What does that stand for?!
On these days Trinity students replenish the Parents' Association clothing inventory with a donation of an outgrown uniform item for the Clothes Closet or a contribution of $5. In return, they may wear street clothes that are appropriate to the day's activities.
What is N.U.T.S. Day- “No Uniform at Trinity School”
Trinity’s meal service provider
What is FLIK?
What used to be a multi-purpose classroom located by the elevator on the third floor that has now been split into cubicles.
What is Cotter Commons?
This worship service at the end of the school year provides a time for the faculty, students and their families to reflect on the deeper meaning of their Trinity experience for eighth graders.
What is Baccalaureate?
This 6th grade course is designed to help facilitate the transition to middle school, and includes topics like digital citizenship and organization.
What is Life Skills?
A week to beat back the February blues by suspending regular classes in fifth through eighth grades to explore a passion, topic or interest area outside the confines of the traditional schedule. Teachers invent week-long mini-courses for students to stretch their imaginations and learning.
What is WoW Week-WithOut Walls?
A string of numbers that every student, faculty and staff member need to memorize regardless of whether or not they purchase a meal plan.
What is a pin number?
The area on the third floor by the seventh- and eighth-grade lockers overlooking McDowell Street and filled with comfy furniture. Again, this space is made possible by a generous Charlotte-based foundation. The full name of the area is listed at the top of the wall.
What is Dickson Upper Commons?
This program pairs two grade levels together throughout the entire school year to record and document the physical changes (lost teeth, inches grown, etc.) that occur for that student during the school year and to build friendships.
What is Science Buddies?
This program pairs students in grades three through five with students in kindergarten through second grade for a unique weekly sharing experience. The older students choose and read several books to their younger friends, which serves to strengthen reading ability and build relationships across grade levels.
What is Book Buddies?
A community-based park located at the corner of East 10th and East 12th Streets resulting from the public-private partnership between Trinity Episcopal School, Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation, the Charlotte Housing Authority and the City of Charlotte.
What is ASP-Alexander Street Park?
A national day of recognition (often a Tuesday in November) that encourages us to cross our typical social boundaries to reach out to those we might not normally engage. Different grade levels eat lunch together on this day.
What is Mix-It-Up Day?
A project of the Parents’ Association, this space offers gently used shirts, pants, shorts, skirts, skorts and jumpers for $5 each.
What is the Clothes Closet?
An annual evening event occurring around Martin Luther King Day dedicated to celebrating those who lead the work of social justice both in our community and beyond. Parents and others from the community are invited to this celebration.
What is Freedom Fete?
The social sciences curriculum used by the Lower School, which uses interactive units and simulated problem-based learning experiences that ask students to become characters in a variety of settings and introduces a critical incident.
What is Storypath?
The standardized test used by Trinity to collect basic information about student achievement in grades three through eight in several key areas.
What is ERB-Education Records Bureau?
Commonly known as a cafeteria in other institutions, Trinity chooses this term to promote a family-like atmosphere and appropriate manners among its diners. Our cafeteria gets its name from this Charlotte based foundation which so generously donated to make this room possible.
What is Dickson Dining Hall?
Given in memory of a former Trinity student by the Fort, Heath and Boswell families, this is the area that serves as the location for Monday’s Greet the Week celebration.
What is Jamie’s Courtyard?
This event is an opportunity for new kindergarten students and their families to visit the School in the spring. Children visit each kindergarten classroom while parents meet one another and school administrators to learn more about Trinity.
What is Beginners’ Day?
This curriculum is used by some of our most creative teachers and offers children choice and voice in the classroom by presenting them with a plethora of materials in various studios.
What is T.A.B. - Teaching for Artistic Behavior?
A need-based scholarship with a merit component formed in 2005 in response to the growing financial pressure on middle-income families attending independent schools.
What is TOG-Trinity Opportunity Grant?
One of the students' and adults' favorite menu day that often causes long lines and a sticky mess.
What is breakfast for lunch?
Need a prop for a skit, a tent for camping or a hockey stick for shooting? You can find all that and more in this obscure place.
What is the equipment room?
A unit in the fifth-grade Healthful Living curriculum that teaches personal leadership skills, physical development and puberty, and culminates with an overnight camping trip. Preparation for middle school life is a key focus.
What is RISE?
This program is the math curriculum (full name) for Trinity's Lower School. It uses a constructivist approach and follows the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and the Common Core Standards. The program is designed to help elementary students understand the fundamental ideas underlying number and arithmetic, geometry, data, measurement and algebraic thinking.
What is Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space?