Apr 4, 2020 | COVID
March 31, 2020
Dear TCS Parents,
We appreciated being able to touch base personally with our TCS families on the phone after our first week off campus. It has been quite the experience for one and all to travel these uncharted waters. There is no protocol for most everything that has happened. We are doing our best to continue the flow of our students learning so that they may start the upcoming school year with confidence having finished this year’s current grade level. Our dedicated staff has risen to the occasion with creativity and focus. Within one weekend they made student packets and created a Google Classroom as a foundation to build ongoing instruction and direction for their students. Our awesome TCS parents are to be congratulated for supporting the process of continual learning for their students. Some of you have shared wonderful ideas online for additional activities as well.
At this point, we are not sure how long we will be providing distance learning. The most important factor is the safety of our students and staff. Our prayer is that the suffering from both the illness and its consequences will be brought to a healthy end. Originally we hoped to resume on April 14th, however, in the light of the unknown we are making plans for an extended time as long as it is needed. We have planned for parents to come by for another packet pick-up in the parking lot on April 13th by scheduled times. We will have one bag per family which will contain all their students’ work. Families will be arriving according to the first letter of their last names. When you pick-up your child’s packet please plan on dropping off all of their completed work in a bag with your child’s name on it. Please do not return workbooks (ex: completed work in a spelling book). Look for an email next week that will have a drop-off/pick-up schedule for Monday, April 13th.
Students will continue with online TCS Google Classroom and teachers will be scheduling some live Zoom meetings that will start after Easter Break to give an opportunity to stay connected with the class. A Zoom meeting class schedule will be sent out next week. In this way the students will be able to continue home study distance learning until we know it is safe to return. There are differing conversations surrounding this very serious situation and its time frame. We would rather be safe than sorry. Please keep an eye out for your students’ teachers’ online communications as they will be directing the distance learning. Please let us know if there are those that need help with anything.
We will continue to pray for each student and family member as we do our best to fulfill our mission.
“Trinity Christian School, an outreach ministry of Trinity Church, commits to a partnership with parents to inspire academic and personal excellence in a Christ-centered environment.”
Please continue to pray for the times in which we live and for our little corner of the world here at Trinity Christian School. Let us continue to give each other grace within our households, classrooms, and community understanding that everyone is doing the best they can do under difficult circumstances. God bless you one and all,
Sharon and Jimmie
Sharon Axe, Co-Principal
Jimmie Drummond, Co-Principal
Mar 19, 2020 | COVID
Greetings TCS Families,
We hope this update finds your family well and that you feel a sense of God’s presence each new day. We pray that through God’s grace you’ve been able to adjust to how life is lived during this unprecedented season.
We needed to let you know that at this time the office will only be open intermittently.
The best way to communicate with the school will be through email: office@trinitycs.org.
If you have any questions regarding technology use during our Home Study days a separate Informational Technology email has been created that will be monitored by our Trinity IT Specialist, Lawrence Luhnow. Please do not hesitate to email if you need help accessing the online education being provided during this time. The email address is tsupport@trinitycs.org
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
Mar 18, 2020 | COVID
March 17, 202
Dear Trinity Christian School Parents,
Thank you so much for the support you have shown in response to the decision we had to make to have students learning from home. Your child’s continued quality education and safety are of the highest priority. We will keep you informed of any changes in protocol for TCS as we become aware of them. We are in communication with the school board and at this time the office will remain open and teachers will stay in touch with their students for Home Study days via technology.
The TCS staff has been working as a team to keep the continuity of learning going for our students. Yesterday an email was sent to you from your student’s teacher to “join a Google Classroom” (K-8th grade). Your child’s teacher will be posting a daily video on their “Google Classroom” to stay in touch in addition to posting assignments. This is a great way for you and your child to stay connected with your classroom teacher. The teachers are working diligently to make this a valuable learning tool. Please be patient as we work out any glitches in the system.
We are very thankful for our technology team. Mr. Lawrence Luhnow, our Information Technology specialist has led the way in Trinity being a Google for Education school site. We are also thankful for Jamie Warren and Stephanie Luhnow who have been an integral part of the team offering professional development and support to our classroom teachers. If you have technology questions regarding getting your students online, Mr. Lawrence Luhnow has set up a special email account that he will be checking regularly. The email to answer your technology questions is tsupport@trinitycs.org
TCS is a strong community and we trust that you are reaching out in love and encouragement to each other through social media, text, emails, phone calls, and videos to stay connected. We are praying for each of you. In this unusual time, we pray that we would all have opportunities to share the hope we have in the Lord with an uncertain world. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope” Romans 15:13 (ESV)
In His Service,
Sharon Axe, Co-Principal
Jimmie Drummond, Co-Principal
Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized, Verse of the Week
” I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.” Ephesians 3:16-21