Dear Parents / Carers,
It has been a very busy two weeks at Dr Thomlinson Church of England Middle School.
There have been a number of very successful sporting trips. Well done to our KS3 Girls rugby team who showed great enthusiasm taking part in a rugby tournament at Morpeth on April 30th. Equally enthusiastic were our Year 8 Sports Leaders who helped run a Year 3 & 4 Tag Rugby Festival at Chantry Middle School on Wednesday, May 2nd.
On Tuesday, May 8th our KS3 Girls football team took part in their second League football tournament. They were extremely competitive against very good teams from the Duchess High School, Valley Gardens and Newminster Middle School. Well done to Charlotte in Year 8 for scoring the goals for the team. Ffion, Hazel and Olivia produced some particularly industrious performances.
On Wednesday, May 9th our KS3 Boys Rugby team took part in a rugby tournament at Kingston Park. The team played very well and were victorious in all four of their matches. Numerous tries were spread liberally around the team but Charlie and Tom were commended for their excellent efforts.
Thank you to all those students who took part in the launch of our after school Science Club. The club will be running on consecutive Tuesday evenings until the end of the Summer term.
All of Year 8 take part in our “50 Book Challenge” and the six pupils who have read the most of these chosen 50 books are taking part in a reward trip to Barter Books in Alnwick this afternoon. A special mention must go to Beth in Year 8 who managed to read all 50 of the books – a very notable achievement!
Thank you to all those who contributed to our Non-Uniform Day and Cake Sale, the proceeds will go towards the Year 8 Leaver Books.
Year 8 also enjoyed a very successful trip to the Centre for Life on Wednesday. The trip further enhanced the learning of students for their current Earth in Space topic. Keeping on the subject of Science, well done to the six winners of our British Science Week Poster competition. The theme of the week was Discoveries and Exploration and children were invited to design a poster on this theme. Five were chosen as prize winners and these were: Maddison, Ythan and Luke in Year 5 and Robert and Beth in Year 8.
I have been very impressed by the ongoing rehearsals for the Magic Rugby Weekend. Over 50 of our students will be taking part in the half-time dance routine on the Saturday of the Magic Rugby Weekend (an event that sees all the top Rugby League teams in the country come together to play a series of league fixtures at a single venue, namely St James’ Park. The event takes place over the weekend of May 19th and May 20th and will clearly be the premier sporting event taking place in the country that weekend. We are all looking forward to it.
Next week is Key Stage Two SAT week in which our Year 6 students will be taking tests in Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar; Reading and Maths. We are very proud of the achievements of all our pupils and we know that our Year 6 will give their very best.
We have a weekly opportunity to thank those pupils who given their best through our Thomlinson Outstanding Pupil (TOP) award.
TOP Award Winners week beginning 30th April, 2018
5T Cerys
5H Jacob
6O Luke
6M Michael
7L Emma
7I Chris
8N Ethan
8S Ben
TOP Award Winners Week beginning 7th May, 2018
5T Daniel
5H Eilidh
6O Amy
6M Olivia
7L James
7I Nolan
8N Finley
8S Matthew
Mathemagician of the Week – Connor
Well done to all of these award winners.
Have a lovely weekend,
Liam
