Tomlinscote School

🎒 129 Tomlinscote students 🎓 visited the 🌍 First World War Battlefield sites. Students explored battle sites ⚔️, wandered through trenches 🕳️, paid respects at memorials 🏛️, walked solemnly in cemeteries 🌷, and immersed themselves in museums 🏰 — all associated with major offensives during the First World War. 🌟

22 Further Maths GCSE students took part in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. The Senior Mathematical Challenge is a 90-minute, multiple-choice challenge and is open to students in Year 13 or below. Congratulations to all of our students who participated who came away with a mixture of Bronze 🥉 and Silver 🥈 awards! 🧮🏆👏

T-shirts and tea towels were being souped-up this week as the backstage team for Legally Blonde Jr take on the busy task of preparing costumes and props for this year’s school production. 👚✨🎭🎉

Year 10 GCSE Drama students and selected Y9 students took part in a ‘Devising Workshop’ led by Farnborough 6th Form Students from the Prospect Theatre Company. 🎭👏🎉

Recently, the PE department has been encouraging students and staff to get active. The department’s aim is for students to develop lifelong positive habits towards exercise and sport. The Fit4Life week is Tomlinscote’s chance to celebrate the power of sport and exercise within our community. During the week, students had the opportunity to compete against Mr Mount in the Bleep test, form a team against Tomlinscote PE staff and Mr Frater in Dodgeball, and form a team against Tomlinscote Staff in Netball. 🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏀🤾‍♂️🎉

On Wednesday 11th October, our Changemakers group were invited to Stamford Bridge to take part in an event to celebrate International Day of the Girl. 🌍🚺

Students were challenged to plan and make a prototype of a solar-powered car. 🌞🚗 Keira, Manesha, Ruby, and Courtney did an amazing job presenting their ideas to the rest of the room. 🌟👩‍🔬🚗🗣️

Year 7 students have been reinforcing their learning of working with microscopes by examining cheek cells. 🔬👨‍🔬🔬

Prior to starting the experiment, students were asked to draw their prediction of what they might see. 🎨👁️

Students were then tasked with swabbing their mouths with cotton buds and applying the sample to a slide. 🌡️🧪

The sample was then stained with color to help certain parts of the cell show up underneath the microscope's magnification. 🌈🔬👁️

Bakers from our 5 Houses came together to fight it out for the title of ‘Tomlinscote Bake Off Champions’. 🏠🍰👩‍🍳

As you can see, they were frighteningly good! 👻🎉

GCSE Drama students had a fantastic time working with Mike and Steve from Stage-ed as they developed their understanding of their set text Blood Brothers. 🎭💡

Having both performed in the West End production of the play, they were able to give the students a deep insight into the play; its background and how to interpret the characters. 🌟🔍

The students learnt how to perfect their Liverpudlian accent and stage some of the larger group scenes. 🎤🤝🎬

On Thursday, 5th October, Tomlinscote welcomed 22 students and 2 teachers from our partner school in Almería, Spain 🤝 as part of the Spanish Exchange. On Wednesday, Tomlinscote students and teachers joined them for our joint trip to London 🇬🇧, where they all took in the main sights - London Eye 🎡, Houses of Parliament 🏛️, Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade 🐎, St James’ Park 🌳, Buckingham Palace 🏰, Trafalgar Square 🏟️, and Covent Gardens 🌸. There were lots of sore legs and feet after that! 👣👑🏙️

The new Year 10 GCSE Engineering class struck gold recently with a Lego-based engineering workshop delivered by Jackson Civils through the 'Speakers for Schools' program. 🌟🔧🧱 The students recently spent a afternoon working on practical-based activities related to engineering. 🔨👷‍♂️ This is a new GCSE course now offered at Tomlinscote, and it was great for these students to experience a STEM-related activity within the context of their new learning. 🚀🔬🏗️

Year 10 Art & Photography Trip to Kew Gardens 🎨📸 – iPads and lily pads! 🌱📱 Students used pens 🖊️✏️ and lenses 📷 to capture the beautiful pictures they drew and photographed while on a stunning trip to Kew Gardens. 🌷🌿🌼

Farnborough Sixth Form played host to 33 Tomlinscote students recently 🏫👥 in advance of the college’s open days. The students were invited to see the college in action 🎓📚, visit live lessons 🎒👩‍🏫, and experience the buzz of a college with around 4000 students 🌟📢.

