Monday, Jan. 25: Dr. Pardis Sabeti '93 visit
Monday, Jan. 25: Re-enrollment portal opens
Friday, Jan. 29: Student Holiday, Teacher Professional Day

Click here to view the complete list of the upper school Head of School's List and Honor Roll.

Click here to view the complete list of the middle school Head of School's List and Honor Roll.

The Foster Care Connection Club is collecting baby supplies for foster kids in the Central Florida area. We are collecting diapers, wipes, formula, and bottles from Monday, January 25 through Thursday, January 28.  

There are three ways to help:
1) Drop off diapers, wipes, formula, or bottles in the boxes in the library, front office, or middle school office. 
2) Order directly from this Amazon Wishlist. Your items will be shipped to a club member's home.

The process for Trinity Prep enrollment for 2021-22 has changed this year. To complete enrollment for the 2021-22 school year, ALL TPS parents will have to sign enrollment contracts for their students. That means that if you’re a TPS parent, you will need to log into the MyTPS Parent Portal to sign your student(s)’ enrollment contracts, whether you’ve logged in before or not. Communications were sent this week to parents who haven’t logged in or don’t have accounts. If you have questions about how to log into the MyTPS Parent Portal, please contact the TPS helpdesk or call 321-282-2576.

The 2021-22 calendar and year-at-a-glance have been revised to reflect four days of exams next year. December 14-17 will be examination days. 

Don't forget to register for the Trinity Prep Author Fest in order to have access to the 20 panels. They are available for two weeks to view at your convenience. You don't want to miss NYT Best Selling Authors Nic Stone, Jodi Picoult, Neal Shusterman, Brigid Kemmerer, and Alan Gratz, plus 39 more Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Picture Book authors. Registration is free and open to the public! 

The 6th annual Trinity Prep Author Fest will be on Friday, February 5. This year books may be ordered online directly from Kizzy’s Books & More, a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore.  

Please support the Trinity Prep Author Fest by purchasing books that your student will need. 20% of the book sales from Kizzy’s Books will directly support the TPS Author Fest.

CURRENT 8TH GRADERS will need the following for THIS YEAR for the March 2021 YA Lit Unit. Student must choose one of the following:
“Dear Justyce” by Nic Stone OR
“Game Changer” by Neal Shusterman OR  
“Ground Zero” by Alan Gratz  OR
“Grave Maidens” by Kelly Coon OR
“We Are Not From Here” by Jenny Torres Sanchez OR
Any book from Brigid Kemmerer’s “Cursebreaker” series that you have not already read.

If you have an incoming 6th grader, here are the books you should order for next year:
“Amina’s Voice” by Hena Khan
“Refugee”  by Alan Gratz

If you have a current 6th grader, choose one of the following three options for 7th grade summer reading:
“City Spies” by James Ponti OR
“Shuri” by Nic Stone OR
“The Wandmaker” by Ed Massessa

If you have a current 7th grader, order “Dear Martin” by Nic Stone (8th grade required reading) AND “Game Changer” by Neal Shusterman - (8th grade required summer reading)
PLUS one of the following options for 8th grade summer reading:
“Ground Zero” by Alan Gratz OR
“A Curse So Dark and Lonely” by Brigid Kemmerer 

We are excited to announce that Trinity Prep alum, Dr. Pardis Sabeti ’93 will be visiting campus on Monday. She will be talking about stopping transmission of pandemic diseases and how this coincides with the testing program we received information about before the winter break.

The TPS enrollment portal will open up for all of our continuing students on January 25! This will be the last year that we will be requiring our families to re-enroll as we migrate to an automatic enrollment process for fall 2022. The enrollment deadline for the fall 2021 will be March 1. For any re-enrollment or financial aid questions, please contact the admissions team at TPSadmission@trinityprep.org. We look forward to welcoming back all Saints for another great year filled with academic, athletic, and artistic excellence! #bettertogether #saintup
 

For the first time, Author Fest t-shirts are available for purchase! Any student with this year's Author Fest shirt will get a free jeans casual day on the day of the Author Fest (Feb 5). The shirts are perfect for PE days, too! Visit our Spirit Wear shop. Visit our Spirit Wear shop.

