30th June 2017

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Well done to everyone who took part in the House Athletics Finals tomorrow and to seeing
Nursery and Lower School Sports Days today. It many of you there.
was fantastic to watch. I wish our children taking part in the Youth Speaks
Congratulations to Cunningham this week on final on Monday the very best of Iuck. Also to our
swimming to victory at the annual Swimming athletes going to the National Athletics Final in
Finals, and a particular well done to Erin OLeary, Birmingham on Tuesday. You have more than
Rachel Shutt and Toby Gaulton who all set new earned your places and I am confident you will all
TMS records. My thanks also to Mrs Hinchliffe who, do well.
once again, brought the whole event together. Rehearsals have been continuing for our summer
As we move towards the last week of term, there concert on Tuesday evening and I am very much
are many events still to come. I look forward to looking forward to seeing the culmination of all the
watching everyone in Years 3 - 8 compete in the hard work thats been put in. I do hope that you
are able to join us.
MATHS COMPETITION RESULTS
All students in Years 7 & 8 entered the UK Junior Mathematical Challenge and the competition is
always tough with over 250,000 entrants.
The honours this year went to Tabitha Huby for gaining a Gold Standard. She was also Best in Year
and Best in School. Another Gold award went to Oliver Gill who was Best in Year 7. Silver Awards went
to Jonathan Baguley, Isabel Browning and Georgina Loring. The Bronze went to Jake Wakeling who
was also very close to gaining Silver. Congratulations to all the students who took part.
Tabitha Huby also gained a high
enough mark to be entered into the
Kangaroo Challenge. She gained
a Merit certificate overall which
is a tremendous achievement. A
massive well done Tabitha!
E Wakeling.

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YEAR 2 PRESENTATIONS
More fantastic presentations in Year 2 this week. Isaac spoke about his favourite dinosaur, the
Ankylosaurus, and had some fabulous visuals and video clips to keep the children engrossed.
Addison talked about her interest in everything Egyptian and skilfully fielded some tricky questions.
Well done to the both of you!
J Sheppard.

AWARD FOR RECOGNITION OF GOOD INTENTION AND POLITENESS

The award goes to Javier Lepe for being very kind and caring towards younger students.
Congratulations, Javi!
Congratulations also to the following children who received nominations:
Jenna Saluja for being fabulous with the younger children.
Peter Banks for being polite and kind to the Nursery pupils.
Joshua Davis for being very patient and helpful.
Lewis Burrows for being kind, helpful and thoughtful.
Micaela Cascajosa for being kind, mature and a delight.
Henry Benson for being polite and patient.
Talia Curtis for being helpful and considerate.

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YEAR 4
Year 4 enjoying some hands on learning with weights and measures.

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HORSE RIDING
Our Tuesday evening horse
riders took part in their last
session of the term this week.
Well done to everyone gaining
their British Horse Society
certification and lovely rosettes!

OT UPDATE
We offer our congratulations to OT Mathis Bellino on his rowing success
since leaving the school last summer. Mathis, along with many of his
fellow rowers at his club, CERCLE NAUTIQUE de FRANCE, based
just outside of Paris, only started rowing in September 2016 but has
already achieved great success. The club entered two boats of 8 into
the qualifying tests and both got through to join the French National
Youth Rowing Championships in Vichy recently. After three 1000m
races, they came home in 4th out of 51 boats, just missing out on 3rd
place by a meagre 1 second!
Mathis and his team did incredibly well and it was an amazing
achievement for a young team from a small club (only 21 members
in the U14 category called Minimes), which has now been pushed
up to 23rd place in the French rankings. Well done Mathis, we are
incredibly proud of you!

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MUSIC TECHNOLOGY DAY
Year 7 and Year 6 enjoyed half a day at Clifton College this week recording in a studio, and then
individually composing for film in an Apple Mac suite on the software garageband. This was a
great introduction to the technology which we plan to have at Tockington in the new Music and
Performance studio. It was also great to see the facilities available at Clifton College for the future.
Well done all!

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YEAR 5 PORTISHEAD TRIP
Year 5 had a fabulous day out during Activity Week despite the blistering temperatures. At the
Portishead RNLI station, they heard talks and viewed the multimillion pound equipment and facility.
Year 5 heard about the work of the RNLI, and the lifesaving work we do at TMS was reinforced. A
huge thank you to the volunteers of the lifeboat station for talking to the children.
They then managed to persuade
the Pool Manager at the Lido
to let them in 1/2 hour early,
where they were welcomed by
the Lifeguards and staff. Mrs
Hinchliffe was not sure the 250
people queuing outside were
too pleased but local knowledge
is everything! In return, Mrs
Hinchliffe had to work in the tuck
shop!
The children were impeccably
behaved and despite the number
of people, heat and general
summer madness, Year 5 kept
their cool, were sun safe and
had fun. There were lots of lovely
comments from people about
their behaviour so well done
Year 5! A huge thank you from
Mrs Pullin and Mrs Hincliffe.

