No. 24 – Monday 24th August 2015 Student Absentee Answering Machine Phone Number 5233 9299

Christ, the Peacemaker Blessed are the peacemakers for

they will be called children of God.

In the face of Christ we see the depths of peace. We see the gaze of one who taught his disciples to love their enemies

and to forgive those who persecute them. Let us pray that we be people of peace.

Christ, our Peacemaker, lead us to seek the

ways of peace and to pursue justice for the good of all.

Amen

Dear Parents, Students and Friends of Trinity College Welcome to week seven of term three. It is hard to believe that we only have four weeks of term left after this one and our Year 12 students have fewer than seven weeks of classes until they finish their formal classes at Trinity College and at secondary school. I know that all in the school community join me in encouraging our Year 12 students to continue to look after one another, to continue to talk with their families and to ensure that their studies remain a strong focus at this stage of the year. With only seven weeks of classes remaining, which will then be followed by the rigours of examinations, teachers are very keen to continue their support of students, especially as the Year 12 students finish their courses and begin their preparations for their final exams. These Year 12 students will continue to be in the prayers of the school community. The Annual Ski Trip departed Trinity College on Sunday and I know that we have a number of very excited Year 11 students and staff who are enjoying the alpine slopes of Mt Hotham. We hope that they have a fantastic experience and we look forward to hearing their stories following a safe return. Welcome back to our Year 9 students and staff who spent the past week on camp in Melbourne. A great deal of time and effort by a large team of staff is invested in the organisation and preparation for the camp. I thank Mr Des Ryan, Year 9 Level Coordinator, and the Year 9 homeroom teachers and other staff who supervised this event and made the camp possible. I also thank and congratulate our students for embracing the challenge of spending four days in the state capital and learning about life in the city. We trust that they enjoyed the experience. The College is nearing the end of the subject selection process. The current Year 7 and 8 students have attended information sessions that have enabled them to make suitable choices. Students should take into account their interests, talents and possible career. Subject selections for our Year 7 and 8 students are due on Monday, 31

st August. It is appropriate to thank Mrs Cheryl

Pefanis, Mr Luke Featherston and Miss Judy Carter for their valuable and tireless work in this area. Our interim reports will be released on our Parent Access Module (PAM) for all students on the 1

st September. Our

Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews will be conducted on Wednesday, 9th

September. These interviews can be booked via PAM this term. Feel free to contact Reception should you require any assistance as you make your bookings. As with previous interviews, we strongly encourage that your child attend the interviews with you so that they may gain further feedback on the learning they are undertaking.

We look forward to our Founders’ Day celebrations including our whole school Liturgy at St. Mary’s Church to be followed by the Walkathon in the Botanic Gardens. This is a wonderful day of celebration at Trinity College and all students are required to participate to the best of their ability. Further details are included elsewhere in our newsletter this week.

In this coming week may we each have the strength and courage to be peacemakers in the lives of those around us.

Virtus Nobilitat. Mr Tim O’Farrell Principal

FOUNDERS’ DAY PREPARATIONS “Without a vision the people perish” Proverbs 29:18

As Founders’ Day is fast approaching, it is timely to reflect on the importance of this day in the life of Trinity College. We need a vision in order to thrive and our vision is deeply anchored in the Gospel. Catherine McAuley and Edmund Rice began the Mercy Sisters and Christian Brothers to be sisters and brothers to the poor, the uneducated and to the marginalised in Irish society in the 18

th century. Catholic motivation for social justice is as they envisioned it: simply, that Jesus is our brother so we are

brothers and sisters in his love.

This is a timeless imperative which influences how we see ourselves as a College and how others judge our authenticity. Are we brothers and sisters to each other, to the voiceless, the poor and to the shunned in our society? On Founders’ Day, we take time to celebrate our identity and to embrace it through good works. In the Eucharistic Celebration, at St Mary’s Church at 11.00 am, we gather in thanksgiving for our identity, longevity and vitality as a school community. Parents are warmly invited to pray with us. Afterwards, we will go to the Botanical Gardens and walk for those who cannot walk – children who are victims of landmines, whose lives are changed forever because of amputation of their legs.

Our students are walking to help them have mobility, hence the slogan “Making Tracks”. Brother Ollie Pickett, a retired Christian Brother, runs a workshop in Western Australia where he has perfected a simple, low-maintenance wheelchair which costs $160 to build. The chairs are sent to the poorest children of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam who are victims of landmines from wars long past. Mobility in a wheelchair allows these children to be educated and engage in community life which otherwise would be denied to them once their mothers can no longer carry them. Rotary supports the project and package and ship the chairs free of charge.

