Washington Bound!

This time next week our 8th grade students will be on the road back to Montgomery after an exciting, educational week in Washington, D. C.  Please remember that we are meeting at the school at 4:30 this Monday morning, and that our buses are scheduled to depart promptly at 5:00 a.m.

Please remember to look over our recent email notifications to you regarding this trip, and to pack carefully and double check everything before heading out the door Monday morning.  Let's all pray for a safe, healthy trip this year!

Please remember that Trinity will host a Celebrate Calm event next Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. in Willett Hall.  You can click here for more information.  

Here are our tests for this week:

6th Grade - None

7th Grade

Tuesday - Old Testament, Math 7/Pre-Algebra

Thursday - English 7

Friday - Geography

Have a great weekend!

Middle School Notes

Good Afternoon,

This blog is usually published each Friday afternoon, but I'm a bit late this week so I hope you'll accept my apology.  I have been in Tuscaloosa attending a conference at the University of Alabama.

Here are our tests for the upcoming week:

6th Grade - None

7th Grade

Wednesday - Geography

8th Grade

Thursday - History (McLemore, Weeks, Franklin)

Friday - Pre-Algebra, English

Have a great weekend!

Happy Friday!

Good afternoon!  I hope everyone had a wonderful week!

Here are some important announcements:

1. Our ninth grade girls are starting a tutorial program that will be held every Tuesday afternoon from 3:20 until 4:15.  They will tutor any student in the middle school - grades six through eight.  Any student who needs help in a subject is welcome to attend.  This program is free to all participants.  Those who attend are asked to bring the textbook and notes for the subject(s) in which help is needed.

This program will be supervised by Mrs. Bowden, Mrs. Helms, Mrs. Moody, and Mrs. Pirtle and will be held in Mrs. Pirtle's room (215) and Mrs. Moody's room (217).  Both of these classrooms are near Ms. Ellis' room.

The first session will be held Tuesday, January 20th.  The second session will be Tuesday, January 27.  Tutoring will not take place on Tuesday, February 3, because the eighth graders will be in Washington D. C.  Tutoring will resume on Tuesday, February 10.

At 4:15, students can be picked up in the carpool area near Willett Hall.  We are asking parents to please be prompt.

I would like to say a very big THANK YOU to Mrs. Bowden, Mrs. Helms, Mrs. Moody, and Mrs. Pirtle, as well as our ninth grade girls for making these tutoring sessions available.  I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.

2. Eighth Grade Parents: Our Washington, D. C. trip is quickly approaching, and I am looking forward to a great time with your children in our nation's capital.  In the coming days, we will be seeing a good bit of Washington on TV and in the papers as America makes yet another peaceful transfer of power.  Please encourage your children to watch some of the events surrounding the upcoming inauguration, paying particular attention to some of the places we will visit such as the White House, Capitol and the various monuments.  It also wouldn't hurt to talk some about our representative system of government, and the fact that we have been able to turn such awesome power over peacefully on a regular basis for for over 200 years.

3. Please remember that Monday, January 19, is a school holiday.  Classes will resume Tuesday, January 20.

Here are our upcoming tests for the week:

6th Grade

Tuesday - Social Studies

Wednesday - English

Friday - Math

7th Grade 

Wednesday - Geography map test, Science

Thursday - Old Testament, Pre-Algebra

Friday - Math

8th Grade

Wednesday - Science, Bible

Friday - Algebra I

Have a great three-day weekend!

Happy New Year!

It is hard to believe that we have now completed week one of the second semester of this school year!  Time is flying, and things are going well here at Trinity.

I'm sure you are now aware of the overwhelming success of our new lunch program.  The food is so good, our seniors in the upper school have decided that they would rather remain on campus for lunch on Fridays, their typical "senior privilege" day.  Wow -- that speaks volumes!

Sage, our new dining service, not only serves up great food, but does so with ambient lighting, soft jazz, and a smile.  The district managers of Sage have been with us this week and have said that our students are the most polite and considerate they have worked with so far.

Please thank your child for representing our school so well, and for being so patient with us as we have worked out the kinks that are inevitable with anything new.

I hope you will make plans to attend Mr. Neu's State of the School address set for next Tuesday night, January 13 at 6:30 p.m. in Willett Hall.  I look forward to seeing each of you then.

Here are our tests for this week:

6th Grade: 

None - However, Mrs. Kirtland would like for you to check Edline for information regarding some work this weekend and a quiz Monday.

7th Grade:

Wednesday - Keyboarding

Friday - Geography

8th Grade:

Wednesday - History (Weeks), Pre-Algebra

Friday - History (McLemore and Franklin), English

Have a great weekend!