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Year 6 have been enjoying some fascinating activities as part of their China topic. 🇨🇳 Today, they learned about Chinese inventions, focusing on paper making. The children watched a demonstration showing how recycled paper is pulped and transformed into ‘new’ paper. They then had a go themselves, making several sheets each and adding wool fibres to create colour and texture. The students loved the process and showed excellent effort – the finished paper looks fantastic! 🌟📄

Reception have hit the ground running in the first week of the new year! 🌟 They’ve been practising their sounds and writing words to describe story characters. ✍️📚 New year, same hard-working children in EYFS – we’re so proud of them! 💛 #EYFS #Reception #EarlyYears #ProudMoment #NewYearLearning

🎄🏃‍♂️ Christmas Canter Marathon – Newmarket 🏃‍♂️🎄 A huge well done to Mr Hill and Mr Tierney, who took part in the fantastic Christmas Canter event near Newmarket just before Christmas. Mr Hill completed the marathon in an impressive 3 hours 50 minutes, with Mr Tierney close behind, finishing strong in 3 hours 59 minutes. A great achievement from both runners and a brilliant way to take on a festive challenge. Congratulations! 👏🎉

Welcome back to Thetford Grammar School! ❄️ A beautiful wintery start as we begin an exciting year ahead, filled with opportunity, ambition and achievement. #WelcomeBack #ThetfordGrammarSchool #IndependentEducation #NewTerm #AmbitionandAchievment

🎄 Merry Christmas from Thetford Grammar School🎄 We would like to wish all our families, friends and the wider community a very Merry Christmas. This special video features pupils from Years 4–8, gathered in the Old School, singing Stille Nacht in German and accompanied by instruments. A beautiful moment of music, togetherness and festive spirit. Thank you for your continued support throughout the year. We wish you a joyful Christmas and New Year. ✨

✨ What a fantastic way to end the term at Thetford Grammar School! ✨ The past few weeks have been bursting with festive fun and unforgettable moments – from magical pantomime trips and lively house activities, Christmas Shows to the buzz of our Christmas Fayre and the joy of our beautiful Carol concerts. 🎭🎄🎶 It’s been a whirlwind of laughter, creativity and community spirit, making this the perfect close to a wonderful term. Thank you to everyone who helped make it so special – students, staff and families alike. What a way to finish the year! 🌟

Evie and Imogen in Y10 joined Mrs Skeels to give a talk to the Thetford Business Forum about their experience of setting up and running their own business as part of the enrichment activity for Business Studies. The girls were outstanding — delivering a confident, engaging and genuinely inspiring presentation, before heading to their stall in the Garden Centre where they sold out of every product they had made. 🌟💼 We were also incredibly proud of our talented Year 7 pupils, who performed festive songs for members of the Forum. Their singing was absolutely beautiful and created a wonderfully warm Christmas atmosphere — a real highlight of the event. 🎶✨ The Forum Chair, Will Bridgman of Warren Services, was so impressed with our students that he has already begun discussing plans to develop a Young Persons Business Forum in Thetford to inspire and support future young entrepreneurs. A huge well done to Evie, Imogen and our amazing Year 7 singers — you represented the school brilliantly and made us all very proud! 🌟👏

✨ Year 6 Creations! ✨ Year 6 have been busy designers, completing their stunning Moroccan-inspired lanterns just in time for the holidays! Using computer-aided design and our laser cutter, pupils created intricate patterns and assembled their lanterns with incredible care and creativity. We also found time to make beautiful Christmas tree ornaments inspired by African patterns, adding a vibrant and meaningful touch to our festive decorations. The lanterns and ornaments look absolutely amazing 🎄⭐🕌