Turves Green Boys' School

Over the past few weeks at Turves Green, key stage 3 students have been completing various activities in their Design Technology lessons.

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F Campbell spent two hours researching ice cream flavours and creating a fabulous menu in French. We have learning how to read menus and order pancakes, waffles and ice creams in French this week. F Campbell has been awarded French Star of the Week for his efforts in class and for his wonderful homework. Bravo!

When we talked to 10S3 about their upcoming mocks and what we could do to support them with misunderstandings or areas where they don’t feel the strongest, the electricity unit came up...
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This year we are taking part in The Wildlife Trusts’ challenge and we have really had some fun with this one! On Monday, Miss Mansell and Mr Woodall set the standard for participation by hugging trees...
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We celebrated our writing competition winners at lunch time today with additional book vending machine awards. Our KS3 writing competition invited pupils to write a creative piece that could include multiple forms of writing including poems, extract and short stories. We have some great budding writers!

Our winners were: T Shaffiq, S Scott, H Smith, J Jones

Our Year 8 basketball team recently took part in Year 8 3×3 Basketball City Final competition. The whole day event saw schools form across Birmingham come together to participate in a fun filled basketball tournament. Turves Green Boys’ School were placed in Group A along with three other teams from around Birmingham. Read More - https://loom.ly/hePeGrI

Year 7 and Year 8 are celebrating an amazing success in the UK Maths Trusts’ Junior Maths Challenge. Two weeks ago students completed an hour long set of maths challenges in exam conditions and have now received the awards. Our students did fantastically, achieving 2 Gold certificates, 4 Silver certificates and 12 Bronze certificates!

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Congratulations to L Field in 7B1for excellent work in French this week. L Field produced a fabulous menu and written piece on food, and also took part in a restaurant role play. Well done for winning Star of the Lesson this week! Bravo!

"It has been a busy half term since our return from Easter. Firstly, our excellent Year 11 pupils have now been working hard as part of their Summer exam series; we have been extremely proud of how they have approached these exams..."

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On Monday, we had our first Young Musician of the year competition. 15 musical students performed their best hoping to impress the panel of judges and claim the title.
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Our reading rewards vending machine continues to be a focal point of our weekly celebrations on a Friday lunchtime. Pupils from all year groups are considered and selected for a range of approaches to demonstrating our TURVES Values...

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Pupils may be an aspiring writer looking for an opportunity to showcase their talent. They may have a story or journal entry they’ve been eager to share. So, pupils have been given an opportunity to express themselves by entering our creative writing competition...

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Congratulations to A Hannon 9x2 for a wonderful written piece in French on his home. He demonstrated our value of being ‘self-motivated to achieve’ and produced pieces that were highly accurate and detailed. Keep up the excellent work!

On Tuesday 18 June, we will be hosting the rescheduled Year 9 Parents' Evening at Turves Green Boys’ School between 4.00pm - 7.00pm

Appointment bookings will open at 4.00pm on Tuesday 4 June

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In the year 9 Big Ideas in Physics topic, the pupils have been learning all about where our domestic electricity comes from as well as useful tools like how to wire a plug, how a fuse box works and how to calculate your energy bills!...

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Year 7 and year 8 are celebrating an amazing success in the UK Maths Trusts’ Junior Maths Challenge. Two weeks ago students completed an hour-long set of maths challenges in exam conditions and have now received the awards...
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Congratulations to C Hunt in 10T1 for winning Star of the Lesson in French today. He produced some excellent answers to the Theme 1 questions. He also performed brilliantly in his latest French assessment. He constantly displays self-motivation to achieve and resilience. Well done!

Congratulations and thanks to J Boyle, A Dunmore & O Flannagan in Year 11 for attending a voluntary period 6 revision session today. We looked at essential topics that could be on the listening and reading exams on May 14th.

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We have been very much enjoying the quality of composition and creativity evident in Gothic stories written by Year 8s over the past two weeks.
For their mid-term ‘Key Piece’ in English, each student has been tasked with writing an introductory descriptive paragraph to a Gothic story...

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This week science club were carrying out experiments around pressure. Dr Patchett demonstrated how to crush a can without touching it using the pressure created by steam – steam takes up 1,600 times the volume of water!...

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Year 7 and year 8 took part in the UK Maths Trusts’ Junior Maths Challenge. In exam conditions, with just a pencil and scrap paper students had an hour to complete 25 challenging questions. The results will be back in a couple of weeks and students will receive their certificate for participating and any Bronze, Silver or Gold awards students managed to achieve

Saltmine put on a fantastic performance for our pupils; the recent preventative education production and workshop that took place for KS3 pupils was informative and brilliantly delivered...

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Turves Green Boys’ School welcomes inspiring guest speaker Alison Cope to educate pupils on youth violence...

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When Ms Parker heard about how well the pupils vegetables were doing in the garden (progress pictures to be shared next week when we’ve done the last of the planting) she asked if we had thought about growing herbs...

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Katch 22 Production performed Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ to our Year 10 and 11 pupils last week. The actors drew out key themes and characters to deepen our pupils’ understanding of the play and bring it to life...

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We were delighted that inspectors were able to capture in words the scale of the transformation that has taken place at Turves less than three years since joining Matrix. Read our new Ofsted Good report here - https://bit.ly/4bcSzNT