The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School
15th March 2013
Making Music Day
The Boarders had a fantastic musical day on Sunday 3rd March. In the morning we attended our local Eisteddfod, part of Thornbury's Music Festival and were treated to some fantastic 'Songs from Shows' from young singers, including pupils of Tockington Manor, who won lots of trophies on the day! After a delicious Sunday lunch we set up our own Samba Band in the school hall and brought a little of South America to Tockington mixing a variety of rhythms on Tockington's Samba instruments. We then got 'crafty' and made a variety of junk percussion instruments including metal shakers, miniature drums and our own version of a Samba cuica drum which make fantastic chicken sound effects, all ready for Easter! The children were a joy to work with and we all had a thoroughly enjoyable day! M Warn
Scholarships
Heartiest congratulations to Alex Blackwell who has been awarded an Academic Foundation Scholarship to Monmouth School and to Freya Belcher who has gained an Academic Scholarship to Clifton High School.
Clothes for a Cause
Thank you to everyone who donated bags of clothes, books, toys, etc for Clothes for a Cause. We managed to raise 118 for the school.
Reminder
All children in Years 3-8 need to stay for supper on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th March before the evening performances of Alice in Wonderland. There will be no evening bus runs on Monday or Tuesday.
Term Dates
Term ends on Friday 22nd March at 12 noon (Upper and Lower School) and 3.30 pm (Nursery). Please note that there will be no after care or evening activities. It would be appreciated if all children could attend school on Friday morning as we finish with a short prize giving in which we award our termly effort prizes, cups and medals for both academic and sporting achievements. Summer Term 2012 begins on Monday 22nd April (Boarders) and Tuesday 23rd April (Day children). Children should return to school in their summer uniform.
Boarding House
Would parents please note that there will be no casual boarding on Thursday 21st March as this is the boarders and house staff closed evening. Please also note that there is no breakfast available on Friday 22nd March.
House Netball
The results of the house netball matches which were played on Monday 4th March are as follows: 1st Churchill (10 points) 2nd Cunningham (6 points) 3rd Alexander (2 points.
Alice in Wonderland
Here is the winning entry from our programme cover competition by Bellayia Lazarides. Well done, Bellayia. Look out for some of the other entries in the programme next week! Don't forget to buy your tickets from Mr Glanville.
Night with the Stars Ball
Keep an eye out for ticket request forms which will be sent out shortly for our end of term Ball on Saturday 13th July. Can we remind parents that this ball is for over 18s only and the children in Year 8.
2012 Tockington Manor School, Washingpool Hill Road, Tockington, Bristol, BS32 4NY.
The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School
15th March 2013
Swimming News
Medal Winners The results of this years swimming stamina tests are being compiled. The U11 results are in the lobby and on the pool door. Congratulations to all medal winners for the top distances: 1st Gold Olivia Campbell (1200m); 2nd Silver Max Curtis (1050m); 3rd Bronze Ollie Shutt and Ellie Parker (1000m). Progress medals are awarded to the top three performers using a comparison from 2012-2013 of their performance in the Spring Term: 1st Gold Ollie Shutt; 2nd Silver Adassa Walker; 3rd Bronze Alex Ganfield. The Lower School medals will this year be shared by Logan Fitzpatrick, Philip Monaghan (Year 2) and Amy Tucker (Year 1) who each swam 100m in style, in under five minutes. They share the gold medal position. The following all swam in style for 75m and were just pipped at the post by the eventual medal winners above. Congratulations to: Toby Gaulton, Ben Jacobi, Erin OLeary, Jai Patel, Archie West, Lola Winter-Smith and Abigale Wickersham. Congratulations to the Under 9 winners of the stamina tests: 1st Louis Clevett Gold (500m in 10 minutes); 2nd Poppy Carter Silver (490m in 10 minutes); 3rd James Allen Bronze (485m in 10 minutes. Well done to Leonidas Lazarides in Year 3 who came in 4th with a staggering 450m. Under 9 Improvers: 1st Gold Lou Salens; 2nd Silver Archie Carter; 3rd equal Bronze Jake Wakeling and Isabel Preston. Well done! Under 13 winners: 1st Gold Imogen Rees (1260 metres in 20 minutes); 2nd Silver Seren Clayton (1160m) 3rd equal Darren Banks and Ana Sanchez (1000m). Under 13 Progress: 1st Gold Lauren Clark; 2nd Silver Seren Clayton; 3rd Bronze Elliott Orchard. A big well done to Imogen Rees who was the top performing swimmer in school. Mrs Hinchliffe
