10th July 2017
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HEADMASTERS CORNER
Thank you to you all for attending Saturdays
Speech Day. It brought to an end another
amazing year for Tockington Manor which saw
academic, sporting, music and drama successes
in abundance and I congratulate the staff and
children upon all of their many achievements. To
our leavers, we wish you every future happiness
but as always we ask that you keep in contact to
let us know how you are getting on. Thank you
also to Ben Breeze for joining us on Saturday but
a special well done goes to Tabitha and Ceredig
on their wonderful speech.
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We are looking to place our first order for the
donate a brick campaign so if you would like to
be part of this first batch please return your form
Teresa Holmes in the Finance Office.
As we look forward to next year, may I remind
you that the old school logo should not now be
used on any item of school clothing. If you would
like a school badge for your childs blazer, please
do get in contact with Graham at Linela.
I hope you have a lovely summer and we look
forward to welcoming you all back in September.
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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM SPEECH DAY

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SUMMER CONCERT
The Summer Concert was an absolute joy, as all of our performers gave their very best, and worked
tirelessly to achieve a most entertaining event! Well done to all soloists, duets, trios, ensemble and
choirs. I am so very proud - Miss Hughes.

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Y7 and Y8 DT day
The Y7 and Y8 children had a day off timetable on Tuesday, when they spent the day working
through Design and Technology problems.
Mr Mockridge spoke to them about his work as an engineer at Dyson. Talking to the children about
his pathway into work; from collecting screws to looking at how things work and are put together to
now working with a multi-faceted design team on the latest Dyson technology of hairdryers, fans
and turbo engines. He spoke about the need for resilience and acceptance that not all projects will
work, but that failures are not disasters, but should be tools for learning. He reminded the children
that collaboration on a project is not just something that happens in school, but that as part of a
design team, he needed to share his ideas, listen to the views of others and work with people who
he didnt always get along with!
The children took part in small projects taking apart and reassembling a cleaner head and using
spaghetti and marshmallows to build stable and secure structures. They then took on their main
project for the day - The Squashed Tomato Challenge. This was based around the non-fictional
problem of transporting tomatoes from the fertile soil at the top of mountains in Nepal where they
are grown, to the markets at the bottom. The tomatoes need to be taken carefully without being
damaged to enable the communities to sell their goods and earn a wage.
The variety of designs to solve the problem was interesting; pulley systems, chutes for rolling the
tomatoes down, baskets to collect and carry them in were all made and tested. Some designs
needed modification and adjustment, but by the end of the afternoon, each group had achieved a
solution to the problem.
A fabulous day allowing the children to experience the practical and life-skill elements of Design
and Technology and an excellent opportunity for us to see who can excel in these areas.
Thanks to Mr Mockridge for sharing his expertise with us and to Mrs Mockridge and Mrs Beach for
organising such a great day.

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INTER HOUSE ATHLETICS

The children's performances were fantastic examples of how
committed they are to doing well and this resulted in an outstanding
competition. Well done to everyone that took part!

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YEAR 4 AZTEC FEAST
Thank you to all of the Year 4 Parents who kindly donated traditional food for our Aztec feast. Our
little Aztecs had a wonderful time. All of them tried most of the goodies on offer, many bravely trying
things for the first time. Everyone enjoyed the traditional sacrifices at our celebration and we are all
happy to report that the sun will now continue to rise and the world will not end!
Miss Gooch

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YEAR 2 PRESENTATIONS
Three more fabulous presentations this week in Year 2.
Hannah spoke in English about where she lives in Germany, gut gemacht Hannah!
Finlay showed us how to get his goat Millie ready for a show.
Jenson told us the difference between grommets and Gromit!

TRINITY GUITAR & RECORDER EXAMS

SCHOOL SHOP
We have just had some super results for the trinity
guitar and recorder exams. Mrs Graham would be very grateful
if uniform for sale in the nearly-
Trinity college of Music:
new shop could be brought in to
Initial exam - James Packham 80% Merit the office as soon as possible,
Clarinet Grade 1 - Gemma Allen 94% Distinction Thank you.
Guitar Grade 1 Angel Burrows 81% Merit
Piano Grade 3 - Jeanne Veron 95%!! Distinction
Guitar Grade 3 - Angus Duncan 77% Merit
Recorder Grade 3 - Elodie Preston 80% Merit

Miss Hughes is exceptionally proud of you all!

YOUTH SPEAKS 2017

Following our Y6 school round of Youth Speaks, Toby Gaulton
went on Monday to represent TMS at the Grand Final of the
competition. Eight other schools from the local area were
invited to attend and the children had chosen a wide range
of subjects on which to speak: Irish Dancing, Gloucester
Rugby Club, Social Media and Barcelona were just some of
the fascinating talks we listened to. Toby did extremely well,
speaking with confidence and clear enthusiasm about his
chosen subject of Porsche.
We were very proud of his performance and acknowledge
the hard work and practice that he put into this work.
Well done Toby!

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IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
A full calendar will be published for the start of next term, but in the meantime, please note the
following dates in your diary.

Monday 11th September - Start of autumn term

Tuesday 19th September Tuesday 26th September Wednesday 27th September

Welcome to Year 8 Reception Settling-in FOTM Cheese & Wine
for Year 8 Parents Appointments Evening

Thursday 28th September Tuesday 3rd October Friday 20th October

Year 3 Parents Meeting Year 1 & 2 Settling-in Harvest Festival
Introduction to Upper School Appointments (Reception - Year 8)

Friday 10th November Saturday 2nd December Sunday 3rd December

FOTM Bonfire Night FOTM Christmas Fayre Carols Around the
Christmas Tree

Saturday 14th July 2018 9.30am - Speech Day (Reception - Year 8)

THE ROCK PROJECT

Thank you to Mrs Jenkins for sharing this brilliant
picture of Patrick taking part in the Rock Project!

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