Trinity CE VC Primary School

Last Friday, our Year 5 / 6 boys football team took part in the Cotswold Edge School Cup.

Playing against 4 other schools in our group, we won all our games in the first round, to progress on to the semi-finals.  Then beating St John’s Mead in a 1-0 victory secured us a spot in the finals!  The boys played really well together but lost out to 1 place in extra time after a well fought match.   Well done boys, we are really proud of how well you represented Trinity school.

Well done to our team of Year 3 and Year 4 pupils who took part in the QUAD Kids athletics event at KLB School last week.  They competed against 7 other primary schools and came 2nd, with Connie B being awarded 1st place girl - a fantastic result!  The afternoon included a 50 metre sprint; 400m run; vortex throwing and standing long jump.  All the children were really encouraging and supportive of each other and showed great respect, humility and sportsmanship.

For showing compassion and respect to your friend. You were supportive and encouraging by happily sharing your own book and reading it together. You even nominated your friend for trying to be independent. Well done for setting such a good example.

For having the courage to stand up and challenge the actions of others. When you felt something didn’t feel right you acted and alerted a member of staff. Your actions showed empathy and compassion towards a classmate and displayed a great maturity. Well done for showing such maturity.

For showing friendship, compassion and empathy. You stepped in to support a friend when they needed help. Your act of kindness is a great example to others.

Thank you for consistently demonstrating all of our core values and for helping to make our school a nice place to be.

For showing compassion and generosity. You supported a friend when they needed you and did so quietly and willingly. You made sure your friend would feel included. Well done on such a generous act of kindness.  

Our Shining Stars this week are Max, Charlie, Ottie, Cecily, Abi and Tilly.  

Max is Willow Class's Shining Star this week because he has been showing lots of interest in understanding the world during our science lessons.  Max was keen to share his knowledge of the season of spring before our spring walk and helped his friends hunt for signs of spring in our school grounds.  He was able to identify and discuss buds and blossom growing on trees, dafffodils in the woodland, and how the weather begins to change during spring.  Well done Max!

Charlie is Ash Class's Shining Star this week for his writing.  We are writing a changed story ending and he used the word mat for inspiration.  He included exciting word choices such as 'suddenly' and 'over the moon'.  Well done Charlie!

Ottie, Cecily and Abi are Oak Class's Shining Stars for great work in Georgraphy, earing a Stop Disasters Game Badge.  They completed the UNDRR Stop Disasters game and saved virtual lives like a pro from a Tsunami.  Well done girls!

Tilly is Beech Class's Shining Star this week because of the excellent effort and creativity she has shown in art this term.  She has worked really carefully on her collage, inspiried by Derek Gores, and has created a fantastic final piece.  Well done, Tilly!

Our shining starts this week are:  Josephine; Rose; Harry R and Arnie.

Josephine was chosen for her effort in drawing club English lessons this week.  She tried her best to draw wonderful character and setting pictures using her imagination.  She has been eager to "crack the codes" by adding common exception words to her writing, use finger spaces, and successfully added full stops to end her ideas.  Josephine you are becoming such a fantastic, imaginative writer!

Rose was chosen for persevering with her writing.  Although it can sometimes be challenging, she kept going and worked really hard.  Well done Rose!

Harry was chosen because of his focus and attention in Englsh when creating subordinate clauses.  Harry was able to identify and sort out co-ordinating conjunctions from subordinating conjuntions quickly and was able to start to use those subordinating conjunctions correctly in sentences.  Well done Harry, keep it up!

Arnie was chosen because of his creativity when experimenting with collage techniques in Art.  He has carefully combined different materials and textures to create a detailed insect design.  Well done, Arnie!

Our shining stars this week are: Daniel; Eleanor; Abi; Gabi; Lissy and Amelia.

Daniel was chosen for his excellent recall of the Diwali story of Rama and Sita.  He used vivid, descriptive language and accurate character names to retell the story in detail.  Daniel also showed great oracy skills during imaginative play, using the small-world area and puppets to act out the story and encouraging his friends to join in.  Well done, Daniel!  Keep up the fantastic learning!

Eleanor was chosen for her science work.  She carefully made a table an drew pictures to show how she has changed as she has grown.  Her work is neat and her pictures are labelled.  Well done Eleanor!

