Message from the Headteacher 8.6.18

13th June 2018Miss T Carnaby

Dear Parents / Carers,

I hope you had a lovely half-term.  It has been another productive week at Dr Thomlinson CofE Middle School.

Well done to our Year Young Leaders who helped run a Quadkids athletics event at King Edward VI High School on Wednesday morning.  The organisers were very impressed with their attitude and commitment.

It was attitude and commitment that secured our Year 5 & 6 pupils the “MCC Spirit of Cricket Trophy” on Thursday at a cricket festival in Alnwick.  Both teams were awarded this prize for their excellent attitude, behaviour and sportsmanship in the games and throughout the day.  The teams won 3 out of their 5 games.  The boys qualified for the semi-finals, losing narrowly to Shilbottle before beating Glendale in the play-off for third place.  Well done to all who were involved.

This week was Year 10 work experience week at King Edward’s and it was lovely to see three former pupils do their work experience at Dr Thomlinson’s – a big thank you to Matthew, Elizabeth and Laura.

Wednesday afternoon saw last term’s TOP Award Winners take part in a reward afternoon run by Mr Heath and Mr Parks – well done to all those who took part.

 

TOP Award Winners for the week beginning 4th June

5T Brogan

5H Calania

6O Ben

6M Lucy-Jo

7L Olivia

7I Lilly

8N Dominic

8S Max

 

Mathemagician of the Week – Dylan

P&Q Winner of the Week – Hannah

 

Well done to all of these award winners.

 

Our Leavers Service is on Friday, July 20th at All Saints Church, Rothbury.  At this service we will say farewell to our Year 8 leavers yet we will also say a very fond farewell to some staff who are leaving Dr Thomlinson CofE Middle School on the same day:

 

Staff Changes for September 2018

Mrs Corbett will be leaving Dr Thomlinson Cof E Middle School at the end of this term.  She has served the school with great distinction since September 2013. 

On May 22nd we interviewed a strong field to fill the post of Deputy Headteacher and we are pleased to announce that Mrs Ryan will become Deputy Headteacher of Dr Thomlinson CofE Middle School.

 

Mr Mears is leaving our school at the end of this term.  Mr Mears has really developed Design Technology & Computing since joining our school in 2007, especially through his work developing our Forest School provision.

We have appointed Mrs Creigh to the position of teacher of DT & Computing.

 

Mr Naughton and Mr Parks are leaving the school in July.  Mr Naughton has taught Maths at our school, whilst Mr Parks has taught Geography; Computing and Citizenship.  We thank them for their hard work and wish them the very best for the future. 

 

We have appointed Mrs Line to teach Key Stage Two Humanities and Mrs Marriot to teach Maths.

Have a lovely weekend,

Liam

 

 

Message from the Headteacher – 25 May 2018

25th May 2018Miss T Carnaby

Dear Parents / Carers,

It has been a very busy two weeks at Dr Thomlinson Church of England Middle School.

Thank you to all those who contributed to the non-uniform day and cake sale on Friday, May 11th.  It was really successful and we raised £337.  This money will go toward the Year 8 Yearbooks.

The week beginning May 14th saw our Year 6 children take their Key Stage Two SAT tests.  We were all really impressed with the attitude and determination of all of our Year 6 during this week.  We know they have done their very best and we are very proud of their efforts.

Wednesday May 16th saw the school compete in the Bobby Robson Foundation five a’side tournament.   Our Year 5 mixed football finished 3rd in the group stage, beating St Joseph’s; Archibald Primary and St Peter and Paul with goals from Finley; Oscar and Kobi.  The team’s efforts qualified them for the semi final where goals from Kobi and Cerys saw Dr Thomlinson’s beat St Joseph’s 2-0.  Unfortunately we lost the final 3-0 to Bill Quay Primary but Mr Heath was still delighted with the team’s efforts.

Friday 18th May saw our Young Sports Leaders help out with the Quadkids First School Festival and once again Mr Heath was very appreciative of their efforts.

Whilst, for some Saturday, 19th May was FA Cup  Final Day – May 19th was definitely the “Magic Weekend” for over 50 Dr Thomlinson CofE Middle School children and their parents.  For the second consecutive year our school took part in the Rugby League extravaganza which is the Magic Weekend at St James’ Park , Newcastle.  Our children took part in a very complex dance routine that followed the match involving St Helens and Widnes on such hallowed turf.  Our children did very well and it was great to be involved in such a national sporting event.

Monday, May 21st saw our Year 5 & 6 children take part in a Quadkids Athletic event at King Edward’s, Morpeth and they all took part enthusiastically in the event.

Enthusiasm was definitely the order of the day when the “Year 6 SAT Ice Cream Van” visited Dr Thomlinson Cof E Middle School on Tuesday, May 22nd.  The van was part of a “reward experience” arranged by Vision Education and Year 6 were really pleased that they were able to visit our school.

