The protagonist Alejandro, who was staying in hospital was visited by a number of his 968 Facebook friends.

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1 Issue No th May 2017 Spanish Play Comes To Trinity For All Students Studying Spanish There was much laughter in the Trinity theatre on Wednesday when Onatti Productions toured our school with their Spanish production Cuántos me gusta tienes? The protagonist Alejandro, who was staying in hospital was visited by a number of his 968 Facebook friends. There was the classic case of mistaken identity as George, who had been roped in to play a patient, was mistaken as Alejandro himself. George s acting ability as he lay in bed with his teddy bear caused much hilarity. Joely volunteered and was asked to hold up the sign to advertise Alejandro s lung transplant whilst the audience chanted dinero para Alejandro. There was audience participation with chanting, cheering and charismatic volunteers. George with his Teddy. Buenas noches George Nick and Louis tested their balloon blowing skills when they volunteered to go up on stage. It was evident that the students not only enjoyed themselves but were able to understand the play and put their listening skills into practice. It was a great opportunity to hear Spanish being spoken and put into context and gave the students much confidence in their Spanish skills. Mrs Hussey Prayer Walk There will be a prayer walk around the school, open to all students on Wednesday 7 th June.

2 It will take place during morning form time and will be an opportunity to pray for the school and all its students and staff at the beginning of our last half term of the academic year. Grill a Christian Students will have the opportunity to ask questions about faith, belief and Christianity to our guest panel on Tuesday 6 th June at lunch time in the school hall. This is a fantastic event and all are welcome. Please see the poster at the end of the newsletter. Sevenoaks International Art Fair We are pleased to announce that a selection of students in 7-10 have been selected to exhibit work at the Sevenoaks International Art Fair. Students were given the brief to create an original piece of artwork based on the theme of their choice using a variety of media and produced some amazing results! The exhibition will run from the 2 nd - 4 th June at the New Beacon Centre in Sevenoaks. Please feel free to come along and support our students - see the poster attached for further information. Year 7 Nicole Shepherd Andrea Ahern Hannah Glanfield Keyna Dishman Year 8 Iris Burton Holly Chatten Grace Lansdale-Down Year 9 Joshua Davis Cody Bezuidenhout Angus Read Lauren Casewell Samantha Hurst Shannon Farquharson Jessica Thomas Cristie Pritchard Lawrence Fleming Year 10 Gracie Jordan Louis Decleyn Please can we remind parents to sign up to use our online payment portal ParentPay. After half term we will only be accepting payments for trips and activities via the portal, we will however accept the occasional cheque but NO CASH. Should you need any support in setting up ParentPay please contact the office where we can arrange a meeting. Careers A big thank you to Lakeview Chartered Certified Accountants. Adrian and Kirsty came in this week to talk to 45 KS4 students about careers in accountancy. Students were informed about career routes and qualifications needed to get into accountancy, as well as useful insights into the application and interview process. If you would like to come into Trinity to talk to students about your career choices, then please contact Mr Holvey (iholvey@trinitysevenoaks.com) at the school. Termly Maths Puzzle Result Well done to all of those who entered the Dividing Squares Maths Puzzle. The draw for places resulted in: First Place Elizabeth Jones 7ECH Second Place Will Jarvis 8AHO Third Place Amy Harris 9DRA Well done to all who entered - House points have been awarded. Remember to look out for the next Maths Puzzle after the half term holiday. HPV 2 Vaccinations On the 5 th June our Year 8 girls will be having their HPV 2 vaccinations. Please can they have breakfast in the morning and wear either a short sleeve shirt or a dress. Could they also bring a bottle of water and a biscuit? News And Events

