Sustainable Travel Silver Award.

Holy Trinity was awarded the higher level of the Sustainable Travel scheme, run by Transport for London and the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames, that encourages schools to develop a school travel plan. Holy Trinity has developed a school travel plan that met all criteria for the ‘sustainable’ level. To meet the higher accreditation level the school showed a higher level of participation in sustainable travel initiatives provided by our local authority and TfL, combined with a more innovative approach to our travel plan and related actions, consultation and monitoring.

International Schools Award at Silver Level.

The International School Award (ISA) is a prestigious accreditation scheme, managed by the British Council. The Award recognises and celebrates schools that are committed to developing international partnerships which enrich the curriculum and help young learners to become global citizens. 

Connecting Classrooms is the name of the scheme that enables participating schools to achieve the ISA, by providing the structure and experience needed to satisfy the criteria for application. By actively participating in this scheme through maintaining links with schools in Chile (Santiago), Spain (Barcelona) and Switzerland (Zurich), Holy Trinity has achieved the silver level of this accreditation. 

As a result of participating in this scheme, and the benefits derived from the many visits made to some of the schools, Holy Trinity has introduced Spanish as the school's foreign language which is now taught to all children.

The National Healthy Schools Programme supports the links between health, behaviour and achievement; it is about creating healthy and happy children and young people, who do better in learning and in life.

National Healthy School Status is achieved within a rigorous quality assurance framework. All schools achieving National Healthy School Status must have met national criteria using a whole school approach across the four core themes:

• Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE), including SRE and drugs education
• Healthy Eating
• Physical Activity
• Emotional Health and Wellbeing, including bullying

The four core themes relate to both the school curriculum and the emotional and physical learning environment in school. Each theme includes a number of criteria that schools need to fulfil in order to achieve National Healthy School Status.

An extended school works with the local authority, local providers and other schools to provide access to a core offer of integrated services:

1. a varied range of activities including study support, sport and music clubs, combined with childcare in primary schools
2. parenting and family support
3. swift and easy access to targeted and specialist services
4. community access to facilities including adult and family learning, ICT and sports grounds.

There is evidence that extended services can help to:

• improve pupil attainment, self-confidence, motivation and attendance;
• reduce exclusion rates;
• better enable teachers to focus on teaching and learning;
• enhance children's and families access to services.

We have received this mark as we have:

• the percentage of our pupils participating in at least two hours high quality PE and school sport each week is significantly above the national average
• we have a sports day
• we bettered the national average for pupils involved in sports leadership and participating in sports clubs linked to their school.

Holy Trinity has the Bronze award as we have:

• identified an action team that has met on at least two occasions;
• an action team that has completed an environmental review;
• produced a basic action plan and shared the plan with the rest of the school community;
• identified progress towards achieving elements of the action plan;
• indicated that some environmental issues have been covered within curriculum work; and
• a prominent, designated noticeboard, web pages or newsletter which details Eco-Schools activities.