Massive congratulations to Zach in year 10 for getting picked for the Staffs county cricket team, an amazing achievement as there was lots of competition. Well done Zach 🏏
A big thank you to the cast of the New Vic's 'A Sigh of the Coal' for coming in this morning to give special performances to our year 8s & 9s to mark the centenary of the Minnie Pit Disaster and the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1. They are putting on a FREE performance tonight at St James's Hall in Audley at 7pm.
A huge thank you to all the colleges, providers and organisations who came to our Key Stage 5 evening last night. This was incredibly well attended and it was great to see our Year 9, 10 and 11 pupils exploring options for their future at the engaging stalls which filled the hall.
We would like to congratulate Holly in year 7, who is a Thai Boxer. She has been training for 4 years, fighting for the past 3 years, and is the current UK #1 and holds the UKMF and WTKA British titles. Her father Aaron Jones is an outstanding trainer with who runs UMA Thai Boxing Fighting & Fitness club. Holly has recently come back from Italy where she was representing Great Britain. She has trial fights in 2019 to go to The World Championships in Turkey, representing Great Britain again. We wish her all the best. Mrs Locke
We are delighted to announce the launch of ttrockstars with our year 7s. All year 7 students will be accessing the website during form time but they can also log in from home. This is a fantastic opportunity for them to practise their times tables. Familiarity with basic times tables are an essential building block in maths. It opens the door to more complex multiplication and aids countless other processes like long division and simplifying fractions. It also lays the foundation for algebra. So all that's left to say is; DROP EVERYTHING AND ROCK!!
This week is Anti Bullying week and pupils will be completing a number of activities during their PD sessions in the afternoons. This will also be coupled with house assemblies that will have an Anti Bullying theme. Pupils work from the week will be displayed around the school and on tutor boards for all to see.
Here is another chance to see the anti bullying message from the school assemblies earlier in the year
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Last week anti bullying assemblies were delivered to all pupils. This informed them of the effects of bullying and launched the new STB procedure for reporting and recording bullying.
Don't forget it's our Autumn Fayre tomorrow, 12 - 4 pm. Come along and bag some Christmas goodies and try your luck on the bingo, it'll be great to see you! 🎄🍰🍭🎉
The winners have now been picked from the raffle at the Autumn Fayre, here are the winners:
Mrs Robbins-earings
Sue- earings
Ms Deakins daughter- broach
Jo Shaw- purse
Bethany Faulkner- candle
Miss Jones- 2 tickets to winter wonderland
Elissia Mountford- activity bag
Lucas Myatt- Jack straws
Miss Tunstall- wine
Chloe Myatt- candle
Miss Carter- Christmas Card
Miss Jones nana - bubble bath
Mr Warriner- wine
Ella Parsons- candles
Joe Rolfe- Sweets
Millie Simcock- unicorn teddy
Please see Miss Hughes to get your prize.
Thank you so much to Phoebe of Medpath who came in to discuss careers in medicine with a group of our year 8 students today. It was a very interesting session and pupils learned about how medical students learn about the human body. Phoebe also discussed the entry requirements, the length of courses and the specialist areas doctors and nurses can train in, and pupils got the chance to ask lots of questions at the end.
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Keele MedPath is an exciting student-led initiative. The scheme is supported by the School of Medicine and the University to benefit WP students from a range of different schools.All pupils who are attending Year 8 and 9 Boys Football training on Thursday afterschool, will need to bring their football boots and outdoor trainers just in case the field is unsuitable to use. Thank you
We would like to wish you all a very happy, and safe, half term break 🎃 School will reopen on Monday 5th November
We are delighted to announce that the Year 7 Christmas Concert for this year will be on 11th December at 9.15am. This will go on until 10.30am. Parents, grandparents and siblings are welcome to attend.
Year 7 pupils will be receiving a letter about this today. Please fill in the reply slip and let us know how many seats you would like!
The stakes are high, as always, in the Accelerated Reader Quiz Points battle. After a strong start this half term we can see a firm leader on the board, WATER are saturating the playing field that EARTH seem to be stuck in, and are the flames of FIRE being smothered by AIR? Only time will tell, but no team can sit back and relax just yet. Don't forget, to earn your points you need to quiz.
Take advantage of your home access and get quizzing so the points start whizzing up the chart. Happy reading!
Calling all ex-STB pupils - we are looking to form a Sir Thomas Boughey Alumni of ex students willing to mentor existing pupils and share with them your experiences of life in the adult world. Whether you left in 1950 or 2018, if you once walked our corridors please get in touch, it would be great to have you as part of our Alumni!
UPDATE: Thank you for the overwhelmingly positive replies about becoming part of the Sir Thomas Boughey Alumni. We will get back to anyone that has expressed an interest as soon as we can, but if you can send us a private email message if you are interested that would be really helpful. Thank you
We continue to celebrate Harvest Festival in our school and today was our harvest assembly. Harvest is a time to reflect and also where we think of others not as fortunate as ourselves, in addition to celebrating the food we eat, the variety of food we can choose to eat and also who we choose to eat our food with. We are the fortunate ones – around the world there are many who do not have enough to eat and also many have no choice what they eat. We would like to thank everybody for donating food to make our harvest a special one once again. The food parcels will be distributed in the local community.
As the season is changing, so to are the Bookmarks. This year we have produced them in the House colours to make them more bespoke and I'm sure you would agree, they look very impressive! The usual information is supplied, and, as with last year, all pupils will receive a grand total of three bookmarks throughout the year to show their progress in their STAR tests.
Happy Reading!
