Tockingtonian 2017

TOCKINGTON MANOR SCHOOL

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From the Study Window............................................. 6 The TMS Team........................................................... 8 Seniors........................................................................ 9 End of Year Prizes.................................................... 12 Tree Top Club........................................................... 14 Nursery......................................................................15 Lower School............................................................ 18 Music........................................................................ 22 Drama....................................................................... 29 Cartography.............................................................. 30 Mathematics............................................................. 32 English...................................................................... 33 Latin.......................................................................... 36 Srt.............................................................................. 37 History.......................................................................41 Science...................................................................... 42 Geography.................................................................44 Activity Week.............................................................47 Year 6 Camp..............................................................48 Year 7 French Trip................................................... 50 Senior Summer Camp.............................................. 52 The Boarding House................................................ 54 Football..................................................................... 56 Rugby.........................................................................59 Netball....................................................................... 63 Cross Country........................................................... 67 Tennis........................................................................ 72 Rounders................................................................... 73 Swimming................................................................. 75 Cricket....................................................................... 78 Athletics.....................................................................83 Hockey.......................................................................86 Family Fun Day....................................................... 89 Old Tockingtonians...................................................93 Clubs & Activities......................................................95 Friends of Tockington Manor.................................. 96

Daily bus service from Thornbury area

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Autumn 2017 ISSUE NO. 86

he first ever edition of The Tockingtonian was published in April 1952, five years after the school was opened and its first page led with a tribute to the recently deceased King George VI.

This year’s edition, number 86, contains write-ups and photographs that we very much hope give a perfect summary of the excellent year we have had.

There are one or two omissions in comparison to the 1957 issue and the lack of a boxing report is one such report you won’t find this year and in stark contrast to the not so brilliant Junior XI of 1957, we can report on some of the best seasons ever seen in our 70 year history.

Its pages gave a wonderful round up of the previous five years, including the news that the new rugby jerseys for the First XV looked very smart, and what a bargain the new soccer shirts had been in 1949 as they had never been on the backs of a losing side; indeed the First XI played 11 matches, won 9 and drew 2 in the 1950 season. Sadly such good results weren’t being discussed some years later when in 1957 the Junior XI were described as being “the weakest team we have ever had. It played for 200 minutes without scoring a goal, and without really deserving one. There was no punch forward; the half-back line lacked skill, but played very hard in later games.” Sadly too it was reported that the inter house boxing finals “were of a somewhat disappointing standard" and "in teaching, one tries to eradicate the elementary faults and implant the basic skills: but there is one thing a boy must learn in life for himself, and there is no better place to master it than in the boxing ring control of temper. More than one final was interrupted because the contest became overheated.”

The Summer Term saw us celebrate the school’s Platinum Anniversary and we were extremely fortunate to be joined

by Mr and Mrs Tovey, Rich Goodwin in the Anana stunt plane and by the Red Arrows.

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The school has continued to go from strength to strength this year. Our Year 8 leavers recorded another wonderful set of Common Entrance results having secured a class average of 70% (grade A), with 50% of their results being A* or A. They led the school so well and all performed their Monitor duties in a kind and sensitive manner. As they all head off to

their first choice senior schools we wish them every future success and happiness.

As the good news of our children’s many successes spread, the school will find itself at near capacity this September. Senior school scholarships in Academia, Sport, Art and Design Technology highlight the wide variety of talents that our children possess and we congratulate all of children on what they have achieved. Mr Peter Clayton, father of OTs Seren and Ruairi, wrote to me last summer, just after receiving Ruairi’s A-level results, and in his letter he described the idea of roots and wings. Tockington Manor, he said, gave Ruairi the roots of his education. Years 7 and 8 gave him wings to fly and his senior school enabled him to fly and sore to new heights. He most certainly did having recorded 12 A*’s at GCSE and 4 A*’s at A level!

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always show up early; if in doubt, over dress. Argue your limitations and they will become you. Think small and you’ll become small; think big and the world is your oyster!”

rugby player, Ben Breeze.

Ben gave an entertaining speech which included his Top Tips for a better life. He concluded his speech with “love; dance; jump; be the fool; exercise; be kind; be the person who helps the person who needs help; don’t be afraid to try as hard as you can; give unconditionally; swim in the deep end; play in the big boys’ playground; know how to be polite; learn how to eat in posh restaurants and how to behave in company different to your own;

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When reading this edition you will get a clear picture of the roots that are being grown by our younger children and a vision of how our older pupils are starting to fly, ready for their senior school entry in Year 9. We very much hope that you will enjoy reading about the memories of the 2016-2017 year as we have most certainly enjoyed making them!

Our chosen charity his year was the Royal National Children’s Foundation. This is a very worthwhile cause and we were delighted to be able to hand over a cheque for £1200 to their Fund Raising Manager, Sophie Peckham, during Speech Day. Thank you to everyone for your support during the course of the year.

Foundation (RNCF) is a charity that helps children facing abuse, neglect or trauma, by enabling them to attend state and independent boarding schools.

As part of their Assisted Boarding, these children receive the tailored care, counselling and structured living support they need to fulfil their personal and academic potential. We very much look forward to continuing to work with RNCF again in the future.

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he end of the year brought with it a time to say farewell to a number of staff.

From the Catering Department we said a very fond and sad farewell to two long-standing stalwarts of Tockington Manor. Mrs Ruth Wilmer and Mrs Irene Hardy left the school’s Catering team in July having completed over fifty years of loyal service to the school. We also said goodbye to another mainstay of the Catering team, Mrs Nicola Duncan, who, together with Mrs Wilmer and Mrs Hardy, helped the school maintain its reputation for great food and wonderful match teas. I know that lunchtimes and Saturday mornings will never quite be the same again.

On Speech Day we bid an emotional farewell to our much loved and truly inspirational Latin teacher, Mrs Barbara Barron, who made the decision to retire.

In the Nursery we wished Miss Amy Meachin every success as she starts off on her teaching training.

Amy has been a superb Nursery teacher and a keen participant in the Friday evening Touch Rugby Club.

children from Years 5 - 8. Mr George Ross is our new Year 7 Form teacher, alongside Mrs Mockridge and is now teaching Games and IT. Mr Harry Hawkins replaced Mr John Rastrick as our groundsman. Harry was already groundsman at Thornbury Cricket Club so we look forward to impeccable cricket wickets next summer! And last but not least, Miss Jess Dean joined our Nursery and works with our Woodpecker children.

The summer holidays brought with it the extremely sad news of the passing of our Head of Learning Support, Mrs Beth Russell.

Beth was an outstanding teacher and will be missed by us all. When asked for words to describe her the children took very little time in replying; kind, considerate, caring, loving, thoughtful, sympathetic, empathetic, wonderful, giving, inspirational and gentle were just a few that were offered. Beth was a truly outstanding teacher and colleague and was, without doubt, a true friend to all within the Tockington Manor family. She will be sorely missed by us all.

From the classroom we said goodbye to Mrs Laura Pritchard who worked tirelessly with the Learning Support Department; Miss Gemma Murray who completed her year’s maternity cover for Mrs Suzie Glanville; Mr Bradley Mildon headed off to Dubai in April to become a full time sports coach and Mr Robin Francis completed his PGCE with us and now heads off to follow up with a Masters degree. From the Grounds and Maintenance team we wished Mr John Rastrick a very happy retirement.

We thank everyone for all they did for our school and very much hope that they will keep in close contact with us.

To start the new academic year we welcomed several new members of staff to Tockington and I hope that they will be very happy here.

Mr Simon Sherwood joined us to teach Latin to

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James Allen

Jonathan Baguley

Isabel Browning

Micaela Cascajosa

Anya Constantinescu

Talia Curtis

Angus Duncan

Tabitha Huby

Isabel Ibanez

Ceredig Jones

Dalis Jones

Javier Lepe

Georgina Loring

William Sheppard

Rachel Shutt

Madeleine Summers

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Head Boy Ceredig Jones

Head Girl Tabitha Huby

Head of Boys' Sport Angus Duncan

Head of Girls' Sport Dalis Jones & Rachel Shutt

Head of Cunningham William Sheppard & Georgina Loring

Head of Churchill Isabel Browning & James Allen

Head of Alexander Jonathan Baguley & Talia Curtis

Head of Music & Drama Anya Constantinescu & Madeleine Summers

Our Senior leavers this year have moved onto the following schools: James Allen...................................................................................Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School Jonathan Baguley..........................................................................Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School Isabel Browning.........................................................................................Monmouth School for Girls Micaela Cascajosa.......................................................................................... Al de La Fuente, Spain Anya Constantinescu..................................................................................................Wycliffe College Talia Curtis.......................................................................................................Redmaids' High School Angus Duncan........................................................................................................Kingswood College Tabitha Huby........................................................................................................................Badminton Isabel Ibanez......................................................................................................... Punta Galea, Spain Ceredig Jones...........................................................................................................Marlwood School Dalis Jones................................................................................................... ............Marlwood School Javier Lepe...............................................................................................PeĂąalar Torrelodones, Spain Georgina Loring...........................................................................................................Wycliffe College William Sheppard.......................................................................................................Marlwood School Rachel Shutt...............................................................................................Monmouth School for Girls Madeleine Summers........................................................................................Redmaids' High School

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Year 8 Prom The end of Common Entrance exam week saw the Year 8 children and their parents enjoy the annual Year 8 Prom. The event was organised by the children during their termly Monitors' Meetings with Mr and Mrs Symonds.

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ND OF YEAR PRIZES

The Merchant Prize for English Tabitha Huby

The Jones Cup for Excellence in Geography Isabel Browning

The Shaw English Prize Otis Walker

The Robert Mason Prize for Geography Angus Duncan, Ceredig Jones

The Ashford Prize for Best Essay Georgina Loring

The Lower School Music Prize Anay Nair

The Prize for Most Promising Writer Hannah Williams

The Bett Prize for Classics Isabel Browning

The Broyd Year 3 Reading Prize Toby West

The McArthur Prize for Best Overall Musicianship Jeanne Veron, Jonathan Baguley

The Haigh Cup for Middle School Creative Writing Ines Martin

The Winson Prize for Singing Rachel Shutt

The Gundry Cup for EAL Excellence in English Isabel Ibanez

The Walkers Prize for Piano Isabel Browning

The Old Tockingtonian Society Prize for Mathematics Tabitha Huby (winner), James Allen (progress)

The Wilkinson Shield for Best Wind Player Toby Gaulton

The Old Tockingtonian Society Prize for History Isabel Browning

The Prize for Best Brass Player Jonathan Baguley

The Benjamin Moore Science Shield Isabel Browning

The Warn Prize for Best Guitar Player Angus Duncan

The Smith Prize for Science Georgina Loring

The Lees Progress Prize for Strings Lily Edwards

The Middle School Prize for Science Jacob Browning

The School Prize for Percussion Henry Packham

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ND OF YEAR PRIZES

The Elaine Thomas Prize for Art Dalis Jones

The Barber Award for Effort Jeanne Veron

The Richardson Art Prize Jeanne Veron

The Finnigan Prize for French Isabel Ibanez, Tabitha Huby

The School Art Prize Isabel Browning

The Middle School French Prize Jeanne Veron

The Allen Design Technology Prize Anya Constantinescu

The Lower School Prize for French Amelia Ricciardi

The Jamie Smith Photography Cup Jacob Browning

Young Philosopher Award Georgina Loring

The School Computing/ICT Prize James Allen

The Sarah Finnigan Award for Drama Jonathan Baguley, Madeleine Summers

The Pippa Mason Award Talia Curtis

Head Boy Salver Ceredig Jones

The Gerrish Activities Cup James Allen

Head Girl Salver Tabitha Huby

The Baker 'Make the Most of Every Moment' Prize William Sheppard, Micaela Cascajosa

The Stringer Shield (End of Year House Stars) Cunningham

Best Girls Player of the Year Dalis Jones, Rachel Shutt

Lower School End of Year Prizes Lexi Groves, Henry Horsted, Harrison Leadbeater

Best Boys Player of the Year Angus Duncan

The Watson Sports Achievement Cups Konrad Seegel, Fraser Rolls, Katherine Woodhouse

The Smith Cup for All-Round Sportsmanship Talia Curtis, Ceredig Jones

Headmaster's Award Georgina Loring

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ach holiday is based on a weekly theme where the daily activity focuses on different arts and craft projects and the occasional trip. Children have the option to opt out of the daily craft activity, however, after a little coaxing and encouragement, all participate, resulting in some very imaginative and artistic results.