Just as Catherine and Edmund made a difference, each of us can also make a difference. It just takes enthusiasm and the ability to ask people to be sponsors. Every person a student talks to about landmines and Brother Ollie’s project makes a difference. Every sponsor’s support makes a difference. Every lap a student walks makes a difference. In a very public way in the centre of Colac, hopefully on a beautiful Spring day in the gardens, our students are witnessing to the vision of our Founders. Please encourage and support them! Ms Anne Hughes Director of Faith & Mission

YEAR 12 VTAC INFORMATION SESSION On Tuesday, 25

th August 2015, a presentation will be held for all Year 12 students and their parents. This session will focus on

informing families of the process involved in applying for tertiary study in 2016. The presentation will take place at Trinity College, in the Robinson Activity Centre, at 7.00pm.

A number of our students have already registered to open a VTAC Account and have commenced selecting University Preferences. This evening will provide further information on, not only the Preference system, but also how SEAS and Scholarship applications can be accessed. Mr Noel McKay Year 12 Coordinator

INTERIM REPORTS AVAILABLE ON PAM NEXT WEEK

http://pam.tcc.vic.edu.au

Semester Two interim reports are available on Tuesday, 1st

September, via the Parent Access Module (PAM). This feedback provides a timely update on your child’s progress. By logging into PAM, parents can view past and present school reports and find out what homework and assessment tasks are currently underway or overdue for their child. If families have misplaced their logon details to PAM, please contact the College Reception.

SUBJECT SELECTION TIMELINE FOR 2016 Students in Year 7 and 8 are reminded that their subject selections must be completed by midnight on Monday, 31

st August.

Students have received an email with their log-on names and passwords and are to insert their preferences as explained in the email.

Once students have completed their 2016 Subject Selections on-line, students must print a final copy of their selections, ensure that the sheet is signed by a parent/guardian and return the sheet to their homeroom teacher.

Any Year 7 or 8 student who is unsure of their subject selections should chat to their homeroom teacher, their subject teacher or to their YLC. Alternatively, they can contact Mr Featherston or Mrs Pefanis from 19

th August to 28

th August for further

clarification.

PARENT/TEACHER/STUDENT INTERVIEWS Parents/Guardians are reminded that interviews for Semester 2 will be held Wednesday, 9

th September. Interview times are of 5

minutes’ duration and are held between 10am and 7:25pm. Families can book these slots on the Parent Access Module (PAM) from Tuesday 1

st September. Whilst there are no formal classes on this day for students, they are encouraged to attend the

interviews as the conversation will be about how best to support each student in the learning process. We look forward to meeting with as many of our families as possible.

These interviews are an integral part of communication between students, teachers and families and provide a wonderful opportunity to discuss your child’s learning. We trust that, with the increased feedback via Parent Access Module (PAM), there could be some conversation-starters based on this feedback.

In order to book interviews, please log in to PAM. The screen images below show the steps in booking your Parent/Teacher/Student interview time slots.

1. When the interviews are approaching, a ‘Parent/Teacher Interviews’ link will appear in the top left of the PAM interface.

2. Select the student for whom interviews are to be made. Click on the class and the available times will appear on the right hand side. Then select ‘Book interview’.

3. Booked interviews for ALL children will be listed below in chronological order. Bookings can be edited by clicking on the blue ‘Edit’ button: select ‘New Time’ and ‘Confirm’. Bookings can be deleted by hitting the red cross.

EVACUATION PROCEDURES Our College community is reminded that, as a College, we are required to practise various emergency drills with our students. Such drills may result in either an evacuation or a lockdown.

The Chief Warden is responsible for managing the emergency and every person on campus MUST follow the instructions given by the Chief Warden. With the assistance of other wardens, the Chief Warden will also manage communication with the emergency services. In the event of an emergency, our first priority will always be the safety of our students, our staff and our visitors. Communication with parents, media outlets and other bodies will occur only once we have secured the safety of every person on campus.

Visitors on campus must please note:

All staff, students, volunteers and visitors on campus are expected to respond immediately to the instructions given by the Chief Warden over the public address system.

No person or car will be permitted to enter or exit the College premises and we ask visitors for their co-operation and patience as we undertake these important safety exercises.

Allocated wardens will inspect the College grounds and every person must follow the instruction of any warden.

Once the ‘all clear’ has been given by the Chief Warden, the day’s usual procedures can continue as normal.

Evacuation (alarm will be a long whoop-whoop sounds) Should an evacuation be called, every person on campus is expected to go by the safest and most direct route to the Emergency Evacuation Control Point. This control point would usually be either the oval or the hall but can be another area. The Communications Officer will manage the location: roll call will be taken and will include checking that all visitors and volunteers are accounted for as well as ensuring students are cared for by their teachers. Should there be an injured person left in any area, the Communications Officer needs to be informed of this immediately so that first aid services can be deployed to the correct area.

