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Traffic Safety Education for Preschool Students

Safe Moves, a non-profit organization, and recognized leading authority in traffic safety education in the country, spent a morning with our ECP students sharing valuable safety tips when walking near cars or railroad tracks. The idea to bring in Safe [...]

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Fun Ways to Learn About Plastics and Environmental Impact

Trinity School Grade 4 students, STLT, and Service Learning Coordinator, Kim Thacker, integrated four great projects into one valuable lesson on how plastics negatively impact our environment, but how recycling can help our environment. First, Grade 4 students researched and [...]

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Trinity School Celebrates 100th Day of School

Trinity School Kindergarten and Grade 1 students celebrated the 100th Day of School with a variety of fun activities that encourage counting, sorting, comparisons, and drawing self-portraits–as they look today AND how they’ll look in 100 years!

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ECP Pajama Day – Friday, Jan. 20th

It’s undecided who enjoys this Trinity ECP annual tradition more: the adults or the children! The teachers and parent volunteers at the event cherish the squeals of joy as the kids arrive to see that their “lovies”—stuffed animals that they [...]

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Chinese New Year Celebration at Trinity School

On January 17th, the talented dancers and muscians from Chung Ngai Dance Troupe visited Trinity’s upper campus (and joined by our ECP students and a few parents) to perform the Lion Dance in celebration of Chinese New Year on January [...]

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Menlo Alums Visit Trinity School

Menlo School students, including alums Sienna Stritter and Whitney Damman, visited Trinity School on Wednesday, January 11th, and presented fascinating Japanese Samurai history facts to grades 2 and 4: Do you know… The difference between a Japanese Samuai sword and [...]

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Come to the Opera – at Trinity School!

Grade 5 students wrote these enticements for you to come to The Elixer of Love: Please, everybody who is connected to Trinity School who likes drama, please come see Opera ala Carte. It plays the Wednesday after Thanksgiving break in the Great [...]

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Imagine, Create, Innovate

Sir Ken Robinson delighted an over-capacity crowd last night. Here is a bouillon version of some of his major points. We are alive in a time of revolution caused by the rapid rate of change in two major forces: technology and [...]

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If You Attend One Speaker This Fall…

Sir Ken Robinson is the one you don’t want to miss. 7:00 p.m. Schools of the Sacred Heart. Come early! The notes that follow are provided by Common Ground Speaker Series. Sir Ken is the 2011-2012 keynote speaker of Common [...]

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I Lost My Tooth: Conversation in Junior Kindergarten

We have been having some great discussions at circle. The children have been doing a great job of listening to the share and asking questions when appropriate. You have no idea how hard it is to – raise your hand, [...]

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