If only Headmistress Miss Trunchbull was as kind to her students however our Year 6 students definitely enjoyed seeing her getting her comeuppance in the stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda at the Sunderland Empire on Wednesday, May 23rd.

Whilst Year 6 were watching Matilda, Year 5 were talking Greek…well, actually studying Greek through an exciting interactive day planned by the “History Bloke”.  He was also in school on Thursday giving a similar fun but challenging day of lessons on life in Britain during the Second World War for our Year 6 children.

Whilst Year 6 were looking at rationing, a large number of Year 7 & 8 students were enjoying a day of cricket at Longhirst.

As I write this our Year 5 children are returning from Kingswood.  They all look tired but excited.  Mrs Corbett has said that their behaviour was excellent.

Finally Yea r 6 today were enjoying a trip to Newcastle University to take part in a Campus Challenge event.  This event is designed to allow our pupils to visit the university and experience what it may be like to be a university student.  The aim of the day is to increase their aspirations and develop a thirst for higher education.  Pupils are taking a wide variety of workshops which includes a campus treasure hunt and a study skills session.  I am sure the day will have been very beneficial.

Have a lovely weekend.  We look forward to seeing you all on Monday, June 4th.

Take care,

Liam

Message from the Headteacher 11.5.18

11th May 2018Miss T Carnaby

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

 

Message from the Headteacher – 20 April 2018

20th April 2018Miss T Carnaby

Dear Parents/Carers
I hope you had a lovely Easter Holiday although it would be have been nice to have some of the weather we are enjoying today during the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

Fortunately the weather wasn’t quite so warm on Wednesday when our school cross country team took part in a competition at Longridge Towers School. The event attracted a number of really good runners from over Scotland and the North of England however our students did very well in such a competitive field. Particular mention goes to Molly in the U11 Girls event who finished 2nd and to Steven who finished 6th in the U10 event. Well done to everyone who took part.

Also on Wednesday we had a rehearsal for the 54 strong dance troupe who are performing during the half time interval on the Saturday of the Rugby League Magic Weekend event at St James Park, Newcastle on May 19th. I saw the rehearsal and was very impressed.

Mr Heath was very impressed with the attitude of the six girls who took part in a Girls Football leadership course at Sunderland Football Club on Thursday. These girls will be leading a Girls Football Club in KS2 and will very much involved in Girls Football Week – a nationwide event that our school will be taking part in.

Year 8 Sports Leaders were involved in a Tennis Leaders training on Monday and the facilitator commented on the excellent attitude of all those who took part.

Today was an additional Non-Uniform Day run to raise money for The Sick Children’s Trust – as a charity, they support around 1000 families each year through their ‘Homes from Home’ in Newcastle upon Tyne; families who come from across the North East, Cumbria, Yorkshire and the Scottish Borders to receive specialist care for their seriously ill child at the Freeman, Royal Victoria Infirmary and Great North Children’s Hospital. I am sure you agreed that this was a worthy cause and I am delighted we raised £307.26. Thank you to all those who contributed and to all those pupils who baked cakes for a cake sale.

Thomlinson Outstanding Pupil Award

Every week we award a TOP award to those children who best display our school core value of the week

Friendship – Week beginning 26th March 2018

5T – Brett

5H – Julia

6O – Jack

6M – Catalina

7L – Stash

7I – Lily

8N – Rachel

8S – Niamh

Mathemagician of the Week – Madden

Compassion – Week beginning 16th April 2018

5T – Lois

5H – Lily

6O – Ethan

6M – Skye

7L – Milly

7I – Ethan

8N – Annabel

8S – Nathan

Mathemagician of the Week – Autumn

Well done to all of these award winners!

A special well done to Edward and Bertie in Year 7.
Edward took part in a North East Grand Prix event at Jarrow and came second in a group with year 7 to year 10’s. The boy who won is a year 10 and one of the best athletes at mixed throwing events in the UK. Edward was the youngest in the event.

Bertie made the trip south to Prestwold Hall near Leicester on Saturday 24th March for the National Year 7 Boys Cross Country Championships as part of the Northumberland team. Bertie ran a great race and came 42nd out of 200 finalists and the Northumberland team raced brilliantly as a team and came away as Runners Up ahead of Cumbria and behind the Champions – Kent.

Have a good weekend,

Liam

Message from the Headteacher

16th March 2018Mrs K Shutler

Dear Parents/Carers,

I hope this email finds you well.  This week was a busy week of sporting fixtures.  On Monday Dr Thomlinson U13 Boys played away at Ponteland Middle School.  The team did very well on a surface that had more resemblance to a swimming pool than a football pitch.  Goals from Duncan and Dominic meant the team performed well in a creditable 2-7 defeat against a strong team.

In slightly better weather our Girls KS3 Rugby players did very well in a competition against the Duchess; Richard Coates and Newminster.  The Year 7 Girls gained a draw and competed in two narrow defeats.  Well done to Martha; Milly, Megan and Lilly for scoring some impressive tries.  Our Year 8 girls had slightly better results recording wins against both of Newminster’s teams.  Eleanor; Anna; Niamh and Amelie were the team’s stand out performers.

