Mission Statement
Learning for Life. Caring for all. Living each day to the full. Together as a community.
"Labels are for jars, not for children"
Latest updates to this site: September 2nd 2010. Check this page for details of some of these changes and where to find them on the site. Otherwise just browse!
WELCOME BACK TO A NEW SCHOOL YEAR
July Newsletter out to parents now
We wish our latest group of 35 Year 6 pupils all the best for the future as they move on to secondary schools in the area. After an emotional Leavers' Assembly on Wednesday 21st July, parents and carers met with pupils and staff for refreshments. Many younger brothers and sisters are still with us so I am sure we will not lose touch.
This month we will be welcoming 42 new 4 and 5 year olds into F2. These along with several other pupils arriving in other year groups and 4 new members of staff, means that there will be a great many new faces at the start of the new term. We welcome them all and trust that they will settle in quickly.
"Hoylake Holy Trinity C E is a school with many admirable qualities: Dynamism, creativity and a strong sense of partnership. It is actively involved in the broader community in ensuring that families and parents are successfully encouraged to develop their true potential in the basic skills of Literacy and Numeracy.
There is no doubt in our minds that the well-established Inclusion Team..... has a significant impact upon whole school development and reinforces its community focused ethos."
From our Recent Basic Skills Inspection Report (April 2010).
Urgent notices:
- Children return to school on Monday 6th September - Staff return for training on Thursday 2nd September
- Welcome to Miss Mowles (Year 4), Miss Bryan (Year 3) and our own Miss Knipe (F2), Mrs Mackay (F2) and Mrs Ritchie (F2) who all come onto the school staff this Summer
- Miss Hearty and Mirs O'Neill Edwards will be temporarilly leaving us on maternity leave later in the Autumn term
- DVDs of the Year 6 production 'Joseph's Coat of Many Colours', available at £5 each
- OFSTED 2010 interim assessment - Superb news for the school community- click here.
- Click here if you would like a copy of the Healthy Foods "Live n' cooking" presentation given to parents recently by Debbi and Ray Jeffries as part of our cookery course for children and parents. Debbi and Ray have helped us turn around our school dinners so that now 70-80% of children have them, as opposed to 40+% previously
- Breakfast and after school club to start January 2010
- Parents questionnaires - results of the last survey can be found via a link on the Inclusion page
- For information on which members of staff are working with each year group, visit our School Tour page and click on the rooms
- For information on Special Needs support please visit the Inclusion Team page.
The Drama Club in action.
Above: Some of our pupils performing at our 2010 Summer Concert. A really magnificent evening for all. Over 80 of our children had the opportunity to perform in front of a packed audience. Brass, woodwind, strings, drama, choirs and soloists all took part. Hoylake Holy Trinity boasts the only primary school brass ensemble and string quartet on Wirral (according to the peripatetic teachers!!). For more pictures go to our Gallery page.
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Scroll right down to read a welcome letter from the Headteacher, Dr. Peter Ham.
Some of the children take a bow during one of our recent Friday Celebration assemblies. Carers, Mums and Dads and friends come too, as do some of our preschool youngsters!
Attendance - The legal limit to authorised absence is 10 days in one academic year. However this is at the Headteacher's discretion. Please help your child and us by respecting this. For any absences to take place after August 2010, we will be asking you to make an appointment with the Headteacher to discuss the matter, rather than filling in a request form. This is not to cause offence, but we see a dramatic correlation between children's progress and their attendance. We will be looking at ongoing attendance when reviewing these requests. Recent end of year attendance records sent to parents were colour coded to emphasise the importance of this issue.
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE: PLEASE DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD USE FACEBOOK OR OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. THEY ARE DESIGNED FOR 13 YEAR OLDS AND OVER, NOT FOR PRIMARY AGE CHILDREN.
JUST SAY "NO!"
THIS IS THE MESSAGE WE ARE GIVING THE CHILDREN AT SCHOOL. PLEASE SUPPORT US BY BEING FIRM AND DENYING THEM ACCESS TO THESE VULNERABLE SITES, FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY.
Coming soon - a new Extended Schools page in which services available to the community and a full directory for this area, will be available. For details of forthcoming events go to our Diary page.
At Hoylake we have a fairly new House system, chosen by the children. They decided on birds which can be found along the shore in Hoylake: Oystercatchers, Redshanks, Curlews and Sandpipers. These are all pictured above. In fact there are many types of Sandpiper. The one pictured above is the elusive Purple Sandpiper which can be found locally if you know where to look! Can you work out which birds are which? Click here to download a House Greetings card with the 4 birds to print off yourself.
Our Summer Term House Trophy was won by Sandpipers. Congratulations to all who took part - which was everyone!
New Picture Gallery
Email your pictures to schooloffice@hoylakeholytrinity.wirral.sch.uk and we will add them to our gallery on this web site. Add your name and a title. Click on the GALLERY button on the menu to see what's appeared.
See some new photos on the gallery page
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Year 3 and 4 children preparing 3D Tudor portaits with Mr Ian Fennelly
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Our very own Cameron in some very important company!
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New photo of Kahawatta Primary School classroom with Hoylake's work on the wall.
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Year 4 at Tranmere Rovers doing Maths!
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Our Cross Country Running team including Rebecca "The Silver Shadow," who gained 1st place in her event against 90+ other children.
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Musicians from Year 4 taking part in our New Opportunities Project which provides free instruments for one year to all Y4 pupils, together with weekly lessons.
