News

• Friday 25 April 2025 Holy Trinity Dog Show Holy Trinity PFA Dog Show Friday 16th May 3pm will be a family event, masterminded by the school council, organised by the PFA (see poster below). There will be charity and fund-raising stalls at this fun event. Children will also be interested in the Pet Photography competition:
• Friday 4 April 2025 Easter Celebrations Today is the last day of term and we all return to school on Tuesday 22nd April. We wish all our children, their families and the whole community a very happy Easter and a restful holiday.
• Friday 28 March 2025 Holy Trinity Bake Off! The 53 beautiful, creative cake entries for the Holy Trinity Spring Bake competition were all superb. The standard of design, bake and presentation was incredibly impressive, with a tremendous amount of thought and effort given to every entry. Well done Holy Trinity!
• Friday 28 March 2025 Holi Celebrations We have had a vibrant celebration of Spring, colour and joy this week. Kalpesh helped us to understand a bit more about the Hindu festival of Holi with wonderful, fun filled days of dancing and Rangoli pattern art. Chalk paints were thrown around the playground, daubed on our hands and faces, and we danced Bollywood style in the sunshine.
• Friday 21 March 2025 Netball Festival Netball Festival Mr Amor took a couple of teams to play in the interschool netball festival held at Dauntsey’s school today. They acquitted themselves very well and played, as ever, with commitment and great sportsmanship. Congratulations to our teams, well done to Sophia and Buster for being selected as players of their matches, and thank you for the great support from families.
• Friday 14 March 2025 Guide Dogs This week a team from Guide Dogs visited our school to deliver workshops to Stonehenge, White Horse and Sarum classes. Rea, a trained working dog joined in this wonderful experience as children learned more about the special bond of trust and loyalty, and the vital role guide dogs play in supporting independence. Children used a range of resources and activities to explore senses in small groups - what it is like to be visually impaired using VI adapted glasses for children to wear, an obstacle course in the hall guiding a friend, choosing food for supper and a coin sorting exercise, then writing their names using braille sheets.
• Friday 14 March 2025 Litter Heroes Sarum Class went litter picking around Green Lane in Great Cheverell. Eddie and William share the detail with you. ’We collected 7.5kg of litter on Wednesday morning including cans, crisp packets and surprisingly a nappy. Wiltshire Council picked us with 60 other schools to take part in the campaign Don’t mess with Wiltshire. We had a fantastic time.’#LitterHeroes
• Tuesday 11 March 2025 Museum & Art Sarum's visit to Museum and Art Swindon (MAS) on Tuesday, was an enriching experience for the children. The opportunity to explore the impressive collection of modern and contemporary British art, including works by Lucian Freud and L.S. Lowry, helped bring their art topic to life. The highlight of the trip was the bespoke printing workshop led by an expert from the gallery, then capturing their own urban photography to inform their topic. Overall, this trip was a fantastic learning experience that sparked creativity and curiosity among our children.
• Friday 7 March 2025 Poetry & Reading We are very proud of all our children who have participated so beautifully in our Performance Poetry Competition. Whether they made it through to the finals or not, they have all showed great courage and tenacity in having a go. Our finalists and winners showcased fun and inspiring performances. Well done!
• Friday 14 February 2025 Dance Around the World Our Y6 dance squad were amazing at the Mid Wilts Dance Festival, themed ‘Around the World’. The children had prepared a wonderful dance of their own, performing this with style, energy, confidence and joy to a huge audience on the Memorial Hall stage. During the afternoon all the participating schools - 250 children rehearsed and performed a finale dance together. We are very grateful to Dauntsey’s School who provide these enrichment opportunities for our children. Our thanks also to Mrs Twentyman and Mrs Goddard who organised and coordinated this event, the Spear family for helping with the T-shirt costume design and the super support from all families.
• Friday 7 February 2025 National Storytelling Week This week we have been immersed in National Storytelling Week. The theme this year has been to “reimagine your world”. We live streamed authors into school and joined hundreds of schools across the UK for book chat and shared stories.