Lockdown (alarm may be a shorter ring or another controlled method) Should a lockdown be called, every person on campus is expected to remain where they are located, to ensure that they are in a safe location and to not walk around on campus. Again, every person on campus is expected to follow the instructions of the Chief Warden.

We thank you in advance for your assistance when we have an emergency drill. Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the College.

LITERACY AT TRINITY COLLEGE The Cars and Stars Program in Years 7, 8 and 9 is going well with positive feedback from staff,

students and parents. The students are progressing at pleasing rates. Using this programme, the

teacher explicitly teaches the strategy and students gain skills to help them identify a strategy

whilst reading a passage.

This week our focus is:

Strategy 5 Comparing and Contrasting

A comparison tells how things, people, places or events are alike.

A contrast tells how they are different.

Thinking about the ways two or more things are alike is called comparing.

Thinking about the ways two or more things are different is called contrasting.

Look for clue words such as: as, both, same, like, alike, similar. These words show comparison.

Look for clue words such as: but, unlike, different, however, whereas, instead. These words show a difference.

If there are no clues words, think about the things you have read. How are they alike? How are they different?

Look out for metaphors or similes. Writers use these to compare unlike things.

This week I would like to welcome you all to the forthcoming National Literacy Week which will be held from 31st

August to 4th

September. This is the 17th NLNN and we are excited to celebrate the importance of literacy, which includes the foundations of learning with teachers, students and parents at Trinity College.

During National Literacy Week, we are encouraging parents and carers to get involved and participate in the week because positive parental engagement and involvement promotes improved literacy learning and student outcomes.

We will be celebrating Literacy Week during Literacy period on the 3rd

September at Trinity College. Look out for the Poetry competition and other activities connected to the theme “Read for Australia”.

Enjoy reading with your child: perhaps you could visit the library or even buy a book to read. Mrs Caroline Grist Literacy Coordinator

INDONESIAN ACTIVITIES

Independence Day Celebrations at TCC Last Thursday, 13

th August, as a College, we celebrated

70 years since Indonesia proclaimed Independence. It was a great day full of action in the Tuck Wing where students and teachers were involved in the activities which included playing games, viewing cultural displays, bracelet-making, eating traditional Indonesian food and buying lollies and wristbands with Indonesia's currency Rupiah that were distributed to students earlier in the day. We also welcomed some very special guests from the Indonesian Consulate in Melbourne, State Parliament and Colac Otway Shire Council for the celebrations. A massive thank you goes to Bu Cole for all the time and effort towards making the day successful, to Pak Danu for the incredible amount of food he cooked and to Bu Wheal and Bu O’Loughlin for their ongoing support and promotion of Indonesian activities

Selamat Hari Kemerdekaan. Tess O’Brien Year 12 student

Celebration of Indonesian Independence Day in Canberra On Monday, 17

th August, Indonesia celebrated its 70th year of

independence. The senior students undertaking VCE Indonesian were invited by His Excellency, the Indonesian Ambassador, to attend the celebration at the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra. Two of us were incredibly fortunate to be able to accept the invitation.

The day began with an early lane trip to Canberra and we quickly made our way to the Embassy. As we walked through the big, black gates and up the drive, we were able to marvel at the Indonesian buildings adorned with beautiful stone carvings and guarded by dragon sculptures. Almost as soon as we walked into the courtyard, we were greeted by His Excellency and his wife and many ministers, including the Minister of Education.

Soon after the initial introductions, the flag-raising ceremony begun. A group of students dressed in pristine white suits marched into the courtyard and raised the flag as the Indonesian anthem was sung. The Indonesian people, after receiving various speeches from His Excellency and others, raised their fists into the air and cried, 'Merdeka!' This cry of freedom was incredibly moving, as it made me realise how lucky I am to have lived a free life in a free country.

Next we moved into the Kartini building to experience the cutting of the Tumpeng, a pyramid of nasi kuning (yellow rice) with various seafood, vegetables and meat. There are used in the ceremony of Selamatan as a celebration and the most important person, in this case His Excellency, does the honours of cutting the top of the pyramid off.

All of the guests lined up for the traditional Indonesian. As we moved to begin eating, His Excellency sought us out and guided us to the VIP table, much to our surprise. We ate our food and talked to other students who won the scholarship and to Indonesian teachers, ministers and other honoured guests.

