Trinity Gardens School is a reception to year 7 school. With over 400 students already at the school it is growing steadily each year. Class arrangements across the school vary, including multi-age composite classes and single year level classes both in the Steiner and Main streams of education within the school.

Fees

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School Times

School begins at 8.45 am when children enter their classrooms.
11.00 am Recess
11.20 am Recess ends
1.30 pm Lunch begins
2.00 pm Lunch ends
3.00 pm School dismisses
Staff will be on duty before school at 8.25 am, during recess and lunch breaks and after school until 3.20 pm.

Class Arrangement

Children are admitted to school after their 5th birthday. In their first year at school children are in Reception. They may start at the beginning of a new term if they turn 5 in the first week of term. Children are required to spend from 10 – 14 terms in Junior Primary School.

Classes across the school may be composite. Multi-age grouping is one strategy that supports teachers in providing quality education for students.

Multi-age groups provide opportunities for children to:

• work together and learn from each other.
• work at their own rate, experience success and acknowledge the success of others.
• accept, value and care for others as individuals.
• be in the same class as other members of the family group
• foster a ‘sense of community’ as they share the responsibility for learning.
• stay with the same class teacher over a number of years enabling teachers to develop a realistic and detailed understanding of each child, their ability and their potential.

This way of organising classes assists schools by:

• providing more options for placing children and teachers
• allowing junior primary classes to begin the year with a small group of children and admit reception children throughout the year
• providing flexibility in class structures to provide for needs of individual children and identified groups enabling even class sizes and even distribution of boys and girls across classes.
• building long term relationships between teacher, child and parents when children stay with the same class teacher over a number of years.

There is flexibility across the school for older students to work with younger students (buddy classes), and for students to be extended through programs such as: Higher Order Thinking Skills, WRAP - Writing & reading Assistance Program and Negotiated Curriculum. The students also participate in Student Action Teams that meet regularly to co-ordinate ways to improve our school and environment. The students are also pit into a House team when they enrol in the school.

Communication

A newsletter is sent home with the eldest child in each family on Wednesday fortnightly. Class teachers also print a regular newsletter. Please also remember to check the noticeboards outside your child/ren’s classroom/s for further information about upcoming community events.

Reporting Student Achievement: The school reports on students’ progress throughout the year in a variety of ways:

• Aquaintance Night at beginning of Term 1
• Term 1 – 3 way conferences between Teacher/Parent/Student
• Term 2 – Written report which is included in the student’s report folder.
• Term 3 – 3 way conferences
• Term 4 – Written report on academic progress.
• LAN test (Basic Skills Test) results for students in years 3, 5 and 7 in Term 3
• Students from Year 4 up can also choose to take part in the University of NSW Maths, English, Writing, Science and Computer Studies competitions.
  Parents and Caregivers are welcome to make an appointment at any time to discuss their child’s progress.

Parent Involvement

Parents are welcome to participate in school programmes through Governing Council, the Learning Assistance Programme, sports coaching, classroom assistance, coordination programmes, grounds development, workshops and information sessions, fundraising activities, social events or helping out with the canteen.

The School Governing Council meets twice each term, and meetings are open to all interested parents. Council committees meet regularly between Council meetings.