Mind
Here we focus on the 'mind' aspect of the school. This is where we introduce you to the academic opporunities on offer at Trinity.
Trinity is committed to developing and challenging the minds of young men, whilst providing a wealth of opportunities for them to fully realise their unique potential, passions and purpose in life, in these critical final years.
You will have access to an extensive range of world class education programmes in which will cater for your interests, abilities and individual learning styles, and Trinity is proud to consistently achieve exceptional results across all pathways.
The Year 10 academic programme at Trinity completes the Stage 5 Board of Studies curriculum. In keeping with this commitment to maintaining and enhancing academic standards Year 10 students also undertake comprehensive Vocational Testing and Interviews and also complete the Trinity Senior Achievement Test (TSAT). Both these are reviewed with each student by Senior Staff members to enable them to make wise subject selection choices for their final two years of secondary education in the HSC, IB Diploma or TVAC.
Years 11 and 12 are focused on preparing boys for their chosen pursuits albeit university entry (in both Australia and overseas), vocational education and training, or post school employment.
The Arts
The Arts is a learning area that draws together related but distinct art forms. While these art forms have close relationships and are often used in interrelated ways, each involves different approaches to arts practices and critical and creative thinking that reflect distinct bodies of knowledge, understanding and skills.
Year 7-9
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Visiual Arts
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Music
Year 10
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Visual Arts
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Music
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Drama
English
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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Visiual Arts
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Drama
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Entertainment Industry
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Music Advanced
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Music Standard
Year 11-12 (IB)
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Film HL & SL
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Music Theartre HL & SL
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Visual Arts HL & SL
English requires students to comprehend and respond to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. They learn a variety of strategies to assist comprehension and to respond personally and logically to various texts.
Science
Year 7-9
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English
Year 10
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English
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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English Second Language
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English Standard
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English Advanced
Year 11-12 (IB)
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English Literatutre SL & HL
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Literature and Perfomance SL
Science provides an empirical way of answering interesting and important questions about the biological, physical and technological world. It provide students with understanding, knowledge and skills through which they can develop a scientific view of the world. Students are challenged to explore science, its concepts, nature and uses through clearly described inquiry processes.
Year 7-9
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Science
Year 10
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Science
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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Bioligy
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Chemistry
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Physics
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Senior Science
Year 11-12 (IB)
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Biology HL & SL
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Chemistry HL & SL
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Physics HL & SL
Languages
Learning languages broadens students’ horizons in relation to the personal, social, cultural and employment opportunities that an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world presents.
Year 7-9
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German
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French
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Latin
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Mandarin
Year 10
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German
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French
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Latin
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Mandarin
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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German
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French
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Latin
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Mandarin
Year 11-12 (IB)
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French HL & SL
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Latin HL & SL
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Japanese HL & SL
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German HL & SL
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Mandarin HL & SL
Economics & Business
Economics and Business explores the ways individuals, families, the community, businesses and governments make decisions in relation to the allocation of resources. It aims to enable students to understand the process of economic and business decision-making and its effects on themselves and others, now and in the future.
Year 10
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Commerce
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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Business Studies
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Economics
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Legal Studies
Year 11-12 (IB)
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Business & Management HL & SL
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Economics HL & SL
Mathematics
Mathematics provides students with essential mathematical skills and knowledge in Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability. It develops the numeracy capabilities that all students need in their personal, work and civic life, and provides the fundamentals on which mathematical specialties and professional applications of mathematics are built.
History & Geography
Year 7-9
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Matheatics
Year 10
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Mathematics
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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General Mathematics
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Mathematics (2 Unit)
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Mathematics Extension 1 (3 Unit)
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Mathematics Extension 2 (4 Unit)
Year 11-12 (IB)
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Mathematics Studies
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Mathematics HL & SL
History and Geography are the study of human behaviour and interaction in social, cultural, environmental, economic and political contexts. They have a historical and contemporary focus, from personal to global contexts, and consider challenges for the future.
PDHPE
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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Ancient History
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Modern History
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Geography
Year 11-12 (IB)
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Geography HL & SL
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History HL & SL
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Psychology HL & SL
Year 7-9
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History
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Geography
Year 10
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History
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Geography
PDHPE provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. The content provides opportunities for students to learn about their strengths and simple actions they can take to keep themselves and their classmates healthy and safe.
Year 7-9
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PD Health PE
Year 10
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PD Health PE
Year 11-12 (HSC)
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PD Health PE
Year 11-12 (IB)
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Sports Excersise & Health Schience SL
2014 Trinity HSC Results
Below you are able to view how the school has performed in each subject area:
ENGLISH
English is so important to all the boys, because two units of English must be included in the calculation of their ATAR. At Trinity, almost all the boys (96%) took the demanding Advanced English course, as we know that doing so will assist their ATAR. In contrast, across the state only 46% of candidates took this course. Therefore, our overall results within 0.5 of the state mean reflects positively on the boys and their efforts.
MATHEMATICS
Once again, our Mathematics results were very strong. The 75 candidates who undertook the 2 unit Mathematics course exceeded the State mean by 3.70 marks, while the 64 who did the General Mathematics course exceeded that mean by 12.23.
SCIENCES
Sciences are very popular at Trinity, and the results earned by the boys were excellent. The chemists exceeded the State mean by 4.38 marks, the biologists by 3.02, the physicists by 0.94 and the boys in Senior Science by a very creditable 6.82.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Once again, the roundness of the Trinity programme was in evidence in the results earned by students in the Social Science subjects. In Histories, the modern historians exceeded the State mean by 9.52 marks while their ancient counterparts were similar with a 7.76 positive differential. In Business Studies, Trinity boys exceeded the State average by 9.18, 8.72 in Legal Studies, 2.32 in Economics, 4.57 in Geography and 5.73 in PDHPE.
CREATIVE ARTS
In Visual Arts, Trinity boys exceeded the State mean by 5.34 marks, Music 1 by 9.04, Music 2 by 0.84, Entertainment by 2.82 and by 0.04 in Drama.
TECHNOLOGY
Once again, our technology students exceeded State means by good margins – 13.69 marks in Design and Technology, 11.91 in Industrial Technology, 7.25 in Construction, 5.63 in Software Design and Development, 4.33 in Hospitality and 2.34 in Engineering Studies.
LANGUAGES
Candidatures in Languages tend to be small, and it is more meaningful to compare students’ performance in the achievement Bands than to look at mean comparisons. In Chinese, our 4 candidates achieved a Band 5. In Classical Greek, one student achieved a Band 6 and the other a Band 5, and in Classical Greek Extension again one student a Band E4 and the other a Band E3. In Latin, our three candidates achieved a Band 6, and our two candidates a Band E3 in Latin Extension. The HSC Class of 2014 can be well pleased with this impressive set of results. Well done to the boys for their hard work and focus, the staff who guided them, and the boys’ families for their support.