Wednesday saw our cross-country runners take part in a very well attended festival of running at Mowden Hall.  The event was a cross-country relay with teams of two having to run the kilometre route.  Only once both runners crossed the finish line was the baton allowed to be handed to the next pair in the team.  Mr Heath was very impressed with the application and stamina of all those who took part.

Cross-Country Results:

U11 Girls
Year 6 – 4th
Year 5 – 12th

U11 Boys
Year 6 – 11th
Year 5 – 12th

U13 Girls
Year 8 – 8th
Year 7 – 10th

U13 Boys
Year 7 – 4th
Year 8 – 6th

At the time of writing this, our Under 11 Boys Football have still to play Richard Coates.  We will report their result next week.

Next week is an even busier week with our rescheduled World Book Day celebrations; Sport Relief and Come Dine & Quiz.

World Book Day is on March 22nd .  This year, we would like students to dress up their heads only as a character from a book; this could be with a hat, a wig, face paints, a mask or a head-dress etc.  They must wear school jumpers and polo shirts but can wear non-uniform trousers and shoes. There will be prizes for the Best Dressed in our special WBD Assembly. Students do not need to bring £1 for this.

The Librarians (and avid helpers in the Library) will be holding a cake sale so please bring in money for that.

Come Dine & Quiz

5T – Tuesday March 20th, 2018

5H – March 21st, 2018

We look forward to seeing parents of the respective form classes from 12pm.

Parent Evening

Our first Spring Parent evening is on Wednesday, March 21st starting at 4pm.  Parents/Carers are able to book times online.

TOP Award Winners Week beginning March 19th

5T – Oliver

5H Hannah

6O Thomas

6M Thomas

7L Ben

7I Chloe

8N Dylan

8S Ciaran

 

Mathemagician of the Week – Gregor

P&Q Award Winner – Eilidh

Rothbury & Coquetdale Youth project

Yr. 7 & Yr. 8 have been invited to a Young People’s Art Session for 12+ years upstairs at The Jubilee Hall, Rothbury – Thursday 22nd March 3:30pm – 5:30pm – youths can either do their own art boards or create some new work with artist John Craggs.  Those attending must bring completed consent forms.  For further details ring: 01665605846 – Gallery Youth.

Have a good weekend.

Cheers,

Liam

Message from the Headteacher

23rd February 2018Mrs K Shutler

Dear Parents & Carers,

It has been another great week at Dr Thomlinson Church of England Middle School.

We were delighted to welcome Kev Sutherland to school on Wednesday, 21st February.  He is an author and illustrator and he ran some really interesting workshops for our pupils on the art of narrative illustration.

This week was the beginning of a busy half-term of sport.  Today we have Year 5/6 Hockey teams at Longhirst and our Key Stage Three rowers competing at Durham University.  Next week sees our Key Stage 3 Boys Rugby team compete in the County Cup on Monday and then at Kingston Park on Tuesday.  Tuesday also sees the Under 11 and Under 13 Girls Football League begin again and Dr Thomlinson Middle School will be hosting these matches after school on the evening of February 27th.

On Wednesday Year 8 will be visiting Safety Works where they will receive age appropriate advice that will make them more aware of everyday dangers and hazards.

World Book Day Celebrations

Thursday, March 1st will mark our World Book Day celebrations.  World Book Day celebrates the joy and value of books and reading. Every student will receive a £1 World Book Day Book Token that can either be exchanged for one of ten World Book Day books or used to get £1 off any book. Your child will receive a token at the end of Thursday, which can be redeemed at most UK bookshops. Year 5, 6 and 7 students can also quiz any of the WBD books as they are all on Accelerated Reader.  This year, we would like students to dress up their heads only as a character from a book; this could be with a hat, a wig, face paints, a mask or a head-dress etc.  They must wear school jumpers and polo shirts but can wear non-uniform trousers and shoes. There will be prizes for the Best Dressed in our special WBD Assembly. Students do not need to bring £1 for this.

The Librarians (and avid helpers in the Library) will be holding a cake sale so please bring in money for that.

In form time, each class will hold a book swap. Please bring in a book (which you have already read) to swap for another good read.

Women’s World Day of Prayer

Friday, March 2nd will mark our school contributing to the Woman’s World Day of Prayer at the URC in Rothbury at 1:30pm.

Parent Questionnaire

Your views are very important to us and we ask you to complete our 2018 Parent Questionnaire.  If you follow this link you can give your opinions on various areas of our school’s work.

Top Award Winners Week ending February 23rd

5T Taylor
5H Stan
6O Joe
6M Brandon
7L Lewis
7I Bertie
8N Charlie
8S Poppy

The Mathemagician of the week was Spencer in 5H.

Well done to all of these award winners.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Cheers,

Liam