Thomas Gamuel Primary School

🎶🎻🎺A visit to Royal Festival Hall!🥁🎷🎵

We had the absolute pleasure of joining the London Sinfonietta Orchestra to celebrate young musicians and composers. We learned about a range of instrument and listened to some wonderful new pieces of music. From singing along to listening carefully, we had a wonderful experience!

We were also chosen to work with the LSO to create pupil interviews to send to funders and their wider learning pages! Some budding musicians and reporters in the wings!

🏆🥇We are so proud of Miriam who completed a 5km charity walk to support Autism Awareness. 🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶‍➡️

Please donate if you can to support Miriam's chosen charity National Autistic Society
https://waam.autism.org.uk/fundraising/florentinaliliconstantin-1771606392274

National Autistic Society

War on Waste - Toy Swap and our VIP Visit!

Our Eco Council had the best idea of hosted a toy swap! The aim of the event was to reduce waste and carbon emissions by encouraging children to donate toys and take home ‘new-to-me’ ones instead.

The event was a great success, with many children finding fantastic donated toys to take home.

We were also delighted to welcome a special guest, local MP Stella Creasy, who spoke with the children about her role in government and listened to their ideas on how to improve our local community. We discussed all of the great things we do at TG and Stella offered some new ideas of things happening in our local community!

Thank you to all the families for your kind donations, and to our amazing Eco Council children for running the event so brilliantly.

Design Technology Bonanza!

We had lots of fun this week as all classes completed their Design Technology projects. Year 3 were developing their food technology understanding by designing and creating some delicious and healthy sandwiches for a picnic. They enjoyed learning about a range of healthy fillings while also improving their food prep and cutting skills in a safe and controlled environment!

Year 4 were young engineers creating moving mechanisms! Some designed and created moving posters, while others created moving greeting cards with levers, sliders and linkages!

🧑‍⚕️👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️What a blast we had during Science Week! Science Week All classes had lots of fun learning about all things scientific. We welcomed our Science Boffin to school who spent the whole day doing exciting assemblies and workshops with plenty of fun experiments. It was great seeing so many children dressed up as scientists as well! 🧬🦠🧪

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...and it's official! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

We are very excited to share our new Ofsted Report Card with you following our recent inspection under the new framework.

The report highlights how our pupils achieve highly across the whole curriculum. They thrive and have a strong sense of belonging in the safe, and nurturing environment that we have created at TG. Children's behaviour is impeccable and the positive and respectful relationships between pupils and staff is evident from the beginning of the school day.

Strong Standard - Leadership, Early Years, Achievement, Personal Development

We are very proud of all our pupils and staff at TG!

Well done!

You can read the full report card here https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/140405

Spring Term Stay and Play

Come along for a fun mix of songs, rhymes and sensory play!

Year 5 have been learning all about the Art of China. They learned about a range of techniques including colour washing and studied Chinese-style landscapes before creating their magnificent masterpiece with many different tones!

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