After the food, there was the important task of taking selfies with everyone present. We were reprimanded for using the wrong lighting and given a crash course in the art of the selfie. We took selfies with His Excellency, his wife, military officials and their wives, Indonesian politicians, beautiful women in their traditional batik, the students who were part of the flag-raising ceremony and students who sang Indonesian songs after the ceremony.

Once the celebrations at the Embassy were complete, we travelled to the Canberra War Memorial where we received an in depth tour that allowed us to learn about the confrontation with Indonesia and to increase our knowledge of Australia's role in war, both past and present. Next we visited the Canberra Art Gallery where we viewed 101 paintings that depicted the story of Ramayana, the Romeo and Juliet story of Indonesia.

I would like to thank Bu Cole for all of the effort that she put in to allow us to be invited to this inspiring event and to His Excellency and the Indonesian Embassy for being such generous and kind hosts. All of the people that were so bright and cheerful made my experience the best that it could be

I am incredibly grateful that I received this opportunity and I wouldn't have traded this experience for anything. Emily Vaughan Year 12 student

Indonesian Festival: Gebyar Merah Putih The Indonesian Association of Geelong, in association with the Indonesian Consulate, is celebrating the 70

th Commemoration of

Indonesia's Independence with a festival held on Saturday, 5th

September between 11-3 at Clairvaux Hall, Belmont. Whilst there is a myriad of activities on offer during the day, of particular interest is the student-speaking competition which will be held between 12.40pm and 1.30 for students studying Bahasa Indonesia. If students in Years 9, 10, 11 or 12, who study Indonesian would like further information and support for this competition, please see Bu Cole at a short meeting on Tuesday lunchtime in T8 or email elucas@tcc.vic.edu.au. Selamat Belajar! Ms Elana Cole Domain Head: Languages (Indonesian)

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC LESSONS Charlie Wood is the new brass tutor at Trinity. Charlie has both an Advanced Diploma of contemporary music and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Contemporary music) which she studied at the Victorian College of the Arts. She attended Princess Hill Secondary College and tutors privately in Melbourne. Charlie has over 10 years playing experience and is in three separate bands. She is also doing some great work within the horn section for Trinity’s band Swing. Charlie is currently looking to increase her number of students for Brass instruments, which includes trumpet, trombone, cornet and many more. Anybody interested in instrument lessons can collect a form from Reception or should contact Miss April Greaves or Mr Nathanial Taylor for more information. Stirling Jeans Year 11 student

THE JUSTICE BUS FOR SENIOR STUD ENTS The Justice Bus is making a visit to Trinity College at lunchtime on Tuesday, 25

th August. The bus is an initiative of the

Department of Justice and Regulation (Barwon South West Region). It will be parked on the College grounds between 1pm and 2.30pm and will have information available to senior students on a range of topics and services, including rental rights, buying a car, warranty rights and financial counselling.

We congratulate the following student on recently exemplifying Trinity Spirit consistent with the Trinity College Core Value of Community: Kate Walker: 8B House: Gleeson

Kate demonstrated a notable and exemplary sense of respect and responsibility for school property.

We congratulate the following students on recently exemplifying Trinity Spirit consistent with the Trinity College Core Values of Learning and Community, through their contributions to the Indonesian Independence Day celebrations held on 13

th August:

Nathan Barnden: 10B House: McAuley

Nathan went above and beyond by stepping in at the last moment to ensure that our guests had a wonderful afternoon, by providing them with an informative tour through the Tuck Wing.

Tara Morrissy: 10D House: McAuley

Tara assisted Pak Danu with the Indonesian food stalls. Without Tara's dedication and her assistance to Pak Danu, many students would not have received their lunch on time.

Tess O’Brien: 12D House: Gleeson

Tess assisted in accompanying our guests around the school for the Independence Day Celebrations. Tess' language skills ensured that our Indonesian guests fully understood the events of the day.

Sienna Turner: 12C House: Rice

Sienna set up wonderful market stalls and, with the assistance of other students, ensured that many students were able to purchase their Indonesian handicrafts on the day of the celebrations.

Tamyka Leak: 12C House: Rice

Tamyka provided prompt assistance in packing up the Tuck Wing following our Indonesian Independence Day Celebrations. Tamyka's assistance allowed regular classes to begin uninterrupted at the commencement of period 7.

Monday, 31st

August Year 8 & 9 (2016) Subject Selections Due

Friday,28th

August Ski Trip Returns

Tuesday, 1st

September Interim Reports Released

Friday, 4th

September Founders’ Day Mass & Walkathon

Tuesday, 8th

September Year 7 Immunisations

Wednesday, 9th

September PTS Interviews Year 7-12 STUDENT FREE DAY

Friday, 11th

September Top End Tour Departs