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World Book Day, March 4th, when children came dressed as historical figures and had readings from parents and other relatives.
New esafety policy - please click here to view the school's new esafety policy. Copies of the parents form will be sent out shortly, for you to sign. Please read the policy, which has been ratified by the Governing Body. Paper copies can be provided and are available to view in the School office. Internet security and safety are very important. If you would like more information about how to protect your children while they are on the internet, please contact Dr. Ham. WARNING: We strongly recommend that you monitor your child's internet access, either by sitting with them and/or ensuring that there are security restrictions preventing your son or daughter accessing particular web sites such as Facebook and other internet social networking sites. There are several reports of possible illegal use of these sites by adults trying to contact children in our area, and any such report or suspicion needs to be notified to the police immediately.
Kahawatta Primary School in Sri Lanka - go to our Kahawatta page for the latest news and photo.
Preparing for our Easter Service at St. Hildeburgh's. The Church was packed with family, friends and children.
As a result of parents' generosity and the hard work of the PTA, we will be developing the playgrounds and the inside of the school this year:
- A traversing wall, designed by our own qualified climber and mid day assistant, Mr Rawling
- A covering over the outside class area on the infants playground, so that parents can wait under cover from the rain at the end of the school day
- Inside...
- New thesauruses and dictionaries - now purchased and in place
- New maths equipment - now purchased and in place
- New headphones and other ICT equipment - installed over the summer
- New musical instruments and storage facilities - in place
- Large play equipment for Foundation stage children - to be purchased as part of our playground developments
- New planters and seating for the junior playground - now installed
- and this is just the start....
This Summer we will be embarking on two large projects. First - to redevelop the outside play areas and second - to replace and improve our aged computer equipment so that the facilities are mobile, fast and more accessible, and up to date.
Welcome from the Headteacher
If you are thinking of moving to Wirral, Hoylake would be a superb choice. As the pictures below show, some of the local views are stunning and we believe Hoylake Holy Trinity C of E Primary School is a wonderful place for children's learning to take place. The school is right at the heart of Hoylake, just off Market Street, the main road through the village. As well as being physically very central, we also believe we are central to Hoylake as a community, and seek to build upon and develop our community links. Hoylake also has excellent transport links with Liverpool, Birkenhead and Chester. Please explore our web site for more information. Moreover go to www.hoylakevillage.org.uk for a new website all about Hoylake itself.
If you are already closely linked with Holy Trinity, welcome to our school website.
I hope you will find our pages helpful in getting to know what's happening within our school community, whether you are already involved or simply a visitor.
Our mission statement at the head of the page is one that all of us at Holy Trinity, children and adults alike, take very seriously. Our aim is to enable the children coming here to grow up in a caring and exciting environment where barriers to participation and to achievement, wherever they come from, are reduced and where the pupils are given the maximum opportunity to enjoy their full potential. Important to us all is the inclusive , christian ethos, around which we seek to grow together.
We have a number of weekly opportunities when parents and relatives can join in. Monday morning sees our first act of collective worship. These are often led by the children and parents of those leading are warmly invited. Friday morning brings our celebration of great things during the previous week, when we recognise effort and achievement, whether academic or non academic. Parents of children receiving awards are invited to share in these celebrations. If this is you, then you will be notified with a letter by Tuesday evening in the hope that you can make time to be there.
Windsurfing off Hoylake shore; Hilbre Island in the background.
Looking towards Red Rocks and the nature reserve, where a rare colony of Natterjack Toads exists.
Westerly facing, we have some superb sunsets looking over the Dee, to the Welsh coast, and beyond.
Looking across the marshes at high tide, towards Hilbre Island, with the Hoyle Bank Wind Farm, just visible on the horizon.
But most important - enjoying excellent learning opportunities
Admissions
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Admission numbers into F2 for 2011 are to be reviewed in October 2010. Numbers increased in 2010 from 30 to 42 due to an increase in local demand from Hoylake residents. The Governing Body of the school will be reviewing space and demand for places. We have no plans to introduce vertical classes and our intention is to maintain lower class sizes. A crucial part of our Christian ethos and culture is the fact that we seek to be accessible, inclusive, welcoming and friendly. This, we intend, will not change.
IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE: If you are considering a place for 2011/2012, please contact the office or the Local Authority as soon as possible, for application forms and details of catchment areas, admissions criteria and deadlines. Although we are a Church school with a Christian ethos, we are also an inclusive community school and do not have any admissions criteria based on church attendance etc. Please be advised that the LA processes all applications for places, not the school and the LA should be contacted for the precise admissions criteria. However, the School is always open for visitors who might like to see around and get advice and information. We advise that you visit during the school day so that you can meet us as a community, in action! If you have any questions, suggestions or wish to find out more about our school community, please do not hesitate to contact me. You will find newsletters, pictures, reports and links to other sites, as well as examples of children's achievements - all within this website. As time goes on we will endeavour to use it to further improve communications between home and school.
If you want to see more you are welcome to come and visit. Again, please contact me using the details below and we will enjoy showing you around our school.
With best wishes,
Dr. P.J. Ham
Headteacher
Contact the School
Hoylake Holy Trinity C of E Primary School
Hoylake
Wirral
CH47 3BH
Telephone:
Fax: 0151 632 0886
Email: schooloffice@hoylakeholytrinity.wirral.sch.uk
Latest updates to this site: September 2nd 2010