• Here at St Thomas of Canterbury our number one priority is to grow together as a community and to have lots of fun through our learning. • All the teachers are kind and supportive and everyone is always there for each other. • Our learning is fun and exciting. • We all want to be the best that we can be.
• S uccess comes to us through : – P erseverance – A positive can do a ttitude – C onfidence and – E ffort • We try to remember that in everything we do – at school and at home!
Our learning is based around different topics across the School, our favourites were: • Foundation stage: Space • Year 1: Toys • Year 2: Beside The Seaside • Year 3: Egyptians and Alice in Wonderland • Year 4: Scary Scandinavians and Amazing Amazon • Year 5: The Coasts and Early Islamic Civilisation • Year 6: Crime and Punishment (Victorians)
We learn about everything in our subjects and try to link our learning as much as possible • Maths We learn a whole range of methods and topics in maths and work on fluency, reasoning and problem solving. • English We all love English – creating our own ideas for writing. Editing is really important – there’s always room to improve!
• RE RE is very important in our school. We learn how to make links between the lessons in the Bible and our daily lives – it helps each of us to become a better person. • Science Science is fun, hands on – it’s our science week this week and we met Sophie the T-Rex this morning! Did you know that a lemon can light a bulb?
• Computing We learn all sorts of things in Computing – first we learn how to be safe online. We do a lot of coding as well as learning how to use Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Publisher. • Art and DT We have a great art gallery - The Canvas s - and in art we sketch, paint, draw, collage and make sculptures too. It links to our topics and we also learn about famous artists and their work.
• French Everyone learns French at St Thomas from Year 1 upwards. It is pretty basic but it leads up to our Year 6 residential trip to France in the summer. • Music We do a lot in music and a real variety with instruments, lots of singing and lots and lots of performing. We study music from all over the world. We also have the Strings Scheme with the RGS and everyone in Year 4 gets to learn the violin or cello.
• PSHE This is like citizenship. We learn about healthy eating and taking care of ourselves, about our Government and the dangers of drugs. We also prepare for secondary school in Year 6. • PE We all love PE. We have PE twice each week, inside and outside. Some years do swimming at the Spectrum. We take part in lots of competitions and have lots of sports clubs. We are the reigning District Sports Champions!
In year 5 your child will go to Swanage: They will learn all about the coast They will see Old Harry’s rock. The tour guides are really fun and they do some great night games.
Some of the amazing places we visit include: • Hampton Court Palace and the RGS in Guildford • Ladyland farm • The Spike • Haslemere museum • The Royal Albert Hall (our choir is singing in the Messiah there in two weeks time!) • London Monument (Year 2 were there today!) • Birdworld and Windsor Castle • Butser Ancient Farm
We have lots and lots of clubs at St Thomas of Canterbury school because we want your children to have a fun time at school. Some of the clubs include: – Spanish and French clubs, Football and netball, chess, Art club (you can see their work in The e Canvas nvas and the staff portraits outside Mr Lewin’s office!), Drama, Gardening, Animation, Singing Squad, Recorders, Orchestra, Cross Country, Street Dance, Jewellery making… it’s a long list!
We have productions to show everyone our drama skills and to show our parents what we are learning. • A few weeks ago we had our class assemblies about the Victorians – and we use Bible stories too. • The whole school performs in a Harvest Show for grandparents and old people who live around the school and parish. • At Christmas we all perform in great shows but Years 5 and 6 have a more formal celebration at the Church.
• In year 5 they perform the Passion play about Jesus and how he died and rose again. • At the end of Year 6 there is an end of year production; last year they did Alice in Wonderland – we can’t wait to find out what we will be doing! • Our Drama club always put on a show at the end of term and that’s always fun. • Our orchestra and choir perform a lot too. The choir is going to the Royal Albert Hall to sing soon.
• We are really proud of link with Busenya Catholic Primary School in Uganda. • We have helped raise lots of money to rebuild their school and provide it with a water bore-hole and lots of equipment too. • We have termly B for Busenya Days and create books and posters to send to help brighten their classrooms. Their teachers come here and ours visit them too.
• It’s a fun family community • We have a strong pupil voice • It’s safe and secure • Learning is FUN! • Everyone is always involved • We know everyone is different and we respect that • We always look to improve and try new things • We have a strong link with Busenya Primary School in Uganda • We encourage each other to be the best we can be • We support everyone to follow their dreams and reach our potential • WE LOVE IT HERE!
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