Personal Development is about the knowledge, understanding and skills the pupils need to manage their lives, both now and in the future. Personal Development helps pupils to thrive as individuals and build their own personal character through their Primary Education.
Our vision, at Holy Trinity, is to provide our pupils with a wide range of experiences in school. These experiences provide skills and opportunities to support pupils both academically and emotionally, as well as helping them to build their own identity. We embed these skills through the lessons we teach and the opportunities we give pupils in school.
Each year at Holy Trinity, we see our pupil’s Personal Development flourish and witness their character and identity grow. The strong foundations pupils build at school better prepare them for their further journey. Our hope is that pupils leave school with fond school memories and use the skills they have learnt to propel them into their future journey.
Learning:
Achieving:
Flourishing:
Together in God’s Promises, Goodness and Love
Personal Development is embedded through:
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Community Time takes place at least once a fortnight in all classes. During Community Time sessions, the pupils look at:
Community Time can also be used to develop skills based on what the class needs at the time, for example: friendships, behaviour, identity or emotional literacy (such as Anxiety Gremlin) etc. This varies depending on the pupils and needs in the class.
Each class creates their own rainbow value display during Community Time:
Rainbow Value Activity - Cooperation
Year 1 Diversity Activity - Brains
Stretching and looking after our brains
Year 5 Diversity Activity - Families
Year 4 Diveristy Activity - Appearances
Year 5 Diversity Activity - Appearances
Year 5 British Values posters
Children's identity starts growing from the moment they start school. We believe each pupil has the three aspects of academic, emotional and identity to form their character. The diagram of the gears below represent these three aspects. Each aspect is equally important and therefore the growth of a pupil’s identity helps them to grow in other areas.
Identity club happens at least once a fortnight and it allows the pupils to enjoy things that are of interest to them. Different clubs will be set up and pupils choose which club they’d like to sign up to. This gives pupils time to develop their own identities. It is also gives them the chance to experience new hobbies and interests as pupils will be able to take part in activities they may not have done before.
Class 5 - Arts and Crafts and Water Painting
Class 6 - Baking and Football
At Holy Trinity Church School, we use an Emotional Literacy book ‘Starving the Anxiety Gremlin’ by Kate Collins-Donnelly to stem this conversation. This book has a range of activities based around stories, discussions, writing, drawing, puzzles and games. This teaches and encourages the children to express their emotions and feelings.
Heads of school
Junior Governors
Holy Trinity's 40th Birthday
Harvest Worship
Remembrance Day
Christmas Jumper Day
Spirituality Day - 'Let Your Light Shine'
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Fete
Arts Week
In June, we had an Arts Week which looks at a range of: art, drama, music, singing and dancing.
Each year group took part in a stagecoach workshop, which focussed on a range of singing, acting and dancing linking to the Lion King.
Class 6 acted out a well known story in small groups.
For Arts week, Class 9 talked about what Art is and what it means. The children created a piece which represented who they are.
They also sang 'This is me' with actions for music and created a poster to represent what music was.
Class 12 looked at their drama skills and linked this to their story in Writing: Kensuke’s Kingdom.
Science Week
During science week, the children shared their experiements with another class - they had great fun! In class pairs, the children explored and thought about development ideas for their outside area and the children had a 'become an expert day', where the children got to explore a particular area of the science curriculum.
Inspire morning
Year 1 Carymoor Trip - Storytelling
Year 2 Dentist Visit
Year 3 Stonehenge Trip
Year 4 Living Things Visit
Year 5 Local Study Trip comparing Victorian Yeovil to Modern Day Yeovil
Year 5 Victorian Day
Year 5 Space Dome
Year 5 Mill on the Brue
Year 5 and 6 Aeronauntics Day led by Leonardo
Our School Guinea Pigs
Carymoor visiting Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity's Forest School
Year 1 Outdoor Art
Year 6 Forest School at Preston
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The Lord's Larder
Shoebox Appeal
Fundraising for Burundi
On Spirituality Day, we looked at Burundi and what life is like in their country. We looked at this through the Great Lakes Outreach project. Each class decided how to fundraise money for Burundi.
Year 2 raised money by taking part in a triathlon at school.
Class 10 raised money by coming to school in their pyjamas.
Class 12 voted to run a cake sale to raise money for Burundi. The children brought in cakes from home as well as making some in school too. Class 12 raised £119.35 for Burundi!
