Our Mural

We are so excited to share our beautiful new hall mural which measures 3x3m square and is the focus of our worship times and school life together.

As a school, we have been reflecting on our vision, values and christian distinctiveness and have worked together to design our mural, centred around the cross.

You will notice that we have linked our vision – “A church school community aspiring for all to live life to the full (flourish)” with our three key values of Love – community (bottom right), Courage – aspiration (top right) and Wisdom – Flourish (bottom left). Our school prayers and the Trinity are represented in the top left side. All of the Bible verses were chosen by staff, pupils or Trinity Church to celebrate God’s love for all and the ethos of our school.

Can you spot our school and Trinity Church in the painting?

The mural took a whole week to paint. Enjoy watching our beautiful mural emerge in our time-lapse video!

Spiritual Reflection

At Holy Trinity the children have many opportunities to grow spiritually in our supportive and nurturing school. ‘Spiritual development’ is a very difficult term to define. It applies to all pupils, not only those from a religious background. Similarly, the potential for spiritual development is open to everyone. In an educational context it should not be thought of narrowly in terms of developing religious beliefs nor of conversion to a particular faith.

We use the language of spirituality that was developed by the Education Department at the Diocese of Gloucester, the children are introduced to the concepts of wows, ows and nows. These are used to explore relationships with: ourselves, others, the wider natural world and beyond and offering the invitation to relate to God. Each classroom has a designated Spiritual Reflection area.

As the children progress through school they are also introduced to windows, mirrors and doors as a way of thinking about the world around them.

“Windows are for looking out onto the world and becoming aware of its wonders, both the ‘wows’ and ‘ows’; things that are ‘awe-full’ and make us wonder and be grateful and things that are ‘awful’ and make us wonder and ask questions.

Mirrors are for looking into and reflecting, alone and together, to see things more clearly, for thinking and asking important questions learning from our own and each other’s responses…

Doors are for looking through in order to then act or express this in some way in response; for moving on, making choices, and doing something creative, active and purposeful in response.”