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Artist of the Month - January 2024 A huge well done to Ella B in Year 7 for her recent drawing work in her Art lessons. Ella's topic work on 'tone and form' has covered drawing 3D objects using ellipses, as well as tonal pencil techniques. Ella's shiny coffee pot showcases her skills in scumbling, blending and highlighting. Fabulous work, Ella! #artist #drawing #ArtistOfTheMonth

📚 Prep School library sessions are in full swing this term. Our wonderful librarian Mrs Settle is teaching pupils all about the book genres we have on offer and the Dewey decimal system for cataloguing our collection. We are very lucky to have an expansive Prep School library that the children utilise to support their learning as well as for reading for pleasure 📚 #library #lovetolearn

Happy New Year and a warm welcome back to the TGS community! The Lent term is in full swing and we've already made an excellent start to 2024!

What a festive week we’ve had at TGS. From carols at a local care home to our annual trip to the Panto. Our Prep School have been busy with their Christmas Production and the Senior School performed Play in a Day! Friday we had our Prep and Senior School Christmas Services, with the School Choirs and Staff Brass Band. A special thank you to our special guests including members of our Advisory Board, members of the OTA, the Mayor of Thetford and the Reverend Peter Herbert. A big thank you to Jack and his team for also providing us with a delicious Christmas Lunch! Watch this space next term as we share photos from these events. On behalf of everyone at Thetford Grammar School we would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing what next term brings! 🎄

Year 5 recently spent a day at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, experiencing what life was like for children 150 years ago. We spent some time practising our handwriting in a Victorian classroom before quickly being put to work on the farm. We were set to work picking up rocks from the field to protect the horse’s hooves, it was backbreaking work but surprisingly fun ... for 5 minutes before we got tired! Then we were sent to help Martha with the laundry and learnt how the Victorians washed their clothes. We worked really hard all day, so we were rewarded with some freshly cooked drop scones, they were surprisingly tasty and Mrs Clackett complemented us all on our manners and behaviour throughout the day. Our day at Gressenhall really helped us to picture what life was like for Victorian children and brought our topic to life.

🌲Our Prep School Councillors did a wonderful job representing TGS on a visit to Thetford Methodist Church. They helped to display crafts that each of our Prep pupils had made, as part of a community exhibition of Christmas themed crafts. The Prep school’s contribution was to create a model in a matchbox to represent what Christmas means to them. The festival will be open to the public at various times during the run up to Christmas.🎄

🚨 FIRST AID TRAINING🚨 Today during Year 7’s PSHCE lesson, Nurse Theobald showed the class the essentials to first aid. What a great way to learn some life saving skills…..They even learnt how to use a defibrillator! #firstaid #savinglives

Year 5 have been busy in Music collaborating over a challenge that had been set by Mrs Weyers. Working together, they were tasked to put the jigsaw pieces of musical notations into the correct order to play the piece they had been learning in a 4-part round. They had huge fun doing this and surprised themselves by how good they were! #music #musician #workingtogether