Yr 11 student Lewis was in town last week following an exam when he passed a pregnant lady who had suddenly became unwell. He helped her and stayed with her until the ambulance arrived. Suffolk Police said "He was awesome and a credit to our community, his parents and school too
We are delighted to announce that we are the thirteenth school in the whole country and the only one in this region to have been awarded the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools 'School Mental Health Award '- Gold Status.
#Excellence
Day 5: Such a strange week. The building is so quiet without everyone but there have been lots of positives and we end on the lovely news that Mr Alexander's wife gave birth to a baby boy today.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
#tgscommunity
A big thank you to all the TGS staff today. Everyone, whatever their role, supporting and helping one another. Students received their normal lessons and responded brilliantly during a difficult time for us all.
#thankyou
What a start to the term!! Testing centre up and running and staff tested. Keyworker students to be tested next. Lessons for students in school and at home are running as normal. All lessons will be 'live from Monday. I am so proud of our staff.
#excellenceforeachforall
We are ready to welcome back students this week, and are very pleased to announce that Mrs Yapp has been appointed to the permanent position of Headteacher
Day 7: it is not just the teaching staff that are enabling TGS to remain open for key workers. Our amazing cleaners, site team and catering staff are here too.
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Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to email messages and post messages on social media about the fabulous care and commitment our staff are showing. Your appreciation has been shared with all staff and has really made a difference. Thankyou!
#TGSCOMMUNITY
All our students who agreed to be tested (over 90%) have had their first test. Thankfully no positive results.
The second round of tests start tomorrow. The students have been outstanding and the testing team are wonderful.
#tgscommunity
Thanks for the continuing support of our community in caring and supporting young people. Tomorrow, Thurs 19 March, we will be open, as we have all week, for learning for all year groups. More info will be sent to parents tomorrow.
Thank you to all our staff who volunteered to run such a fabulous range of activities over the Easter holiday for our students. You are amazing and the students and their families were very grateful.
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Congratulations to our Year 11 students who collected their exam results today. Be proud of all you have achieved. Good luck with your new adventures at college and at sixth form.
#excellence
Many of you may recognise this face. Mr Bennett has been teaching here since 1988! He always has a smile on his face so clearly loves his job or maybe it's the Friday Breakfast that he just can't give up!
Either way we think an impressive 34 years deserves this week's Shout Out!
Thank you to all our staff, students and their families for their support and understanding during the first few days back after 6 months of not being together.
Each day has felt better than the one before....
#tgscommunity
Onto our first award of the second half of the evening and it’s a big well done to
@tgschool
for walking away with the
@SuffolkPESN
Secondary School of the Year award.
#SuffolkSA19
Thankyou to our wonderful testing team, staff and volunteers, who have shown such care and commitment to our students.Over 4000 tests completed. Let's hope this was a once in a lifetime experience.
#tgscommunity
Following the government announcement this evening we will be providing families on Wednesday with detailed information on how we will be welcoming all students back to school.
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#lookingforward
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We are looking forward to welcoming Ofsted to our school tomorrow and we are excited to able to share our wonderful TGS community with them.
#excellenceforeachforall
Please check your emails for our revised arrangements for the start of the new term.
Thank you to the whole of the TGS community for your amazing support this year and we wish you a Happy New Year.
The end of a frustrating and very busy week. Due to government changes we have had to develop another plan for the reintroduction of Year 10 and 12 to school. Fabulous colleagues have ensured that this is completed and has been shared with students and parents.
Congratulations to our Year 13 students who have achieved excellent results despite the obstacles they have had to face.
We are so proud of you.
#excellence
We are looking forward to welcoming Years 11 and 12 into school tomorrow to start another fabulous year of learning. But our biggest welcome will be for our new Year 7 students: your journey with us begins.
#future
First day of our new 'normal'.
It was wonderful to see so many year 10 and 12 in. The attendance was better than we expected - resilience was definitely on show. Quarter 2 in tomorrow.
#thetgsway
#tgscommunity
This term has had unique challenges but when you are in the classroom teaching our positive and resilient students everything makes sense.
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Our first Friday Shout Out! of 2022 has to be our Testing Team! This team is made up of staff from all departments who have mastered this mass operation, testing all our students across 2 days to ensure we had a safe return yesterday. Thank you all for your efforts!!
This week saw on average 60 key workers students in each day and
over 80% of Year 10 in and 95% of Year 12 came in for their timetables lessons.
Thank you to staff and students.
#tgscommunity
Emily who was Head Girl at TGS is about to start her MA at the Royal College of Art. She has also been shortlisted for the Global Design Graduate Show 2020. To help her win in her category please vote for her using the link.....
When most 15 year olds go home and switch on the TV or fire up the Playstation after school, this Year 11 prefers to get creative and make things!
Billy made this side table in just one evening. We were very impressed, which is why he deserves this week's Special Mention!
The Unity Schools January conference has been a resounding success. TGS enjoyed welcoming all our colleagues to our school. Thank you to Andy
@SBTAteach
for his organisation of the event and our site and catering teams for helping make the day so successful.
Year 11 and 13 are doing their mock exams this week and next. They have been immaculate in their behaviour and attitude.We are so proud of them.
#resilience
#excellence
Wishing all our staff, students and their families a relaxing and safe holiday. Thank you to my amazing colleagues for their dedication and hard work throughout the year.
#excellenceforeachforall