Knightly News
November 11, 2020
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From the Principal
It’s Forthcoming week, and we are all excited to be Knights. Our football teams and volleyball teams are playing games and adjusting to an empty arena. Students are busy in classes both online and at school, and we marvel at how resolute our students continue to be.
While so much of our lives at Trivium is different, our faculty and students are settled into the new norm, and we are thriving. We are grateful for our teachers who have discovered ways to keep our students engaged in learning. We are especially grateful for our three PE teachers who take our elementary students outside twice each day so they can run and play. We continue to have choir concerts (see below), athletic events streaming live, virtual speech and debate tournaments, and marching band practice every morning. The Trivium 3 E's (engage, examine, express) are alive and well as evidenced throughout the building! This is a testament to our faculty and our parents who encourage our students to embrace our new norm.
We are all thankful that no matter what, we can still come to school (in a variety of ways) to learn, laugh, and share this journey together. As we approach Thanksgiving, we will continue to find joy in the “small stuff.”
This week, we would also like to offer a very special thank you to our veterans. We appreciate your service to our great nation!
Proud to be a Knight,
Marsha Cawthon
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Forthcoming Week
November 9-13
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Monday - Hat Day
Tuesday - Tie Dye Day
Wednesday - Disney Day
Thursday - Mismatch Day
Friday - Spirit Day
(Wear a spirit shirt and your mum or garter!)
Order your mums/garters from the Mum Shop to
wear to school on Friday, Nov. 13!
If you missed the online order deadline, give them a call at (972) 423-6867 or swing by 221 W Parker Rd #400, Plano, TX 75023 to see if they can still make a last minute one for you.
There's something for everyone!
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Mrs. Hall is making the science for her secondary students come to life with hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and investigations! In 10th grade Chemistry students observed a chemical change that occurs as a result of a chemical reaction. Students added solid aluminum to an aqueous solution of copper (II) chloride. This is a single replacement redox reaction in which the solid aluminum metal in the copper (II) chloride solution is replaced by the more reactive copper metal during the reaction. The hydrogen gas evolves as the copper (II) chloride, is hydrolyzed in the aqueous solution, and the resulting hydrochloric acid (in solution) reacts with the aluminum metal. Students made a hypothesis and measured how much copper was produced via the chemical reaction.
The 10th grade Integrated Physics and Chemistry class took their learning outdoors. Students used the football field to solve displacement problems as part of their motion unit.
Students in 7th grade science have been busy! During a floating leaf disc lab, students measured the rate of photosynthesis. Students began by preparing a sodium bicarbonate solution to serve as an alternate dissolved source of carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. Oxygen is produced inside the leaf as photosynthesis occurs inside the chloroplast to create glucose. Students observed and measured the rate of photosynthesis by measuring the time it took the leaf discs to float to the surface (oxygen production).
In another 7th grade lab, students combined polyvinyl- acetate glue and a given activator to predict the chemical reaction that would occur. Students observed a chemical reaction called cross-linking between the polyvinyl acetate and their chosen activator in the boron family. By creating their chemical reaction students additionally observed a non-Newtonian fluid. As an extension, students got an intro into polymer chains by predicting under what circumstances the product's viscosity would be altered.
Finally, our 7th graders were assigned to play various organisms in a given ecosystem. Working as a team, students then had to decide which organisms shared relationships. Using a string, students then created a massive food web to demonstrate the interlinking of organisms within their given ecosystem and had to calculate the energy flow. Students then broke apart their food web and created individual food chains.
The secondary kids are having a blast learning about science with Mrs. Hall!
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2020 APEX Fun Run
8:00 - 8:45
6th Grade
8:45 - 9:30
KA - Cunningham
KB - Pechacek
9:30 - 10:15
2A - Fitzpatrick
2B - Wallace
10:15 - 11:00
3A - King
3B - Rodriguez
11:00 - 11:45
4A - Gordon
4B - Coco/Crews
12:30 - 1:15
1A - Adams
1B - Harrison
1:15 - 2:00
4C - Williamson
1C - J
2:00 - 2:45
5A - Holland
5B - Martin
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You can also watch the Thursday night volleyball games live.
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It is my pleasure to share with you the exciting activities happening in the Trivium choir program. Members of the 6th grade choir, 7th grade Treble Choir, Tenor/Bass Choir, Show Choir, and Varsity Treble Choir have spent the past few weeks working on our traditional fall concert. This year's concert, entitled Show Us How to Love, is a bit different. Because we cannot have a live performance, the choir made arrangements to create a video and share the music with you through the link below. We'll look forward to having live audiences again in the future, but we are thrilled that we can still continue making music to share.
I hope you enjoy our selection of music, including the performance of our title song, "Show Us How to Love." In a time of such instability and uncertainty, the singers pulled together to encourage one another and members of our society, showing that we are a family here at Trivium. I am so proud of these young people and their hard work and dedication. Like everyone else, we are working hard to keep with our tradition of excellence despite the pandemic; the spirit of the red, gold, and blue stands true.
We hope you enjoy our fall concert, and we will look forward to sharing our winter virtual concert in the coming weeks. Thank you for your continued support of the choir program here at Trivium!
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- Please follow the correct path, and watch for people walking through the parking lots to enter our building and our neighbor's building.
- Place car in park and wait for a carpool worker to signal you to move.
- Absolutely NO cell phone use in car line.
- Do not get out of your car or signal to your child to come to your car without an adult.
- When your child is loaded, please pull your tag down to signal you are ready to go.
- Do not wait to turn left at the exit light. The creates a backup in the line.
- Please visit this link for complete carpool instructions and map:
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We are now using Dr. Owl for the mandatory daily health checks. Please click the link below, scan the QR code, or download the Dr. Owl app on your phone to complete the daily health check-in before students arrive on campus each day.
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Anytime that we post a notice of a confirmed case on campus, we understandably get a number of questions. We can't disclose any information about the infected individual or other students who are quarantined due to privacy laws, so it often makes those questions difficult to answer. What we can provide is some general information that may help though.
We follow the Denton County Health Department's protocols regarding close contact and quarantine anyone whom we believe to have been within six feet of the infected individual for more than 15 minutes. Our teachers are doing a great job of keeping the students as far apart as possible, but unfortunately, our rooms are not large enough to keep everyone six feet apart at all times. Because of this, it would be unlikely for a whole class to need to quarantine, but it can result in a few students seated near an individual who tests positive to need to quarantine as a precaution.
Thank you for your continued support as we work daily to keep our Knights learning and healthy!
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- November 9-13 - Forthcoming Week
- November 23-27 - Thanksgiving Holiday
- December 19-January 3 - Winter Break
- January 4 - First Day Back from Winter Break
- January 18 - Holiday
- January 19-22 - Secondary Exam Week
- January 22 - Last Day of First Semester
- January 25 - Student Holiday/Teacher Work Day
- January 26 - Start of 2nd Semester
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Phone: 469-854-9007
2205 E Hebron Pkwy, Carrollton, TX 75010
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