We have great themes for our grade baskets, but we need your help to make these auction items unique and amazing!

6th -  His/Her Beauty Basket (Genny Agnew & Jennifer Griffith)
7th -  TBD (Melanie Brenner & Dede Ramos)
8th - Latte Love/Barista Basket (Shannon Nanus)
9th - iBasket (Kelly Ressler & Mary Ranson)
10th - Primenesia (Laura Lawton & Katie Lehr)
11th - Wine & Dine (Vicky Craghill Joanna Merrell)
12th - Grown & Flown (Kathleen Lightsey)

The deadline to submit grade basket items is February 1st. Please drop off items to Sandy Godinho: godinhos@trinityprep.org

Want to help but don't know how? One of the easiest ways to support the auction is by donating restaurant or retail gift cards.

Do you own a beach condo? Consider donating a weekend or a week stay. Other items include vacation homes, rounds of golf, clay shooting, fishing charters, jewelry, and handbags.

Admissions News:
College Board is scrapping the SAT's optional essay and subject tests (The Washington Post)

Upcoming Virtual Events:
NACAC Virtual College Fair- Sunday, January 31 from 1 to 7 p.m. (Register Here)
Study in English at universities in Paris, Dublin or Madrid (Register Here)

The deadline to order the class of 2025 spirit wear is February 5. You can click on this link to purchase. All profits will go directly to the 8th grade moving up dance, scheduled for May 28.  This is the only fundraiser for the event, so your participation is appreciated. This will be your last opportunity to buy spirit wear for the class of 2025.  Please consider also buying a size up so that students can continue to show their class pride for the next couple of years!

We will have an 8th grade spirit day on February 26, when we encourage the Class of 2025 to wear their shirts. Students will receive reminders about this event, but we wanted to let all of our parents know in advance so that, if you have not already purchased a shirt, you can do so now.  In addition, Covid permitting, we will try to do a class picture toward the end of the year with the entire grade in their Class of 2025 shirts.  

If you are interested in participating in a spring sport (baseball, lacrosse, softball, tennis, track and field, or boys weightlifting, please complete and upload the required documents to the athletic clearance portal. More information and tryout dates are on the website. 

Instructions for creating an Athletic Clearance Portal:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ShAFuECqjGdyMlyDCYKkJLSzsQqYN9zMhCg1UJsk2Ao/edit

Instructions for adding a spring sport to your athletic clearance:
If you participated in a fall or winter sport and are not sure if you are signed up for a spring sport, please log back into the athletic clearance and select the spring sport. 

• Log into your AthleticClearance.com account. 

• In your previously created clearance for this year, click on the "Print" link in the Confirmation column.

• Once in the Confirmation Message, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the new sport.

• Click on the Parent Acknowledgement of signatures button.

• Click on the Submit button.

Please contact the athletic department at athleticdept@trinityprep.org if you have any questions.

On Friday, January 15th, TPO provided lunch to our amazing maintenance team as a thank you for all they do for our school and all of our TPO activities.

Please join us for our next TPO meeting on Thursday, February 4 at 9 a.m.  The link to the meeting can be found in the MyTPS Parent Portal under Parent Upcoming Information Session.

Monday, Jan. 25: Dr. Pardis Sabeti '93 visit
Monday, Jan. 25: Re-enrollment portal opens
Friday, Jan. 29: Student Holiday, Teacher Professional Day

Gifts to the Trinity Prep Fund relieve our operating budget and allow the school the flexibility to support our top-notch programs. Thank you to the 222 (out of 727) families that have already made contributions to the Trinity Prep Fund. Please consider increasing our parent participation by making your tax-deductible donation today. No gift is too small - every gift counts towards participation!