• Friday 7 February 2025 Sarum Art As part of our topic on Art, Sarum class were lucky enough to have a workshop with a professional artist this week. Mrs Jelf came in and lead a masterclass about painting landscapes, focusing on perspective and how objects and colours change depending on how close or far away they are. The results were fantastic and we are very grateful to Mrs Jelf for giving us such an opportunity.
• Friday 31 January 2025 Digital Technology
• Friday 24 January 2025 Holy Trinity Orchestra The orchestra have been working hard at learning new instruments, new notes and to play all together. They have learnt two pieces of music which will be showcased at the school music concert in March. There is plenty of space for KS2 children to join on the violin and flute. This is a really fantastic chance for any child who might be interested in an instrument to have a go while having a great time.
• Friday 17 January 2025 Live Orchestra 'Sea Stories' at Bristol Beacon We had a wonderful opportunity to visit the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s thrilling & interactive performance for KS2 children led by award-winning composer and conductor, James Redwood. Explore the Orchestra: ‘Sea Stories’ featured material that fused symphonic music with the written word and explored how the oceans have ignited the musical imaginations of many. We heard pieces from opera, films and symphonies. Also featured was a specially composed participatory song, composed and led by James, and a body percussion piece created in collaboration with schools. Our recorder and ukulele players also joined with the orchestra for one piece. Through this inclusive event, the children learned to sing and perform with the orchestra, and were introduced to all the instruments that make up a symphony orchestra.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Top 1% in the UK Our School has come in the top 1% in the country (one of the top 300 out of over 20,000 primary schools) for the percentage of children achieving the expected standard in all of reading, writing and maths. The percentage of children achieving at the higher standard (greater depth) puts us in the top 8% of the country. KS1 children have also made exceptional progress in Phonics and Early Years Foundation Development Goals. We always emphasise that, whilst we are delighted with these great academic outcomes, we are just as proud of all other aspects of our children’s success. We are proud of how kind they are to each other, how sensitively they respond to those in need; we are proud of their outcomes in sport, art, design, music, philosophy, social skills and the humanities; and we are proud of their spiritual development. Our children are outstanding young people in all aspects of their development.
• Friday 20 December 2024 A fabulous year! In concluding this term and year we would all like to say a very large THANK YOU for all the support we have received with events throughout the year and all of the extra things that parents, carers, volunteers, clergy, Governors, peripatetic teachers, PFA and the wider school community have done to help make this such a fabulous year. This term has been filled with learning, growth and memorable moments - our wonderful children whose joy, courage, compassion and aspiration shine through with enthusiasm and effort. Our dedicated staff, whose commitment and expertise has made a tremendous difference. And to our supportive families & community friends; your encouragement and partnership are invaluable.
• Friday 13 December 2024 Carol Singing
• Friday 13 December 2024 Winter Wonderland Bazaar Join us for a lovely afternoon at the PFA Winter Wonderland Bazaar 3pm in the school hall with games, stalls, Guide Dogs and carol singing. It is going to be great fun with lots to do! See you there!
• Friday 6 December 2024 The Snowman Y5 children had the incredible opportunity to perform alongside Dauntsey’s School Symphony Orchestra in the musical adaption of the legendary children’s book The Snowman. A workshop with Head of Music, Ms Dury a few weeks ago, followed by a busy afternoon of rehearsal on Monday, enabled the children to showcase their vocal talents and teamwork as a choir of 180 primary school singers, to a captivated audience of families. The collaboration provided a unique learning experience, as children practiced blending their voices with orchestral music, whilst enhancing their musical performance skills and an appreciation for live orchestral collaboration.
