Our Community

A huge thank you to all those who have supported the wildlife area. Over the last couple of months we have planted over 200 saplings, erected a new fence and removed the old wire fence and planted 8 more established trees. There is clearly still much to do and as you can see, the ground vegetation needs to be controlled! Over the next month we aim to plant established native fruit trees, build more bird boxes and create raised beds. If anyone has any materials that could be used to create raised beds or planters that they would like to donate it would be very much appreciated. Once again a huge thank you to all those who have contributed in anyway. #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #JourneyOfDiscovery #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Harriet & Izzy's New Challenge! Harriet in Year 8 and Izzy in Year 10 were invited to meet The Lady Dannatt MBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, on Thursday 5th May at the @CharlesBurrellCentre. Harriet and Izzy have both been volunteering at the Charles Burrell Centre in their community shop, but more recently have taken on a new challenge for the Charles Burrell Centres Big Jubilee celebrations. They were invited to talk to Lady Dannatt about their volunteering and explain more about their current project. The challenge given to the girls is to design two art projects that will be displayed in the Charles Burrell Centre as a lasting memory of the Jubilee celebrations. One piece of art is designed to get local schools and community groups helping with before the jubilee, and the other is designed so that anyone attending the Big Jubilee Lunch at CBC could be a part of its creation. The projects are well under way and will be revealed at the Big Jubilee Lunch Sunday 5th June. Lady Dannatt is very interested in hearing from young volunteers in the community and was very impressed with the girls' work and commitment to the Charles Burrell Centre. We look forward to seeing the finished pieces soon. #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #JourneyOfDiscovery #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Congratulations to Arthur in Year 12 who has been selected to represent the Suffolk County Cricket Team for the first time. Arthur currently plays at Worlington CC and has been on the Elite Player Pathway (EPP) Programme. Good luck at your first match this weekend! #TGSTogether #TGSSports #TGSPathways #JourneyOfDiscovery #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Year 5 have been learning about global citizenship. Here are some of the things that Mrs Butler-Hand's class do to ensure they are respectful, empathetic and to promote sustainability. #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #JourneyOfDiscovery #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Congratulations to Seth in Year 11, our Artist of the Month for March. As part of his Photography GCSE Seth has created an artist book on his chosen topic of landscape. To create his imagery Seth took photographs of a local dilapidated barn, highlighting the beautiful textures in the crumbling walls and roof. He created a sculptural book to contain his pages and layered his imagery together using Photoshop. Seth has a keen interest in computing and is currently using coding to create imagery as part of his final piece. Great work, Seth! #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #Artists #YoungArtists #Graphics #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Inspired by World Book Day earlier this term, Year 7 have written children's books for our Reception class. They visited the group a few weeks ago and talked to them to find out about things they liked and enjoyed. They then wrote and illustrated books specifically for them, using these ideas to make them as personal as possible. They visited again last week to read their finished books to the children. It was a really rewarding project as they could see how much the children enjoyed hearing their personalised stories. They also worked hard to make them interactive, which the children really enjoyed! #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #JourneyOfDiscovery #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Come and visit our Young Entrepreneurs from 10:00am until 4:00pm on The Green, Thetford at the All About Local event hosted by Breckland Council. The Young Entrepreneurs company ‘EXHALE’ will be selling their homemade bath salts, shower steamers and lip scrubs and ‘The Bridge St. Candle Co.’ will be selling their handmade candles. Please come and support their ventures, they have worked so hard on their projects and it would be great to see them sell out of their products. #TGSTogether #YoungEntrepreneurs #Local #Thetford #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Final push for GCSE DT Tom in Year 11 has been turning the feet for his final GCSE practical piece. He is now entering the final stages of completing his GCSE DT project. Well done to Tom and his classmates for showing high levels of hard work and determination to get the job done! #TGSTogether #JourneyOfDiscovery #DiscoverTheWorld #TGSPathways #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool