Speech Team Secures Many Awards at the Valley Catholic Speech Tournament
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On March 3rd, thirteen members of the Trinity middle school speech team competed at the annual speech tournament hosted by Valley Catholic school. This event gathered over 400 middle school contestants from around the Portland/Vancouver region. The students have 3 rounds in which they compete: Round 1: elocution (a memorized, prepared speech) Round 2: extemporaneous (reading a selection of literature out loud with only a few minutes to prepare; and Round 3: impromptu (writing and presenting a speech on a topic with only 10 minutes to prepare). We are proud of all our participants who spent hours preparing, memorizing and perfecting their skills in these areas. The team brought home 6 trophies in recognition of the excellence in which they performed. It was a grand day for Trinity Academy!
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Camille Mesquit, 8th Grade
1st Place, Humorous
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Tovi Paivarinta, 8th Grade
1st Place, Patriotic
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Nico DiPiazza, 7th Grade
1st Place, Patriotic
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William Eddleman, 6th Grade
Honorable Mention
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Ella Fahey, 8th Grade
Honorable Mention
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James Kabele, 8th Grade
Honorable Mention
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Camille gives her 1st Place Humorous Speech: Stephen's Colbert's Commencement Address
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Tovi performing his 1st Place Patriotic Speech: Winston Churchill's 'Never Give Up' Commencement Address
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Trinity Thunder Basketball Tournament
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This weekend is the grand finale of the Thunder Basketball for the 2018 season! Please come support your Trinity Thunder! Cost for entrance to tournament playoff games is $2/adult and $1/student per day–entrance fee is good for as many games as you can watch each day!
6th–8th GRADE GIRLS
Game 1: Saturday, March 10th at 3:15 pm
Valley Catholic Eagles Gym
Game 2: Sunday, March 11th,
Time: 3:00 pm or 4:30 pm, depending on win/loss of Game 1
All Saints Gym
6th–7th GRADE BOYS
Planing in the championship game!
Sunday, March 11th at 1:30 pm
St. John the Apostle
8th GRADE BOYS
Final game:
Sunday, March 11th at 12 noon
Seton High School
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Admissions Process Open for Incoming 6th Grade Students
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We are accepting applications for students entering 6th grade in the 2018-19 school year. If you know of a family who would benefit from a Trinity education, have them call/email the office to speak with Lisa Ficker or Beth Kabele. Please help us spread the word about Trinity!
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Guy's Night: Food, Fellowship and Flannery
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Calling all dads and faculty! You are invited to a fun Friday night of food, drink and hearty conversation. We will be discussing Flannery O'Connor's short story, 'Revelation.' Text can be downloaded
here or by clicking on the picture.
When:
Friday, April 13th at 7 pm
Where: Trinity Academy
What: Good conversation with your fellow men of the Trinity Academy community of learners
Bring: Some food to share.
Adult beverages will be supplied!
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Trini-Tones Perform at the Choral Festival at Linfield College
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Trinity’s Trini-tones choir received high compliments at the OSAA choral festival at Linfield College on Wednesday, March 7. They joined 14 other regional high school choirs for this festival. This is the first official adjudicated performance for the choir and they represented Trinity with excellence. A big thank you to Mr Thompson for his tireless efforts! Enjoy this selection from the concert that brought the walls “a tumblin’ down.”
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An Interview with Dr. Jon Robertson
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Dr. Jon Robertson has taught the high school junior and senior Humane Letters courses at Trinity for the past few years while also teaching at Multnomah University and the University of Portland. This year he became a full time faculty member at Trinity and has added Spanish, Greek, New Testament and Current Issues to his teaching repertoire. We interviewed him to find out more about our accomplished educator.
Tell us about your family:
Erin and I got married in 1983 and have 3 children, Elizabeth, Joshua and David. They are all married and each have added a grandchild to the family tree, including a Christmas Eve baby this year.
We have heard stories of your mission work. Where did you go?
Erin and I spent 2 years (1987-89) as short-term missionaries in Odawara Japan. Later, after I finished seminary, we spent 13 years working in Quito, Ecuador. Erin kept busy both as a house wife and speech therapist, while I mainly worked in the area of pastoral training, teaching (and sometimes administrating) at an Ecuadorian Seminary. We still miss our friends and life in Ecuador!
You have a wide-ranging set of classes you teach. What inspired you to learn all these subjects?
One big thing was that in college, I discovered a real love for languages, not just for themselves but also as portals into other periods of time and ways of thinking - starting with Latin, but continuing with Greek and Spanish.
So, outside of the school walls, what do you enjoy doing?
