Holy Trinity Junior School, Guildford

Infobox UK school
name = Holy Trinity Junior School


motto =
phone = 01483 539033
fax = 01483 451227
established =
type = Junior
head = Mr Richard Rowe [cite web | url=http://www.holytrinity.surrey.sch.uk/feedback_contact.html | title= School website- Contact Page|accessdate=2007-02-24]
street = Addison Road
city = Guildford
county = Surrey
country = England
ofsted = 125288
enrollment = 384 cite web | url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=125288 | title=OFSTED School Information Page | accessdate=2007-02-24]
lower_age = 7
upper_age = 11
publication =
website = http://www.holytrinity.surrey.sch.uk/

Holy Trinity Junior School is a 7-11 junior school in Guildford, Surrey, with 384 students from the ages of 7-11.

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.

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.Fact|date=June 2007

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).Fact|date=June 2007

House System

The school recently adopted a house system. The children selected the house names from a list of 20th Century Heroes. Over the course of a year the school run various house events including, Netball and football tournaments, the HOSCARS (acting and performance) as well as a Music Medley.

The houses are:
*Nelson Mandela (purple house colours)
*Helen Keller (blue house colours)
*Earnest Shackleton (green house colours)
*Florence Nightingale (red house colours)

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