Each day is based on a semistructured routine allowing specified timings for snacks, lunch and swimming. In addition to this, children have free 'chill out' time where they can use their electrical items and watch television (children are given a maximum of half an hour electrical usage and DVDs are usually watched at the end of the day).

Trips this year have included Blaise Castle, Wild Place, Frisbee Golf and Pirate Bay Adventure Golf.

Blaise Castle is a great trip that we do regularly; we always manage to find something different each time!

We visited Wild Place for the first time and the children had a great time (in the pouring rain).

We explored the Med Hut in the Cameroon section and found plenty of trees to climb, as well as having a go at the Barefoot Trail!

Miss Hale

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arly childhood is a crucial stage of life in terms of a child's physical, intellectual, emotional and social development.

Growth of mental and physical abilities progress at an astounding rate and a very high proportion of learning takes place during this time. It is when children need high quality care and carefully planned learning experiences.

With this in mind, the nursery tailors positive experiences to help lay the foundation for later school success.

What makes us special is our combination of a nurturing environment, flexibility and personal attention with a deep commitment to child-centred learning. The hands-on approach has proved very productive this year with the Owls children producing some amazing vegetables in their ‘growing’ garden. They soon adopted Mrs

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Stow’s passion for 'Mother Earth' and began clearing and tidying the beds in September ready for the winter months. The arrival of Spring saw them hoeing, raking and preparing the soil before planting potatoes, beans, onions, lettuce, radish, peas and lots more.

The enthusiastic children then

spent time measuring, watering, counting and observing the fruits of their labour before harvesting and for some the best bit - trying them. Nothing is nicer than a sweet and juicy pea that you’ve popped from the pod! This love of nature and learning has certainly inspired the staff.

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he Robins have excelled during their cookery sessions this year. Using this activity as a way of introducing many one handed tools, Jenny has built their confidence and produced some budding chefs of the future.

Cracking eggs, kneading, rolling out, cutting, sieving, grating, the list goes on and on. Every week the staff and parents looked forward to their finished dish. Remarkably at 2 and 3 years old, to understand that they can create wonderful

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things by following a recipe or experimenting with colour and texture is truly rewarding.

As a very important part of their early development, the Wrens have enjoyed all aspects of multi-faceted play. Always a fun experience for any child, it has allowed Laura and Charlotte to introduce many important skills that will be vital to the children as they grow and learn. Play has helped them develop relationships, practice social skills, and begin to

cultivate simple values and ethics.

It is always sad to say goodbye to the children at the end of the year and this year has been no exception. As the Wrens become the new Woodpecker group, the Robins fly into the Owls class and the present Owls flee the nest and move into Reception, it is wonderful to know that they will continue their Tockington journey under the caring wing of Miss Edmonds.

Mrs Reynolds

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OWER SCHOOL

Thank you to all of our children who helped to make this another great year in the Lower School. They jumped whole-heartedly into everything TMS has to offer, truly making the most of every moment. As always, the year has flown by and the children have participated with great enthusiasm, energy and positivity in everything they've done both inside and outside the classroom.

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he children in Reception have had an action-packed year. We have enjoyed spending time in the beautiful school grounds. We have explored, planted, collected and created with a range of natural resources. In the classroom, the children have particularly enjoyed learning about space and the ocean. We have had fun filled lessons preparing for assemblies, Fun Day, Sports Day

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and many more of the fantastic things we have undertaken. Thank you to all the children for their enthusiasm.

Miss Edmonds Year 1 Another eventful year for us has passed, and even more quickly than before! We started the year welcoming two new faces to the class, Lyra Hambly and Henry

Horsted. They settled quickly and it is as though they have been with us forever!

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in confidence on the stage. At the end of term we said goodbye to Miss Johnson and a big hello to Jackie who became our new TA. It’s fair to say that her enthusiasm and energy has helped us all see the bright side of life!

The spring term brought Eisteddfod, a class assembly about Chinese New Year and lighter days. We were all pleased to see a bit more sunlight! The children continued to learn about fireworks with Mr. Glanville in the science lab, and we researched lots of toys from the past in our History lessons. The term seemed to whiz by and suddenly we were hunting for all kinds of eggs that were kindly provided by FOTM. And finally the summer term was upon us. The temperatures slowly rose, so much so we made homemade fruit ice cream, removed our socks and shoes, and found every fan we could!

During the heatwave we had our Swimming Gala as well as a lovely music concert. The children worked so hard during the heat and they were pleased when the cooler air arrived.

Yet again, this year has whizzed by and I wish Year 1 2016-2017 the very best of luck next year.

Mrs West Year 2 A big thank you and well done to Year 2 this year. They are a positive, supportive class, keen to learn and eager to question; a delight to teach.

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The highlights are many, but I am confident the children would remember when we researched a 'History Mystery' and realised that Thomas Farriner, the infamous baker, had framed an innocent man for starting the Great Fire of London. This prompted lots of discussion about justice and the importance of always looking for more information. The children were made aware that learning is continuous.

Exploring Europe, continued to spark our junior Brexiteers to question and discuss the world around them. Future global citizens for certain.

All the children have participated with enthusiasm to everything offered both inside and outside the classroom. The Tockington ethos of 'making the most of every moment' is subtly instilled in the Lower School.

The Christmas production, 'The Landlord's Cat ' was a triumph. Everyone was totally involved and enjoyed their experience. A special mention must go to Elsie Lewis as the Landlord's Cat and Rudy Crompton as the smallest sheep for their beautiful solos.

Great sportsmanship and teamwork were demonstrated on Sports Day and at the Swimming Gala as the children cheered on their friends.

Year 2 have always supported the youngest children in their role as Smiley Face Monitors. This year, the children have been especially responsible and proactive. A great help to me, thank you once again.

Miss Sheppard

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nother year kicked off musically with another House Talent Competition!

Last year’s Year 7s arrived for the autumn term as Year 8s ready to step into leading their houses in a house song and various acts. They rose to the challenge admirably and it proved to be another close competition. Song choices were good and the winning song was Cunningham’s ‘On Top of the World’ by Imagine Dragons. If you don’t know this song I really do suggest you Google it! It is suitable for old and young alike and it is really uplifting. Well done to Angus Duncan for suggesting the song back in Year 7. Yet again there was an impressive array of talent. Personally an act that remains in my mind was a dance

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Veron, performing for Alexander. It had been carefully choreographed

by Rachel Shutt and was executed beautifully with stunning matching costumes to enhance the effect.

Former Head of Music, Mr Robert Andrews kindly came back to judge the competition, which he did with great flair and attention to detail with just the right balance of constructive and encouraging feedback. Thanks to him and all those performing. Everyone enjoyed yet another lovely afternoon, with Cunningham taking away the cup.

Harvest Service Quickly following on from this we held our annual whole school, Harvest Service. This is a Friday afternoon event that leads us nicely into breaking up for half term.

Children from Reception to Year 8 and parents are welcome. All three school choirs perform. The Lower School Choir (Year 1 & 2) sang ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’, a fun song full of punchy rhythms and dance moves. The Junior Choir (Years 3, 4 and 5) sang, ‘Beautiful World’, a beautifully, melodic piece which they really sang from their hearts. As is now customary, Performance Choir (Years 6, 7 and 8) led ‘Harvest Samba’, executing some fun dance moves with the other two choirs joining in for the chorus. Parents and teachers commented how uplifting it is to watch a joint choir of around 100 pupils perform so well as a team.

It was a very enjoyable experience to end the first half of term.

Nursery Nativity The second half of

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the usual plethora of Christmas nativities and activities.

A particularly large “Congratulations!” go to the Nursery staff for pulling off a Christmas Show with such high numbers of small children.

Not only do they get all the children into their costumes looking fabulous all at the same time, this year they taught and delivered all of the songs themselves with the support of Charmaine George accompanying them at the last couple of rehearsals. Well done to everyone involved in the Nursery production!

Lower School Christmas Production The Lower School performed ‘The Landlord’s Cat!’ a highly entertaining show by Out of the

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Ark. Elsie Lewis played the lead role very confidently, both singing and acting, with a guest solo song from Rudyard Crompton.

The songs were fairly tricky but our children rose to the challenge and pulled off a very convincing performance. Well done to all of the Lower School staff for their fantastic effort with the Christmas Show year on year.

Carol Service This year the Carol Service was a particularly sentimental occasion. I (Katie Sapkota) knew that it was my final TMS event as Head of Music and I really wanted to add a personal touch.

So I chose to perform a piece called ‘Twinkling Star’ written by my own mother while she had

worked with previous choirs at TMS many years ago. The Junior Choir performed it stunningly well, with really secure harmonies and I must admit they moved me to tears in my final rehearsal!

However in the actual Carol Service I held it together (just!).

We also performed a song I had written when I first was given the job. I remember moving house and music flooded into my head! I had to stop packing and write it down immediately. The Performance Choir kindly performed it in my first year and I thought it fitting to repeat it. A heartfelt thank you to all the children who performed in choirs for this occasion. Later we even managed to record the music. Lower School all sang a couple of songs from their

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show which involved a repeat of Rudy Crompton’s stunning vocal performance.

Well done to all, and every success to my successor Rebecca Hughes.

Mrs Sapkota As the autumn term came to a close, Miss Hughes took over as Head of Music.

Thornbury Eisteddfod Once again, Tockington’s three choirs worked hard to prepare fantastic entries for the Thornbury Eisteddfod. Our Lower School choir worked on a spiritual round called ‘Freedom train’, as well as the classic 70’s ‘Wombling Song’ which was such fun! We achieved 2nd place with a ‘Commended’ mark of 85 with these pieces.

Our Junior Choir had lively and fun songs as well as we worked on the ‘High School Musical’ number ‘All in this together’ and the “Jungle Book’ number ‘I wanna be like you’. The choir were very entertaining and achieved 3rd place with a mark of 84. Finally, our performance choir prepared a three-part rhythm and blues/ gospel song called ‘Shackles’ by ‘Mary Mary’, and the classic ‘I can see clearly now’ by Jimmy Cliff.

The harmonies in the 'Shackles' piece were outstanding, and 'I can see clearly' proved to be an uplifting and positive final song for the competition. The performance choir achieved 2nd place with a mark of 87, giving us a Distinction ranking. Fantastic work from three very hard working choirs!

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Monmouth Came to Make Music!

In February, I invited Monmouth School to come and join us for our final concert before the half term holiday. Monmouth were our audience in the first half where they watched some of our talented soloists and our choirs. We were able to run our Eisteddfod pieces in front of a ‘real’ audience. This was a great opportunity for us to feel what it felt like to perform in front of a live audience, and a great first opportunity for me to see how these pieces really worked!

For the second half of the visit, Tockington children were all treated to performances from Monmouth’s huge and talented string orchestra, and finally their ‘Rock Band’. TMS children were bouncing around enthusiastically, and we all enjoyed a fun, celebratory afternoon. Well done to all involved!

Fun Day I was introduced to the idea of Fun Day early on in a committee meeting, and to be honest, I didn’t have a real picture in my head of how it was going to work! As the day approached however, more and more fantastic features were being added to the day, and it became a truly blinding event.

We started with some lovely songs directed by the Nursery team, which were a delight to hear!

I had decided to try and experiment with something different for the Fun Day and teamed up with Mrs. Pullin to combine some dance and music for one of our acts. This resulted in an epic performance of

Year 3 and 4 children dancing to some African beats, performed on 20 djembes, as the others danced some African inspired moves – such energy!

To add to the summer feel, our choirs performed ‘Yellow Bird’ and ‘Sun shining’ (Lower School choir), ‘We go together’ from the musical Grease, and ‘Shackles’ (Performance choir) and ‘Firework’ (Junior choir).

We were treated to a ‘special’ parent appearance when we had Stephanie Taylor and her Mother performing together on violin and piano, which was fantastic. Our ever so talented Year 8 girls - Isabel, Maddie, Anya, Talia and Micaela performed their own version of ‘Hey Ho’ by the ‘Lumineers’, which was super. On top of this we had solos from Georgia Cooper and Eva Barratt.

The children were then able to ‘relax’ for the rest of the day as we treated to visiting musicians – ‘Clifton Soul band’ and ‘The Rock Pipes’. What a fabulous celebration in the sun – such fun!

