June, 2024

Congratulations to Isaac Prewett (Year 11) whose entry in the annual Australian Geography Competition achieved a first in South Australia for Year 11!

As a consequence, Isaac has been invited to the Geography Big Week Out (GBWO) a gathering of the top 16 Year 11 geographers in the nation. Isaac joins an elite group of only four Trinity students to be invited to attend this prestigious event in the 29 years of the competition’s history. 

Isaac will travel to the Canberra in Term 3 to participate in a mix of stimulating and hands-on geography activities, focusing on fieldwork, designed to challenge and extend the high-performing senior students. 

Working in groups, this year in Jindabyne and around Canberra itself, team members will split tasks between the groups, sharing data and uploading results to a common website. 

On the last day participants will sit a test in the hopes of being selected as a team member to represent Australia at the International Geography Olympiad that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand next year. Good luck Isaac!

On Sunday 23 June, the Australian Army Band, with special guests the Trinity Senior Concert Band and combined Trinity Choirs merged for a special concert in the beautiful new Marnkutyi Parirna Theatre.  

The Australian Army Band Adelaide is South Australia’s premier Defence musical capability whose mission is to enhance the image of the Australian Army by providing musical support to both Defence units and the community. The main ensemble is a 35-piece concert band and also features other capabilities including a big band, jazz ensemble, brass quintet, woodwind quintet, rock band and a marching band for ceremonial occasions.

The band can perform everything from jazz to classical and Broadway musicals, to rock and anything in between and prides itself on performing concert programmes that appeal to all age groups and all tastes of music, setting it apart from other musical ensembles. 

The students and staff embraced the opportunity to perform in this unique celebration of music, tradition and community, performing to a full house of captivated and appreciative audience members. 

Gawler River staff and students have created a collaborative mural symbolising their joint efforts towards Reconciliation. 

Measuring two metres square, over 1000 hand and finger prints created the mural, from students across the Early Learning Centre, Junior School, Middle School and staff. 

The mural will be on permanent display as a continuous reminder of the enduring efforts of staff and students towards Reconciliation at the school.

Shout out and congratulations to all the students who competed at 2024 State Cross Country Championships on Thursday 6 June. 

There were so many outstanding results from all 76 competitors from across the College.

Individual Medallists

• Open Girls Individual Gold - Emma Henkel (Year 12) 
• 14 Boys Individual Bronze - Jacob Westley (Year 9) 

Placed in the Top 3 and received medals

• 14 Year Old Boys Team Gold Medallists - Jacob Westley (Year 9) Theo French (Year 8), Hunter Fieldhouse (Year 9) and Harvey Wales (Year 8)
• 15 Year old Boys Team Silver Medallists - Kegan Coulter (Year 9), Will Godwin (Year 10), Isaiah Lawrence (Year 9) and Blaike Elms (Year 9)
• 15 Year Old Girls Team Bronze Medallists - Milly Foreman (Year 9), Ebony Dilena (Year 9), Hayley Casey (Year 9) and Lily James (Year 9)
• 16 Year Old Boys Team Silver Medallists - Jake Eime (Year 10), Bailey Patterson (Year 10), Lachlan Tee (Year 10) and Lachie De Kort (Year 10)
• 16 Year Old Girls Team Silver Medallists - Louise Walkuski (Year 10), Miella Curthoys-Davies (Year 10), Isabella Dowler (Year 10) and Hayley Gill (Year 10)
• Open Girls Gold Medallists - Emma Henkel (Year 12), Jessica Du Randt (Year 11) and Charlize Campbell (Year 12)

Well done to all participants.

On Tuesday 18 June, Trinity College won our fourth state hockey title in three years, the second state title for the Open Mixed Hockey Team. 

Trinity students dominated the play in the pursuit of the ultimate prize as is reflected in the day's results. 

• Trinity 4 - Pembroke 3
• Trinity 12 - Brighton 0
• Trinity 5 - Naracoorte 1
• Trinity 5 - St Marks 0

Thanks to everyone involved for the continued support of the College hockey program. We are rightly proud of the athletes who have contributed to such a strong period of success. As we farewell a number of players who will graduate this year, it is likely future competition may well become a little tougher, but we’re confident our upcoming players will meet the challenge. 

Special thanks head coach and old scholar Riley Taylor (2022) as well as team manager Claire Dedman, who without which, we would not have been able to achieve such a great result. 

For the fourth year in a row Trinity College finished first in the annual Education Perfect Languages World Championships! 

Competing against students from 44 other South Australian schools, this is an outstanding result. Additionally, our students also won 29 individual awards. These students rose to the challenge, spending hours of their out-of-school time, extending their French learning and should be rightly proud of their achievements. 

• Credit Awards (minimum 500 points each) Japji Khaira, Marco Collins, Kypton Price, Elyse Fechner, Aiden Magiera, Zoe Hoffman, Mytam Truong, Chloe Coad and Tamara Durand.
• Bronze Awards (minimum 1000 points each) Aurora Collins, Isabelle Milner, Josephine Virgara, Sabrina Barlow, Ethan Huynh, Maye Goni-Carrascal and Harper Morgan.
• Silver Award (minimum 2000 points each) Renata Manno, Anaya Bruni, Mark Hoffman, Etienne Bradley, Charli Paine and Corban Gurney
• Gold Award (minimum 3000 points) Rylee Paine
• Emerald Award (minimum 5000 points) Ruby Fowler, Ava Kightley and Kaelin Marett-Guest
• Elite Award (minimum 10,000 points) Matilda Sanders, Momona Nagayoshi and Andy Trinh

Très Bien!

Source: Monica Daju, French Teacher - Trinity College Gawler River