In my spare time, I enjoy carving wood and historical wargaming with miniatures. I also enjoy reading history (at the moment I am on a Byzantine history kick) as well as good old fashioned murder mysteries.
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Spotlight on the 12th Grade Current Issues Course
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We asked Dr. Jon Robertson to tell us more about the 12th grade "Current Issues" class. He writes:
"This senior year seminar class is in many ways a capstone course, summing up and applying to real-world situations many of the things learned throughout the students' time at Trinity. We have taken World Hunger as our main focus this year. We started out by reviewing the appropriate Scripture and theological concepts that impact how we see who we as humans are and also our role within the world. Using that as our framework, we then began to study the nature, causes and possible solutions to World Poverty and Hunger. Each student has chosen one of the poorest countries in the world to focus her studies on and our efforts will culminate in the hosting of a
World Hunger Banquet on April 20, to which all will be invited. More details on this will be forthcoming soon!"
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Outdoor School for 6th & 7th Graders
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Outdoor school for the 6th and 7th grade students is almost here! We will go to an OMSI outdoor school program at the Hancock Field Station near Fossil, Oregon. The field station is situated in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. As the name suggests, this area is an important paleontological site, and we will have the opportunity to dig for fossils there and study geology, ecology and many other things. We'll also be able to do some observational astronomy with the telescopes on-site, hike in the National Monument, and of course, sit around the fire eating s'mores.
The dates of Outdoor School are
March 21-23, 2018
. We will leave early on the morning of Wednesday, March 21st (it will be a long drive!) and be back around dinner time on Friday, March 23rd. Dr. Clark, Mr. Tomassi and 3 Trinity parents will be chaperoning this trip.
The complete packet of information about this trip, including packing list, can be downloaded
here
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Trinity Spring Concerts and Drama Productions
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Trini-Tones at the Grotto for the Spring Concert Series
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The Trini-Tones will be singing a Mother's Day concert at the Grotto on
Sunday, May 13th at 3 pm. Bring mom to the Grotto and enjoy some beautiful music with us! (Please note, this concert date takes the place of the previously scheduled concert at the Grotto on April 15th.) For more details on this concert series, please see this
flyer. Cost: Free, and accepting donations of canned food for the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry.
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The Trinity choirs and strings ensembles will be performing at the annual Spring Arts Night on
Friday, May 11 at 7pm at Peace Lutheran Church. Student art work will be on display as well. Invite family and friends to this festive event!
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The Junior & Senior Classes Present: Shakespeare's
Tempest
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Mark your calendars for
Friday, May 18th and Saturday, May 19th at 7:30 pm when the Junior & Senior players bring us Shakespeare's Drama,
The Tempest. The play will be performed at the University Park Baptist Church. All are welcome!
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Sixth Grade Play:
The Hobbit
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The sixth grade class is busy with rehearsals for their production of J.R.R. Tolkien's
The Hobbit.
The performance of this play will be on
Friday, May 25 at 7pm at University Park Baptist Church. Plan to kick off your Memorial Day Weekend with this entertaining evening brought to you by your favorite 6th graders!
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Come enjoy films from a wide variety of genres and good conversation! All faculty and high school students are invited.
Upcoming Film Dates:
Friday, March 16 -
Signs
by M. Night Shyamalan
Friday, April 13 -
Roman Holiday
Friday, April 27 -
Life is Beautiful
Thursday, May 10 - TBD
Final film club date and film TBD
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Support Trinity - Special Promotion from Amazon Smile Program
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Shopping at Fred Meyer's?
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Please link your Freddie's card to support Trinity Academy! More details about this program can be found in this
brochure
. Click on button below to register.
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Important Dates for Your Calendar
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March 18 – Shamrock Run
March 21–March 23 – 6th & 7th Grade Outdoor School
March 26–March 30 – No School - Spring Break
April 2 – No School - Easter Monday
April 13 – Dads & Faculty Men's Seminar - 7pm at Trinity
April 20 – No School - Teacher In-Service Day
April 20 – World Hunger Banquet - Details to come!
May 11 – Spring Field Day
May 11 – Spring Fine Arts Night - 7pm - Peace Lutheran Church
May 13 – Trini-Tones concert at the Grotto - 3pm
May 18 &
May 19 – Junior/Senior Performance of The Tempest - 7:30 - University Park Baptist Church
May 25 – 6th Grade Play The Hobbit - 7pm - University Park Baptist Church
May 28 – No School - Memorial Day
May 29 – Last Day of Class
May 30–June 1 – Oral exams and labs
June 5-7 – Evaluation conferences
June 9 – Commencement - 2 pm - Hinson Baptist Church - Reception immediately following. Please come celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2019!
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