What a day! The first school visit in too long was a great success. We learned loads about Roman Britain, and had a lots of fun in the process. The children were amazing: enthusiastic, well behaved, and a credit to the Holy Trinity School community. Our (excellent) guide was glowing […]
Year 3
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On Thursday the children in Hornet and Penguin Classes got together and shared books and magazines. This is going to be a new regular feature of Thursday afternoons. Here are some photos of from the classes reading together. As we do not have permission to feature all of the children […]
Before we move onto the Romans, Hornet Class have learned about the Iron Age and the Celts. Whilst finding out about the ways metal was used during this period we looked more closely at torcs – neck or wrist bands made most often of twisted metal. They found out that […]
We have been learning about the Stone Age, and last week we found out about their houses. We discovered that some Stone Age houses were made with stone walls covered with wood and animal skin roofs. Because the houses were built so long ago only the walls remain, and so […]
This afternoon Hornet Class turned into gatherers, picking blackberries, plums, apples, and even a couple of rosehips and raspberries, from the school grounds and stewing them with honey. The children learned about how to pick fruit safely, and got to taste the kind of food it is believed Stone Age […]
What do cave paintings teach us about the past? Hornet Class learned that they help us know which animals lived in particular areas at particular times, and about the lifestyles of early humans. Without a written history, it is a vital clue to our past. They also heard about a […]
Here are nearly 400 photos taken during today’s Sports Day, The weather only broke just as we were finishing, and the whole school was able to get out onto the field to cheer the children on. Yet again, the children were amazing and we are incredibly proud of them all.
Last Friday Urban Strides visited Holy Trinity and worked with all of the Key Stage 2 classes. We first came across Urban Strides when they were performing at Young Voices last year and they were spotted by the choir. A year later than planned (due to the pandemic) they came […]
Today to mark Remembrance Day each class marked the occasion individually at 11am. In addition, for this afternoon’s whole school assembly, Miss Todd took Raven Class to the memorial in the Public Gardens and lead our daily virtual assembly from there. A wreath was laid, a minute’s silence held, and […]
Miss Todd: On Friday in assembly I had the pleasure of announcing the jaw dropping total of the fundraising from the Sponsored Walk. I am thrilled, humbled and stunned to share with you that we have raised £4825.65 with a number of families telling me they still have money to bring in. […]
On Friday, we completed our STEM Week with an exciting visit from Subject Revolution. KS1 and EYFS travelled around an amazing new world working together in practical maths challenges to help Prince Lunimo tidy up for the Queen. The children worked to pass through each maths challenge zone, undetected by the invading […]
In Year 3 we are designing and making a marble maze. Our ideas are based on the inside of one of the pyramids of Egypt.
Today the children were put into mixed-age groups named after scientists, and worked together on a range of STEM-related activities. During the course of the day the children learned about how to care for the chicks, created a house of cards, made pictures out of perfect squares, built towers from […]
It started with Booky Breakfast – thank you to everyone who was able to join us! And then Toucan Class visited Halsead Library and WHSmith. They learnt all about what the library does and how we can use it. At WHSmith they spent their World Book Day tokens. They all […]
The children in Year 3 have created these Christmassy images for you using 2Paint-A-Picture in Purple Mash.
Stonehenge is a real historical mystery. There are many theories about why and how it was built, but nobody really knows the answer. This afternoon Octopus Class enjoyed recreating Stonehenge from biscuits!
The Stone Age activities continued into the afternoon. Here are some of the photos of our time travellers learning all about life thousands of years ago.
We’ve stepped back in time and become hunter gatherers for the day… Will they survive? Watch this space! Half of the class are inside building a shelter in the style of ‘Stig of the Dump’. Meanwhile outside…all of the tribes are busy learning to track animals, grind oats, light fires, […]
Year 3 have spent the afternoon exploring ‘Holy Trinity Caves’. They have recreated artwork formed by Neolithic people during the early Stone Age.
Year 3 became archeologists this afternoon, investigating the diet of early Stone Age people. They delved into ‘poo’ and found fruits, nuts and seeds. Just look at their faeces!
This week we were delighted to welcome poet Matt Abbott to school to write poetry with children across the school. On Wednesday he worked with Year 6 and they have written a collaborative poem which will soon be shared in video form and be put on display in the school. […]
Our friends from Hedingham and St. Andrew’s Churches have spent the day with Years 3 and 4 making and decorating a selection of Christian crosses from around the world. The children have learned about the different representations and the history behind Christian crosses from places including Italy, Ethiopia and Jerusalem. […]
A fantastic effort at Hadleigh Park, Southend today for the cross country county champs, well done girls! An amazing achievement!
Well done to the High 5 netball team for successfully competing at the Level 1 tournament at Ramsey. And well done to all the cross country runners for competing in the Level 2 competition at Tabor Academy. Superb performances all round.
For Red Nose Day 2019 the children did funny things for money and came to school dressed in red! There was also a parent-led cake sale after school. You were all amazing! Sponsorship is still coming in (all back by Monday 1st April please!) so we’ll not have a total […]
Well done to all the children in Key Stage 2 who competed in the Level 1 cross country competition at Ramsey Academy today. Amazing performances throughout, and a particular well done to the Year 3 and Year 4 girls and boys teams who all qualify for the finals later this […]
Yesterday Octopus Class had a great time finding out about and experimenting with magnets and many different types of metal. They all enjoyed meeting ‘Spider Magnet’ who did whatever a spider magnet does, and clung on to the underside of the table…
What an eventful end of term! There was Christmas lunch where our amazing kitchen staff managed to produce three times as much food as usual all within the same time frame and to as high a standard as ever. Thank you! Thanks also to the PTFA who provided the festive […]