3 GCSE Music Recital GCSE Music Recital Now Taking Place at Hope Church Wednesday 7 th June :30 6 PM All Welcome TrinFest Trinity s Summer Festival Please save the date for TrinFest which will take place at Trinity School from pm on Saturday 1 st July and is organized by the Friends of Trinity. Please see the attached flyer for all the amazing things that will be happening. Entry is 1, payable on the door. Friends of Trinity Coffee Morning July Wednesday 5 th (9.30am am) Café on The Vine (Vine Gardens, Sevenoaks, TN13 3UH) Sporting News! Sporting Success Rosie Donohoe Year 7 On the 22 nd May 2017 Rosie competed in the Bromley open. Rosie achieved her new personal best for the 100m sprint. Rosie has had a brilliant start to the season this year and is flourishing into an excellent athlete. Sol Kemkaran Davies Year 8 On Sunday 14 th May, Sol attended a ceremony at Folkestone to receive his medal for being part of the winning team that won the Southern County hockey championship for Kent U13 boys. They shared success alongside the Kent U13 girls, and Kent U15 boys. Richard Young, the Kent hockey coordinator, was full of praise for their success, commenting on how difficult it was to get in to the County teams and that they should all be very proud of winning the strongest region in the Country. The boys achieved their success by beating Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Hampshire, Sussex, Berkshire and one of two Surrey teams in games over the last couple of months. Their final game was very tense and close with Sol making some amazing saves to ensure their success. They won 2-0 which won them the championship! Sports Awards Evening Letters have been sent to 200 of our fortunate students who have met the requirements to be invited. Please put Saturday 8 th July into your diaries. If this is an event that you want to come too, it is not too late. Parents are invited to come along after 10.30pm. Extra-Curricular Clubs Please be aware that clubs have changed and the timetable is at the end of this week s newsletter. Year 9-10 GCSE PE Trip Congratulations to the following students for securing a place in the Sports Festival. This event will take place on the 7 th June. Can you please ensure that you come in your full PE kit, no branded clothing. You will need to bring with you a packed lunch and ensure you have a water bottle. Please refer to your original letter for all the details. Jamie Munday Leo Gravener Benjamin Atkinson Paddy Walton Isabel Sullivan Henry Loughnane Katie Kelly Harriet Booth Matt Treloar James Henderson Leon Frangos Isaac Jordan Freddie Watford Oline Axelsson Max Kimber Kate Hetherington Lucy Carrick Bex Fletcher Katie Burgess William Flower Molly Delaney Casey Ayling Millie Rabbitt Kirstin Pinkerton

4 Joshua Walton Sally Palmer Niamh Davey George Northcroft Nathalie Wrede Quinn Amelia Lingham Squad Photos The PE department will now be holding these in lesson time. It is imperative that all students have the full correct kit including shin pads and black socks. Please make a note of these times and dates. Form tutors will be reminding students nearer the time. This will commence on the Cycle 4 Week 4 (week 2) Squad Yr Date Time Rugby Boys 7 15th June 09:20 Boys Netball U12 Rugby 7 15th June 09: th June 09:40 7&8 15th June 09: th June 09:50 Cricket 7 15th June 09:50 Rounders 7 15th June 09:50 Rugby Boys 8 12th June 09:20 Boys Netball U13 Rugby 8 12th June 09: th June 09: th June 09:40 Cricket 8 12th June 09:50 Rounders 8 12th June 09:50 Rugby Boys 9 15th June 13:20 Boys Netball U th June 13: th June 13:40 9& 10 15th June 13:40 Cricket 9 15th June 14:00 Rounders 9 15th June 14:00 Rugby Boys 10 14th June 13:20 Boys Netball Cross Country Athletics Gymnastics 10 14th June 13: th June 13:40 All All All 13th June 13:20 13th June 13:20 13th June 13:40 Year 10 Core PE Cycle 4 These will be in effect from Cycle 4 Week 3. At the end of the newsletter is a PAR Q form that must be completed and handed in prior to going to the leisure centre. If you have not attended the leisure centre before then you will need to book an induction prior to your PE lesson. If this is NOT completed prior to the lesson students will remain on site. Please see more information at the end of the newsletter. Netball Club for Parents and Carers After half term, Trinity parents are invited to a netball club in the sports hall every Tuesday at pm. We are trying to build a netball squad to compete in the local league. We would love plenty of people to join, those who have never played and want to come for fitness to those who have experience and would love to build a squad with the Trinity staff. Make sure you bring your water. Twitter Account Please start following us on All the latest news is sent, event updates and fixtures released. Follow our student s success and be involved with their achievements in and out of school. Chaplaincy Each of us should please our neighbours for their good, to build them up May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had. Romans 15:2 and 5 In the wake of the terrible events in Manchester this week, this reading made me think of how much our response to such atrocities should be to love and to be a good example. At Trinity, the central part of our ethos is Love, and to encourage each other and build each other up for good (as this reading says), is one way in which we can do that, and to bring light into each other s lives in dark times. Giving thanks for: The many events, trips, prayers and hard work that has gone into this half term. The opportunities we have to pray together as a school. Praying for: All the family and friends of those affected by the attack in Manchester A safe and restful half term for all Many thanks and God bless, Alice

