It has been science, smiles and laughter this week, as TMS have enthusiastically embraced science week and finished it off with the craziness that Comic Relief always brings! We even managed to timetable in our SUPERNOVA afternoon – a celebration of all 430 children working together to be fantastic TMS citizens – thank you!

Learning with partner classes on 2 afternoons, and delving into scientific investigations, has been incredible for our personal development, showing understanding, empathy and collaboration across the year groups. This morning, we had a really exciting time with Melissa Thorpe from the Spaceport on a Zoom call – the only female in the world doing her job! Thank you to Mrs Vale who, through her work with the Science Learning Partnership, has made this possible! 

Comic Relief was an amazing success, raising over £300 for a brilliant cause. Throughout the day, we’ve had outside discos, dance competitions and of course – INCREDIBLY funny ‘jokes’.  

We have also welcomed this week, a visitor from the English Hub to monitor the effectiveness of our implementation of Little Wandle across the school. Looking at the learning sessions and data, the progress made by our children in the early stages of reading is just wonderful. Our SHIP partners (headteachers from Trewirgie Infants and Nanpean) also came in to look at reading across KS2, foundation subjects in KS1 and most excitingly, seeing and talking about the brilliant work done by teachers and children in our morning retrieval session! To add even more visitors, we welcomed Mrs McAlpine and Rev’d Mullett from our Governing Body for a safeguarding and behaviour review in KS2, again, with really positive conversations on how we keep everyone safe, both emotionally and physically, as well as the strength of anti bullying identification – what bullying is and what we can do about it. Our acronym STOP (Several Times on Purpose) helped the children talk about the differences between falling out, unkindness and when it turns into bullying.  

We hope that you manage to get outside and play in the rainy showers this weekend – and patiently wait for the joys of Spring to come!

Ms Teagle – Headteacher