• Friday 29 November 2024 Diversity Day On Tuesday, we welcomed Ruth Jampel from Judaism for Schools for the latest in our series of diversity days. We began with a lively and engaging assembly about the Jewish faith and the aspects it shares with both Christianity and other world religions. Each class then enjoyed a workshop with Ruth where we were able to handle Jewish artefacts. In addition, each class enjoyed a craft activity making a piece linked to the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Finally, we came together on the playground to share what we had made and to perform a traditional song and dance. Our diversity days allow the children to explore a range of rich and diverse cultures, further enabling them to understand and appreciate the beliefs and practices of people from around the world. A huge thank you to Mrs Jones who works so hard in order to bring these valuable experiences to our children.
• Friday 22 November 2024 Eisteddfod Festival Success We are delighted that so many of our children seized the opportunity to enter the Music Festival this year. From Y1 to year 6, our children have showed great musical talent with beautiful performances in competitive and non-competitive classes across a diverse range of categories including orchestra, choir, folk and pop song, singing, original composition, woodwind, piano, brass and strings. These opportunities offer such great life skills to prepare and then stand up and perform in front of an audience. My thanks to all our staff, peripatetic teachers, accompanists and parents for giving Holy Trinity children these amazing opportunities. Congratulations to all the children for their outstanding commitment, aspiration and success.
• Friday 15 November 2024 Bags of Design This week in Avebury class, we have been designing, making and evaluating bags for a day trip to Disney World. We researched existing bags and developed designs of our own, taking into account the items that we would need to carry. We then made our bags using a variety of materials, stitches and fastenings. Finally, we evaluated the results against the design brief. We're really pleased with the results.
• Friday 8 November 2024 Bikeability This two day workshop is designed to provide children with the skills and knowledge to cycle safely and confidently with bike safety, guided rides and road awareness training, whilst supporting sustainable travel and an active lifestyle. The instructors commented on the excellent attitude, behaviour and progress made by all the children. Well done Y6!
• Friday 18 October 2024 By My Side Guide Dogs This social action project has been chosen by the school council to help people with sight loss live the life they choose. A guide puppy and handler joined us earlier in the week for an orientation exercise, and we will follow the learning and training story with our fund raising initiatives over the coming months.
• Friday 11 October 2024 HomeRun App The school's new Eco team presented an assembly on their targets for the year ahead this week. These include: the introduction of bird boxes, planting of wild flowers to attract bugs, a new bug hotel and the possible building of a new bicycle shed to encourage sustainable travel. They also hope to introduce a bee workshop to educate the children.
• Friday 11 October 2024 Wessex Archaeology Holy Trinity had a visit from Wessex Archaeology this week to talk about the Digging for Erlestoke project which builds on the excavations originally carried out at the Manor House in 1963. We had a whole school assembly and then Sarum class were lucky enough to have a workshop handling artefacts found in the excavations from the Neolithic period. Wessex Archaeology have very generously gifted us an archaeologist's bag with tools and all the artefacts we studied to use in the future to inspire an understanding of how humans lived in the past. Sarum class enjoyed learning about what artefacts were made of, how they were used and what they can teach us about prehistoric life in this area.
• Monday 7 October 2024 Music Mark School We are delighted to announce that Holy Trinity has been awarded the Music Mark again this year by Wiltshire Music Connect. This is in recognition of the wide-ranging and high quality music opportunities our children experience. Children can find joy in expressing themselves through music and from this can develop an understanding that beauty can be different things to different people. We enjoy listening, making, singing, dancing and learning about music together in collective worship and through our music curriculum.
• Friday 4 October 2024 Cross Country Success! Last Friday, twenty-four children headed off to Dauntsey's School to compete in the annual inter-school cross-country competition. Team Holy Trinity entered teams in each category: Year 3 and 4 girls. Year 3 and 4 boys, year 5 and 6 girls and year 5 and 6 boys.
• Friday 4 October 2024 Harvest Celebrations Harvest Assembly Many thanks for all the generous donations to our Harvest appeal. The Devizes Foodbank helps families who have been left in desperate situations and this emergency aid is invaluable to these people.

View archived news