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13/11/2023
🎒 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. 🌟
09/11/2023
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! 🧮🏆👏
08/11/2023
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. 👚✨🎭🎉
07/11/2023
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. 🎭👏🎉
06/11/2023
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. 🏋️♂️🏃♀️🏀🤾♂️🎉
03/11/2023
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. 🌟👩🔬🚗🗣️
02/11/2023
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. 🌈🔬👁️
01/11/2023
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! 👻🎉
31/10/2023
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. 🎤🤝🎬
30/10/2023
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! 👣👑🏙️
27/10/2023
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. 🚀🔬🏗️
26/10/2023
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. 🌷🌿🌼