Lower School Gala

By Thursday 22nd June, the temperatures had subsided to a more bearable 34 degrees in the pool!
The children behaved with a sense of fun, healthy competition and determination. Although the
eventual winners were the Swordfish, the final polo made for a nail biting end to the gala. Well done
to all the swimmers and the staff who helped and parents and carers who watched.

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HOUSE SWIMMING FINALS

A fantastic day of swimming culminated in the House Under 11

Swimming trophy being awarded to Cunningham, in
Boys 1st Toby Gaulton
the closest competition we have ever had at TMS.
2nd Logan Fitzpatrick
After a year of work, polo, PBs and the Stamina
swim, Alexander had 1220 points, Churchill 1084 and 3rd Ben Jacobi
Cunningham 1236.
The morning Swimarathon saw Alexander victorious Girls 1st Tilly Jordan
in the U9 and U11 event.
2nd Alys Wakeling
Well done especially to Henry Benson, Corey Pook,
Lorna Holloway, Sam Sheasby, Ethan Heer, Michelle 3rd Lily Edwards
Mapondera, Gabriel Crompton and Marie Veron who Overall U11 winner: Toby Gaulton
completed many lengths in both the U9 and U13
Under 13
competition.
Boys 1st Jake Wakeling
The afternoon swims witnessed some amazing new
records 13.1s from Rachel Shutt is the fastest 25m 2nd Jonathan Baguely
ever swum in TMS pool. Toby Gaulton and Erin
3rd Angus Duncan
OLeary broke the new 50m breaststroke record.
Girls 1st Rachel Shutt
Jake, Rachel, Jonathan, Iona, Dalis, Luna, Lara,
Logan, Toby Gaulton, Jai, Ben, Tilly, Alys, Kaya, 2nd Iona Campbell
Gabe Carrel, Toby Littlejohn, Henry, Gemma, Toby 3rd Luna Mirta-loinaz
West, Emily Tyler, James Packham, Ceredig, Harry
Mather, Rohan, Freddie, James Allen, Eva Lewis, Overall U13 winner: Rachel Shutt, with the highest
Archie West, Poppy Newman, Katie Shutt, Erin overall score ever achieved, 69/70 possible points
OLeary, Henry Packham and Sophie Cresswell all well done!
recorded 1st places. Huge thanks to all the staff and parents who made it
The U9 competition ended after 10 months of go swimmingly!
effort and work. Finally, thanks to Year 8s Talia, Angus, Rachel,
Boys 1st Gabe Carrel Jonathan, Georgina, James, Javier, Isabel and
William who helped the event to rum so smoothly.
2nd Toby Littlejohn
I am going to miss all my Year 8s for all their help
3rd Barney Bishop and Cole OLeary and support in running events and my swim captains,
Girls 1st Sophie Cresswell Jonathan and Rachel.
2nd Gemma Allen A final thank you for the lovely trophy which is adorning
my piano, I am very grateful, but it is a privilege to
3rd Eva Lewis
work with such enthusiastic young people.
Overall U9 winner: Sophie Cresswell
B Hinchliffe.

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NATIONAL ATHLETICS FINALS
The following pupils have qualified for the prestigious National Finals at the Alexander Stadium
in Birmingham, home to the Diamond League races and British Championships:
Dalis Jones 1500m and 300m
Freddie Cooper 1500m
Alys Wakeling 800m
Peter Banks Javelin
Ceredig Jones 1500m
Otis Walker 800m
A fabulous achievement to have six athletes in seven different events in a variety of age groups.
Congratulations!
OUR 15th SCHOOL ATHLETICS RECORD OF 2017
Congratulations to Henry Packham for breaking the U11 Boys 800m record. It belonged to
Otis Walker (2015) but now stands at 2m 44.0s. Well done, Henry!

YET MORE TMS RECORDS!

Well done to the following on more amazing TMS records:
Alys Wakeling U12 Girls 75m, 11.53s
Jake Wakeling U13 Boys Cricket Ball, 57m 47cm
Rachel Shutt U14 Girls Shot Put, 8m 94cm
Dalis Jones U14 Girls 800m, 2m 24.7s

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