Trinity Catholic School, Guy's Cliffe Avenue, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 6NB Telephone: (01926) 428416 ©Trinity Catholic School 2013

AEQUALIS PER DEI IMAGINEM or Equal by means of God’s image. This fits Trinity's history perfectly as it reflects on the aspirations towards equality that  the schools first Principal Peter Hastings had when he insisted on staff and students referring to each other by first names. It also is a reminder that our equality as people and our duty to support our neighbours derive from the fact that we are all created equal in the image of God.

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Trinity is a vibrant and well-ordered community of faith and learning.

I am honored to be the leader of a creative, vibrant and aspirational school; a model for progressive Catholic education in the 21st century. Trinity is a place of equality, opportunity, inclusion and excellence, where every individual in the school is valued for their unique contribution to school life.

Our motto, 'Equal by means of God's Image' underpins every action at our school.  We strive towards equality and a sense of justice, and have high expectations of our students in this regard.  We are a Pax Christi school, and principles of social justice and non-violence are at the core of our mission.  To reinforce this, all Trinity students are expected to engage in community stewardship and support.

We pride ourselves on the passion with which we celebrate our students' successes, and the dedication we bring to ensuring opportunities for achievement.  We celebrate the fact that classroom learning at Trinity Catholic School complements and contributes to a 'whole' education, and we engage in a variety of types of out of school learning. We believe this is an essential platform of a quality education.

We are very proud of our academic results, and of the destinations our students aim for and achieve.  This year, former Trinity pupils will be studying at Oxbridge and Russell Group universities, and we can count influential artists, sportspeople, actors and business people amongst our alumni.  Just as impressively, former Trinity  students are active in the third sector and work as leaders of charities and social enterprises.  We are a varied, talented, caring community.

Walk the corridors of the school and you will find a team of committed faculties dedicated to providing students with the best possible learning experience.  We also have a range of beacon departments with excellent standards of teaching and learning. Our common goal is to accomplish what is in the best interest of the students academically and spiritually; to provide guidance to them to make a lasting contribution to the global community.

Every decision that we make is informed by our vision - that in striving for excellence, we support Christ's mission. Central to our actions is awareness that our professionalism, dedication and expertise, offers a transformative opportunity to all of our students. We model for our community a commitment to excellence, aspiration, inclusion and redemption.

As Principal of this tremendous school, I am committed to investing in the potential of all in our school community.

I thank you for your interest in Trinity Catholic School and I look forward to working with you.

Chris Gabbett

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3.1 Controlled Assessments

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SECTION 48 INSPECTION REPORT

Section 48 Inspection Report

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OFSTED REPORT

Trinity Catholic School is

a good school

June 2013

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PE SKI TRIP MARCH 2015

28th March -  4th April 2015 Ski Trip Presentation

Stakeholder Survey - January 2015

Members of the Trinity community are invited to take our stakeholder survey.

Website address for Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BL6VKXQ

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YEAR 11 REVISION

Year 11 Revision

YEAR 9 OPTIONS BOOKLET  

Year 9 Options Booklet 2015

MathsWatch - Information

Information On School Closure Due To Bad Weather Conditions

Sometimes the school has to take a decision to close because of bad weather conditions. A large number of students arrive by school bus or coach. On extreme weather mornings we contact the bus operators and may be told that they will not be running a service because of safety concerns. Their decision is usually indicative of the state of the roads which will affect students and staff travelling by car, particularly those from a distance. We also try to act in line with other local secondary schools, but our students are from a wider catchment area and so are more dependent on the bus services.

When a decision to close is made, we immediately inform Warwickshire County Council School Closures service. The information usually appears on their website within 20 minutes. We update our school website and send out email alerts.

Where to get information:

A) You may register with the WCC for a free text alert service at www.warwickshire.gov.uk/schoolclosures  You can use this to get alerts for up to 3 different schools about closures.  Setting up the account needs to be in advance of closure days and if you set this up last year, you will need to do it again this academic year.

B) You can follow tweets from @wccschoolclosed (become a follower online at twitter.com/wccschoolclosed ).

