A fantastic week full of learning, a learning visit to Penlee and sporting achievements! A brilliant well done to our school netball team who are through to Cornwall School Games final, children who completed in the school swimming gala and also our KS1 multiskills team who, on their first outing representing the school, did an amazing job! As many STAR learning units are coming to an end, children are doing a fantastic job at retrieving key information and making links between this learning, prior learning and asking questions about what can be learned next. Miss Bowen, who took the Year 3 class to Penlee couldn’t believe how much historical understanding the children had!

The children and staff have been fantastic this week in coping with change. With many staff members off, existing staff have adapted in supporting different classes and duties, as well as supporting the sports and learning visits which we were still determined to take place.

A reminder to everyone, that next week, there is an INSET day on Friday. All staff will be at school being trained on our new phonics scheme ‘Little Wandle’ and we hope that you have a fantastic extended half term!

Ms Teagle

FACE TO FACE AND IEP REVIEW MEETINGS

All IEP review meetings for children on the Record of Need are happening before half term, and all Face to Face meetings will be held after half term. If you have not yet made your appointment, please see the class teacher at the door in the morning or after school or make an appointment through the school office.

FSM VOUCHERS FOR HALF TERM

Our Local Authority are again providing free school meal vouchers to cover the half term period. This will use the same platform we have used before, WONDE. The vouchers will be £15 per eligible child and emails will be sent out next week.

TMS SPORT and WELLBEING HALL

Lots of you will be aware of the conversations happening between the school and the council over the last 4 years. Our current school hall, as you know, is not fit for purpose: delivering the full PE curriculum is an impossibility and meeting as a whole school, which is so incredibly important to a school, is a logistical nightmare! The hall was built for a school of less than 200 children and with the school expanded to now 420, the buildings have extended, but the hall, situated in the middle of the building has remained the same (in fact … decreased in size!).

The council has allocated £888,000 towards the building of a new sports hall, which is incredibly exciting and shows how much commitment there is from the community of TMS and also the councils and county officers. We have worked with PBWC on a design which encapsulates more than just a sports hall. It includes a wellbeing workspace, as well as building an outdoor learning area to support our curriculum, as well as extra curricular activities.

We also intend use by the community in the evenings, both the hall and the workspace, for sports hiring, or local groups meetings to strengthen links in the community.

The planning has now been submitted and through consultation with parents and the local community we know how much support there is for this provision to support the children in the village.  We invite you to share you support on the planning portal:

https://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=R2Q37YFGH0600

Thank you to all the members of the community who have supported us thus far on this journey: Dulcie Tudor, Kenwyn Parish Council, TMS Community Centre, Rev’d Jeremy and All Saints Church, Stephen Horscroft and many more.

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