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- 15/03/23
Enterprise Project Launch
Have you ever wanted to be your own boss? Do you have a bright idea? Could you be the next Young Apprentice? Then this is the project for you. Over the next 12 weeks, your challenge is to grow the £1 given to you by school into as much money as you can. Hav...Read Full Story - 10/03/23
World Book Day
Where is your favourite place to read? That is what we asked each other at TRJS last week to celebrate World Book Day. Many children brought in a photo of them reading in their favourite place - some more snuggly and cosy than others! Well done to all who took part in the competition. The winne...Read Full Story - 01/03/23
Climate Changers
Today, our Year 5 'Climate Changers' presented to the whole school information and thought-provoking facts about our climate. Oscar told us what climate change is, Freya talked about Greta Thunberg and Daisy gave us the facts about deforestation. Adam shared his knowledge of BECCS which...Read Full Story - 17/02/23
Practical Maths
We love getting outside for 'alfresco' learning at TRJS. Year 3 have been learning about capacity this week, estimating and measuring how many millilitres different items can hold. Some of our estimates were accurate, thinking "is the mug bigger or smaller than my 500ml water...Read Full Story - 10/02/23
Resilience Alphabet
It has been Children's Mental Health Week and we have been thinking about the importance of connecting with others can help our wellbeing and resilience. What is resilience? It is the ability to keep going then things don't go as we expect, and to have a good way of talking about and thinkin...Read Full Story - 28/01/23
Because I'm happy...!
We love our music lessons at TRJS. All year groups learn an instrument: Year 3 - keyboard, Y4 - recorder and ocarina, Y5 - clarinet, Y6 - glockenspiel. Year 6 are learning to sing and play along to 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams as part of our pop music topic, building on our previous...Read Full Story - 21/01/23
Could you be a Governor?
Do you want to play a part in determining the strategic direction of the school? Do you want to have a say in important decisions about finance and buildings? Do you have time that you could contribute to support the achievements and developments at the school? We greatly appreci...Read Full Story - 06/01/23
Welcome Back!
It was so wonderful to see our children back in school this week, healthy and happy after the two-week holiday. This week, we continued our theme of kindness with assemblies on 'Kindness is Contagious'. Children learnt about how being kind can make us feel just as good as the person...Read Full Story - 15/12/22
See you back on Wednesday 4th January
This week has been a wonderfully festive way to end a fabulous term. It was lovely to see a packed church on Wednesday, as we watched the children sing, act and speak beautifully in our Christmas Carols Concert. Then today we enjoyed a trip to the cinema to see Matilda: The Musical...Read Full Story - 10/12/22
Time Together
Huge thanks to Mrs Brammer and the kitchen team who worked wonders on Thursday to provide a fabulous Christmas Dinner for the children and the staff. There was a fabulous atmosphere and the children really shone in their Christmas Jumpers and party hats they had made. We listened to music and sung a...Read Full Story - 29/11/22
It's Advent!
Rev Andy came into school yesterday to talk to us about Advent and the countdown to Christmas. He talked about the meaning of advent and why we have advent calendars. Each class has an advent calendar to open every day up to Christmas and share the Nativity story together. Rev Andy is very exci...Read Full Story - 20/11/22
Parachutes
As part of their science unit on forces, Year 5 have been investigating the effect of surface area on air resistance. The children made three parachutes of different sizes (30cm x 30cm, 20cm x 20cm and 10cm x 10cm) and dropped them from the adventure playground bridge to find out which one had the m...Read Full Story