15 December

Christmas Messy Church at 4.00 pm in All Saints Parish Rooms

18 December

Carol Service at St Michael’s, Alnham at 6.30 pm

22 December

Lessons and carols at All Saints, Rothbury at 6.30 pm

Christmas Eve

Crib Service at All Saints, Rothbury at 4.00 pm

Crib Service at St Michael’s, Alwinton at 4.00 pm

Lessons and Carols at St Michael’s, Alnham at 6.00 pm

Midnight Mass at All Saints, Rothbury at 11.30 pm

Midnight Mass at St Mary’s Holystone at 11.30 pm

Christmas Day

Communion at Christ Church, Hepple at 9.00 am

Communion at All Saints, Rothbury at 10.15 am

Communion at St Michael’s, Alwinton at 11.00 am

New Year’s Eve

Watchnight Service at St Mary’s, Holystone at 4.00 pm

(Over the Bridges has the incorrect venue for this service)

 

Well done to our Year 7 football team who played Ovingham in the County Cup on Tuesday.  Our team played very well against a strong side and were unlucky to lose 0-6 – a score that did not reflect the balance of play.

Wednesday saw the second First Schools Sports Festival of the academic year.  Our Year 8 Sports Leaders worked with children from our neighbouring First Schools on improving their Multi Skills.  The most popular game was “Domes and Dishes”. Mr Heath was very impressed with the enthusiasm of all those who were involved.

On Thursday, our Year 8 took part in a Career “Speed Dating” event where they worked in groups looking at a number of possible future careers and talking to people in a range of employment.  All the employers represented were very impressed with the attitude and behaviour of our children – Year 8 were really embracing the interdependent values of our curriculum.

This evening sees our Christmas Disco (an event that we were unable to offer last year) – it is the first of our Christmas events (all of which are detailed below).

We have outlined below some important events in our school’s celebration of Christmas.

Christmas Disco – Friday 6 December

All pupils are invited to our disco on Friday 6 December – 6 to 7 pm.  Admission is £3 and a tuckshop will be open. Parent volunteers are always welcome to help.

Christmas Fair – Wednesday 11 December

Mrs Creigh and Mrs Jones will be holding a Christmas Fair on Wednesday 11 December 3.30-5.00 pm to raise funds for their Gardening Club.  All are welcome to attend.

Year 8 Christmas Cake Coffee Morning – Friday 13 December

It wouldn’t be Christmas at Dr Thomlinson’s without our Year 8 Christmas Cake competition.  Year 8 parents are invited to Christmas Cake Coffee Morning on Friday 13 December at 9:30 – 10:30am.

Student Christmas Dinner Day – Wednesday 18 December

Our lunch for students will be on Wednesday 18 December and this extra special meal, with crackers and all the trimmings is costing only £3.60 per pupil.   Please inform us, via the link on the letter emailed earlier this week, if your child would like lunch by Friday 6 December.   Packed lunch will need to be provided if you do not reply.

Christmas Jumper Day – Wednesday 18 December

This day is also Christmas Jumper Day in aid of Save the Children.  Pupils are invited into school wearing their favourite Christmas jumper plus their normal school uniform for a donation of £1.

Dr Thomlinson’s Christmas Church Service – Thursday 19 December  1:45pm

Our Christmas Church Service will be held at 1.45 pm in All Saints Church, Rothbury.  All are welcome to join us.

School closes – Friday 20 December

School will close for students at 3.30 pm.  We re-open on Monday 6 January 2020 at 8.50 am.

Reserve a date in your diary for Dr Thomlinson Got Winter Talent – February 5th, 2019 – 7pm

Banish the winter blues with an exciting evening of dance; song and comedy.

Thomlinson Outstanding Pupil Awards

Week ending December 6th

5T Oliver

5H Alexander

6O Hannah

6M Edward

7L Lily

7I Taylor

8N Morgan

8S Ben & Trinity

Will in Year 5 won Mathemagician of the Week.

Ythan in Year 7 won our weekly P&Q award.  The winner of our weekly P&Q award are able to choose a book as their prize and Ythan chose Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

School Safeguarding Liaison Officer drop in session 9th September

A school safeguarding liaison officer will be in school on December 9th delivering a PHSE session to Year 7 pupils.  The officer will be available to parents/carers at the end of the school day (3:30 – approx 4:15pm). The session will be a drop-in session and anyone wishing to meet with them needs only to come to reception at the end of the school day on Monday, December 9th.

