Trinity Anglican School recognised as top eight primary school in Australian Education Awards 2022
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A FAR North school has been recognised among Australia’s best in the Australian Education Awards 2022.
Trinity Anglican School has been awarded as one of the top eight in the primary school (non-government) category nationally.
The school is also an awardee for Australian Co-curricular program of the year.
TAS head of primary Peter Gazzola said individualised learning was what put them ahead of other schools.
“With our individual academic programs we get data to inform us about the strengths and weaknesses of the individual child which then gets us to write individual programs for the student,” Mr Gazzola said.
“There’s a whole lot of opportunities for them from music, art, sports and a variety of other things like coding and robotics.”
Mr Gazzola said they focus on other things like welfare, specifically their Care and Connect program which involves all year three to year six students. A group of 15 is formed from all age groups and they get to meet kids from all over the school.
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“The year six students work with the younger students on things like empathy, resilience and perseverance,” he said.
“We have a mantra that the kids came up with, TAS kids are caring kids. We say if you are caring about everybody else, everybody else is caring about you and the kids really look up to that and they live by it.
“Students in the playground, they know the other kids by names. A year six kid will help a year five student.”
Year 6 student Jade Thomas said she enjoyed the Care and Connect program.
“It’s good because we get to know kids from other grades and classes which I think is nice because we get to connect with everyone rather the kids in our grade who we are more familiar with,” she said.
“I think it’s a pretty great school that gives the students heaps of opportunities.”
The school was also awarded for its outdoor education program.
Head of TAS outdoor Education Darren Osmond said it was great to be recognised after a challenging few years.
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“Outdoor education largely relies on getting out and about and while the pandemic prevented us from delivering some of our usual range of experiences and excursions, we proved our resilience and through sheer resourcefulness, ensured students were still able to achieve great outcomes,” Mr Osmond said.
“With its tangible links to the school curriculum that enhance what is taught in the classroom, and vice versa, the success of TAS’ Outdoor Education Program is largely due to its carefully sequenced design which enables students to participate throughout their school life from Year 2 to 12.”
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Originally published as Trinity Anglican School recognised as top eight primary school in Australian Education Awards 2022
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