Holy Trinity Junior School, Guildford

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Holy Trinity Junior School
Type	Junior
Headteacher	Mr Richard Rowe^[1]
Location	Addison Road Guildford Surrey England
Ofsted number	125288
Students	384 ^[2]
Ages	7 to 11
Website	http://www.holytrinity.surrey.sch.uk/

Holy Trinity Junior School in Guildford, Surrey caters for 384 students from the ages of 7-11^[2]. The school was founded in 1812 and was one of the very first to be formed by the National Society of the Church of England.It moved to its present location in 1976 - on the slopes of the North Downs.

The school is completely committed to child-centred, cross-curricular and creative education. There is an emphasis on temwork and respect and this is exemplified by the use of first names to address everybody.

[edit] Camps

Throughout their four years at the school, children go on camps to a variety of places including Newland's Corner (just out of Guildford), Brenscombe Farm near Poole in Dorset, and Shropshire.^{[citation needed]}

Each camp offers a variety of activities, including rock climbing and abseiling (at Dancing Ledge), swimming, go-carting, archery, nature walks (including one at Brownsea Island) canoeing, powerboating, orienteering, and football. The highlight of the Year 6 camp to Shropshire is visiting the working Victorian village which is near-by and improvising in the school house (the year group of 2004's improvisation appeared on a documentary about co-curricular activities).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] House System

The school recently adopted a house system. The children selected the house names from a list of 20th Century Heroes. The Houses are named after Nelson Mandela (purple house colours), Helen Keller (blue house colours), Earnest Shackleton (green house colours) and Florence Nightingale (red house colours). Over the course of a year the school run various house events including, Netball and football tournamounts, the HOSCARS (acting and performance) as well as a Music Medley.