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⚽🏐 A busy and successful few weeks of sport at TGS! 🏃‍♀️ Our U15 boys’ Football team put in a strong performance away at Wymondham College, with Zachary scoring and James named Player of the Match. The Year 7 & 8 boys followed this up with a goalless draw against Stoke College before an excellent showing at a triangular tournament at South Lee — winning both matches to lift the trophy! Joseph and Issac were joint Players of the Tournament after some outstanding performances. 🏆⚽ It was another great week for our girls’ teams too. The Year 7 & 8 Netball team recorded an impressive 20–2 win over Stoke College, with Felicia scoring 16 goals. They also competed strongly in a four-school tournament, beating Stoke College and South Lee, with Brooklyn captaining the side and Riley and Scarlett named joint Players of the Tournament. 🏐 Meanwhile, Megan (Year 13) represented TGS at the Norfolk Schools Cross Country Championships, finishing an excellent 19th in a challenging 4km race. 👏 Well done to all our pupils for their commitment, teamwork and sporting spirit! 💙

🎨 Artist of the Month – November, December & January 🎨 We are delighted to celebrate our talented Artists of the Month for the past three months. Huge congratulations to all our winners! ✨ November – Adam (Reception) Well done to Adam in Reception class, our Artist of the Month for November. In recent lessons, Adam created a fantastic clay goldfish, using tools to add texture to the surface. His fish was then fired in the school kiln and carefully painted. A wonderful piece of work! ✨ December – Maddie (Year 10) Congratulations to Maddie in Year 10, our Artist of the Month for December. Maddie produced a detailed coloured pencil study of mushrooms as part of her GCSE Textiles mood board. Her next step is to create a garment inspired by this beautiful drawing – we can’t wait to see it! ✨ January – Lauren (Year 10) Congratulations to Lauren in Year 10, our Artist of the Month for January. For her recent mock exam work, Lauren explored portrait photography using a model and her pet snake, before editing her images in Photoshop in the art studio. Fantastic work, Lauren! 👏 We are so proud of the creativity, skill and effort shown by all our artists. Keep up the amazing work!

✨ Wicked Day! ✨ Having safely arrived at the Apollo Theatre in Victoria, students are so excited for the performance. Let the magic begin! 💚🧙‍♀️🎶

Year 6 Science in Action! 🩸🔬 Year 6 explored the composition of blood by creating a hands-on scientific model. Pupils calculated and carefully measured the quantities of each component to match the percentages found in real blood. As they added each ingredient, students discussed the roles of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. This engaging practical activity brought an abstract science concept to life and supported excellent scientific thinking and teamwork. 👏🧠 #Year6 #ScienceLearning #HandsOnScience #STEM #LearningInAction

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