Tomlinscote School

🎒 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 🏰

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.

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. 👚✨🎭🎉

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. 🎭👏🎉

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.

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. 🌍🚺

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. 🎨👁️

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! 👻🎉

GCSE Drama students had a fantastic time working with Mike and Steve from StageEd as they developed their understanding of their set text Blood Brothers. 🎭💡

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.

The new Year 10 GCSE Engineering class struck gold this week 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.

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. 🌷🌿🌼

Farnborough Sixth Form played host to 33 Tomlinscote students recently 🏫👥 in advance of the college’s open days. The students were invited to see the college in action 🎓📚, visit live lessons 🎒👩‍🏫, and experience the buzz of a college with around 4000 students 🌟

Congratulations 🎉📚 to all of the students pictured above 📷 who entered a writing competition run by 'Young Writers' ✍️🏆.

Lucy strikes a pose as fitness instructor Brooke 💁‍♀️💪 and Piper channels the intensity of lawyer Callahan ⚖️📚. They are both throwing themselves into their roles 🎭 ready for the launch of the school production of Legally Blonde

Year 10 Creative Media students ✨📽️ made the most of their trip to the Harry Potter studios 🏰. They benefitted from a specialist workshop on costume and characterisation 👗👠, and discovered how costumes were designed 🧙‍♂️🧥. Students then had the opportunity to create ...

Year 7 students 🔪🍅🥒 have been honing their knife skills in Food Technology 🍽️👩‍🍳. They have concentrated on safe cutting techniques 🔪 while slicing and dicing vegetables for their salad jars.

The sun shone down on the Tomlinscote community ☀️🏫 and added to the sheer joy of students and staff taking part in Tomlinscote’s Race for Life 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💓. Over the course of the day, Year 7 – 11 it was great to see the school coming together for Cancer Research UK 🎗️.

Year 11 students Katie and Amelie 🎓👯‍♀️ are sharing the lead role of Elle Woods in the school production of Legally Blonde Jr. 🎭👩‍⚖️ Katie and Amelie practice being over the top 😄🌟 to play energetic and bubbly Elle Woods.

Emily in Year 8 📚👧 has just competed at the 2023 British National Championships in Birmingham. As we have learnt to expect with Emily 👏🏆, she did rather well! Emily was 1st 🥇 out of over 30 girls in her tumbling category 🤸‍♀️💪.