Music Technology Trip Following the busy activity week, our Year 7 and 8 children were treated to another day out to Clifton, to get preparing for the arrival of our new Music Technology Suite which is due to start its formation in the new school year. Children experienced sound recording in a studio, using ‘Pro Tools’ live recording software. Groups of children recorded their versions of ‘Shape of you’ by Ed Sheeran, which was enormous fun – we TH E TO C K INGTONI AN 2017 31/01/2018 09:31:40

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certainly had a lot of ‘variety’ in the outcomes! The children were then able to individually compose a soundtrack to accompany a small piece of animation using the software ‘Garageband’, which will be available in our new music suite. Everybody worked really hard, and I was astounded by the creativity amongst our students – well done everyone!

Lower School Concert I must admit, as a relatively new teacher at the school, I was taken aback at the amount of Lower School students who were eager and willing to play for the concert on 23rd June. I had enormous fun preparing the class songs – Reception class learned 'Michael Finnegan' – with actions, Year 1 sang ‘La Cucaracha’ with hand held percussion accompaniment (which was a lively and cheerful Mexican number), and Year 2 a Swedish song about a fish being 'The one who got away’. Along with the impressive work executed by the children in remembering the tricky words, we had some super solo performances from Emily Billimoria, Rudyard Crompton,

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Katie Woodhouse, Elsie Lewis, Amelia Ricciardi, Janu Sapkota, Anay Nair, Addison Guest, Elsie Lewis, Eva Barratt, Harrison Leadbeater, Leo Nguyen, Ellis Carrel and Mia Pook. Lottie De Bradeny and Eva Barratt also performed on the violins.

The Year 2 recorder group performed two pieces, and then a smaller recorder group gave us their version of ‘Old Macdonald’.

The Lower School choir took on a summery theme performing a Trinidadian folk song – ‘Yellow Bird’, and a lovely song called ‘Now the sun is shining’, and thankfully it did! What an impressive collection of talented musicians we have at TMS. Summer Concert Our Summer Concert was a first for me as the new music teacher, and my, was I impressed at the quality of performances and the willingness to participate! We had a talented abundance of soloists performing vocal, guitar, piano, trumpet and recorder pieces which were of a stunningly high standard. We were treated to a piano duet from Lily Edwards and

Ellie James, and a lovely modern piano/vocal trio where Nomonde Daniels, Carmen Rey-Jones and Rachel Shutt performed their own version of ‘Somewhere only we know’. The school orchestra performed ‘In the hall of the mountain King’ by Grieg, and our newly formed recorder group lead by Mrs. Warn added a warm English folk feel to the itinerary.

Our Performance Choir performed impeccably as usual, and then as a tribute to the departing Year 8s our Junior Choir performed last of all, singing ‘You’ve got a friend’ by Carole King, and the finale piece ‘Firework’ by Katy Perry – which delivered some inspiring and positive lyrics for our departing students. Well done to all involved – what a fun evening!

Speech Day We wrapped up the year on Speech Day and the joint Junior and Performance Choir performed a beautiful rendition of an 'Irish blessing'. Well done and thank you to everyone for a super end to the term.

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Tockington Manor children have successfully passed a wide range of instrumental exams – well done to all the children having worked really hard to achieve these grades and well done to the instrumental teachers for the fantastic coaching.

ABRSM and Trinity College of Music instrumental Exam results: Autumn term: • • • • • • •

Eva Lewis – Piano Pre Test - Pass George Bloomfield – Piano Pre Test - Pass Tilly Jordan – Piano Pre Test - Pass Lily Edwards - Piano Grade 1 - Pass Ellie James – Piano Grade 1 - Merit Toby Gaulton – Piano Grade 1 - Merit Jeanne Veron – Piano Grade 2 - Pass

Spring term: • • • • •

Alexander Nguyen – Piano Pre Test - Pass Patrick Jenkins – Guitar Initial Grade – Distinction Poppy Soanes - Recorder Initial Grade - Merit Otis Walker – Guitar Grade 1 - Distinction Lily Edwards – Violin Grade 2 - Pass

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Sophie Cresswell – Singing Grade 1 – Merit Jenna Saluja - Singing Grade 1 – Merit Melissa Mapondera - Singing Grade 1 – Pass Violet Gibbs - Singing Grade 1 – Pass Stephanie Taylor - Singing Grade 1 – Pass Gemma Allen – Singing Grade 2 – Pass Georgia Cooper - Singing Grade 2 – Pass Hannah Williams - Singing Grade 2 - Merit Marie Veron – Singing Grade 2 – Pass Erin O’Leary – Singing Grade 3 – Merit Carmen Rey-Jones – Singing Grade 3 – Pass Jeanne Veron – Singing Grade 3 – Pass Isabelle Preston - Singing Grade 4 – Pass Nomonde Daniels - Singing Grade 4 – Pass Elizabeth Allan-Jones – Piano Grade 1 – Pass Jacob Browning – Piano Grade 1 – Pass Erin O’Leary – Piano Grade 2 – Pass Jeanne Veron – Piano Grade 3 - Distinction Gemma Allen – Clarinet Grade 1 - Distinction Toby Gaulton – Clarinet Grade 3 – Pass James Packham – Guitar Initial Grade – Merit Angel Burrows – Guitar Grade 3 – Merit Angus Duncan – Guitar Grade 3 – Merit Elodie Preston – Recorder Grade 3 - Merit

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he spring term saw the school’s wonderful production of Beauty and Beast performed over two nights in March. Newly appointed Head of Drama, Mrs. Pullin and Head of Music, Miss Hughes, took on the challenge with optimistic enthusiasm and the children of TMS did not disappoint.

Jonathan Baguley took on the role of Beast with style and professional determination, delighting us all with his impressive stage presence. As Belle, Madeleine Summers shone and grew in confidence through the rehearsals and, despite a sore throat on the second night, she pulled it off splendidly.

was a star and I think the grey wig suited him!! Angus Duncan was incredible as ‘Gaston’ and took to the part with ease, a true ladies’ man if ever there was one! Peter Banks' performance as Lefou was entertaining, made even more exotic by the Hawaiian shirt and thigh high boots - thank you Mrs. Banks!

William Sheppard delivered a very sinister Mr. D’Arque and Tabitha Huby opened the play as the ‘Enchantress’, setting the scene alongside the dramatic looking Narrators, Otis Walker, Georgina Loring, Oliver Gill and Isabelle Preston. Carmen Rey-Jones, Jenna Saluja and Jimena Garat were fabulous as the ’Silly Girls’ and showed great potential for future productions.

Each year group performed a particular song and dance number so every child in the Upper School had their moment on stage. Year 3 and 4 learned their songs and danced wonderfully for both performances as flatware.

As our first theatrical project at TMS, we could not be more pleased and proud of how the children worked through the rehearsal process and delivered stunning performances as a result. There are definitely plenty of budding Thespians in the school and we are both looking forward to drawing out the very best from those who are involved in next year’s production of Jungle Book, both from the acting side and the technical media side.

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he standard of entries gets better and better with each passing academic year! This year saw the topics of the USA, Kenya & Ethiopia and New Zealand being the focus. The pupils worked on their cartography skills and have used their excellent skills in all their subjects to improve their overall presentation in both their written work and diagram. Long may this quality of work continue!

Mr Jones

CARTOGRAPHY COMPETITION RESULTS

Topic Overall Winner

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Spring Term

Summer Term

USA Dalis Jones

Ethiopia & Kenya Isabel Browning

New Zealand Dalis Jones &

Runner Up 3rd Place

Isabel Browning Angus Duncan &

Dalis Jones Ines Martin

Isabel Browning Carmen Rey-Jones

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Ceredig Jones Georgina Loring

Ceredig Jones &

Micaela Cascajosa

Freddie Cooper

Isabel Ibanez Freddie Cooper &

Freddie Cooper

Jacob Browning Henry Packham Gemma Allen Stirling Rolls Amelia Ricciardi

Carmen Rey-Jones Harry Mather Henry Packham Georgina Cooper Michelle Mapondera Elsie Lewis

Toby Gaulton Ellie James Georgia Cooper Alexander Cresswell Amelia Ricciardi

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Spring Term Overall Winner Isabel Browning

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his year we had some outstanding results in the Common Entrance exams particularly in the extended syllabus Level 3 papers. All the students sitting the extended level gained excellent results.

The papers are very challenging and all the pupils applied their knowledge well to the questions and showed they were able to think mathematically and persist to answer the questions. This is one of the aims of the Mathematics department, which stems from the ethos adopted by the whole school, to challenge students to reach their maximum potential.

This is fostered by the Maths Enhancement Scheme of work used to develop these elements.

The Standardised Assessment brought in a few years ago meant we could again compare our results to the national average.

The scores enabled us to compare our students with a large nationally representative sample that have taken the test previously. The results showed overall that, as the students progress through the school, their results shift above and beyond the National Average scores, proving the added value the students gain from the bespoke teaching methods. The very positive results reflected well on the Maths Enhancement Programme used.

great way for children to practice applying their knowledge.

All students in Years 7 and 8 entered the UK Junior Mathematical Challenge. The competition is always tough with over 250,000 entrants. This year the honours went to Tabitha Huby who gained a Gold Standard - this was also best in Year 8 and Best in School. Tabitha also gained a high enough mark to be entered into the Kangaroo Challenge. She gained a Merit certificate overall which is a tremendous achievement. Well done, Tabitha!

Oliver Gill also gained a Gold standard and Best in Year 7. I have high hopes for Oliver next year!

Silver Awards went to Jonathan Baguley, Isabel Browning and Georgina Loring. The bronze went to Jake Wakeling. Congratulations to all the children who took part.

All children in Years 5 and 6 entered the Primary Mathematics Challenge and the awards went to: Gold: Elizabeth Allan-Jones Silver: William Bate, Alys Wakeling, Angel Burrows, Ines Martin Bronze: Toby Gaulton, Harry Mather, Katie Shutt, Henry Packham Well done to those children and all who took part.

Overall, a very exciting and successful year for the Mathematics department. We look forward to next year, building on our success and continuing to strive for better results, and of course more competition awards!

Mrs Wakeling

Maths Challenges In the Mathematics department we enter children into National Competitions yearly. This is another way we can prove our standards are high and it’s a

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ell what a busy year it has been in the English department. As I look back over the year, it appears that there was something in each area of English, whether writing, reading, speaking or listening work that showcased the abilities of the children at Tockington Manor School.

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with his story ‘Arctic Adventure’.

In the 10-13-year category, our winner was Otis Walker with his story ‘Unexplainable’. In second place was Jeanne Veron with her story, ‘New Year’. In third place Iona Campbell with her story ‘Big Boris’. Huge congratulations to all who wrote stories and entered the competition; it was really good to read the entries.

tell them that she still had to persuade publishers to take her books and that many of her ideas were rejected and she needed to continually adapt and develop them. This theme was echoed by Sibéal Pounder who also visited us with her series of ‘Witch Wars’ books. She engaged the children with an interactive workshop, encouraging them to use their inquisitiveness and imagination in

World Book Week

storywriting.

World Book Week was a busy celebration of the written word!

We were thrilled to have two authors visiting Tockington Manor School; Hannah Shaw came in to do workshops with the children across the school and spoke about her inspiration as a writer and illustrator. The need for resilience and perseverance that she spoke about was very interesting; many of the children believed that as a published author, all books that she now wrote would automatically go into print. She was able to

The costumes that appeared on World Book Day were amazing; I am very impressed with the depth of dressing up boxes at your homes! Such fun to see the outfits and to hear children talking about their favourite books. Year 8 worked with Year 1 on the morning of World Book Day, sharing activities around a book that they had chosen and engaging their young friends in reading activities.

It was great to see these year groups working so well together.

The end of the autumn term saw the Upper School visiting Cheltenham Theatre for the Pantomime treat.

What an occasion it was! We had been visited the week before by a member of the cast who had told us the story behind pantomime, we had a swift resumé of the plot and saw some of the costumes that would be worn. We had also learnt one of the songs, so we could be in good voice when this one appeared in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. A super afternoon out and a great introduction to the classical genre of pantomime.