C) You may access the LA website www.warwickshire.gov.uk/schoolclosures that will list all schools that are closed. Click on the link to Schools & Learning pages, then the link School Closures SMS Alerts – sign up.  This page has a link to all schools that are currently closed.

D) You may access the school website www.trinity-school.org.uk an alert message will appear on the home page. We would expect this to be possible by around 7am.

E) We will attempt to send out an e-mail but this will depend on software working away from school.

F) Local Radio stations have access to the school closures site but cannot be relied upon to mention all schools.

The stations to listen to are:

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire  94.8FM, 103.7 FM, 104 FM

Free Radio    97 & 102.9 FM

Free Radio Birmingham  96.4FM & Capital Gold 1152 AM

Heart FM    100.7 FM

Touch FM    102.0 FM

Rugby FM    107.1 FM

Touch Radio FM  107.3 FM

G) If you do not have internet access, contact a reliable friend who can look up information for you.

Trinity Students On BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Radio Station

The students had a great afternoon at the BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio station this afternoon. Four of them (Andwayne, Liv, Ellie and Kieran) got the chance to get involved in a bit of air time. They did really well considering it was very last minute, and Liv even managed to get a bit of free advertisment out there for the Art Show tomorrow. You can listen to them by clicking the link below.

Trinity Students On BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Senior Maths Challenge News

Last term some of Trinity’s best mathematicians took part in the Senior Maths Challenge. This involves answering questions and solving problems which rely on both a good knowledge base in algebra and arithmetic plus the ability to solve problems by thinking laterally. Students from across the globe take the challenge on the same day and the level of competition is high. Well done to all students who took  part (and do add this to your UCAS statements).

But particularly to Tristan W and Mark T who came top of Year 13 & Year 12 respectively. Other certificate winners were Louis S & Nikki I (Year 13) and Matt V, Jack L, James P & Toby L (Year 12); many congratulations to them on their achievement.

Meanwhile, a team of Nikki I, Raj S, Mark T & Caitlin K travelled to the University of Warwick to take part in the Senior Team Maths Challenge. It was great fun to compete against students from other Warwickshire schools (the total brain power generated by those present would have been enough to power a small village) and the team acquitted themselves admirably achieving our highest position in recent memory. They are already plotting their return next year...

Finally, here’s an example of one of the questions these students are facing:

Public Speaking Success

On 4th February three teams competed in the Leamington round of the Rotary Club’s  ‘Youth Speaks’ competition.  The competition involves teams of three – a chairperson, speaker and vote of thanks - giving a presentation on the topic of their choice.  This year, we competed against Kingsley School in the Intermediate and Senior categories.  For the second year running, we won both categories, although admittedly Kingsley failed to produce a team for the Senior event so our two teams had to compete against eachother!

The Trinity Teams consisted of:

Jude, Gabriel and Olivia talking about whether modern pop can be considered art.

Holly, Tom and Helena speaking in favour of giving the vote to 16 year olds.

Chris, Tom and Izzy giving their views on why the education system should be reformed.

The first two teams will be competing in the regional finals at Bablake School in Coventry on 7th March.  Last year we were runners up in the Senior event at this level so we have high hopes of being placed again. The chief judge was very impressed with our teams and congratulated us on the incredibly strong speakers we had in all teams.

Very well done to all!

Seath Tankard Crook

Faculty Principal Communications

YEAR 7 PARENTS EVENING  

Tuesday 24th March 2015 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Year 7 Parents Evening Parents Letter

Year 7 Parents Evening Appointment Card

Bag2School Collection

Thursday 26th March 9:00am - Any questions please ask your school collection organiser:

Sarra Perkins

07789 958460

Request From The Archaeology Dept.

We are looking for any old 'point and click' digital cameras that you may have gathering dust in at home.  The older, and more basic the better, as we are hoping to convert them for InfraRed photography for some field projects.  This does mean that the cameras will be irreversibly modified, so please be sure you don't want them back!

Please drop them off at Reception.

Many thanks in advance!

Richard Grove

Archaeology Teacher