Congratulations 🎉📚 to all of the students pictured above 📷 who entered a writing competition run by ' Young Writers ' ✍️🏆. The remit was to write a 100-word saga about a crime 🔍🕵️‍♂️! Our students managed to write such wonderful literary pieces 📝📖 that the organization has confirmed that they would like to publish our students' work 📰👏.

Lucy strikes a pose as fitness instructor Brooke 💁‍♀️💪 and Piper channels the intensity of lawyer Callahan ⚖️📚. They are both throwing themselves into their roles 🎭 ready for the launch of the school production of Legally Blonde

Year 10 Creative Media students ✨📽️ made the most of their trip to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London 🏰. They benefitted from a specialist workshop on costume and characterisation 👗👠, and discovered how costumes were designed 🧙‍♂️🧥. Students then had the opportunity to create their own ideas 💡, with the use of green screen technology 🌟🎥. A tour then followed during a special Dark Arts feature and students got to experience the true magic of film making 🧙‍♂️🎬. Seeing the film industry come to light provided our students with a truly spellbinding experience!

Year 7 students 🔪🍅🥒 have been honing their knife skills in Food Technology 🍽️👩‍🍳. They have concentrated on safe cutting techniques 🔪 while slicing and dicing vegetables for their salad jars. Students added other ingredients like pasta and various tasty dressings which were then shaken to ensure that all ingredients were coated. The jars also ensured that they traveled home safely! 🏡🚗

The sun shone down on the Tomlinscote community ☀️🏫 and added to the sheer joy of students and staff taking part in Tomlinscote’s Race for Life 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💓. Over the course of the day, Year 7 – 11 📚👧👦 ran, walked, 3-legged around the school site and field 🏃‍♀️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️. The atmosphere was fantastic , and it was great to see the school coming together for Cancer Research UK 🎗️.

Year 11 students Katie and Amelie 🎓👯‍♀️ are sharing the lead role of Elle Woods in the school production of Legally Blonde Jr. 🎭👩‍⚖️ Katie and Amelie practice being over the top 😄🌟 to play energetic and bubbly Elle Woods.

Emily in Year 8 📚👧 has just competed at the 2023 British National Championships in Birmingham. As we have learnt to expect with Emily 👏🏆, she did rather well! Emily was 1st 🥇 out of over 30 girls in her tumbling category 🤸‍♀️💪.

On 10th September, 📅 8 students 🧑‍🎓, 2 members of staff 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫, and 5 families 👨‍👩‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 went to Dunsfold airfield ✈️ to race in the heats for the international finals at Goodwood 🏁 in October. The races were against the clock to see who could go the furthest in two 90 minute races each with a pair of charged 12-volt batteries . We improved significantly from our last heat at Goodwood, going further 🏎️ at a good steady pace 🚀, beating our local engineering rivals, Collingwood 🏆, in both races!

7H had a fun Science lesson recently, where they were exploring bugs in the wood chip area. 🐞🐜🌿 They had a brilliant time comparing all the sizes of the bugs and looking at how they’ve adapted to the environment around them. 👀🌳🔍😃

Can you recognise anyone?

Tomlinscote pupils from 1977.

Amelia and Shereena 🏆 entered the "Japan Language Championship for Young Learners UK" known as "JaLaChamp '23"! 🇯🇵 This is the second year that Tomlinscote has entered students. The competition is run by the Japan Foundation. 🌸 Amelia and Shereena in Year 10 attended the "Final's day" in London where they came runners up for the video category 🥈📹

Year 7 students were delighted to be awarded their 🔥 Bunsen burner licences 🔥 last week after practising how to use them safely. To be issued with a licence, students had to show they could set up the apparatus, light the burner, use a safety and heating flame to boil some water, turn it off 🔥, and let it cool ❄️ before packing away. 🧪📜👏

Another great find by Camberley: Photographs from the 1880s to the 1980s. Do you recognise anyone?

October 1970 - Tomlinscote School.

Recently, Drama Club 🎭 performed a rhyming version of Wind in the Willows to an audience of invited guests. The classic tale of friendship and adventure 🌟✨ was given a modern and creative spin by the club and everyone enjoyed the show 🎉👏.

24 Year 11 students set out on their Silver DofE Final Expedition to the New Forest.

Congratulations to the students who have had the most amazing success. The Year 9 students featured have been invited to have their poems published in an anthology which will be published on 29th September, in time for National Poetry Day

Emily in 7H, travelled to Portugal to take part in the Scalabis Cup as reported a couple of weeks ago. We are delighted to confirm that Emily won the gold medal in the 11-12 age range. She went in to finals in 1st place out of 17 and managed to hold her position throughout.