Turnfurlong Junior School

Hannah Gold - The Lost Whale.

We have been able to extend our ordering til tomorrow morning. If you haven’t already grab a book, head to Gateway and it will be delivered in time for Hannah to sign it! 🙌🏻📚🐳

The TJS Girls team played against Bedgrove in their final league game of the season this evening. Despite going 2 goals behind in the first half, the girls battled excellently to level the game at 2-2. After some moments of individual brilliance from our opponents we unfortunately lost 5-2.

Not the result we hoped for or deserved but the girls have made us all so proud this season, really working hard for each other as a team 💪🏽. They placed a brilliant 2nd place in the league! 🥈

They are now looking forward to the inter school Mandeville School tournament on Wednesday.

Well done Girls⚽️🏆🙌

The Girls Football team played against Thomas Hickman School tonight in what was their final friendly match before Monday’s league finale against Bedgrove Junior.

After a slow start, we scored an awesome goal to secure a 1-0 win! Our solid defense were amazing today and it was tough to get past them. Well done to all the team 💪🏼

The girls league final will be held at TJS and will be against Bedgrove Junior on Monday 28th March (kick off at 3.45).

All pupils, parents, friends and family are welcome to come and cheer the girls team on. They have worked so hard for this and your support will mean everything to them. Regardless of the result, the girls team will always be winners to us 🏆we are so proud of them!

We have the Lost property out on the picnic benches this afternoon. If you see something in the pictures that is your child’s but you do not collect at 3:15 please let the office know and we will reunite the item with your child!

The Boys A team played away at Buckingham Park this evening in a game which all but confirms them as second place in their division!

They battled well and had the better of the chances in a 1-1 draw. They were unlucky and couldn't quite find the back of the net to secure the win. Immensely proud once again of all the children. They have represented the school admirably this season 💪⚽

Don’t forget to walk, ride and scoot to school to help us get on the leaderboard and win some prizes!

TJS are cross country district champions AGAIN! They had a fantastic morning at Ascott House Year 3/4 Boys&Girls & Yrs5/6 Boys&Girls won all the team races.
Thank you to all of the staff involved, the amazing children and of course the parents who came along to support!

The B Football team played Bedgrove Juniors today. Both teams showed great perseverance and we saw some great tactical playing by both sides but the B team had the edge today and we secured a 3-2 win! Congratulations to all the players!

Well done to the TJS B Football team who won 1-0 against St Mary's this afternoon! Great defending and team work on the pitch ⚽

Ancient animals in Oxford! 3S are so excited to be finding out about rocks and fossils!

30 pupils represented TJS in the first inter-school cross country race in over two years. A great performance with two individual medals and three team medals. Well done to all our runners.

The Girls Football team played at home against Haydon Abbey this evening. With some great finishing from our strikers, and some excellent goalkeeping too, all of the girls worked really hard for each other to win the game 5-0! Well done Girls 💪🏼⚽️

All our Year 6 students took part in a Creative Translation Project on Wednesday 9th March. We were honoured to welcome Georgia Wall from the Stephen Spender Trust https://www.stephen-spender.org/ who ran 3 translation workshops! The children studied an extract from the French book "Tobie Lolness". It was a brilliant opportunity to introduce the pupils to an authentic French story and to work in the original French text. With the help of a glossary, French was swiftly translated into English. The students then used their English vocabulary and skills to reflect on their first draft and improve their work. Wonderful work was produced, written in rich and evocative English. Bravo Year 6!

The TJS Boys Football team played Broughton Junior today. It was a good game but Broughton managed to follow up their opportunities and won 2-0. Our boys remained committed and continued to push to the very end. Very proud of the boys for not giving up today!

Very well done to all our Years 5 and 6! The children have now completed writing their letters to their pen friends at our partner school, École Notre Dame in Bourg - en - Bresse, France.

Our students wrote about their different experiences during the Christmas festivities or the various events they got up to during this last school holiday. It is a brilliant and enriching way to reflect on the similarities and differences of what children get up to from one country to another, with different cultures and different traditions.

Bravo to all 180 children who completed those 180 letters, which have now been sent to France to the delight of the students in Bourg!

Thank you to PL School Wear who donated this fantastic football kit for our girls team! ⚽

Skulduggery Pleasant – Dead or Alive : Book 14 – Our Bookshop Tring

Tomorrow is World Book Day, children can come to school dressed as a character from a book if they would like to.

We have lots of exciting things planned for the day including a virtual author visit with Kieran Larwood author of The Podkin One Ear books. The whole school will be involved. If you would like to purchase a book, please use these links to get a discounted price from Tring Book Shop. We work closely with the team at Tring and they have organised these fantastic events for the school.

https://tringbookfestival.co.uk/ourbookshop/product/carnival-of-the-lost/

Year 5 and 6 will also have a virtual author visit with Derek Landy, author of the Skullduggery books. If you would like to purchase a book at a discounted price, please use this link-

https://tringbookfestival.co.uk/ourbookshop/product/skulduggery-pleasant-dead-or-alive-book-14/

Skulduggery Pleasant – Dead or Alive : Book 14 – Our Bookshop Tring SIGNED COPIES available as part of World Book Day. Every book purchased comes with a FREE Skulduggery Badge. SPECIAL OFFER price ends 4th March. If your child is at one of the schools involved in our WBD event with Derek Landy please do not pay postage. Books will be delivered to the school. The Sch...

We are aware of an issue with the parents evening meeting - currently trying to sort out the issue which we think is with the website. Apologies for any inconvenience.

The school office are working remotely today. If you need to contact us please email [email protected]

Ug is here to teach Year 3 all about the Stone Age!

We have had a brilliant time learning about rocks and fossils in Oxford today! The children were excellent and should have lots of facts to share with their families!

We are so pleased to share that we have been awarded our Bronze Accreditation from Modeshift STARS in recognition of the work we have done with our Travel Plan! Thank you to our Junior Road Safety Officers! Now we start our journey towards Silver
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We have arrived! Very excited to learn today!

Timeline photos

PCSO Stephens visited pupils at both Turnfurlong Infant School and Turnfurlong Junior School. PCSO Stephens was asked lots of interesting questions about her role and the challenges she faces. PCSO Stephens met with the Junior Road Safety Officers and gave them some top tips on how to help with the traffic and parking around the School.

Congratulations to our basketball team last night! They won all their matches! 🥳🏀🏅