Welcome to Chilton Trinity School
It is with great pride that I offer you this introduction to Chilton Trinity School. We are an 11-16 comprehensive school offering an inspiring learning environment for our students and staff. We are a proud to be a Futura Learning Partnership school and are committed to the academic development and wellbeing of all students in our care. We have a great team of teaching and support staff, each of whom are fully committed to creating a school that truly makes a difference to our students. We aim to develop each individual through excellent teaching and a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities, to ensure each student can become a confident, well-rounded citizen, ready to take their place in society.
Curriculum
Quality first teaching The Chilton trinity school curriculum is rich, deep, varied and challenging, driven by the highest standards of teaching. We strive to provide students with the best support and opportunities to enable them to develop into strong, confident independent learners. Our framework of the Principles of Effective Teaching creates engaging and ambitious learning where all students are supported to achieve. A powerful knowledge foundation for their future. Our collaborative curriculum is the key to unlocking students’ potential and paving the way for a future of success, happiness and confidence. ” Our curriculum is broad, rigorous and exciting.” ” We have the highest possible expectations for your child and will drive and support them in achieving their potential. Our strong academic foundations build independence and resilience”.
Student Leadership
Quality first teaching The Chilton trinity school curriculum is rich, deep, varied and challenging, driven by the highest standards of teaching. We strive to provide students with the best support and opportunities to enable them to develop into strong, confident independent learners. Our framework of the Principles of Effective Teaching creates engaging and ambitious learning where all students are supported to achieve. A powerful knowledge foundation for their future. Our collaborative curriculum is the key to unlocking students’ potential and paving the way for a future of success, happiness and confidence. ” Our curriculum is broad, rigorous and exciting.” ” We have the highest possible expectations for your child and will drive and support them in achieving their potential. Our strong academic foundations build independence and resilience”.
Literacy
We have high expectations of literacy throughout all lessons - be it written, spoken or read. We value literacy and as such have dedicated curriculum time to DEAR - Drop Everything And Read - our daily reading session that focusses on instilling a love of reading and developing fluency. A fluent reader can focus on comprehension and better access the curriculum, whilst an individual who enjoys reading will continue to read and enjoy a wealth of experiences through the power of the written word.
Careers
We want every student to have high aspirations for their future. We provide genuine life experiences in preparation for success in adult life, giving every student a platform to excel. Frequent employer visits, and higher education links such as STEM workshops for all year groups, show students the possibilities and the wide variety of the working world and empower them to make the best choices for their future.
Whole Child
At Chilton trinity school we are a family. At the heart of the school is the highly successful pastoral system, enabling structured support and care for all our students and their different personal needs and challenges. Our recent OFSTED inspection noted ‘Students are proud to attend this school. They feel safe and have a trusted adult they can talk to about any concerns. Pupils say bullying is rare. If incidents occur, leaders take swift and effective action.’ Our academic system means students make good progress and know what they need to do to get better and strive for success. Chilton trinity school is an inclusive and friendly environment with the motto work hard and be kind running through the centre of all that we do. “My teachers care about me and want me to do my best.” We celebrate success, reward hard work, and recognise the individual. “i have so many happy memories of my year 7 experience “
House System
Our pastoral system works towards ensuring students are happy and healthy in mind and body. The school is divided into four smaller families (Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune) to ensure all children are valued and can contribute positively. House tutor groups provide a strong and secure base for students. Tutors are the first point of guidance, help and support and act as your child’s champion. “Your tutor group become your friends very quickly”. The house championship provides healthy competition with highly competitive weekly contests promoting aspiration, success and team spirit. Contests vary from welly wanging to the Rodeo Reindeer event at Christmas. Throughout each academic year the Houses battle for points to win the hotly contested Croad trophy. Points are awarded through the weekly house events as well as student achievement points, attendance and progress scores. Students take responsibility, gain leadership and work across the year groups to have fun and gain points for their houses. The winning house is unveiled at the end of each academic year and receives the fiercely coveted reward afternoon at Chiltfest. “The competition between houses is fierce and fun”. “Our head of house is our biggest cheerleader” ” I feel so at home in my house”.
Personal Development and Enrichment
We are particularly proud of our ‘rich and varied’ Personal Development programme which is designed to develop and Enrichment responsible, resilient, respectful and active citizens in an inclusive environment, who are engaged and keen to play their part and become actively and positively involved in public life as adults. There are many varied Enrichment opportunities offering something for everyone from plays to musicals and concerts, craft club, choir, history’s mysteries, the Duke of Edinburgh award and, of course, our sports teams who regularly compete across Somerset. Beyond the classroom we offer a wide variety of school trips both non- residential and residential, including destinations such as Lyme Regis, Nottingham, Chepstow Castle and Coldharbour Mill. Further afield, we have our annual ski trip, geography trip to Sicily and a history trip to Berlin. One of the highlights of Year 7 is our annual week-long camp in the summer term with many activities including Camp Olympics, Camp’s Got Talent, fish and chips and water games. “Camp has been the best time of my life.”, Year 7 student.