Storywriting Competition The BBC Radio Two 500 Word storywriting competition was fantastic. Mrs Hinchliffe, Mrs Gooch and I had a delightful job reading all the entries we received across the school. There were some excellent stories, ranging from the fantastical, to the macabre. Some with happy endings, some with sad endings and some which we read and were left wanting to know more. In the 5-9 years category, our winner was Marie Veron with her story ‘The Magic Hat’. In second place Emily Gaulton with her story ‘Swan Ballet’ and in third place Janu Sapkota T HE TOC KI NG TO N IA N 2 0 1 7 Tockingtonian 2017 v1.1.indd 33

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The Book Week culminated in our Book Fair. Many of you came and bought books and we were able to raise over ÂŁ400 to spend on book purchases across the school. Thank you very much for your help.

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Youth Speaks The Year 6 Youth Speaks competition was a highlight of the summer term. Each member of Year 6 had to prepare a speech, on a subject of their choice, to

present to the class. Miss Collins and I had an interesting, but challenging task judging these speeches. The subject matter was varied, from Space, to RSPCA and Animal Welfare, to drugs, sugar and hockey! The children scoring the top eight marks went through to our school final when we were joined by two judges from Thornbury Rotary Club. On a hot, sticky afternoon before half term, seven of the eight children delivered their speeches to us.

Ines Martin was our eighth finalist, but we had recorded her speech as she was flying back home to Spain when our judges were with us. The judges were impressed by the subjects each child chose to speak about and they commented not only on the confident delivery of each child, but also the support

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that they all received from their peers who were listening. Toby Gaulton was awarded first place in the School Final round, for his speech on 'Porsche'. Harry Mather came second, with his speech on 'Jaguars' and Jeanne Veron came third with her speech on 'Being Bilingual'.

Totally Tockington Totally Tockington has produced copies this year in its new digital format. We look forward to expanding the number of issues we produce next year.

As you have read, the English department is in good health and I have been delighted to see so much excellent work around the school. My thanks must go to my colleagues for their enthusiastic approach to English teaching, to the parents and guardians for their encouragement; hearing

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their children read, giving them opportunities to write and talk about their work. Also, the team of volunteers who run the library each day; Mrs Williams who stepped down in the new year and Mrs Campbell who took up the reigns so smoothly, Mrs Patel, Mrs Baglin, Mrs Edwards and Mrs

Gaulton. Without their hard work and commitment, the library would not be kept so tidy and be such a welcoming place for us all to use.

Thank you to you all.

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erbs have been conjugated, nouns declined, adjectives have been agreeable and prepositions have continued to be bossy - to sum up another year of Latin at TMS. My thanks go to all pupils who find enjoyment in their learning, whether it be in derivatives, grammar, myths or history.

Vocabulary learning has improved, thanks to Quizlet, a new app to aid learning, proving even Classicists keep up with modern technology.

Once again pupils achieved excellent results at Common Entrance and all credit to their hard work.

It is with a heavy heart I say good bye to TMS. It has been a privilege and a joy to teach such inspiring pupils and I wish my successor, Mr Simon Sherwood, every happiness as he takes the department into the future.

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he Art department has continued to thrive this year and children have been involved in a range of colourful topics ranging from Colour Creations, Ancient Greece, some amazing, gold Egyptian masks, from Van Gogh to Monet, Picasso to Gargoyles and a fantastic new project on Street Art.

produced some beautiful bags.

We will continue to develop our focus on textiles in the following year. Watch this space!

For Christmas, all the children in the school designed a wonderful array of Christmas cards as a fund-raiser and raised over ÂŁ300 for the Art Department.

In the spring the focus was on the musical, Beauty and the Beast.

Year 7 and 8 threw themselves into constructing and painting a variety of props and backdrops for the play. Special thanks go to Isabel Browning, Dalis Jones and Rachel Shutt for their hard work and an amazing Castle backdrop.

The children have also enjoyed a number of exciting Design & Technology projects. Year 1 have investigated playground equipment, Year 2 have made puppets, vehicles and their own miniature bedrooms. Year 3 had a wonderful time making moving monsters, Year 4 have made beautiful story books and purses and Year 5 have investigated Talking Textiles and built suspension bridges.

We were also delighted to learn that Isabel Browning had won an Art Scholarship to Monmouth School for Girls and Anya Constantinescu had won a Design and Technology Scholarship to Wycliffe. Both girls have worked exceptionally hard this year and I would like to congratulate them on their achievements.

In the summer term, the children learnt new skills during Activity Week and produced some beautiful willow dragonflies as well as tie dyeing their own t-shirts.

Street Art Day The Year 8 children were taken into Bristol for an exciting Street Art tour. They were shown some of Banksy’s work amongst many others and given an interesting insight into the backstories behind some amazing pieces of artwork around the city. The trip culminated in a visit down into the old city jail where they were able to try their hand at some beautiful stencil art.

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and it really made them think about the environment around them and use their observational skills to the full.

Design & Technology Day The Year 7 and 8 children had a day ‘off timetable’ 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 and 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 with whom he didn’t always get along !

Thanks to Mr Mockridge for sharing his expertise with us.

Photography Competition There have been some superb photography entries this year. Well done to Ben Jacobi, Eva Lewis and Joshua Davis for their winning entries and a special Congratulations to Jacob Browning who won the 'Jamie Smith Photography' cup at the end of the year.

Overall, it has been a great year in the Art & Design department and we look forward to another exciting year ahead!

Mrs Mockridge

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.

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The children enjoyed many history outings this year, including to the Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths, Raglan Castle in Monmouthshire and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

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cience at Tockington has continued to evolve!

Darwin would be so pleased with us. We have now completed a whole cycle of the new ISEB syllabus which the children have responded to very positively, as is evident through our great Common Entrance results in Science this year.

We have expanded on the existing resources we have in the lab and now have an extensive library of microscope slides for the pupils to view but will still continue to make our own, as you can never replace the level of understanding brought about by actually completing a task.

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We have started to use technology more, particularly with the Year 8 children during revision; it was great to see them taking initiative and ownership over

their revision in this subject. The overriding aim for the Science department continues to be to develop scientific curiosity with a logical and methodical approach to answering questions and I feel proud that we have continued to achieve that during this academic year.

Mr Glanville

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What a busy time we had in the Geography department this year, exploring the world around us.

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ear 5 worked hard on their data collection on a very sunny February morning.

196 vehicles passed us between 8.15 - 9.15am, the 2nd highest recorded total. We have been doing this survey with Year 5 since 2004. The vast majority of the vehicles were recorded between 8.15 - 8.45am (149) as compared to 47 between 8.45 - 9.15am.

Year 8: Fieldwork Trip Stackpole, Pembrokeshire

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interviewing skills and polite manners. They focused on two questions: What was your main reason for shopping at The Mall today?

Where did you travel from today to get to The Mall?

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We enjoyed a fabulous week in Stackpole, Pembrokeshire making the most of the fine weather on our coastal walks and data collection on the stunning Freshwater West.

We undertook a beach clean up on Barafundle Bay which helped the pupils gain their John Muir Awards. We also went coasteering around Stackpole Quay as well as mountain biking around the beautiful National Trust estate.

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Angus Duncan, Tabitha Huby, Isabel Browning and Ceredig Jones all gained 100% for their outstanding enquiries. The overall standard from the Year 8 children was very impressive. A fabulous week!

Year 7: An Enquiry into Out of Town Shopping Our Year 7 students visited The Mall and interviewed 519 customers in a 55-minute period!

The children were complimented on their smart uniform, excellent

The variety of shops was quoted as the main reason shoppers visited The Mall and the greatest number of people had travelled from Bristol.

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Three amusing quotes from the morning: Jenna asked what was the main reason for travelling to the Mall today? They replied, ‘To spend money!'

They studied the downstream changes in the features and characteristics of the river from its source to the mini delta at Talybont Reservoir.

‘Oh, you’re from Tockington. The hidden gem!’

velocity at each stage.

We lunched next to a beautiful waterfall in the youthful stage.

The group were a pleasure to be with all day, they worked hard and cooperatively in their groups.

Year 6 wrote some excellent enquiries, their mark averaging at over 85%.

’You all look very smart in your uniforms, a credit to your school.’

Mr Jones

Year 7's enquiries were of a high standard. A special well done to Otis Walker, Carmen Rey-Jones, Oliver Gill, Freddie Cooper, Iona Campbell and Isabelle Preston on achieving 100% results on their enquiries.

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Year 6 had an excellent day on River Caerfanell, high up in the Brecon Beacons near the source of the River Taff.

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The children enjoyed a super week in June and took part in trips to @Bristol and the Portishead Open Air Pool, as well as enjoying a whole host of fun, games and activities around the school.

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hat a wonderful week we had the foot of the stunning Llangattock Mountain. We were bathed in sun all week, showing the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons at their magnificent best.

Our food was first class, all homemade

by Maya and Joe. Our guides, Rob, Mark and Magnus were enthusiastic and knowledgeable.

We stayed at Wern Watkin Bunkhouse which is a beautiful YHA centre in a converted barn in idyllic surroundings.

We saw lots of wildlife including red kites, Redstarts, hares, squirrels, buzzards, grey wagtails, as well the resident Bassett Hound puppy...a very naughty boy!

Our activities included a fascinating walk looking at the caves at the foot of the Llangattock Mountains; canoeing on the picturesque BreconMonmouth Canal; biking around Talybont Reservoir; gorge walking in the River Caerfanell, frolicking in the waterfalls, discovering a long, disused tunnel which the children found spooky, especially after the legends were told and enacted by Rob and Mark!

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We also trekked up Pen y Fan, the highest peak in Southern Britain on a cloudy, foggy day, experiencing a drop of 22 degrees on the previous days temperature!

The room challenge was well-contested with Room 2 winning out with army precision beds made, immaculate floors and bathrooms!

All in all, a super week. The children were a pleasure to be with and proved themselves to be a lovely, cohesive, caring and friendly group.

Mr Jones, Mrs Wakeling and Mr Ross

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DAY 1: "We got on the coach with Jerry, our epic driver, and drove down to Portsmouth. The ferry was amazing!!" Otis Walker "On the ferry, we went to the arcade games, watched a movie and lots more!"

Morgan Owen "We celebrated Nomonde’s 12th birthday with a lovely cake made by Irene.

As a present she got an Eiffel Tower necklace to match her suitcase!" Mr Perez "It was the start of a perfect week, eating sweets!" Oliver Gill "The crossing was long and we had to go straight to sleep at our hotel 'Bon SĂŠjour'." Otis Walker

DAY 2: "At the beginning of the day we went to Arromanches D-Day Museum and we walked around the town." Freddie Cooper "The D-Day Museum was very interesting because we learned about war tactics during World War Two." Harry Huby "We learned a lot about World War Two by watching mini films. We even saw the remains of the Mulberry Harbour." Oliver Gill "Then we went to the American cemetery. It was shocking to see so many graves!" Freddie Cooper "The US cemetery was absolutely amazing but also heartbreaking to think about all the soldiers that died 73 years ago, some of them were just 17." Jenna Saluja "The best bit was going to Pointe du Hoc. Nothing has changed there since the end of WW2." Freddie Cooper "Going inside the bunkers was a bit intimidating as it was so dark!" Carmen Rey-Jones

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DAY 3: "The best day!" Jaime Zuloaga "The hottest day by far!" Oliver Gill "We went to Bayeux to see its famous 70 metre long Tapestry and found out it had 58 scenes." Rohan Howard-Robinson "We learned about the battle of Hastings in 1066." Luna Mirta-Loinaz "The cathedral in Bayeux was beautiful and the local market was great too!"

Morgan Owen "The British cemetery had a lot less graves than the US one but more unique gravestones." Freddie Cooper "We found the grave of Frederick Albert Chinnock (pictured below), Mrs Chard’s uncle, who died on August 11th 1944 aged 26, killed by a German sniper. It was very emotional to read the inscription on his grave with the name of his wife and Philip - the son he never got to meet." M. Veron "Festyland was really fun. The new ride was so cool!" Jenna Saluja "The Eretic was the best ride!" Jimena Garat and Jaime Zuloaga "We went on the 1066 rollercoaster about 7 or 8 times!" Oliver Gill "There was the brand new ride called Miolnyr. I went on it twice! The sweet shop was really cool: you get to pick and mix sherbet." Lara Walker "We really like the 1066 ride!!!" Isaac Bienemann and Rohan Howard-Robinson "Festyland was the best!" Jacob Wakeling "I went on the Eretic ride 4 times and felt a bit sick after! Playing tackle the ball on the beach in the evening was one of the best times. Izzy is a pro at it!" Carmen ReyJones

DAY 4: "We went swimming in the hotel pool. It was fun!" Jaime Zuloaga "We had a lot of fun in the pool and on the water slides!" Freddie Cooper "The bread making course was fun because the baker called Yves kept saying “push, push”! His oven is 172 years old." Harry Huby "I did terrible in the clog race!" Otis Walker "It was so difficult to run with the clogs!" Oliver Gill "We were taught how the clogs were made and we got to try them on for a bit of running.