Abi, Gabi and Lissy were chosen because of their fantastic efforts in Computing.  They worked fantastically as a team incorporating all the skills we looked at into their work like: good framing; subtle movement and taking frames frequently.  The whole class were impressed with what they pulled off.  Well done!

Amelia was chosen because of her excellent use of inverted commas and descriptive sentence to capture the mood and tension in a setting.  Well done Amelia!

Our year 5 / 6 Boys football team faced Charfield in the 2nd of the Wootton League football matches last Thursday in an away match.   They played brilliantly together and scored a great 3-1 victory!  Well done team!

Well done to the year 5/6 girls who represented Trinity at KLB last Wednesday in the GFSA football tournament.  They all played really well as a team, winning ALL of their matches!  What a result!

Match report from Sophia – “Yesterday the Trinity girls football team went to KLB to play a tournament against 4 teams:  Hilsley; Bluecoat; Bluecoat Stripes and Kingswood.  The first 2 matches we played – scores were 2-1 and 4-0 to us!  The first match was difficult but luckily we had Katy, our very own Mary Earps, in goal, who made some great saves!  Tilly and Mia also defended brilliantly and I scored a hat-trick!

Match Report from Amelia:  The first match we played, Katy was our Captain, and she was brilliant!  The second match we played, I was Captain and I scored 2 goals!  The third match, Tilly was Captain and was excellent in defence.  In the last match, Jess was Captain, and a fantastic mid-fielder!  Out fabulous goal keeper Katy only let one slide in and then fully locked in!  She was amazing!  All our teamwork and effort resulted in 1^st place!! YAY!

Stats: Melissa – 3 Sophia – 3  Amelia – 4 Poppy – 1   - Best shooter – Amelia

“Thank you Mr Manning for taking us – it was amazing!”

Yellow House for the Win!

All of our amazing pupils took part in a fantastic sports day.  They skipped, hopped, balanced, dressed up and ran their way to the finish line.  Well done to everyone who participated!

Black History Workshops

Last week, during Black History Month, we were lucky to welcome Akulah and Vanessa from the Sheeba Soul Ensemble to our school to learn more about ‘The Bridgwater Petition’ and African art and music.

Akulah held a whole school assembly teaching us about the community, colour and joy that is expressed through so many African Art forms.  We learnt that a community very near to here, in Bridgwater, found out about slavery and decided it was wrong and sent a petition to parliament.  It was the first of many more whose combined effort brought an end to the British involvement in the slave trade.  Akula discussed Unity and chose one child from each Year group 1-6 to reproduce some beautiful African Art.

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We learnt that the root of Black Music is in using our bodies and voices.  We always carry our bodies and voices with us.  We sang a call and response song in the Mende language from Sierra Leone.  We created music with our voices and our bodies and we copied a routine from ‘The Percussion Show’. 

We learnt that instruments would be made from things around them such as shells; seeds; trees; reeds and grasses and we looked at some of these amazing handmade instruments.   ASH class were excited to see a thumb piano as this instrument features in our class book next term! 

They used all the instruments to make and band and Chester was the conductor!  We closed our eyes to listen to some beautiful Koras being played and reflected on how it made us feel and what it made us think of…

Lottie  “I was in bed snuggling with my dog”    Raina “I felt happy”

Ruby S “A squirrel running up a tree”               Harry “I was a ninja protecting a village”

Sienna “I was in an audience and people were playing the piano”

Isaac “I felt calm, I was on the beach looking for seaglass." 

All of our ideas were made into a call and response song!  It was a wonderful morning that all the children enjoyed!

Ash Class Polar Workshop

On Tuesday 18th March, we welcomed Ash class parents and carers to take part in the Polar Shoe DT Workshop. The children had been busy designing a snow shoe that an explorer could wear on an expedition to Antarctica. They had to think about different ways they could join each part and material and how to fasten the shoe. There were some fantastic product designs brought to life and everyone worked really hard! Thank you to everyone who came in to help, it was really appreciated.

World Book Day and Extreme Reading!
Thank you to everyone who sent in their ‘extreme reading’ photos, they were all brilliant and we loved seeing them. Upside down; along side your animals; on sheds; up trees! Here are a selection…