5 Year 9 Battlefields Trip to Ypres and The Somme Our first day was based in Belgium where we found out how the First World War affected people living and fighting on the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. The first stop was the Essex Farm Cemetery where the name of John McCrae can be found. He wrote the famous poem IN FLANDERS FIELDS. We visited the grave of Valentine Strudwick, a 14-year-old boy who ran away from home and lied about his age to fight in the First World War. We also visited the Advanced Dressing Station where injured soldiers would be treated before being sent back to the front or on to a military hospital. From there we moved on to Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is the largest cemetery in Belgium. There are 11,954 burials including 8,367 unidentified British and Commonwealth soldiers here and around 30,000 names on the wall to commemorate soldiers whose bodies were never recovered. We settled into our hotel and visited the all-important chocolate shop where we spent lots of Euros, and then we went to a nice restaurant for dinner. After dinner, we went to the Menin Gate, which bears the names of 54,398 soldiers who died on the Western Front whose bodies were sadly never found. Three students were chosen to represent Trinity school and they laid a wreath in memory of the soldiers of Sevenoaks who are remembered on the Menin Gate. Proceedings commenced at 20:00 with the sound of the LAST POST being followed by a two-minute silence. After this visitors and military personnel paid their respects by laying down wreaths. The Menin Gate was very moving and we felt honoured to lay the wreath in memory of the soldiers around us who had died. On the second day we visited the Somme. Newfoundland Memorial Park was our first stop where we were able to picture the events on July 1 st 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Due to our tight schedule, we didn t have long as we were off to Ulster Memorial Tower. This commemorates the heavy losses suffered by 36th Division on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. We were fortunate enough to be able to venture into the woods where the allied troops would have been located. In the woods we were given private access to some trenches, which had been painstakingly uncovered by archaeologists. The talk there was very interesting and they even had actual possessions that soldiers had lost during the war, including a spoon with a bullet hole. After lunch we visited Thiepval Memorial, which commemorates 72,000 soldiers that gave their lives during the Battle of the Somme. Their bodies were, once again, never recovered from the mud. Inside the visitor centre we could search our surnames to find out if any of our ancestors had fought and died in the war. Further up the road we visited Lochnagar Crater, which was the site of a massive mine explosion, detonated by the British under the German front lines. The strength of the explosives was so huge that it had left an enormous crater and was the biggest noise ever recorded the explosion could even be heard from London! At the end of our long day, we stopped off at Warlencourt British Cemetery to commemorate one particular soldier. Matthew Treloar of 9G had discovered that one of his relatives had died in the Battle of the Somme on 1st October George Salisbury Hill died in France aged just 16 as he had actually lied about his age when enlisting. Thus, at the time of his death, George was still too young to have even taken part in the war at all. Matthew said: He was my Great Great Uncle on my Dad s side of the family. It was a strange feeling knowing that somebody from my family had taken part in the most brutal conflict known to man. On reflection it was an honour to lay a wreath on his grave and for all of us to pay our respects with a two-minute silence for him. I feel quite proud to have shared this experience with my friends. On our last day in Ypres we had some free time to explore the market and buy souvenirs for our friends and families. First stop of the day Lijssenthoek Cemetery and visitors centre. Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery is the resting place of 10,755 casualties of the First World War, among them Nellie Spindler who was one of only two British female casualties of the First World War to be buried in Belgium. It is the second largest British and Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium. Outside of the cemetery there is a timeline with lines carved into it, each one represents a life lost on that day in the military hospital on this site. The scale of this timeline was very moving for us all. Paying our respects, we departed for St Nicolas Church. This was used as a hospital during the war and treated one of the most well-known men to have fought here: CPL ADOLF HITLER. Today he has one of his paintings hanging up in the town museum. Messines is also known for the famous football match that took place on Christmas Day, Overall, the trip was fascinating and we really enjoyed our time away. Written by Matthew Treloar, Henry Loughnane, Alice Hockey, Claudia Smith and Isabella Doherty.

