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
