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Trinity Anglican School, Cairns

Phone: 07 4036 8111

Address: Progress Road 4870 Cairns

Website: http://www.tas.qld.edu.au

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25.01.2022 A huge congratulations to Lucas, Alex and John (Year 6) from WRJ on placing 4th in the State in the QAMT (Queensland Association of Math's Teachers) Year 5/6 quiz. Well done boys, what an incredible accomplishment!

25.01.2022 Our dynamic school is seeking a qualified Casual Swimming Coach. Apply today! https://www.seek.com.au/job/50615217

25.01.2022 Cancer Council fundraising continues at White Rock Senior tomorrow with CRAZY HAIR DAY. Wear your crazy hair for a gold coin donation. Mrs. Kennedy will dye her hair pink if students reach their fundraising goal of $2500 this year. Every dollar counts! Further online donations can be made here: https://www.ponytailproject.com.au/fu/TrinityAnglicanSchool

25.01.2022 Our Year 10 Outdoor Recreation Program students last week completed the world-renowned Hinchinbrook Island hike over four days. As part of this personal and leadership development program, these students organised and led their own expedition and were a pleasure to spend time in the outdoors with. Check out the great YouTube video. https://youtu.be/9bOUL9dN460

24.01.2022 FireEd visited White Rock Year 1 students today to discuss fire safety and what to do in an emergency. The team showed students the full body equipment they wear, which weighs 30kg - more than any of the students! Thank you to the Firefighters for coming in today.

23.01.2022 Trinity Anglican School has been running the Duke of Edinburgh (International) Award Scheme for more than 25 years. There are three main levels of award that students work towards and the Gold-level award is renowned internationally as a recognition of a young person’s commitment and personal motivation. We are thrilled to announce that two Year 12 students, Ella Reeves and Lexie Hope, have completed this award this year. Congratulations! This is a particularly wonderful achievement in a year interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, which created additional challenges for award completion. We look forward to announcing some more Gold awards in the near future.

23.01.2022 Flashback Friday! At the end of Term 3 our annual Public Speaking competition took place. Here is a look at the 2005 competition, any familiar faces?

23.01.2022 Last Thursday the Cairns Chapter of the ACE (Australian College of Educators) held their annual Noreen Wilcox- Excellence in Education awards ceremony. The main award is the 'Classroom-Based Educator- Accomplished Phase (More than 5 years experience).' Across the region, there were 7 teachers named as nominees for the award, including two of our very own: TAS Year 6 White Rock teacher Michelle Breen TAS Year 5 Kewarra Beach teacher Simone Calligaro... Michelle Breen was announced the winner. Congratulations to both Simone and Michelle on being recognised at an industry level for your ongoing love and commitment to being amazing teachers.

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Poppy Loveridge who was recently awarded a Fred Hollows Humanity Award for her Kindness Garden project and contribution to the Kewarra Beach Campus. Poppy attended the virtual awards ceremony today along with other Year 6 students from around Australia who also received the award for showing kindness, compassion and caring in their communities. Well done Poppy!

21.01.2022 The annual TAS Model UN took place today, with the Year 12 students representing different countries and being tasked with setting some clear guidelines for a COVID 19 vaccine, who gets it, who develops it as well as proposing alternative solutions. The morning was filled with excellent debates, questionable costumes and plenty of laughs.

21.01.2022 Today was our annual Kewarra Beach Campus Charities Fair. In preparation for the fair, the students had to create a business plan, develop their COVID safe product or service and then sell it to the community to raise money. Today the students of Kewarra Beach Campus raised over $1600 for charity!

21.01.2022 Perhaps the most awaited tradition for Year 12s is the time tunnel, which is an opportunity for students, teachers and parents to celebrate and farewell the graduating students together. All White Rock students line the pathways in order to get their last hugs and cheers in before our graduating class collect their bottle green bags and leave the school for the last time. Congratulations to the TAS Class of 2020. We are so proud of you, you will be missed, and we wish you success in your next chapter.

20.01.2022 Today the Kewarra Beach Kindergarten children and their Year 6 Buddies, participated in the Nature Play Queensland's Bio-Blitz - a great incentive to get children engaging with the outdoors and the living world around them. Prior to heading out, we spoke about the word "bio" meaning "living and alive". We talked about taking care of nature and that every living creature plays a part in our world. It didn't take long before the children and their buddies found an abundance of creatures going about their buggy business. Using the iPad to take photos, our next step is to upload our finds to our iNaturalist account and the Citizen Scientists will verify our discoveries. Watch this space!

