skills.
COLIN THE CATERPILLAR RIP OFF COMPETITION
During the last week of the half-term, Sixth Formers competed against each
other to make their best version of Colin the Caterpillar cake. The students
had the target to produce a better caterpillar than all the other ones found
in supermarkets. The vote was then put to all the staff and students at
Trinity. Well done all who took part. We were very impressed by the result
with the winner being the Wiggly Caterpillar by Cate B and Lucy O
EASTER BAKE OFF COMPETITON
Thank you to those of you who took the time to enter the Easter
competition.
There were some amazing entries and it was hard to choose the top few entries, however, the judges
did come to a difficult decision and the top three are shown here.
1st Place: Lizzie W
2nd Place: Beth RM 3rd Place: Lucy HSCHOOL NEWS YEAR 12 PROGRESSION DAY On Thursday 24th June , all our Year 12 students were off timetable for a ‘Progression after Year 13’ workshops. This included a general information talk by Mrs Laxton, including apprenticeship availability and the application process, followed by a university application process by Mr Petit. Whatever future progression routes our student will take, Trinity uses a career research tool called ‘Unifrog’ (slightly mis-leading as it is not just about university but all routes including Apprenticeships / CV’s / Work based learning. I would urge all our Sixth Form students to regularly log on and use this fantastic research tool. YEAR 12 DRAMA Wednesday 14th July saw the Year 12 Drama students perform their play ‘mad House’ in front of staff and peers. The ‘scary’ performance depicts the minds of serial killers and their nemesis. Great performances by our Drama students. Thank you to all who also put money in the collection for the charity ‘Mind’ (looking after Mental Health of our young people). Well done to all involved.
SCHOOL NEWS STEM COMPETITION On Monday 17th May, Trinity celebrated student creativity with its annual School STEM Competition (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). Each year, students in Year 9 are asked to design a solar powered product, which is both innovative and problem-solving, and create an accompanying presentation, which communicates their ideas effectively. Our current cohort really took on the challenge and the range of ideas really impressed the staff in the Creative & Technology Faculty, making their task of shortlisting the top 10 concepts much more difficult than usual. The decision was very tricky, in fact, 12 students were selected to pitch their ideas to our three judges in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ presentation format! All 12 competitors really excelled in presenting their products, with each student displaying the school’s key values of Pride, Ambition and Excellence, and whilst the competition was fierce the atmosphere in the green room was wonderfully supportive and encouraging. This year’s judging panel commented on how strong the field was, complimenting each entrant for the level of ingenuity and confidence displayed in their demonstrations. Unfortunately, as with all competitions, some tough choices had to be made in order to decide on the top three entries, but, it was great to see how pleased the students were for the winners, despite not being chosen themselves. The three winners were: Iraj I - solar lamp; Anya O - CCTV plant pot; Lucy H - solar toothbrush who went on to the final representing Trinity against Pershore High School, where they sold their pitch to a new set of judges with the hope of bringing home the £250 prize, kindly sponsored by Alcoa.
SCHOOL NEWS Following on from previous article…. The final took place on Tuesday 6th July, and our three Year 9 students from Trinity locked horns with three of their contemporaries from Pershore High School. Competing for the honour of STEM champion with each pupil hopeful of winning the £250 star prize. The field was incredibly diverse, with everything from planes to toothbrushes, the level of ingenuity was inspiring and the confidence displayed in each pitch was astonishing – especially if one considered the added pressures of presenting to this year’s expert panel overseeing the adjudication: Mr Jim Barton; former engineer and teacher; Dr David Gregory-Kumar; BBC Science Correspondent and Mr Ward,; Trinity’s Headteacher. This year’s format had to be changed slightly to accommodate Covid-safe protocols, with Trinity students presenting ‘live’ in front of the judges and Pershore students being beamed in virtually; once the feed was established, the whole day went incredibly well and there were no lasting technical issues to detract from the excellent event – perhaps it could even be a permanent change, as students are asked to consider sustainability, so too should we organisers! Once all pitches were delivered, the judges had the unenviable task of deciding upon the winners, the calibre of this year’s presentations were the highest yet and caused the panel to request an extra five minutes for deliberation; eventually, a decision was made and Iraj’s (Trinity) solar lamp declared the winner, with Logan’s (Pershore) jacket and Lucy’s (Trinity) toothbrush coming in second and third, respectively. Trinity’s Creative & Technology department would like to thank all students, staff and judges involved, it was a terrific occasion and we were so proud of all those that entered, they really were a credit to both themselves and the schools they represented. Congratulations to Lucy, Logan, Iraj, Harriet, Anya and Anya your futures are very bright!
SCHOOL NEWS SIXTH FORM CHARITY FUND RAISING On Wednesday afternoons the Sixth Form have a ‘Sport/PE‘ slot for all students. A football competition was arranged amongst the student’s. Well done to Uwais who organised this therefore managing to raise a contribution towards : ‘The Well Foundation’. Thank you to all who donated generously. This has enabled the school to sponsor a water pump in Cambodia to help a poor area without access to clean water. Polluted water is the world’s biggest killer of children under five. The Well foundation’s primary aim is to raise money to build wells, install hand pumps and establish health and sanitation programmes to provide accessible clean water to the poverty-stricken regions of the world. A fantastic project and we are now looking to raise further funds to sponsor more pumps / wells around the world where the population does not have access to clean water. SIXTH FORM BAKE CHARITY SALE Very well done to Lizzie and Megan and all who contributed to the Bake Sale - Sour Sixth Form succeeded in raising £65.00 going towards the ‘Great Ormond Street’ charity – fantastic effort! MODERN & FOREIGN LANGUAGES Towards the end of term, Year 9 have been getting creative in their language classes. To celebrate the culture of the countries as well as learn the language, pupils discovered how many of the countries celebrate the pre-Lent season with festivals, carnivals including dressing-up and wear masks . Although this party season was a few months whilst we were in lockdown, the languages department decided the pupils shouldn't miss out on this enriching experience. Well done, Year 9.
