Holy Trinity Primary School

Holy Trinity Primary School
Review of the Year
2006-2007
Highlights of the year
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Family literacy
Hampstead Heath
Trips, especially Year 1
and 2 to the seaside
World Book Day
Healthy Living Week
Sports events
HUFF day
Year 5 sleepover
Bugsy!
Christmas carol singing
At Swiss Cottage Library
And outside Waitrose
Where we made some Christmas shoppers very cheerful!
KS1 and KS2 pantomime
Huff Day was lots of fun
Everyone enjoyed beach volleyball, even
without the sand ……
Mr Rizzo led an energetic
fitness workout
There were athletics challenges and an
inter-house tug-of-war
An inter-house test match
And of course a football
challenge …..
Our Waitrose volunteers ran all
the events
And everyone had fun!
Including the teachers!
World Book Day
Reception children thoroughly enjoyed dressing up
Year 2
Year 1
Year 4
Year 3
Year 6
Year 5
Everyone dressed up as a real
person!
Healthy Food Week
Reception made healthy pitta
pockets, helped by our Waitrose
volunteers
Year 1 and Year
2 were very
hungry!
They couldn’t
wait to eat the
pitta pockets
they had made
Year 4 made a vegetarian lasagne which
everyone enjoyed
Year 3 went to the Winch where they
prepared and ate a delicious lunch
Year 5
concentrate as
they make salad
and fruit kebabs
then they enjoy eating it all at
carefully laid tables
And
Unfortunately
there’s always the
washing up to be
done!
Our governors visited in May to
meet the children
Our chair of governors is
Marian Beha, an exheadteacher
Ms Chester represents nonteaching staff on the
governing body
Parent governors
Cate McLaurin and Alison Leao are parent governors. Cate has children in Yr
4 and Yr 2 and Alison has a son in Yr 6. They both sit on the Finance and
Premises Committee and can advise you about the building project.
Rachel Daniel has a son
in Year 3
Baya Kapaya has a son in
Year 6
Ms Alexander represents
non teaching staff
In the Summer term we all went to
Hampstead Heath
One of the highlights of the day was a whole
school picnic in the park
There were lots of activities to do
Pond dipping
Bug hunting
Treasure hunting
Orienteering
Playing football
And enjoying the adventure
playground
Whichever way you looked at it, it
was a great day out
We went on lots of good trips
And had some interesting visitors
Some exciting clubs
Book club
French club
Basketball club
Homework club
Drama club
Football club
Nature club
Sports Day 2007
Although it was rainy, KS1 had a
great time and won lots of stickers
KS2 went to the sports field
Individual winners collected house points
and the cup was won by Fantastic
In the summer, Year 1 and Year 2 went to
the seaside as part of a geography project
Believe it or not, we did lots of hard
work too ….
We had some super teachers
Mrs Jones retired after 33 years at Holy Trinity. She was responsible for
the beautiful artwork around the school. We miss her very much.
And some teachers got married and
changed their names!
Ms Twining is now known as Mrs White
Ms Crockard is now Mrs Miller
Ms DeMonick is
now Mrs
DeMonick Cross
Ms James
got married
last term.
She is now
writing a
book!
Ms Smallwood got married in Hereford
Ms Loukes got married in the country
In 2007/2008 here’s what
we plan to improve …….
•Increase the number of
children who are making
good progress by
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Developing our progress tracking
systems
Providing targeted support for children
who are slipping behind
Ensuring high achievers are stretched
Setting individual targets for English
and maths which are regularly
reviewed
Develop the role of school
council by
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Providing training for elected school
councillors
Providing dedicated time for school
council to consult with their peers
Increasing the number of meetings
Training elected council members to
take on the role of chair and secretary
Continue to develop
pupils’ writing ability by
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Doing less writing but doing it better
Providing opportunities that stimulate
writing
Create a literacy rich environment
which nurtures a love of books
Increase the number of volunteers
reading with children
Build up the use of WOW! words
Raising standards of
learning in ICT
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Ensure interactive whiteboards are
used creatively
Ensure pupils are confident using
laptops in maths and literacy lessons
as well as ICT lessons
Take groups to Camden ICT Centre
Continue to improve
teaching and learning in
maths by
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Introducing the new units of work for
maths
Ensuring children who need help with
maths are supported in small groups
Ensuring able children are stretched
and extended
Celebrating maths day
Introducing maths boxes for home use
Develop existing good
relationship with parents by
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Making sure all parents know who the
parent governors are and how they
can help
Ensuring parents are informed about
building work
Providing advice for parents on how to
help their children learn better
Thank you for coming to
this review of the year
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We’d like to show you a short video of
Year 1 and Year 2’s visit to the seaside
Year 5’s sleepover
HUFF day
Bugsy!