Freddie got a silver medal in the race. Peter was a natural and won the clog race and Iona finished third." Miss Fox "The bread we made was so nice!!!" Jenna Saluja "After dinner there was a disco. The girls got in a dance battle. It was great!" Serafima Telligina

DAY 5: "We did a bit of shopping in the local shops before coming back on the ferry." Luna Mirta-Loinaz "Au revoir, la France. Bonjour l’Angleterre!!!" Oliver Gill "Thank you Madame Veron, Mr Perez and Miss Fox for such a lovely trip!" Freddie Cooper T HE TOC KI NG TO N IA N 2 0 1 7 Tockingtonian 2017 v1.1.indd 51

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he weather was definitely on our side this year! As it reached the hottest June we have had in 40 years, we set off from Tockington, towards Monmouth for the year 8’s final camping trip as Tockington Manor pupils.

Leading our Year 8 campers were Mr Cann, Ms Gooch and Miss Collins. The children spent the morning packing the bus that took a very long time… William Sheppard said “when you’re camping you need to pack lightly… Miss Collins!”. When the bus was packed, we headed towards Monmouth with a very excited bunch of Year 8 children.

When we arrived at Biblins Campsite, the sun was still shining, it was lovely! After a lot of struggling, the children had finally finished setting up our home for the week. However, Mr Cann warned us all that it will fly by. The children were then sent to unpack their bags, and soon after, the children realised why Miss Collins had brought so much as she was well and truly ‘glamping’. Isabel Ibanez said "it was the first time I had ever slept in a tent and I really liked it”

For the week, the Year 8 children were split into two teams - the Rangers and the Wanders; the Wanders led by Ms Gooch and the Ranger led by Miss Collins.

It was in these groups that the children would carry out their fun and exciting activities, as well as completing chores around the campsite, including the children washing their dishes in a bucket, the Rangers mastered this by day two!

We then headed for our first walk around the area, stepping over a bridge we were suddenly back in England, we felt the sudden temperature drop. After what seemed like hours in the blazing heat, the Year 8s navigated us to Suck Stone - the largest detached block of rock in the British Isles, learning about wild flowers on the way. However, with the mention of tea cooking, the navigation seemed to take us half the amount of time to get back to base camp.

Each day, the children completed two activities including archery, canoeing, rock climbing, abseiling, problem solving, orienteering and kayaking. Good job we had our trusty taxi service to take us back and forth each trip - thank you Mr Cann! The children worked extremely hard throughout the week, overcoming their fear of heights and supporting each other throughout, including singing songs for encouragement. This is something we are really proud of all the children for.

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Each night was filled with fun, games and laughter, until the children formed a human shield to soak the teachers, unfortunately Miss Collins could not hide from the children forever. As well as water fighting, the children played Mr Cann’s famous game of ‘daft’ cricket every evening, getting more competitive as the week went on. It was interesting to see the groups getting good tactics to make sure they scored more runs. Sadly the other groups figured this out and the fielding skills improved. Tuesday evening was the best evening, the children got to play a game of ‘Gold Rush’. After the fun and games, the children got to sit by the camp fire drinking delicious hot chocolate before bed.

bread twist. The children loved this and they were very patient waiting for their bread to cook on the camp fire. Anya Constantinescu said “I loved the camp fire, the last evening making bread was a very memorable moment”

As the final night came to an end, we woke up to a very cold Friday morning, which was lucky as we needed to pack our bags and tents and say our farewells to Biblins. The children were still full of excitement the whole way home, until they had to unpack their bags from the back of the bus again! A fantastic week away with a lovely group of Year 8 children, and we am sure they will cherish their memories for a very long time.

Mr Cann, Mrs Gooch & Miss Collins On Wednesday, the two groups got together and we spent the hottest day on the river, canoeing and kayaking. We picked a perfect day as the children soaked the teachers yet again, Mr Cann was too quick in his kayak and none of them managed to splash or tip his kayak. We then stopped off at Monmouth Boat Club, where we had lunch and topped up our sun cream, then it was a push back to Monmouth where we got back onto the bus and back to base camp.

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t has been another great year in the boarding house. We have a great number of overseas, full time and casual borders who enjoy making the most of the boarding facilities and opportunities.

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much more.

The children have been a delight to have in the boarding house and we say a fond farewell to the boarders who left us this year. We wish them all the very best of luck for the future.

Mr & Mrs Glanville, Mr Perez

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his was a busy, short term but we still managed to play 10 matches and the 40th Annual Wycliffe College 6-a-side Tournament.

Harry Huby, William Sheppard, James Allen, Isaac Bienemann and Morgan Owen.

Season's Results

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vs Llandaff Cathedral (H) Won 10-0

Played 10, won 3, drew 3, lost 4

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vs St.John's-on-the-Hill (H) Lost 6-0

Goals For 27, Goals Against 26

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Top Scorers: Jacob Wakeling, Ceredig Jones, Otis Walker.

vs Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School (A) Drew 2-2

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vs Clifton High School (H) Lost 2-1

Wycliffe 6-a-side Tournament: 3rd place

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vs Clifton College (A) Drew 1-1

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vs Beaudesert Park (H) Lost 7-0

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vs Sidcot School (A) Drew 3-3

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vs Wycliffe College (H) Lost 2-0

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vs Rougemont School (H) Won 3-1

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vs Clifton College (H) Won 3-1

We performed creditably throughout the season, losing only 4 of our 10 matches. We played very well at the March 6-a-side Tournament at Wycliffe, finishing 3rd and drawing against the eventual winners, Wycliffe, and the runners-up, Beaudesert Park. We conceded just 2 goals in our 5 matches and only lost 1 of our matches on a very busy afternoon.

We had a comparatively small squad, numbering just 16 players. Nevertheless, we always played to the best of our ability and improved significantly as the season progressed. By the end of the campaign we had developed into a well-organised, cohesive and disciplined unit. The 'Sharland Cup' for the Best Player of the Season was awarded to Angus Duncan who played a pivotal role alongside Peter Banks as our central defensive pair. Both were combative and were integral to the team throughout the season. Ceredig Jones captained the side well, scoring and creating a number of the goals alongside Jacob Wakeling in the centre of midfield. Javier Lepe played well as our centre forward and held the ball up effectively and bringing others into the game. Otis Walker was an energetic force on the right-hand side of midfield, he contributed much to the team in every match. I look forward to combining the current Year 7s with some of our talented Year 6 ball players in the 1st XI next season.

The following players represented the 1st XI during the 2017 season: Lewis Burrows, Rohan HowardRobinson, Jonathan Baguley, Freddie Cooper, Ceredig Jones, Peter Banks, Angus Duncan, Otis Walker, Jacob Wakeling, Javier Lepe, Oliver Gill,

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Colours were awarded to: Angus Duncan, Ceredig Jones, Javier Lepe and Jonathan Baguley.

Mr Jones Under 11 ‘A’ Colts It must be said that this was one of the most promising and successful group of players that we have had at this age group for a while. They may have been small, compared to other teams, but they demonstrated a good level of skill and determination throughout the season. Team work was the key to their success; out of a squad of 9 players, 6 of the 8 outfield players scored during the term. I even gave away 5 stars for an excellent headed goal, by Jai Patel, against Sidcot, which finished off some outstanding build up play. The season’s top scorer was Archie Symonds (Forward) with 7 goals, closely followed by Ben Jacobi (Right wing) with 5.

There are still areas that need work, but I was very pleased with the progress that this team made. We tried to play with the ball at our feet, rather than hitting long balls; and this required a certain amount of discipline and positional awareness. It was pleasing to see the boys work hard to try and achieve this.

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All of these players move up to the senior age group next year and should develop into a strong side.

Season's Results •

vs Llandaff (H) Won 3 – 2

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vs St.John’s-on-the-Hill (A) Won 0 – 3

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vs Westonbirt (H) Drew 1 – 1

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vs Wycliffe (A) Won 2 – 3

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vs Beaudesert (H) Lost 0 – 2

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vs Sidcot (A) Won 3 – 7

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vs Clifton High (H) Drew 1 – 1

Under 9s The U9 A football team enjoyed an excellent season during the spring term. They all made excellent progress and their development as footballers was evident for all to see.

The boys would regularly make attempts to play positive passing football which is rare to see at this age. Barney Bishop, Cole O'Leary and Toby Littlejohn were at the forefront of the teams successes. They linked up very well and always looked dangerous going forward. Henry Benson also enjoyed a successful season developing his defensive skills at the heart of the teams defence.

An enjoyable season had by all with lots of positives to take away. Well done boys.

Under 11 ‘A’ squad members included:

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Jacob Browning (GK), Harry Mather (Capt), Toby Gaulton, Archie West, Jai Patel, Archie Symonds, Logan Fitzpatrick, William Bate and Oliver Edge.

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Inter House Football Our House Football Tournament was a closely fought affair with Cunningham overcoming Alexander in the final match to win the coveted 'Macllelan Cup'.

Angus Duncan was voted Player of the Tournament, the Top Goal Scorer was Ben Jacobi, with the Most Improved Player Award going to Oliver Edge.

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his was an exceptional season with the squad of just 15 winning all 8 of their matches. An unbeaten season, a rarity at any level, was much deserved as the boys were determined, willing to learn, playing effective, expansive rugby with a good defensive structure. They improved significantly as the season progressed and developed into an impressive, cohesive until. The team were well supported by our enthusiastic group of parents, thank you!

Season's Analysis Played 8, won 8 Tries For 200, Tries Against 75 Try Scorers: Otis Walker 16, Peter Banks 10, Angus Duncan 10, Freddie Cooper 5, Ceredig Jones 3, Rohan Howard-Robinson 2, Lewis Burrows 1, Jonathan Baguley 1, Jacob Wakeling 1

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The team were well led by the powerful captain, Angus Duncan, who was ably supported in the pack

by Jonathan Baguley, Harry Huby, Lewis Burrows and Rohan Howard-Robinson. The pack were strong, scrummaged well and were most effective in the ruck, providing an excellent platform for the back line. Jake Wakeling and Ceredig Jones were a smooth and creative link between the Forwards and the Backs. Both boys were able to organise and control the pace of games. Otis Walker, who scored 16 tries, was a dynamic centre who showed dazzling running ability but had a steely impact in defence; his work rate was eye-watering! His centre partner was the equally energetic Peter Banks who scored 10 tries and was a power-packed ball of energy around the field. Freddie Cooper played beautifully on the right wing using his pace and silky running skills, he scored 2 of the best tries in our thriller with QEH. Javier Lepe developed into a reliable full back, learning the game quickly and contributing well to the teams success. Oliver Gill, William Sheppard,

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Morgan Owen and Isaac Bienemann shared left wing role and all contributed with Isaac showing his potential in the final two matches.

All in all, a memorable and enjoyable season, illustrating that anything is possible if the team works hard for each other, is fit and willing to listen to advice.

Congratulations, lads!

Season's Results •

vs Monmouth School (A) Won 20 – 15

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vs Wycliffe College (H) Won 25 – 15

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vs QEH (A) Won 25 – 20

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vs Sidcot School (H) Won 40 – 5

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vs Beaudesert Park (H) Won 25 – 10

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vs St.John’s-on-the-Hill (H) Won 10 – 0

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vs Rougemont (H) Won 30 - 5

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vs Clifton High (A) Won 25 – 5

Colours were awarded to: Jonathan Baguley, Angus Duncan, Ceredig Jones and Javier Lepe.

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The 'Cymric Cup' for House Rugby was won by Alexander.

Otis Walker won the 'Hollington Cup' for Best Rugby Player of the Year.

Mr Jones Under 10 & Under 11 Colts The U10 & U11 boys enjoyed a fantastic season.

We started a little leisurely and took time to find our shape and discipline on the field. However after being beaten by a strong Monmouth side, the boys showed determination and resilience to bounce back and record their first win in a triangular tournament against Clifton High and Wycliffe.

