Trent Young'sCE School

On Friday, we had a fabulous morning in the sunshine on our spring walk. We were lucky to be able to get out to learn more about the signs of spring, the impact of the wet winter and how farmers are managing this. Thank you so much to Mr and Mrs Casely for leading our walk and for sharing their knowledge. Thank you to our amazing adult helpers for joining us for the morning too! #LetYourLightShine The Ernest Cook Trust

KS1 Trip to The Sealife Centre! What a fantastic day we had exploring life under the sea at Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park! The children loved discovering all the incredible underwater creatures and learning how some of the animals are specially adapted to their habitats. The sunshine made the day even more magical, and Mr Squibb and Mrs Green were incredibly proud of the children - not just for their curiosity and enthusiasm, but also for their excellent behaviour throughout the trip. Well done KS1you were amazing! #LetYourLightShine

To add to our North Dorset netball success yesterday, our Year 5/6 footballers and Y3/4 netballers were also in action! Playing in their first ever tournament together, our netball team played fantastically together to finish as joint winners across the other Sherborne Area Schools. Our footballers came a fantastic 2nd place out of 8 other schools after narrowly losing in the final after an emphatic semi-final win on penalties! What a sporting evening for Trent Young's!! #LetYourLightShine

North Dorset Champions!! We are delighted to share that our Y5/6 netball team won the North Dorset netball tournament yesterday afternoon! Having won the Sherborne Area tournament a few weeks ago, they travelled to Gillingham School to compete against other cluster winners from Sturminster, Blandford and Gillingham. We are so proud of our team and how they played with so much determination, teamwork and sportsmanship. #LetYourLightShine

We had a WONDERful Wonderstruck experience for British Science Week! Our day began with a whole-school rocket science show where Peter demonstrated how smoke rings are made, the purpose of gun powder and quite a large balloon BANG by using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen! KS2 then worked in pairs to create and launch their own aeroplanes or rockets by exploring forces and aerodynamics. The children competed to hit a balloon down with their models by using an automated launcher with pressurised air. After lunch, years 4, 5 and 6 came together to explore the history and science of castles. We went out in the miserable rain to enjoy a demonstration of the relative power of onager catapults, trebuchets and black powder mortar. The children worked in groups to build their own castles and then use model onager catapults to attempt to demolish them! The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and cannot wait to welcome Wonderstruck back again soon! #LetYourLightShine #BritishScienceWeek

World Book Day Success! A huge thank you to everyone who got involved with our book week last week - the atmosphere across the week was amazing and it was so lovely to see so many of you join in with all our events and activities! Here a few highlights of the week - Mr Squibb is already looking forward to what next year brings! #LetYourLightShine #worldbookday2026 #worldbookweek World Book Day (UK & Ireland) West End in Schools

It's World Book Day!! Tonight's bedtime stories are brought to you by Mrs Green and Miss Morgan: https://www.trentyoungs.dsat.org.uk/page/?title=World+Book+Week+2026&pid=192 Thank you for all of your hard work on the children's costumes - they were amazing!!! #LetYourLightShine #WorldBookWeek #worldbookday2026

Here is your next World Book Week quiz!! As per previously, pop your answers in the comments for team points. #LetYourLightShine

World Book Week Day 3 Tonight's bedtime stories are brought to you by Mrs Harvey and our Diocese of Salisbury Academy Trust Chief Executive, Mr Lacey!! They can be found here: https://www.trentyoungs.dsat.org.uk/page/?title=World+Book+Week+2026&pid=192 We can't wait to see your amazing costumes tomorrow! #LetYourLightShine #WorldBookWeek #worldbookday2026

World Book Week Day 2 Tonight's stories are brought to you by Miss Partridge and Miss Jagla! The videos can be found here: https://www.trentyoungs.dsat.org.uk/page/?title=World+Book+Week+2026&pid=192 #LetYourLightShine #WorldBookWeek #worldbookday2026

Another quiz from Mr Squibb for you tonight! As with earlier in the week, feel free to pop your answers in the comments to earn team points! The answers will be posted later in the week! #LetYourLightShine #WorldBookWeek #worldbookday2026

'Who's that behind the mask?!?!' As part of this morning's World Book Week launch, we shared this year's Masked Reader with the children. Thank you so much to Mr Squibb for all of his hard work in putting it together. Your child should also have come home with this year's World Book Day (UK & Ireland) voucher today to redeem against one of this year's books or to get £1 off another book. We'll see you from 8am tomorrow morning on the playground for our book swap! #LetYourLightShine #WorldBookWeek #worldbookday2026

It's the start of World Book Week so settle down for tonight's bedtime stories!! They can be found here: https://www.trentyoungs.dsat.org.uk/page/?title=World+Book+Week+2026&pid=192 #LetYourLightShine #WorldBookWeek

As we enter Book Week at Trent, Mr Squibb has made some small book related quizzes for each evening this week to get us thinking all things books. If you know the answers to some of the questions, comment the colour team your child/ren are in with your answers to help earn some extra team points for their team over the week - your book knowledge could help their team win this week! Tonight's quiz is: Zoomed in Front Covers - can you recognise the front covers from a small zoomed in section? #LetYourLightShine #worldbookday2026 #WorldBookWeek

We can't wait for Trent's World Book Week next week! The poster below gives a flavour of what will be happening. #LetYourLightShine #worldbookday2026 #WorldBookWeek