Monday, Jan. 25: Dr. Pardis Sabeti '93 visit
Monday, Jan. 25: Re-enrollment portal opens
Friday, Jan. 29: Student Holiday, Teacher Professional Day

Admissions News:
College Board is scrapping the SAT's optional essay and subject tests (The Washington Post)

Upcoming Virtual Events:
NACAC Virtual College Fair- Sunday, January 31 from 1 to 7 p.m. (Register Here)
Study in English at universities in Paris, Dublin or Madrid (Register Here)

Now you can keep up with every team and athlete with the new Trinity Prep Athletics Facebook page (@TPSAthletics) as well as Instagram and Twitter (@Athletics_TPS). Stay connected with game scores, Athlete of the Week recipients, and other athletic achievement notifications.

Trinity Prep's MyTPS Portal is designed to connect parents with resources and information. MyTPS is different than Canvas, which is used as the primary system for the dissemination of academic content, homework, due dates, daily grades and important communications from teachers, coaches and college counseling. MyTPS is Trinity Prep's secure access for parents to important school resources. Current parents have access to a searchable and printable online student/parent directory as well as access to the following:

• Parent Profile Updates
• Parent/student directory (Online Student/Parent directory video tutorial (1:44 minutes)
• Enrollment
• Student schedules
• Archived mid-semester reports, including comments and semester progress reports

Student comments for the first quarter will be released in Canvas today after 3 p.m. These comments help teachers communicate how Trinity Prep students are progressing in their classes. Teachers tell about successes and areas for improvement. These comments echo what grade books state inside Canvas while also providing a more holistic view of your child in our community. They also serve as great starting points for conversations about your child's academic progress.

To view your child's comments, please follow the steps below:

1. Log into your Canvas Parent Observer account from the Web. (You will not be able to view comments from the Canvas App.)
2. Select View Grades from your Dashboard (bottom right).
3. Select one of your child's courses.
4. Click on Speech Bubble Icon to the right of the Mid-Semester 1 Comment to view your child's comment for this course.
5. To view comments from another course, click on the course drop down menu located directly above the assignment list and select a course.
   
   

We are excited to announce that there will be a math and writing lab in the Rich Library, every Tuesday and Thursday between 2:50-3:30 p.m. National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta peer tutors will be available to work with students on quiz preparation, test preparation, math skills and writing skills. They will also be available to assist with homework.

Starting the week of Oct. 16, the math and writing lab will open on its regularly scheduled days: Tuesday and Thursday from 2:50 to 3:30 p.m.

For all students, the Rich Library will be devoted to quiet study time while the lab is in session. The math and writing lab is open to all students.

Please encourage students who need some one-on-one peer help in math or writing to attend.

The Middle School Sports Banquet for cheerleading, cross country, football and volleyball will be Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 6 pm in the DAC. Please complete the RSVP form to reserve your spot. Click here for additional information.

Please be aware that between 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, all of the Trinity Prep's systems will be taken offline for system maintenance. The services impacted and unavailable during this time will be Canvas, Trinity Prep Gsuite/Gmail, and the password reset portal. We appreciate your patience during this necessary maintenance.

Order forms for the junior class T-shirts were distributed in advisory on Oct. 5. Juniors can fill out the paper forms or use the Google form located on the class of 2019 Canvas page. Orders and payment are due to Nicole Garcia by Tuesday, Oct. 10. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Garcia at garcian@trinityprep.org.

The first issue of The Trinity Voice has been published. Some of its articles include Hurricane Irma aftermath, opinion on the new dress code, and a student spotlight on our new ASSIST exchange student.

Please follow these instructions to sign up for a winter sport. NOTE: Students must be the ones who fill out this form using their student Gmail accounts. The deadline for signing up for a winter sport is Friday, Oct. 20.

1. Click this link to go to our team pages.
2. Under the winter sports dropdown menu, click the team you would like to sign up for.
3. Click the "Sign up for..." link at the top of the page
4. Fill in your name and grade, and click "Submit"

Tryout dates for JV and Varsity are listed below.

Tryout dates for middle school are listed below.

Join us as we break ground at our 19th Habitat for Humanity home on Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. The address is 661 West Lyman Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789.