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🇬🇧🇨🇳Prep school have welcomed two new friends in school today. Jason and Jeremy are on an exchange programme from China and are here to experience life at TGS. They will be working on their English skills with the help of our wonderful pupils and staff, and gaining an appreciation for school life in another country. We wish them an enjoyable time with us!

📚 Year 7 have been throwing themselves into the world of Norse mythology this term. They have begun reading Neil Gaiman’s retellings, beginning with the birth of the Gods and the Frost Giants and unravelling the events of three Norse gods: Thor, Loki and Odin. 🖊️ Their work has involved unpicking the personality traits of key characters, using evidence from the text to support their points. They have done this through a variety of techniques starting with extending their high-quality oral responses, moving to text annotation, and also utilising Padlet to share a response electronically and receive live feedback. 💬 Year 7 took on their extended homework project to research a myth or legend from any time period or location with gusto, and enjoyed displaying their finished pieces, providing critical feedback to each other. More recently they have worked on their persuasive writing skills, designing a gift for the gods and presenting their work to the rest of the class. ⭐️ Fantastic work Year 7!

This morning in our whole school assembly we were celebrating the Chinese New Year 🐍. A huge well done to our international students who very kindly explained to us about their celebrations and what it means to them. We also had a special guest arrive…. The Dragon 🐉! Thank you Year 6!

A great start to the day at our Discovery Morning! Today we were celebrating the Chinese New Year 🐍 Don’t forget to keep an eye on our Facebook Events page for our next Discovery Morning! Suitable for children aged 2+ and it’s completely free to attend!

🔬Our A-Level Biology students recently took part in our BioTech day. A day designed to enrich and extend biology learning and teaching, through the experience and excitement of real-world bioscience! 🧫

Another fun-filled forest school session for our youngest learners today! 🌳🫘🌧️

Over the course of last term with the topic of Victorians, pupils in Year 4 and 5 have designed and created a room to make a collaborative class Dolls House. They began the topic by looking at a dolls house that belonged to Miss Bell's grandmother and discussed what rooms they saw and what they had in them. They chose the rooms they would each like to make and designed the room on paper. From there they spent a few weeks making and creating the furniture to go inside the rooms. They used fabrics and other recyclable materials to make these and used the glue guns to hold everything together. Moving on they created the flooring using the maths process of tessellation and thought about their colour choices from looking at Victorian tiles. This was then turned into smaller tiles by scanning into the copier and shrinking using the iPads. They finally made the wallpaper by looking at William Morris designs. They had an A5 piece of paper with some starting lines to help them as they created a tile design. Again these were scanned and shrunk and using the iPads they rotated and reflected these patterns to make a repeated design. Fantastic work Year 4 and 5, they look brilliant! 🏠

Pupils in Year 1 went to their first monthly Library visit of the New Year. Last time they all chose a book about dinosaurs in readiness for this visit and even got to make their own dinosaur to bring home. It was very exciting and they are already looking forward to their next visit in February! Thank you to Lucy at Thetford Library!

⭐️ The Year 6 girls enjoyed recent Netball success, winning by 16 goals to 3! Riley was Captain and Stevie was Player of the Match. Well done girls! ⭐️