More Swimming News
Thornbury Swimarathon A big thank you to all swimmers who took part in the Annual Rotary Club Swimarathon at Thornbury Leisure Centre on Friday night. As always, a great time was had by all and the effort was immense from all swimmers. TMS were overall winners of the 6.15 pm slot with an amazing 157 lengths in 55minutes. Well done to Alex Blackwell, Ana Sanchez, Elliott Orchard, Imogen Rees, Seren Clayton and Lucy England who smashed the school record of 141 lengths. Our Under 11 team of Tom Edwards, Ella HowardRobinson, Ellie Parker, Alex Gooch, Olivia Campbell and Abi Blackwell also smashed the Junior record with an amazing 139 lengths. Their fabulous team earned the second best swim of the night. As always they were a credit to the school and their enthusiasm was infectious. Indeed a competing team came over to congratulate our team on their amazing tally! Thanks also must go to the merry band of supporters and family who came with the swimmers. Mrs Hinchliffe
2011 Tockington Manor School, Washingpool Hill Road, Tockington, Bristol, BS32 4NY.
The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School
15th March 2013
Cross Country
Congratulations to Alex Grocott on breaking the Junior Boys Cross Country Record. It was held by Max Curtis (7 minutes 34 seconds) from 2012 after standing for 14 years! The new mark now stands at an impressive 7 minutes 25.53 seconds.
Book Fair
You will know that this week, since World Book Day, we have been celebrating reading and story-telling. All children have visited the Book Fair which has caused untold excitement. There has been great enthusiasm for the books and the children have really enjoyed sharing the experience of browsing for books with their friends. There has been a great deal of discussion of likes and dislikes and recommendations and arrangements for swapping and the buzz created by the Fair has been really uplifting. Whats more, your generosity has earned us a whopping 418.60 in commission for free books for the library and classrooms. Teachers will be making choices over the next week, so your children benefit again. I cant thank you and all the teachers who took their children to the Book Fair enough, for giving up precious time and money to nurture a love of reading. Ms Case
John Harris, Storyteller
On Tuesday, we had a great day with our visitor, John Harris. He told stories throughout the day to all year groups (except year 1 who was on a trip to the MShed). His style was lively and energetic and the children responded really well to him. He made them laugh, he filled them with suspense and he made them jump out of their skins from time to time. He gave advice on storytelling, explaining that if you want to convince your audience and make them believe in your story, you need detail. He took us all on imaginative journeys and the children were enthralled. He then signed his own books for the children; two copies of each of which were donated to the library. We had a great day and again, we thank you for supporting this event so whole-heartedly. Ms Case
Eisteddfod
A number of our top-scoring children in the Eisteddfod have been asked to perform to a larger audience at the Eisteddfod Concert on Wednesday 20th March and we wish them all an enjoyable evening and every success. Ms Case
Readathon
By now, you might have had an opportunity to sit down with your child and decide on which books they propose to read during the next few weeks for the Readathon Sponsored Read. Please try your best to get sponsors for your children ask grannies and granddads, aunties and uncles to spend a few pennies, supporting worthy causes and helping your child to nurture a love of reading. All you need to do is to fill in the little booklets you were given with the titles of books which you think your child can read in five weeks. Make sure sponsors give their full addresses and tick the Gift Aid boxes on the sponsor forms. All monies need to be in on or around the first day of the Summer Term, April 23rd. Many thanks for time given to help sick and needy children in this country. Ms Case
2011 Tockington Manor School, Washingpool Hill Road, Tockington, Bristol, BS32 4NY.
