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- 26/01/24
World Food
This week Year 6 have been using their culinary skills to make a delicious guacamole as part of their 'World Food' topic in Design and Technology lessons. Children have explored the Eatwell plate, recapping their knowledge of the food groups and using this to make sure their recipe was based...Read Full Story - 19/01/24
Over To You...
On Wednesday this week, several BRAVE pupils presented to the rest of school in our assembly on the theme ‘How do you prepare for a special event?’. We were treated to interesting, funny and confident presentations, with props, pictures and photos. Presentations included: the build-up to...Read Full Story - 21/12/23
TRJS - the place to be this Christmas
Well done to all of our children and families for a brilliant Christmas Carol Service in St James's Church yesterday. We listened to Year 6 readers tell us about the different meanings of Christmas, watched Year 3 share with us the Nativity story and listened to loud, joyful singing from everyon...Read Full Story - 17/12/23
Recycling Winners
Our 'Climate Changers' group led an interesting and informative assembly a few weeks ago, and introduced a competition to us from 'Masters of Infinity'. 30+ of TRJS pupils took part and we are thrilled to announce that we achieved... 1 st, 2nd and 3rd places!! With almost...Read Full Story - 01/12/23
Elf Training
This morning, our Year 3 and 4 children started getting into the Christmas spirit with the help of some elves from the Adventure Farm at Tatenhill. On Monday, we had Rev Andy talk to us about this special time of year, which is called Advent, and Christians believe prepares the way for the...Read Full Story - 17/11/23
TT Rockstars Battle!
Today saw a new type of TTRockstars competition take place at TRJS. For the first time, the battle took place live in school. It was brilliant to see the children’s competitive spirit and their fabulous times tables skills. Throughout the course of the morning, our children answered an amazing...Read Full Story - 10/11/23
Remembrance Day
TRJS today marked Armistice Day with a special assembly. We have been learning this week about the conflict between Israel and Hamas and talking about what the news is for and how it makes us feel. We reflected on the British Values and how these link to the current conflict in the Middle East and R...Read Full Story - 26/10/23
Being a Leader
We are so proud of the children who chose to be brave and give a presentation to the rest of the school on the person that inspires them. We discussed the leadership that these people show, and why and how they inspire others. Well done to our children who have been showing excellent leadership skil...Read Full Story - 06/10/23
World Mental Health Day
Tuesday 10th October is World Mental Health Day and we would like children to come to school on that day dressed all in yellow or with a splash of yellow for youth mental health charity YoungMinds’ campaign in support of young people’s mental health. Please either bring a £1 or pay...Read Full Story - 01/10/23
PE and Sport Quality Mark
Well done to all staff and pupils for achieving the Quality Mark for Physical Education and Sport from the Association of PE. It is a prestigious award and a powerful way of celebrating success. The quality Mark recognises, through a succinct self-review and evaluation process, the strength and qual...Read Full Story - 22/09/23
You've got a friend
Over the last two weeks in our assemblies we have been exploring the characteristics of a healthy friendship and how we can act as a kind, loyal and fun friend. We looked at different scenarios and discussed how the characters could act in response to conflict, disagreements and falling out, and how...Read Full Story - 12/09/23
Welcome Back
Welcome everyone to the start of a new year at TRJS! It has been wonderful to get to know our new Year 3s and other new starters in other year groups, as well as see all the familiar faces once more. The new Y3 children have coped very well with the big step up to the juniors. They have bee...Read Full Story