Logan Fitzpatrick captained the team throughout the season and led by example with his strength of tackle and speed with the ball in hand. A particular mention needs to be made for Zac Rowles, playing a year up he showed fantastic skill and maturity throughout.

The team's development was illustrated with the manner the boys finished the season. Winning their last 3 games and more importantly displaying

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excellent passing rugby with each and every team member playing their part. Tries were scored by Archie West, Ollie Edge, William Bate (2), Jai Patel (4), Ben Jacobi (4), Zac Rowles (5), Archie Symonds (5) and Logan Fitzpatrick (6). A thoroughly enjoyable season. I have no doubt they are ready to step up to 1st VI rugby and wish them every success for the future.

Mr Mildon Under 9s What an exciting season, played 12, won 7, drew 1 and lost only 4. During these games we scored 345 pts and conceded only 265 pts, which in the context of the U9 game is very good. What was most pleasing was the fact that out of a squad of 12 boys all but one scored during the season, reflecting the way this team worked for each other.

The opening game against the Grange did not go well. Tackling and passing were both poor, but it did show the boys the areas that we had to work on; confidence and good technique needed to be nurtured during lessons and training and as a result, during the following games we made excellent progress and

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won three on the trot.

There is a lot of potential in this group and as they progress up the age groups they should develop into a good team. The games that were lost this year could have gone either way; certainly if we had played our best rugby at all times, an undefeated season was a possibility, however a little complacency proved our undoing on occasions and was a lesson that cost us towards the end of the season, letting two games slip that we should have won.

All of the boys in this squad should be proud of the progress that they made, setting good foundations to build on in the future. They have worked hard as a team and have started to show what can be done when we all do our job and work together.

The U9 squad was as follows: Henry Benson, Barney Bishop, Harry Bloomfield, Gabe Carrel, Gabriel Crompton, Patrick Jenkins, Toby Littlejohn (Capt.), Alexander Nguyen, Cole O’Leary, James Packham, Corey Pook and Sam Sheasby.

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he spring term of 2017 will be remembered as an extremely successful term for our U13 girls netball team. We had some outstanding players this term, plus the added advantage of having two tall and skilful shooters in Dalis Jones and Talia Curtis, which is such an advantage in netball where height really helps!

This small group of girls have had such a strong unit, were supportive of one another and when their mindset was right, their standard of play was exceptionally high – resulting in some truly impressive results.

This team possessed many good qualities, such as good decision making,physical strength, speed in moving the ball quickly from defence into attack and, of course, a willingness to practice strategies and patterns of play until they became second nature. When all of these things come together at the same time, any coach would be pretty ecstatic, and this is exactly what happened in the U13 tournament at Wycliffe and our matches against St.John’s-on-theHill. The girls could do no wrong, it was fabulous to watch and moments like these don’t come along too often.

However, to rewind a little, we started the season with a training session at Beaudesert. We were a little slow and rusty but this was

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just what we needed to kick-start the season. After this, matches started in earnest. The first of these was against Monmouth School for Girls’ ‘A’ team. I don’t believe we have come away with a victory against their first team before but our girls impressed me enormously during this match and I could see that if they were to maintain this standard of play during the term, we were going to

Buoyed by their previous successes, the girls next played St.John’s-on-the-Hill. The girls were pushed every inch of the way

by St.John’s and, as I have eluded to already, everything just clicked into place. They held their nerve and came away with a hard-fought but very deserving 28-20 victory.

It was a superb performance, one of the best matches I have seen from a Tockington team and I was extremely proud of them.

Then of course we had half-term, followed by two weeks of wet weather and no fixtures. So it was a little sad but inevitable that we had lost momentum by this stage and were soundly beaten in our last match against a very strong team from The Downs.

have a pretty successful season ahead. We won 11-8! This match was followed by the Severnside Tournament at Wycliffe and, to my delight, they played brilliantly; working together as one. Making few mistakes they gave a confident and impressive display. They beat The Downs 11-1, Clifton College 7-1 and Beaudesert 5-0. We lost to Dean Close 6-5, going through to the final where we played Dean Close again, losing 5-1. Although we didn’t come home with the trophy, I couldn’t have been more pleased.

All the girls played their part in the success of the team but our outstanding players were undoubtedly Rachel Shutt in defence, and the brilliant combination of Talia Curtis and Dalis Jones as our shooters. That said, this has very much been a whole team success with everyone playing their part magnificently.

Well done everyone.

Girls representing the U13 team were: Isabel Browning, Micaela Cascajosa, Anya Constantinescu,

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Talia Curtis, Tabitha Huby, Isabel Ibanez, Dalis Jones, Georgina Loring, Rachel Shutt and Madeleine Summers.

Mrs Price Under 12s The netball season was very mixed for the U12 team. We had some notable successes with scorelines which flattered us and some losses which exposed our weaknesses in defence and attack.

Isabelle Preston was a formidable centre for the team, distributing the ball widely and usually finding her reliable Goal Attack (Carmen Rey-Jones) who would pass the ball swiftly to Lara Walker as Goal Shooter who would be waiting within the scoring ‘D’.

This trio worked very hard in all of our matches and deserved their accolades.

Scoring was dominated by Carmen, but Lara’s confidence and willingness to ‘have a go’ grew throughout the season and she scored some excellent goals for the team.

Thanks must be extended to our two ‘honorary’ U12 team members: Anya Constantinescu and Isabel Ibanez. They were regular features in our matches and their confidence playing netball grew and flourished. Isabel was particularly impressive as she was one of those for whom this was a first netball season and along with Jimena Garat, Nomonde Daniels and Luna Mirta-Loinaz, they quickly picked up the rudiments of the game, the footwork rules and the positioning that is required.

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U10 Played

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Goals scored 16 The U10 netball squad had a busy season playing a total of 12 matches. All Year 5 girls had the opportunity to play in various positions to challenge their different skills and abilities.

Anna Baber performed consistently well as the Centre and was backed up impressively by the attackers, Poppy Newman and Kaya Priove.

Melissa Mapondera and Lily Edwards were the most improved during the season and all the girls' fitness levels improved as they played against stronger and faster teams.

Our top goal scorer for the term was Poppy Newman.

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competitive games. A few players of note were Elodie Preston, Katie Shutt and Alys Wakeling, who were excellent at reading the game and intercepting the ball. Katie Shutt was excellent as a goal shooter and in defence Angel Burrows really stood out. The next part of their game development is to turn defence into attack.

We had a number of triangular games where we slowly developed in experience and skills. Over the course of the season we had many close matches and the results would have gone either way. The skills that need to be developed going forward to next season are our positional play and moving into space.

When it came to the Severnside Tournament we faced some very strong teams. This year we were much more competitive than usual and we had plenty of very close matches. Well done to all the girls who played in the U11 team.

Match results:

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vs Kings Gloucs - Won 9-3

We started the season with a good grounding in the basic skills. Our first match was a coaching game against Clifton High School where we played 3 consecutive matches winning 2 and drawing 1. As we progressed through the season, the girls developed their skills and gained more experience in positional play.

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vs St. John's-on-the-Hill - Lost 5-4

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vs Wycliffe - Won 8-7

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vs Cathedral - Won 20-9

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vs HMSG - Lost 16-3

We came across some good opposition in our subsequent matches. All the girls throughout the season started to look for space and grasp how to play

Girls representing the U11 team were: Elodie Preston, Erin O’Leary, Angel Burrows, Elizabeth AllanJones, Tilly Jordan, Katie Shutt, Alys Wakeling, Jeanne Veron and Ines Martin.

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Inter House Netball

TMS put out U8 and U9 teams so all girls in Year 3 and 4 gained match experience. It was a good start for Year 3 learning the skills and rules of netball.

The inter house netball was won by Alexander and notable performances from the afternoon were from Talia Curtis, Dalis Jones, Alys Wakeling, Elodie Preston and Katie Shutt. We split the tournament into a 7-a-side game and a Hi-5 competition so that all the girls were involved. Alexander won both of the competitions with two very strong teams.

The U9 team consisted of: Gemma Allen, Georgia Cooper, Sophie Cresswell, Lorna Holloway, Eva Lewis, Stephanie Taylor and Emily Tyler.

The girls demonstrated great improvement, achieving very close match scores towards the end of the season. Emily Tyler, in particular, showed great maturity and did a super job playing above her age group all season. Players of note are Gemma Allen, Georgia Cooper and Sophie Cresswell for their super teamwork in moving the ball up and down the court.

In Year 3, Daphne Glauzy was notable for her hard work and determination to improve her shooting accuracy.

Most Improved Player title went to Georgina Loring and Player of the Tournament to Dalis and Talia.

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Colours were awarded to: Dalis Jones, Talia Curtis, Georgina Loring, Madeleine Summers, Rachel Shutt, Isabel Browning.

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highly successful, busy and enjoyable season. There were so many highlights and achievements over the two terms. Our internal competition and Thursday sessions underpin our programme, together with our Monday evening running club, enables our athletes to hit their targets, personal bests and become fit, strong and healthy individuals. The children possess a very positive attitude towards cross country running. Our target of setting every pupil in Year 3 and 4 gaining a sub 5 minute time; the pupils in Year 5 and 6 achieving 15 minutes or lower and Year 7 and 9 all beating under 20 minutes was achieved, which was impressive.

The Monday evening running club was popular with between 35-50 pupils and staff attending, even on the dark, sub-zero temperature evenings.

Over the two terms there were 30 new list times and 159 improvements on existing list times; again testimony to the commitment of our runners. The figures themselves are both records.

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Dalis Jones broke her own Senior Girls’ cross country record three times over, eventually lowering it to 11m 14.6s, a fabulous achievement.

Dalis became National Prep Schools Champion, winning the prestigious event at Malvern College by an impressive margin. She preceded this by winning all four Gloucestershire League meetings, all three Gwent League meetings, the South West Clubs Championships and a silver medal in the English School Championships at Nottingham.

Congratulations, Dalis!

2nd and an impressive 4th overall.

The U13 Girls were 9th overall.

In the Gloucestershire League meetings our U13 Boys’ team won the team bronze, the U11 Boys were 4th. The annual Westonbirt Cross Country event saw the U8 Boys, U8 Girls, U10 Girls and U13 Girls’ teams all winning their categories. Cole O’Leary, George Bloomfield and Poppy Sheppard won individual bronze. Toby West, Rachel Shutt and Logan Fitzpatrick winning silver, with Dalis Jones winning gold, and again breaking the course record.

The Gloucestershire County Championships saw our U11 Girls, U11 Boys and U13 Boys winning team silvers, with the U13 Girls coming home in 4th. There was an individual bronze for Logan Fitzpatrick and Ceredig Jones with two excellent performances. As a result of the event, Ceredig Jones and Otis Walker were selected for the U13 County team with Jacob Wakeling given a stand-by place in the squad.

The TMS Relays were again a successful and popular event. The U11 Boys and U9 Boys won silver, with the U13 Boys, U13 Girls and U11 Girls winning gold with excellent performances. The U13 Boys won the coveted Severnside Championships at Wycliffe in March.

Our U11 Boys team won the Small Schools Trophy for the 2nd year running, with the U13 Boys placing

All in all, a busy, fun-filled season.

Here’s to 2017-18!

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GB debut as an international in Sardinia in December, his team won the bronze medal.