6 A note from Miss Collis It was a real pleasure to take the Year 9s away to Belgium and France last week. The students were outstanding in their conduct and their enthusiasm, and both the tour guide and coach driver were full of praise for them. I am very proud of the students for their maturity and their eagerness to ask questions and find out more about this topic. Isabella Doherty has produced and edited a video of the trip which is available to view on the school website and David La Trobe and Alessa Iveson were also keen to share their own reflections on Tyne Cot Cemetery. You can read their thoughts below. Row upon row of white stones standing starkly; spanning across as far as the eye can see, around 12,000, hard to comprehend that each of these represents a grave of a soldier named or unnamed. Seeing these evoked feelings of sadness, anger at the tragedy of war but most of all, an appreciation and an immense feeling of gratitude for the sacrifice made by so many people from countries such as New Zealand, Canada, Australia and of course the United Kingdom. As you stand back and see the expanse a symbol of hope clearly stands out the simple cross carved on each slab. Their name liveth forever, these words can also be viewed so true, we should never forget. (Alessa Iveson) I thoroughly enjoyed the battlefields trip this May and thought it gave an insightful view into what war was really like and how we should remember those who sacrificed their lives for their country. The battlefields trip was truly inspiring and showed me how, without the sacrifice of those brave men and women, I might not be living in this world where I have freedom. The part that I enjoyed the most was visiting the cemeteries. I found this a very moving experience as you work past the thousands of graves and realise the amount of death and suffering that these people went through and how many families were affected. Tyne Cot cemetery was especially moving and the thousands of graves overwhelmed me. Overall I think the trip was excellent and was brilliantly run. (David La Trobe)

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8 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Before School 8:00-8:40am Basketball Year 7 Only (Sports Ambassador) Lunch 12:40-1:10 After School 3:30 4:45 Fixtures see LSH and KTR for all sporting fixtures. ** & *** Badminton All (JTA) Week 1: Yr7 & 8 Week 2: Yr9 & 10 Table Tennis all years (PREFECTS) (LSH) Netball Club Squad Training (HFL) 5pm Table Tennis all years (NVA) Activity Studio LSH Cricket Club Year 9/10 Hardball/Wind ball ASTRO **CHANGED** Rugby Club Year 9 Specialist Training. Entered U15 NatWest Cup Cricket Club All Astro Softball (Friendlies will be arranged) 3:45-4:45 Year 7 Rugby Fixtures Year 7/8 Rounders Fixtures Cyber Coach Zumba open to ALL (KTR) Basketball Year 10 (Sports Ambassador) Table Tennis All (PREFECTS) Hall (LSH) American (NFL) 8 weeks 45 3:30-5:30pm contact Stephen Ramos on Ramos@iamfootball.academy Additional Rugby Club (SRFC TBC 1 st week back) ** GREAT OPPORTUNITY** Year 9 offsite Rugby Specialist Training at SRFC training alongside SRFC Academy 6:30-8pm Starting Date TBC Year 9 Rugby Fixtures Year 7/8 Rounders Fixtures Cyber Coach Fitness open to ALL (KTR) Basketball Year 8 Only (Sports Ambassador) Table Tennis All (PREFECTS) Hall GCSE Surgery (KTR) Meet at PE Office. (LSH) Gymnastics Club (External coach with year 9 student Molly Delaney) Beams, Vaulting, Gymnastic flooring we now have the use of all equipment. 5:00 finish LSH Cricket Club Year 7/8 Hardball/Wind ball ASTRO Rounders Club All KTR Tennis Club Trials Term 6 Year 8 Rugby Fixtures Cyber Coach Dance open to ALL (KTR) Basketball Year 9 Only (Sports Ambassador) Basketball All (LSH) Table Tennis All (PREFECTS) **TRAMPOLINE CLUB** Outside coach Ian Rainbow 25 for 6 sessions. START DATE TBC Handball Year 7-10 KTR (outside) Netball Club Open to ALL (HFL) (Muga) Club Year 7-10 Gillingham FC (Astro) TOUCH Rugby Year 7-10 (JCO) **** **CHANGED** Rugby Club ALL YEARS BOYS (SRFC) KTR/LSH All Athletics Club START DATE TBC Year 10 Rugby Fixtures Year 9/10 Rounders Fixtures 8:15am- 9:15am Martial Arts Open to ALL 2 a session (external) (LSH) Table Tennis All (PREFECTS)

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