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📖 This week members of the Prep School represented their class in the inaugural Poetry Reading Competition. 📖 It was judged by the Senior School Head of Drama, Mrs Cornell, who was very impressed with all of the children. Her final decisions were: 📚 Runner Up: Thea in Year 3, with The Sound Collector by Roger Gough 📚 Winner: Elysia in Year 5, with Smile by Spike Milligan All entrants were awarded a bag of chocolate coins and Thea and Elysia each received a book of poetry too! #TGSTogether #JourneyOfDiscovery #ExplorationCurriculum #PrepSchool #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Well done to our Year 12 Graphics students, Amelia and Bingbing, their screen prints are coming along nicely as they add further layers of colours to their designs. #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #Artists #YoungArtists #Graphics #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Mrs Settle was delighted to welcome teams from each House to Old School for the first House Lit Quiz in a while last week. Enthusiastic responses could be heard as the teams answered questions about The Christmasaurus, Harry Potter, fairy tales, carol lyrics and historical questions in this festive-themed quiz. Second place was closely contested by Cronsheys and Coles with Cronsheys taking the place by half a point. Congratulations to the winning team from Millingtons. The team included James and Lauren from Y6, Jensen & Jonathan from Y7 and Bailey & Dev from Y8. Well done to all those who took part! #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #JourneyOfDiscovery #DiscoverTheWorld #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Cassie in Year 12, and Annie in Year 13 were selected to represent TGS at the 2021 Model European Parliament (MEP). The MEP has been running for over twenty years, with Sixth Formers from all the member countries of the European Union and Accession States meeting twice a year to discuss and debate a variety of current issues that are relevant to countries across the European Union. TGS was invited to send Sixth Form students as part of the United Kingdom’s delegation of five to the 54th international session hosted in Berlin, Germany. This was a great honour, as they have represented our country at international level. Cassie took part on the committee for Agriculture and Rural Development; while Annie was part of the committee for Environmental and Food Safety. Both students have said that the experience has boosted their efficiency and confidence levels and are looking forward to writing up on their experiences. A huge congratulations to both students for their achievements! #TGSTogether #TGSPathways #JourneyOfDiscovery #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Year 2 and Year 3 have been busy learning all about the Hindu celebration of light known as Diwali. They made Rangoli patterns with coloured sand, they retold the story of Rama and Sita and made coconut barfi - a traditional Indian sweet. Jasmine kindly brought in some of her own Indian sweets to try. Look at how colourful they are! #TGSTogether #JourneyOfDiscovery #ExplorationCurriculum #PrepSchool #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Our Reception and Year 1 class recently invited their families in to visit their very own Castle as a fantastic end to their Castles topic. The classroom was transformed in to a Castle with turrets and a working portcullis (Thank you Mr Gatward!) The children all dressed up as Knights having chosen to make their own swords and helmets! They had the opportunity to share their work with their families and also to play a selection of medieval games as well as sampling medieval pottage and shortbread. Thank goodness our guests remembered the password to get into the Castle otherwise they would have missed out on all of the fun! #TGSTogether #JourneyOfDiscovery #ExplorationCurriculum #PrepSchool #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Last week our Y12 and Y13 students took part in the UKMT Senior Mathematical Challenge. It was a 90 minute paper and this was the first year it was done online. We shall update you when we have the results! #TGSTogether #Mathematics #UKMTChallenge #TGSPathways #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

Our Year 9 pupils have been learning about soldiers' equipment in WWI with some hands on experience! #TGSTogether #History #WW1 #JourneyOfDiscovery #TGSPathways #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool

When in Year 11 last year, Maia entered and won the National Book Tokens design competition. Not only did Maia win the 13 - 16 category but her design was the overall winner and will be available as a book token in bookshops before Christmas. Maia's prize was a book token to spend for herself and £250 for the school. In a visit to Not Just Books in Thetford Maia chose books with fellow students of all ages in mind. Helping her was keen reader Dev who has represented Thetford Grammar School in events such as last year's National Reading Champions Quiz and who also chose books for the Prep School and Senior School libraries. "I'm so pleased for Maia that she was able to combine her artistic skills and love of reading to win this competition" said Mrs Julie Settle, School Librarian, "and I am grateful to her that we can boost the shelves of our two libraries with these new books. It's marvellous that we have such an inviting and inspiring independent book shop just around the corner in Thetford." Mrs Settle expressed her gratitude to Mrs Jane James of Not Just Books for offering a discount to help stretch the tokens further. #TGSTogether #NationalBookTokens #ShopLocal #JourneyOfDiscovery #ExplorationCurriculum #PrepSchool #ThetfordGrammarSchool #Norfolk #Suffolk #IndependentSchool #BoardingSchool #Thetford