20.01.2022 This week our Year 10 Outdoor Recreation Program students spent 3 days caving at Chillagoe. Personal challenge and pushing boundaries was a major theme of this trip and students completing cave navigation and teamwork activities, adventure caving, laddering and abseiling. Highlights included a 27m abseil into a cave and spending 5 hours traveling several kilometers through Queensland’s longest cave. Thank you especially to the cave guides Alan, Greg and Mark.

19.01.2022 The FEAST program, White Rock Junior Schools newest after school activity. Partnered with OzHarvest students learn about food wastage and sustainability while also undertaking practical cooking experiences. This week the students focused on basic chopping skills and made fruit skewers with Greek yoghurt. Thanks Mr. Ferrus YUM!

19.01.2022 Great to see Kewarra Beach Kindy featured by Nature Play QLD as part of their Bioblitz Project 2020.

19.01.2022 Flashback Friday! In spirit of the Year 12 Formal tomorrow, here are some flashback pictures of Trinity Anglican School Formals over the years. Do you see any familiar faces?

18.01.2022 The recently updated TAS app is now available for download and includes many new features including the Business Directory that allows you to support the businesses owned by members of the TAS community. To add your business, please fill out this form https://bit.ly/2S0aUYd

18.01.2022 This term as a class project, Year 8 students worked in small groups to choose a charity and pitch to their peers why their charity was the one that the class should fundraise for. This year, the Year 8’s chose to raise money for Ronald McDonald House, as some of their peers have utilised the charity in the past. The students set themselves a fundraising goal of $500 and raised money by selling Ronald McDonald socks. On Wednesday the 25th students wore their socks to school with spirit and were very proud to have raised $650 for the charity.

17.01.2022 After months of hard work, the Kewarra Beach Kindness Garden officially opened today. The Garden will serve as a safe space for students to reflect and spend when they need a little kindness in their day. This incredible initiative is the result of Poppy Loveridge (Year 6) who created the Garden as a project for her Round Square Service. Well done Poppy! Thank you to all volunteers, companies and donors who helped Poppy make her hope a reality: AV Vegetation Management Northe...rn Sands & waste Management Harden Park Exotic Impressions Bunnings Branches Nursery Inspirations Paint Loot Smithfield Pantographic Engraving Tree Arrangements See more

17.01.2022 Our Trinity Anglican School app has had a facelift! Now available to download on both Android and Apple devices through the App Store.

17.01.2022 The Sawpit Gully Rejuvenation Project planted its 10,000th tree on Friday. See the story from WIN news below.

15.01.2022 Kewarra Beach Campus officially opened the Covered Outdoor Learning Area last week. Thank you to all who attended and assisted in creating this unique space for our students.

14.01.2022 Welcome Trinity Anglican School, Cairns Early Learning Centre as our newest Education Provider in the Bush Kindy category. The children at TAS helped to develop... a plan that brought more trees into their play area, created a camp area and provided a home to some chickens who provide eggs to their tuckshop. If you'd like to find out more about TAS Early Learning Centre or any of our other Education Providers, head to our website https://natureplayqld.org.au//tas-early-learning-centre-ke See more

14.01.2022 A huge congratulations to Adeepa Keerthiratne (Year 6) who competed at multiple Table Tennis Championships during the holidays, In all two firsts and two seconds at association events, and three silver medals (in U11 events) and a bronze (U13 mixed doubles) at the state junior championships. Also a big congratulations to Shivansh Pandey for his accomplishments at the championships aswell!

14.01.2022 Congratulations to Year 8 student and TAS Swimming athlete Ike Martinez for breaking his second Australian swimming record this year. Not only does this make him the fastest 13- year old in Australian history but has also earned him a spot in the Olympic trials next year. Well done Ike, your continual hard work is certainly paying off.

14.01.2022 Congratulations to Mr. Darren Osmond who has been nominated as one of five finalists in the Outdoors Queensland Awards 2020 for Outstanding Achievement (Individual). Good luck Mr. Osmond!

13.01.2022 White Rock Early Learning Centre kids are learning about global cultures, last week they played the Djembe drums from Africa. What a fun way to learn!

12.01.2022 Farewelling our graduating class each year has become a day filled with rite of passage traditions, and this week it was the class of ‘20s turn. The Year 12s kicked off their last day, bright and early (this time not for studying), for their annual Valedictory Breakfast, which was catered for by Hospitality students. During this event, the School Captains (Thaine Wood and Lexie Hope) handed out their Year 12 memento book as a keepsake of their time at TAS. Vertical house groups were then given the opportunity to farewell their Year 12s in themed and personalised whole house celebrations.