 

Dear Parent/Carer,

It has been a busy opening fortnight to our second Autumn Half term.

Our Scholastic Book Fair was very popular during the week beginning November 4th and it was clear from its success that our pupils have a real love of reading.

On November 6th we had a really productive Parent Curriculum Consultation evening. The evening was an excellent opportunity for the school to share its curriculum intent with its parent body and I thank the parents/carers for attending. Their contribution was very valuable. There will be further curriculum events throughout our school year.

Well done to our team of avid readers who attended the regional heat of Kids Lit Quiz in Gosforth. The Lit Quiz is a worldwide competition designed to test children’s knowledge of our Literary Heritage. Our teams consisted of four Yr 8 pupils (Daisy, Matilda, Jenny & Dylan) and 4 Yr 7 pupils (Eilidh, Isobel, Lily & Noah) and competed against 30 other schools. Our Yr 8 team finished in 6th place (the best the school has ever achieved) and our Yr 7 team finished only two points behind. Well done – to both teams.

November 8th saw our school cross country runners compete in the North Northumberland Cross Country at Longridge. Well done to Noah, Isaac, Steven, Katie, Elliott and Skye who all placed in the top 15 of their respective races. A special well done to Molly in Year 8 who finished runner-up in her event. The conditions were very wet and muddy and all our students showed remarkable resilience to do so well.

Thank you to all seven of our school House Captains for representing the school at the Rothbury Remembrance Day Service at All Saints Church. The House Captains laid a wreath at the Rothbury War Memorial on behalf of our students, staff, parents and academy councillors.

On Tuesday, November 12th our Key Stage Two Boys and Girls mixed 6 aside football team showed equal resilience to compete in the teeth of rainstorm at Cochrane Park, Newcastle. The team were competing in a Premier League football competition to see who would be the team to represent Newcastle in a national football event. The team beat Whytrig Middle School and Moulton Primary School before being defeated narrowly against Bede Academy and Seahouses Primary (the latter the result of a freak deflection). Well done to Edward, George, Cameron, Maisie, Emily, Lara and Zara.

Well done to the Boys KS2 Football team who played very well against Northburn Primary on Thursday, November 14th. Despite dominating large parts of the match they were unable to find the decisive goal and ended up losing in a narrow 3-1 defeat.

On November 11th we welcomed our Community Safety Officer to speak to our children about Social Media. The children really enjoyed the presentation and our Community Safety Officer is returning to our school on Tuesday, 19th November to present an Information Evening about Social Media to any interested Parents. We hope you are able to attend.

On November 14th the school further developed its children love of reading by inviting the school library service into school to train a number of keen children librarians. Our school has really invested in our school library and the library is open every lunchtime from 12:30 – 1pm.

Well done to all the people who contributed to a great day raising money for Children In Need on Friday, November 15th. There was an impressive range of stalls and activities at lunchtime to supplement the money raised through our non-uniform day.

Would your child like to be confirmed?

The Bishop of Newcastle will be conducting a Confirmation Service in All Saints Church, Rothbury, on Sunday 8th December at 10.15am. Once confirmed a person is a full member of The Church of England and is able to partake of the bread and wine at Holy Communion services.

If there are any pupils aged 10 or upwards who would like to be confirmed please contact the school by Friday 22nd November, 2019 (email: [email protected] – subject Confirmation Service – for the attention of the Headteacher.

Pupils would need to attend three 30 minute preparation classes which will happen during school lunchtimes from 12:30 on 26,28,29 November as well as the rehearsal which is in All Saints Church on Friday 6th December at 6.30pm.

Tuesday – 19th November – 6pm – Parent Information Evening – Social Media

Our Community Safety Officer will be in school for an information presentation regarding Social Media. All Parents/Carers are welcome to attend.

Thomlinson Outstanding Pupil Awards

Week ending October 24th

5T Edward

5H Lily

6O Daniel

6M Daisy

7L Hugo

7I Luke

8N Daisy

8S Trinity

Week ending November 8th

5T Will

5H Bibi

6O Imogen

6M Kaitlyn

7L Joseph

7I Lois

8N Emma

8S Chloe

Week ending November 15th

5T Gus

5H Luke

6O Freddy

6M Daisy

7L Katy

7I Isaac

8N Emma

8S Chloe

Well done to Wilf, Esme and Ryan who were awarded Mathemagician of the Week awards.