SCHOOL NEWS
THS SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
This summer the Photography department launched a brand-new
competition for the whole school to get involved in. There were
over 80 photographic
submissions on the theme of
‘The natural world’, and they
were truly stunning. Entries
were displayed on the
Everything Arts Team that is
part of The Hub; our online school community. The images
submitted were a fantastic demonstration of creativity and
individuality, testament to the students enterprising skill and
imagination. Our specialist panel of judges deliberated over the
images they felt captured the natural world in the most interesting
ways. It was a tough call, but they finally agreed on joint winners, Chloe B and Farah S, both from Year
10. Runners up were Logan S, (Y9), Catalina B and Aaron H, (Y12). Everyone who entered deserves a
special mention as the judges and photography department were
absolutely blown away by the talent displayed, but in particular
Kirsty R and Chase J (Y10), Libby M (Y11), and Hayden F (Y12) all
made a big impression on the
judges too.
Winners now have a new portable
photo-tent to take home and
continue their creative journey
with, and we hope to see much
more of your wonderful work on
The Hub. There will be a new
competition in the new Autumn
term, so look out for announcements and start thinking about how
you could capture the warm tones of the season. The theme will be
‘Hideaway’, so get out your cameras and start snapping to be first in
line to enter.SCHOOL NEWS STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO BROMCOM (MY CHILD AT SCHOOL - MCAS)
SPORTS NEWS
THS MILES
Our lockdown inspired initiative came from the
Sports Department, namely, Mr Bristowe. Given
that our options were limited at that time, he
decided to add up our daily walks, exercise routines,
(cycling, rowing, running) - into mileage and we all
managed to go from Land’s End via a diversion to
Trinity High School and got to
We wonder where our next travels will take us?
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY
GIRLS’ FOOTBALL TRIALS
Great news in December for
five of our Year 9 students,
who made it through to the
second round of the
Worcestershire County
Football trials; Grace, Angel
E, Brooke S, Monique L and
Emily LSTAFF MAKING US SMILE MADE ME SMILE AWARD During the year, Trinity Staff have been anonymously nominating staff for either making someone smile in some way, going out of their way to help someone in a crisis or going above and beyond. The first member of Staff to win this prestigious award was Jacob Finch (ICT Technician), for ’nothing is too much trouble’. Other members of staff who have received the award were Mrs Martin and Mrs Meekins (unwilling to be in the photo!) from the General Office, for their helpful and cheery attitude whatever the weather, and Mrs Blackwell and her team for their professionalism and selflessness in the rolling out of the COVID Lateral Flow Testing for staff and students. Thank you to you all and well deserved.
EPRAISE NEWS
Welcome to your EPraise bulletin. This term we have awarded the following EPraise points. Top 10
students and tutor groups listed below:
STUDENT LEADERBOARD TUTOR GROUPS
9TMC
Keira N (9TMC) 9CHK
Ellie-May M (9TMC) 9ASA
Daniel L (9CHK) 9JRS
Lucy H (9CHK) 9LKB
Joshua H (9CHK) 10KAS
Abi G (9CHK) 10RJC HOUSE
POINTS
Ismail R (9JRS) 9JBL
Millie H (9TMC) 9ELH 1st Place
Ellie W (9CHK) 10AJH
2nd Place
Ellie W (9CHK)
3rd Place
DATES FOR THE DIARY
• Friday 16th July 2021 End of Summer Term
• Monday 6th September 2021 LFT testing for Year 9 and 12 and return home
• Tuesday 7th September 2021 Year 9 and 12 in school
Year 11 and 13 LFT testing and return home
• Wednesday 8th September 2021 Year 9, 11, 12 and 13 in school
Year 10 LFT testing and return home
• Thursday 9th September 2021 All students in school
Year 9 and 12 second LFT testing
• Friday 10th September 2021 All students in school
Year 11 and 13 second LFT testing
• Monday 13th September 2021 All students in school
Year 12 second LFT testing
Excellence for All
Trinity High School & Sixth Form Centre
Easemore Road, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 8HB
Tel: 01527 585859 / Fax: 01527 65587 / office@trinityhigh.net
www.trinity.worcs.sch.ukCOMMUNAL NOTICES
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COMMUNAL NOTICES WITH THE HOT WEATHER AND SUMMER HOLIDAYS APPROACHING PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS RLSS WARNING: The RLSS has appealed for people to take note of simple safety messages to avoid a repeat of last summer’s tragedies when many people lost their lives cooling off in un-lifeguarded open water, not suitable for swimming. Around 400 people needlessly drown in the UK every year and thousands more suffer injury, some life changing, through near-drowning experiences. Putting this into context, one person dies every 20 hours in the UK and drowning is the third highest cause of accidental death of children in the UK. So, with temperatures high, it is important people make the most of the weather and enjoy the water but do so safely at sites designated for swimming. Please watch the following videos with your children: https://vimeo.com/558950427 https://vimeo.com/514252164 https://www.rlss.org.uk/summer-water-safety https://www.rlss.org.uk/water-safety-at-home
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