11.01.2022 Congratulations to the TAS White Rock Primary students who traveled to Brisbane to participate in the Queensland Interschool Chess State Finals on the weekend. It was an awesome weekend with our students having a strong start with a 4-nil win over Sunshine Coast Grammar School. We then played Churchie and scored 1.5 and they scored 2.5. Churchie went on to be State Champions which shows how competitive our TAS team was. Adeepa, Lucas, Hayden and Dean represented the school ...well and benefited from the experience. Overall we were awarded the title - Regional Champions Runner up. Adeepa (Year 6) won the Board 1 Regional Prize and Hayden (Year 6) won the Board 3 Regional Prize. Overall, 4 TAS students won 6 medals. A big thank you to Alex Jule (pictured) who has the FIDE title Woman International Master and is a previous TAS teacher who gave up her weekend to provide our students with analysis after every game to discuss ideas and give formative feedback as part of high-level tournament chess. Thank you to Selda, Yasamali, and James for being awesome parent support on this trip and a shout out to Mr. Long for his ongoing commitment to TAS chess. Thank you to all the students, staff, families, and friends that supported and enjoyed chess in our community. The benefits of chess are awesome.

10.01.2022 Goodluck to Lucas Qu, Alex Taylor and John Phan (Year 6) who will be competing tomorrow morning in the QAMT Quiz as one of 12 teams selected into the State competition. These math wizzes had to go through local and regional competitions to be selected, hard work pays off- well done boys!

09.01.2022 Hannah Siegmann (Year 11) recently represented TAS as a Vocal Soprano in the Australian Honours Ensemble Programme (AHEP) held at the Qld Conservatorium of Music Griffith University in Brisbane. This was a pinnacle event of the SHEP Queensland programme that ran regionally throughout the year. Participants gathered under the watchful eye of esteemed conductor Claire Preston and worked intensively over a three-day period learning 12 new songs across different genres and mul...tiple languages. This culminated in an amazing concert performance on the Sunday evening that lifted the roof of the Conservatorium Theatre. Hannah was both honoured and delighted to find out that she was chosen to perform the only Soprano Solo part on offer as well as taking on the task of Choir Dance captain which involved choreographing some routines for the songs. Keep up the great work Hannah.

09.01.2022 Here’s the link to the video from the recent 18-day Year 9 Outdoor Education Program. https://youtu.be/i-uCJw4jWFw. Enjoy watching our students learning many life skills, challenging themselves, making connections with others and practicing leadership and teamwork.

08.01.2022 At Kewarra Beach Campus, today we remembered that at 11am on 11 November, 1918 the guns fell silent on the Western Front. We will remember them. Lest We Forget.

08.01.2022 Come on down to our Kewarra Beach Campus Kindy Open Morning, on now until noon today! Your child will love our accredited Beach and Bush Kindy and Nature-Based Learning program! Call in and say ‘hello’ to Stacey and the team.

07.01.2022 The TAS Round Square Committee donated $250 that they raised to the Wheels of Wellness today. These funds were a portion of the $2000 raised by the committee this year through various fundraising efforts, in which they have chosen to distribute to local charities and initiatives. Accepting the donation is Lizzie Reeves, a representative for Wheels of Wellness who is also part of the TAS community, with her four daughters attending TAS.

06.01.2022 Our senior cohort have finished exams, attended valedictory dinner and officially crossed the finish line! We wish you success in this next exciting chapter!

06.01.2022 Great to see TAS used as an example of a ‘major’ school in a Courier-Mail story this morning on the school e-Sports competition that’s growing quickly in popularity throughout Queensland. https://www.couriermail.com.au//b5c647525f7655a72c71d83bce

06.01.2022 As well as revision workshops, our Year 12 students have been sitting a series of practice (mock) exams in preparation for their upcoming external exams. Holding these in Term 3 is too early (as having assessment too early cuts back on valuable learning time) and in Term 4 is too late (as not enough time for students to productively use the extensive assessment feedback provided by our staff). Answer? Hold the mock exams at the optimum time the second week of the holidays! Thanks to a truly collaborative approach between staff, parents, and (of course) students. #TASCultureOfLearning

05.01.2022 Earlier in the year, TAS was named a finalist in two categories of The Australian Education Awards placing us amongst the country’s best. In a virtual awards ceremony live-streamed yesterday across Australia, White Rock Campus teacher Michelle Breen received an Excellence Award, placing her in the Top 4 primary school teachers in the country. Michelle's recognition tops off a big year for her as she was also named the Best Classroom Teacher - Accomplished phase (More than 5 ...years’ experience) at the recent Australian College of Educators (ACE), Noreen Wilcox- Excellence in Education award ceremony in October. Well done Michelle!