The 'November Cup'

The Easter Egg Competition

Years 3 and 4:

Years 3 and 4

1st Toby West

1st Toby Littlejohn

Mr Jones

2nd Emily Gaulton

2nd Toby West

3rd Cole O’Leary

3rd Thomas Williams

Internal Competitions The Year Group Mufti Challenge Year 7 Athlete of the Month Awards Dalis Jones, Oliver Gill, Logan Fitzpatrick, Alys Wakeling The Pumpkin Pursuit Isabelle Preston, 1st Runners up: Billy Rowe, Henry Packham, Archie West, Nomonde Daniels, Lara Walker, Angel Burrows, Alys Wakeling, Georgina Cooper, Toby West, Barney Bishop, Harry Bloomfield, Cole O’Leary, Patrick Jenkins

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4th Grace Mockridge Years 5 – 8:

Years 5 - 8 1st Dalis Jones

1st Freddie Cooper

2nd Lara Walker

2nd Zachary Rowles

3rd Jonathan Baguley

3rd George Bloomfield

4th Oliver Gill The Turkey Trot 1st Logan Fitzpatrick 2nd Cole O’Leary 3rd Otis Walker

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'Booker-Jones Cups for Outstanding Girl' Dalis Jones 'Davis Cup for Outstanding Boy' Ceredig Jones

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'Clarke Cup' for House Cross Country 1st Alexander, 242 pts 2nd Churchill, 235 pts 3rd Cunningham, 212 pts Performances of the Day: Emily Rowe, Rohan Howard-Robinson, William Bate, Joshua Webley, Lola-Bow Stanway ******************** Cross Country Colours 2016-17 Talia Curtis, Jonathan Baguley, Ceredig Jones, Tabitha Huby, Rachel Shutt, Dalis Jones ******************** School & Club Competitions Gloucestershire League Meetings at Little Rissington, Gloucester, Wotton-under-Edge and Cheltenham • U11 Girls, 7th (Kaya Priove, 14th) • U11 Boys, 4th (Logan Fitzpatrick, 6th) • U13 Boys, 3rd (Ceredig Jones, 7th) • U13 Girls, 5th (Dalis Jones, 1st)

TMS Relays (23 teams) • U9 Boys, Silver medal • U9 Girls, 4th • U11 Boys, Silver medal • U11 Girls , Winners • U13 Boys, Winners • U13 Girls, Winners Westonbirt Cross Country Event (24 teams) • U8 Girls, Winners (Poppy Sheppard, 3rd) • U8 Boys, Winners (Toby West 2nd, Stirling Rolls, 4th) • U9 Girls, 4th (Georgia Cooper, 9th) • U9 Boys, 2nd (Cole O’Leary, 2nd) • U10 Girls, Winners (Kaya Priove, 4th) • U10 Boys, 3rd (George Bloomfield, 3rd) • U11 Girls , 4th (Alys Wakeling, 5th) • U12 Girls, Winners • U13 Girls, Winners (Dalis Jones, 1st, Rachel Shutt, 2nd)

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Gloucestershire County Championships at Old Down Country Park • U11 Girls , 2nd (Alys Wakeling, 6th) • U11 Boys, 2nd (Logan Fitzpatrick, 3rd) • U13 Girls, 4th (Rachel Shutt, 13th) • U13 Boys, 2nd (Ceredig Jones, 3rd, Otis Walker, 5th)

U9 Inter School Event vs Beaudesert/Wycliffe at BPS • U9 Girls, 2nd (Georgia Cooper, 3rd) • U9 Boys, 2nd (Cole O’Leary, 1st) • U9 Girls 2nd (Georgia Cooper, 3rd) • U9 Boys, 2nd (Cole O’Leary, 1st) National Prep Schools Cross Country Championships at Malvern College (340 runners, 90 schools) • U11 Girls , 20th overall (Alys Wakeling, 23rd) • U11 Boys, 13th overall, winning small school (Logan

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Tri Counties Championships at Bath University • U13 Girls - Dalis Jones, 1st South West Championships at Exeter Racecourse – Clubs and Counties Event • U13 Girls - Dalis Jones, 1st Nike Cross Challenge CC Meeting at Cardiff • U13 Girls - Dalis Jones, 2nd (£50 prize money) • U11 Girls - Alys Wakeling, 11th • U13 Boys - Ceredig Jones, 26th Gwent League CC Meeting (x5) • U11 Girls - Alys Wakeling - Cardiff Archers (winning team) • U13 Girls - Dalis Jones, 1st overall – Westbury Harries (winning team) Welsh Cross Country Championships at Swansea • U11 Girls - Alys Wakeling, 7th (team silver) • U13 Boys - Ceredig Jones, 17th, Jake Wakeling, 21st English National Cross Country Championships at Nottingham • U13 Girls - Dalis Jones, 2nd

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Tennis remains a popular sport at Tockington Manor with the pupils utilising our five astro courts with every chance they get.

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e won both of our inter school matches, prevailing over Clifton College by 9 rubbers to 4 and beating Wycliffe College 11 rubbers to 2. We haven’t been beaten in an inter school match since 2014!

Angus Duncan led our team superbly with his outstanding tennis, excellent temperament and clear-headed leadership. He has been a super role-model for all our players.

The following pupils represented the Tennis team during the course of the 2017 season: Angus Duncan, Ceredig Jones, James Allen, Jacob Wakeling, Javier Lepe, Jamie Zuloaga, Talia Curtis, Rachel Shutt, Archie West, Cole O’Leary and Dalis Jones.

Tennis colours were awarded to: Angus Duncan, Ceredig Jones, James Allen, Dalis Jones, Javier Lepe, Talia Curtis and Rachel Shutt.

The 'Tuite Dalton Cup' for House Tennis was won by Cunningham in a closely fought ‘American Tournament’, and won by only 3 points from Alexander in 2nd place.

Angus Duncan won all three of the Senior tournaments, winning the 'Rapson Cup' for singles, the mixed doubles with Dalis Jones, and the 'James Finnigan Cup' for doubles with Ceredig Jones. Dalis Jones edged out Rachel Shutt to win the 'Hilleard Cup' for Girls singles.

In the Junior tournament, Ben Jacobi won the 'Simpson Cup' for singles, seeing off Harry Mather’s challenge. The 'Pritchard Cup' for Senior doubles was won by Archie West and Logan Fitzpatrick who beat William Bate and Jai Patel in the final.

I very much look forward to the 2018 season and to overseeing the talent we have at TMS. Mr Jones

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'Pritchard Cup' for Junior Doubles: Archie West & Logan Fitzpatrick beat William Bate & Jai Patel 6-3 'Lucy Newman Cup' for Mixed Doubles: A Duncan & Dalis Jones beat Jacob Wakeling & Rachel Shutt 6-3 'James Finnigan Cup' for Senior Doubles: Angus Duncan & Ceredig Jones beat Jacob Wakeling & Peter Banks 6-1 'Rapson Cup' for Senior Singles: Angus Duncan beat Ceredig Jones 6-1

'Simpson Cup' for Junior Singles: Ben Jacobi beat Harry Mather 6-2 'Hilleard Cup' for Girls Singles: Dalis Jones beat Rachel Shutt 6-0 'Tuite Dalton Cup' for House Doubles: 1st Cunningham, 110 pts 2nd Alexander, 107 pts 3rd Churchill, 72 pts Beaudesert Severnside Tournament: Angus Duncan & Ceredig Jones, 5th place

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his has been a very busy term for the U13 girls teams with the weather, as usual, having quite an impact on our fixture list. We started the season with three rounders fixtures against HMSG, Badminton and Llandaff Cathedral School. Unfortunately, we were missing some key players from these matches and this made the difference between winning and losing.

The team had two matches early on in the summer term. Carmen Rey-Jones excelled as a bowler, delivering balls which were accurate, and fielding was reliable between Isabelle Preston on second post and Iona Campbell in the backstop position. Both Isabelle and Iona built on their prior experience in these positions and developed their fielding skills of throwing and catching to good effect. Batting is an area for the team’s development; we can all hit the ball, but placing it into spaces or hitting with sufficient force to get over the inner ring of fielders is a target. Again, mention must be given to Jimena Garat, Serafima Telligina and Luna Mirta-Loinaz for whom rounders was a new game.

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up the rules quickly. Nomonde Daniels, Lara Walker and Jenna Saluja practised fielding and their batting techniques and I have every confidence that these will be put to good effect next year as the skills are transferable between cricket and rounders matches.

Mrs Beach Under 11s The U11 rounders team had a very successful season. They have developed into a very well drilled team with excellent communication. The girls have very high skill levels and executed the tactics with accuracy. The level of fielding and batting improved from week to week, particularly Katie Shutt, Angel Burrows, Alys Wakeling and Elodie Preston.

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Girls representing the U11 Team: Elodie Preston, Erin O’Leary, Angel Burrows, Elizabeth Allan-Jones, Tilly Jordan, Katie Shutt, Alys Wakeling, Jeanne Veron, Ines Martin Match results: •

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mention has to go to Emily Gaulton, Maya Sapkota, Poppy Sheppard and Marie Veron, who all stepped up with great maturity to play older opposition.

U9 players of note this year have been Gemma Allen, Georgia Cooper, Sophie Cresswell and Eva Lewis, who have displayed fantastic teamwork and their throwing, batting and catching skills have all improved.

Mrs Gooch & Miss Collins

The 'Pike Rounders Cup' was won by Cunningham and joint second was Churchill and Alexander.

Notable performances were from: Lara Walker, Anya Constantinescu, Anna Baber, Poppy Newman and Angel Burrows.

Severnside Rounders Tournament

Best Batters: Lara Walker

In the U11 Severnside rounders tournament we came 3rd overall and it was a superb afternoon. There was some brilliant batting and inspired fielding, particularly from Tilly Jordan with some excellent catches and accurate throwing in from deep field. Katie Shutt, Alys Wakeling and Elodie Preston worked very well together in the bowler, backstop and base 1 triangle getting lots of girls out. Angel Burrows batted well and was excellent on base 2. Congratulations to all the girls who have represented the school for U11 teams.

Most Improved fielder: Iona Campbell Best All-Rounder: Rachel Shutt Colours were awarded to: Isabel Browning, Anya Constantinescu, Talia Curtis, Tabitha Huby, Dalis Jones, Georgina Loring, Rachel Shutt and Madeleine Summers.

Mrs Wakeling Under 9s All of the Year 3 and 4 girls have made improvements in their rounders skills this season, as well as all taking part in Kwik Cricket Matches against St.John's-onthe-Hill with very close overall scores.

The most improved rounders player in Year 3 lessons was Maria Woodward.

The U9 Rounders team: Gemma Allen, Georgia Cooper, Sophie Cresswell, Lorna Holloway, Eva Lewis,Stephanie Taylor, Emily Gaulton, Maya Sapkota, Poppy Sheppard and Marie Veron The girls played a number of matches and tournaments with some very close scores. Particular

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he season promised much and culminated with the Severnside win, something that the TMS team have been striving for since the pool opened.

This victory was the final part of a successful campaign with some outstanding swimming.

Rachel Shutt and Jake Wakeling will be mentioned many times in this report, but their dedication to swimming has benefited us all at TMS. Rachel will leave a legacy of broken records, gala wins and winning the IAPS 50m free, making her the fastest IAPS girl in the country and her performances will be long remembered by myself, and I suspect Mrs Shutt!

Jake now has a trail of records to beat and a target to podium at IAPS, having come 4th narrowly in a strong final.

There have been many leading performers in Year 8 who have set examples by trying their best, attending squad and improving week by week. Well done to Dalis Jones, Ceredig Jones, James

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Allen, Jonathan Baguley, Angus Duncan and Rachel Shutt for gaining their colours. They have been super role models and I hope they continue to enjoy the water in the years to come. Jonathan and Rachel have been fantastic captains and made the job of coach much easier. I am going to miss you both.

The Lower School swimming programme has gone well, with all children swimming at least 5 metres by April 2016. Mr Francis, our PGCE student has enjoyed working with the children and learning how the younger swimmers learn. We wish him good luck in his future in education.

The Swordfish were victorious in the Summer Gala, which proved huge fun as always. There are a number of very promising swimmers in the Lower School and I look forward to spotting the next champion. Darcey Oviatt, James Sheasby, Jack Sanders, Elsie Lewis, Amelia Ricciardi, and Katie

Woodhouse won the Progress and Technique awards. Ellis Carrel, who has an incredible throwing action, won the polo award.

The swim competition lasts all year and we witnessed a number of swimmers in serious competition with each other. The cups reward consistency and students know from their PB termly feedback which strokes need work. I would like to make special mention of Logan Fitzpatrick, Toby Gaulton, Iona Campbell, Jonathan Baguley, Gemma Allen and Sophie Cresswell, who have battled it out all year. Some have had injuries but all have applied themselves with good humour and effort.

Being in the Under 13 category with Jake and Rachel is a difficult place to be! For the first time each house won an age category in the PB competition, which meant that the final scores on the 28th June were very close. Alexander won the U13s, Churchill the U9s and Cunningham the U11s.

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t is fair to say that this team have matured greatly; they have been helped along in galas by mature Year 8s. This was evident in the House Water Polo where Alexander’s captains of Talia Curtis, Rachel Shutt and Jonathan Baguley narrowly missed out on a final spot due to the matches resulting in a draw between all 3 houses.

