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- 16/10/20
Picture This
Year 3 have been busy designing and making photo frames this term to hold those special family memories. They looked at existing photo frames, made prototypes to see how a frame works (and how it doesn't! Learning from our mistakes is a vital part of the design process) and drew out and labelled...Read Full Story - 09/10/20
Pouring Pots
Year 4 are learning all about life in Ancient Greece this half term. They have been looking at Greek pots of different design and shape. This week in D.T. lessons, they experimented with making their own pot prototype out of plasticine that was able to pour out water successfully without drippi...Read Full Story - 02/10/20
Here We Are
"We’re glad you found us as space is very big... you're never alone on Planet Earth". Year 5 have been re-connecting and re-engaging with school life through studying the book ‘Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth’ by Oliver Jeffers. They explored the themes...Read Full Story - 25/09/20
Hapa Zome
Year 6 got out in the sunshine this week to create their own Hapa Zome - natural dye cloth printing - as part of their Art learning about images of plants and flowers. They picked violas and cyclamen, and chose a variety of leaf shapes from the trees on our field and Sensory Garden, arrang...Read Full Story - 18/09/20
Mindful Mantra
"I am strong, amazing, brave and optimistic...The day is a new challenge... I was born ready!" This week, we are learning our TRJS Mindful Mantra to remind us of the wonderful, unique people we are and how we can help ourselves to have a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) and be resilient w...Read Full Story - 02/09/20
Welcome Back!
It is so exciting to be able to finally welcome all of our children back to TRJS, with a special welcome to our new Year 3 children and families. We cannot wait to meet you all and share stories and memories of our time away from school. We will be focusing on reconnecting relationships with ea...Read Full Story - 22/06/20
Windrush Day
Today - June 22nd - is Windrush Day, commemorating the day that the ship Empire Windrush arrived in Britain bringing over 500 migrants from the Caribbean. You can watch the video at www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48731465 to find out about these people, and why we celebrate W...Read Full Story - 05/06/20
Healthy Mind and Body
Every afternoon we set a lesson activity which has a focus on health, safety and wellbeing. This week I asked you to send me the posters you had designed to show people what you were doing in lockdown to keep your mind and body in good health. I had many entries and the quality was so high it w...Read Full Story - 31/05/20
Zoooooooming into the last half term
Welcome back! We can't tell you how excited we are to be seeing all your lovely, smiley faces in our Zoom tutor-group meetings this week. Look out in your email for a Zoom invitation from your morning teacher. The invite will include the time the session starts. Bring along a pencil and pap...Read Full Story - 17/05/20
Rainbow Learners
We nominated nine new Rainbow Learners last week. Every day we are stunned by the children’s resilience, determination and commitment to their learning, but also in the million ways they find to entertain themselves. We’ve had children heading off on their own family...Read Full Story - 23/04/20
Let Battle Commence!
Get ready to take part in our next TT Rockstars battle. The final round of the house battle will be live between 9am-12 noon on Friday 24th Friday. The current scores after the first two rounds are: 1st Bassett 25,395 2nd...Read Full Story - 31/03/20
Thank You, Heroes
TRJS staff and pupils say a HUGE thank you to all of the heroic keyworkers keeping our country safe and continuing to function at this time. Thank you Will C in Y3 for the wonderful artwork - our keyworkers are indeed brave, kind and fantastic!Read Full Story