NATIONAL SCHOOL TITLE IS IN THE BAG
Trinity Anglican School has risen to the top of the class being recognised among Australia’s best primary institutions in the Australian Education Awards. Students, Camryn Dunn, Jade Thomas, Ari Rajeswaran and Alex Roll take it in their stride, grabbing a bite to eat on the grass near the campus’s STEM building.
A FAR North school has been recognised among Australia’s best in the Australian Education Awards 2022.
Trinity Anglican School (TAS) has been awarded as one of the top eight in the primary school (non-government) category nationally.
The school is also an awardee for Australian Co-curricular program of the year.
TAS head of primary Peter Gazzola said individualised learning was what put them ahead of other schools.
“With our individual academic programs, we get data to inform us about the strengths and weaknesses of the individual child, which then gets us to write individual programs for the student,” Mr Gazzola said.
“There’s a whole lot of opportunities for them from music, art, sports and a variety of other things like coding and robotics,” he said.
Mr Gazzola said they focused on other things such as welfare, specifically their Care and Connect program, which involved all year 3 to year 6 students. A group of 15 was formed from all age groups and they met kids from all over the school.
“The year 6 students work with the younger students on things like empathy, resilience and perseverance,” he said.
“We have a mantra that the kids came up with, TAS kids are caring kids.
“We say if you are caring about everybody else, everybody else is caring about you and the kids really look up to that and they live by it.
“Students in the playground, they know the other kids by names. A year 6 kid will help a year 5 student.”
Year 6 student Jade Thomas said she enjoyed the Care and Connect program.
“It’s good because we get to know kids from other grades and classes, which I think is nice because we get to connect with everyone, rather than just the kids in our grade who we are more familiar with,” she said. “I think it’s a pretty great school that gives the students heaps of opportunities.”
The school was also awarded for its outdoor education program.
Head of TAS outdoor education Darren Osmond said it was great to be recognised after a challenging few years.
“Outdoor education largely relies on getting out and about and while the pandemic prevented us from delivering some of our usual range of experiences and excursions, we proved our resilience and through sheer resourcefulness, ensured students were still able to achieve great outcomes,” Mr Osmond said.
“With its tangible links to the school curriculum that enhance what is taught in the classroom, and vice versa, the success of TAS’s outdoor education program is largely due to its carefully sequenced design, which enables students to participate throughout their school life from year 2 to 12.”