05.01.2022 Our vibrant, co-educational school is looking for an innovative, self-motivated and energetic Primary Teacher with a flair for art to become part of our team. Graduates welcome to apply!

05.01.2022 Commencing Wednesday 7 October for children 0-5 years old. Come along, meet other parents and help your child experience a nature-based playgroup in our beautiful bushland campus environment. Registration details below.

05.01.2022 Book Week 2020 was alot of fun. Congratulations to the following winners: Book Week display (WR campus):... Kindergarten Year 3 category Prep (1st prize) Year 4- Year 6 category Year 4L (1st prize) Creative photo competition winners (WR campus): Primary school winner Year 2D Secondary school winner Tutor Group LGKI Thank you to the library staff who made last weeks event so special.

05.01.2022 Yesterday Kewarra Beach Campus was a sea of blue and a splash of kindness for World Diabetes Day and World Kindness Day. Thanks to students for their Random Acts of Kindness and for helping to raise $367 for the Junior Diabetes Foundation.

05.01.2022 Over the last few days, Year 12 students took part in a series of revision seminars in preparation for their upcoming external exams. Great to see staff and students working together during the holidays towards the goal of academic success.

04.01.2022 Want to know more about Kewarra Beach Kindergarten? Stacey and Tara are at Smithfield Shopping Centre all day today, ready to answer your questions. Find them outside Coles! Or come along to Kewarra Beach Early Learning Centre OPEN MORNING tomorrow from 9:00am until 12 noon.

04.01.2022 Today you lead your students, tomorrow your students will lead the world. Happy World Teachers Day to all our fabulous educators, this year has been different than most and you continually step up to the challenge, exceed expectations, and go above and beyond for your students (as you always have). Thanks for all that you do, we truly are blessed with the best.

04.01.2022 Thank you to the Tung-Yep family for their generous donation of a new reading chair for our students to enjoy at the White Rock Campus Library.

03.01.2022 The 18-day Year 9 Outdoor Education Program is almost one third completed and students have undertaken activities including a four day canoe expedition, a four day hike, two days each of sailing, mountain biking and abseiling, some environmental community service, orienteering, lots of food preparation and management, hand washing of clothes and many team-building and leadership activities. To see more photos and videos from this program, and to keep up with all outdoor education matters at TAS, please join the closed facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/TASOutdoorEd

03.01.2022 Last week has been busy in the library! We started with Christmas activities and Book Week wrap-up party (where lucky competition winners had their pizza parties!) Primary students had fun creating some fun candy cane reindeers - we had a few alien reindeer, one-eyed reindeer and even a reindeer with eyes on the end of their antlers. Well done kids!

03.01.2022 A huge congratulations to one of our School Captains Alexandra Hope (Year 12), Lexie has been awarded the Griffith University, Sir Samuel Griffith Scholarship (valued at $24,000) for demonstrating academic excellence, leadership, civic responsibility and social awareness. Lexie plans to study a Bachelor of Medicine at Griffith Gold Coast.

03.01.2022 Great to see David McKeon at the virtual Olympics Unleashed session today. David talked to the students about fitness, persistence and goal setting and how he achieved his dream of swimming at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics.

02.01.2022 Yesterday three brave Year 12 ladies (Alana, Layla & Lexie) participated in the Ponytail Project, donating their hair to raise funds for Cancer Council Queensland. Their hair will also be sent to sustainable salons to be used in making wigs. But don’t worry, it’s not to late to donate! https://www.ponytailproject.com.au/fu/TrinityAnglicanSchool There is also one final fundraising event- There is a Bad Food Day coming up at the White Rock tuck shop details to be release...d this week. We are very proud of you ladies!

02.01.2022 Great to see TAS facilities being used by an increasing number of elite Australian swimming and water polo squads preparing for the Tokyo Olympics and other international competitions.

01.01.2022 On Friday, our White Rock Junior students took part in several student wellbeing initiatives. The new students had their hands printed onto our care wall, which is an annual tradition that signifies they are committed to being kind. After the ceremony, the students participated in the Walk and Talk a Thon, this was a great opportunity to engage in physical activity, participate in discussions, and build connections and relationships with others. What a great highlight of pastoral care and student wellbeing at Trinity Anglican School.