School News

Please read the details below for instructions on how you will obtain items your student may have left in your desk, cubby, or locker in March, and how you will return materials that belong to the school. (Rented blazers and/or ties will be returned at our Awards Night and Graduation program on Wednesday, June 17).

The faculty and staff are looking forward to seeing students and their families on Friday. For everyone’s safety, we are not allowing families to park, to enter the building, or to play on the playground.

Anyone who meets any of the criteria below is asked to stay home. If this impacts the parent(s) who would otherwise attend on Friday, please contact the school office to make alternative arrangements for exchanging materials. Again, those who meet any of the following criteria are asked to stay home on Friday:

1. You exhibit new symptoms of illness including a dry cough unrelated to a chronic health condition, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, diarrhea, chills or sore throat.
2. In the past two weeks, you have had close contact with a person that has been diagnosed with COVID-19 through a positive test result.
3. You have a temperature of 100.4 or above.

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Our last week of school included two of our favorite community events. Of course, this year we gathered together on Zoom! We thank the following students who participated and brought smiles and laughter to us all.

Fine Arts Night: Watson B., Timothy G., Jeffrey H., Sam H., Joanna L., Ivana R., Emily G., Sophia S., Natalie P., Gabriel B., Lily T., Robyn T., and Sonia T.

8th Grade Reader’s Theater: Maraika B., Gabriel B., Michael B., Abby P., Natalie P., Nathan S., Robyn T., Frankie V.

Thank you, students, for your fantastic Field Day efforts! We are pleased to announce that we had a school participation rate of 86%. The Grey Team, our winning team, had 91% participation! We thank you, parents, for joining in the fun and sending those activity photos.

We want to extend a special thank you to Mr. F for creating this wonderful event and to Mrs. Beach who served as our official scorekeeper and videographer!

We encourage you to check out the free Thursday webinars from PYE. Please click here to see the topics for upcoming weeks. We encourage you to stay connected to PYE’s website and Facebook posts. Digital safety is more important than ever!

We would like to thank Gabriel F., Ellie G., Jonathan M., Justin M., Ivana R., Vency R., Ayanna S., and Lily T. for their delightful presentation of “Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees” on Friday, May 15. Those who attended would certainly agree that our first Zoom Reader’s Theater performance was a success! Thank you to all the students who made puppets at home to join in the storytelling fun!

Field Day is finally here! While it won’t be like any other Field Day we’ve had, you could also say “IT WON’T BE LIKE ANY FIELD DAY WE’VE EVER HAD!”.

This year, students will be participating in Field Day by submitting photos or video links to our special Field Day Event Submission Email. Students may submit as many entries as they’d like so long as no two submissions are of the same activity. Photos or videos with siblings in them will count for as many points as there are students. In the photos and/or videos, students should be wearing their team colors.

This year’s Field Day teams and a list of suggested games that will qualify for submission were emailed to families. Submissions will be accepted immediately (You can start right now!) and may continue to be submitted until 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 22. At 11:30 a.m. that day, we will have an all-school Zoom meeting to announce the winning team. Have fun!

Create a team flag to display in your photos and videos! Bring it to our closing celebration!

The COVID-19 crisis has given us all opportunities to be brave in the face of disappointment, frustration, and uncertainty; it is good to remember that the virtue of COURAGE does not require that we feel no fear.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” –Nelson Mandela

Stories have always been an important part of what we do at Trinitas, from our work in the classroom, to our extracurricular activities, to our community events. Speech Meet, Thoughtful Reader, Reader’s Theater, reading buddies, Shakespeare field trips, Latin plays, Fine Arts Night. We are storytellers and story-sharers at Trinitas!

Stories teach us. They entertain us. They move us. They connect us. We need that connection now more than ever. While the staff continues to develop more virtual community events so that we can continue sharing stories, we encourage you to keep telling stories at home by reading books with each other, acting out plays, or writing your own stories. Grab a notebook or journal to record humorous observations (Have there always been SO many dogs in the neighborhood?) or perhaps deeper reflections (Have you been on a walk and noticed the beauty of God’s good creation in a whole new way?). These are good “stories” too that you can share with a friend through Zoom, email, or even a good old-fashioned phone call!

Our teachers miss reading to their students, but they have found a great way to keep sharing stories with them. Watch your classroom newsletter each week for a virtue story video link!