The penalty shoot out was painful for Alexander and reminiscent of England versus Germany football penalty shoot outs! Cunningham eventually won the final 2-1 against Churchill who had raised their game. Angus Duncan, Rohan Howard-Robinson and Harry Mather shone.

By IAPS, the team were gelling well, with some pleasing relay performances. The U12 and U13 girls managed to secure 7th place in the country overall, well done to

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Carmen Rey-Jones, Luna MirtaLoinaz, Iona Campbell, Dalis Jones, Lara Walker and Rachel Shutt. Rachel and Jake secured times that allowed them to qualify some 4 months later. The U11 relay team of Toby Gaulton, Rafie Rey-Jones, Oliver Edge, Logan Fitzpatrick, Zac Rowles, Henry Packham, Jai Patel and Ben Jacobi secured finals spot and lowered their qualifying time by 25 seconds. Well done boys!

Our improvers of 2016/7 season are Stirling Rolls, Gemma Allen, Poppy Newman, Elizabeth AllanJones, Jenna Saluja and Talia Curtis. Whilst the polo players of the year are Harry Mather and Angus Duncan.

Kaya Priove and Archie West received the Squad Swimmer of the Year as they have improved greatly but often been in the reserve spot for galas. Their industry and determination to attend squad and work hard is much appreciated and they both always work with a smile, something that is most welcome at 7.45am!

Finally, the annual Swimarathon at

Thornbury Leisure Centre always proves to be a fun evening. The Dolphins and the Sharks broke the school records and they are both going to take some beating! The swimmers swam for 55 minutes and TMS secured a staggering 180 lengths for the Senior Sharks with Rohan Howard-Robinson, Rachel Shutt, Jonathan Baguley, James Allan, Lara Walker, Carmen Rey-Jones and Luna Mirta-Loinaz.

The Dolphins also smashed the Junior record, securing 155 lengths on the night. Well done to the Dolphins of Katie Shutt, Toby Littlejohn, Logan Fitzpatrick, Lily Edwards, Rafie Rey-Jones and Oliver Edge. Moreover, ÂŁ350 was raised for local charities.

As always none of this would be possible without the help and support of a huge team. Thanks to Claire Pullin for your support and teaching, Pablo Perez for help with squad, Mark Roberts for teaching and keeping the pool habitable. David, Marion and Rose also contribute much behind the scenes, making TMS pool a great place to work.

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IAPS Under 13 Girls Rachel Shutt 1st, 28.16s Under 12 Boys Jake Wakeling 4th, 34.04s Under 11 Relay 5th - Rafael Rey-Jones, Ben Jacobi, Jai Patel, Oliver Edge, Logan Fitzpatrick, Toby Gaulton, Zac Rowles, Henry Packham and Archie West (sub) Severnside U9 Boys, U11 Boys, U13 Boys and U13 Girls - 1st Fastest Relay time in TMS pool recorded Jonathan Baguley, Iona Campbell, Jake Wakeling, Rachel Shutt 58.92s Fastest time recorded in TMS pool 13.1s Rachel Shutt Galas Wycliffe 2 galas won Clifton High Under 13 girls and boys 1st Under 11 boys 1st Beaudesert Park won 1 lost 1 Polo 5 wins 1 draw House Cup Cunningham 1st, 1236 pts 2nd Alexander 2nd, 1220 pts 3rd Churchill 3rd, 1084 pts Swimarathon ÂŁ350 raised and 2 New records 180 lengths in 5 mins and 155 lengths (Junior) T HE TOC KI NG TO N IA N 2 0 1 7 Tockingtonian 2017 v1.1.indd 77

Trophy Winners

Speech Day Awards

Under 9 Boys 1st Gabe Carrel 2nd Toby Littlejohn 3rd Barney Bishop and Cole

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Girls Swim Captain: Rachel Shutt

Under 9 Girls 1st Sophie Cresswell 2nd Gemma Allen 3rd Eva Lewis U9 Overall Sophie Cresswell

Boys Swim Captain: Jonathan Baguley Most Improved Swimming (Reception): Darcey Oviatt, James Sheasby Most Improved Swimming (Y1): Jack Sanders Most Improved Swimming (Y2): Elsie Lewis, Amelia Ricciardi

Under 11 Boys 1st Toby Gaulton 2nd Logan Fitzpatrick 3rd Ben Jacobi

Most Improved Swimming (Y3): Stirling Rolls

Under 11 Girls 1st Tilly Jordan 2nd Alys Wakeling 3rd Lily Edwards

Most Improved Swimming (Y5): Poppy Newman

U11 Overall Toby Gaulton Under 13 Boys 1st Jake Wakeling 2nd Jonathan Baguley 3rd Angus Duncan Under 13 Girls 1st Rachel Shutt 2nd Iona Campbell 3rd Luna Mirta-Loinaz U13 Overall Rachel Shutt (with the highest ever recorded score 69/70 points!)

Most Improved Swimming (Y4): Gemma Allen

Most Improved Swimming (Y6): Elizabeth Allan-Jones Most Improved Swimming (Y7): Jenna Saluja Most Improved Swimming (Y8): Talia Curtis Most Improved Lower School Swimming Technique: Katherine Woodhouse Most Improved Lower School Water Polo Player: Ellis Carrel Water Polo Players of the Year: Angus Duncan, Harry Mather Most Improved Squad Swimmers: Kaya Priove, Archie West

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his year’s season followed an excellent winter indoor training program held at Gloucestershire’s County Ground.

Monthly sessions were run by Gloucestershire Coach, Owen Dawkins, and on two occasions the boys were joined by country players David Payne and Craig Miles. As part of sponsorship of County Captain, Michael Klinger, the U13 Boys were invited to wave both Gloucestershire and Kent onto the pitch in their Royal London 50 over game in May. A week later Years 7 and 8 interviewed Michael before he headed back to Australia.

When asked about what he felt he was best at Michael replied, “being a good team mate, as this is the most important thing”.

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minutes due to sleet and snow!

The boys did however, dig in and secured a very solid win. An excellent game against St.John’son-the-Hill saw Jake Wakeling to score with an excellent 54, and great team efforts against Beaudesert and Wycliffe ensured very entertaining matches. The win over Beaudesert Park included an excellent partnership of 48 between Angus Duncan and Peter

Banks with Angus knocking a very quick 33 off just 19 balls. Jake then demonstrated his all-rounder credentials by taking 3 wickets for 12 runs.

Angus led the team by example throughout the season.

Colours were awarded to Angus Duncan, Jake Wakeling, Ceredig Jones and James Allen and with an enthusiastic group of Year 6

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boys moving up to U13 level next year we very much hope for even more success in 2018.

Out of school Jake continued to play well for Cardiff and Vale County Cricket Club and was the second highest scorer during a five day tour to Yorkshire in early August. Angus scored an excellent 50 for his club, Frenchay, and was subsequently asked to play for the U15 Team. During the summer holidays Freddie Cooper was selected for Stroud and South Gloucestershire District team and opened the batting in his first game. Meanwhile, James, Ceredig and Peter were regulars for the Old Down U13 team and produced some fine performances.

Mr Symonds Under 11 Colts As can be seen from the scores, this was a strange season as far as results go.

We have a talented group of boys at Colts level, who have a great deal of potential. We competed well in all our games and put ourselves into a winning

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position on several occasions. As a bowling and fielding side we were excellent, restricting some very good teams' scores. We were in the enviable position of being able to call on any of seven good bowlers in the team, which always kept the opposition on their toes. The enthusiastic fielding kept pressure on the batting team and we were always confident of taking wickets.

Unfortunately, we let ourselves down with the bat on more than a few occasions. Everyone demonstrated that they had the ability to build a good score, but poor shot selection cost us all too often.

However, from what I have seen this term, I am in no doubt that this group of boys will develop into a good cricket team that will be difficult to beat in the future. They have all come a long way this term and are beginning to demonstrate a good level of skill in all areas of the game. Many of the team now understand that there is often a very fine margin between winning and losing, and hopefully they can use the disappointment felt after one or two of the games as motivation to build on next year.

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Their 5 matches were all won convincingly against some strong cricket schools. We are all too often 2nd best at The Grange School and St.John’s-on-the-Hill in particular.

The players who represented the team all played their part in the successful and most enjoyable season.

Toby Littlejohn and Cole O’Leary were dominant batsmen, both scoring over 100 runs over the season.

They also bowled, fielded and led the team very well.

Henry Benson shows potential as a bowler; he has a beautiful left arm action and will take plenty of wickets in the future.

The following were regular members of the U11 Colts team: Archie Symonds (Capt.), Jacob Browning (Wk), Logan Fitzpatrick, Jai Patel, Archie West, Toby Gaulton, Ben Jacobi, William Bate, Harry Mather, Oliver Edge, Billy Rowe and Zac Rowles.

Top Run Scorers: Archie Symonds (44), Jai Patel (42), Logan Fitzpatrick (37) Top Wicket Taker: Archie Symonds (12), Jai Patel (8), Logan Fitzpatrick (6) Results Played 6, Won 2 •

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The following boys represented the U9 X during the season: Toby Littlejohn, Patrick Jenkins, Gabriel Crompton, Cole O’Leary, Henry Benson, Ethan Heer, Corey Pook, Sam Sheasby, Barney Bishop, James Packham, Gabe Carrel and Toby West.

Played 5, Won 5

Under 9 This was our first unbeaten season since introducing ‘Cricket 200’ to the U9 squad at Tockington in 2000.

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I have thoroughly enjoyed coaching the group and would like to wish them every success when playing U10/U11 cricket in 2018.

Seasons Results:

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e have been developing our cricket skills over a number of years now and we have enough experienced players for U11 and U13 squads. We also started an U9 squad this year, the girls having showed great enthusiasm for the game and developed their skills considerably. The girls had fixtures organised against a few different schools in U9, U11 and U13 age groups and have thoroughly enjoyed their games and the opportunity to develop their skills further.

The U13 girls experienced some serious coaching sessions with Mr Jones kindly imparting his cricketing knowledge on to us, and arguably the highlight for the team was the privilege to play in a cricket festival at Clifton College’s ‘The Close’ - it is only in recent times that girls have been given permission to play on this ground. During the day, the girls benefited from Top Class Ladies County Cricket coaches in bowling, batting and fielding. They really enjoyed the experience and played extremely well in the afternoon’s tournament, beating top teams from Wycliffe and Colston’s and ending the day in 4th overall. Talia Curtis, the most experienced player in the team, had a very positive influence on the pitch.

She bowled extremely well and was top scorer with the bat as well as taking 4 wickets. She was closely followed by Dalis Jones and Rachel Shutt who were also very strong fielding and batting. Credit also to the rest of the girls in the team, including Carmen ReyJones and Iona Campbell (both of Year 7) who played as part of the team on this day and who show great potential for the future.

Girls representing the U13 team: Isabel Browning, Madeleine Summers, Anya Constaninescu, Dalis Jones, Talia Curtis, Tabitha Huby, Isabel Ibanez, Rachel Shutt, Georgina Loring, Micaela Cascajosa, Iona Campbell and Carmen Rey-Jones.

In all, a very promising future is in store for Girls Cricket at Tockington with more fixtures available for the girls to be involved in. Next we will focus on teaching and playing cricket throughout the age groups, reflecting the growing opportunities for girls to develop a career from cricket.

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What an outstanding season this was. The sun shone, the track was firm and the children were up for the challenge!

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the term meant that Cunningham started the day on 274 points, with Alexander close behind on 262 points and Churchill on 215 points.

Severnside Event By the time the Severnside event, held at Beaudesert Park, came round, it was clear that we had a number of promising athletes at all ages. We took a team of more than 40 athletes and came away with 13 firsts (including a new meeting record, set by Kaya Priove, in the U11 Girls 800m in a time of 2.57.6s), 15 seconds and 15 third places. We should be very proud of what we achieve at Tockington, especially when you consider the size of many of the schools that we compete against.

Southwest Championships Because of their efforts we took a team of 23 athletes to compete in the Southwest Championships at Millfield School. Again, there were many notable performances, including Dalis Jones, who set a new meeting record of 4.45.0s in the U14 Girls 1500m. New school records were set by Peter Banks, in the U13 Boys Javelin, with a distance of 33.7m, Alys Wakeling U12 Girls 800m with a new time of 2.35.2s and Dalis Jones, with 2.44.0s in the U14 Girls 300m.

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National Championships It was no surprise that we were asked to provide six competitors to represent the Southwest at the National Championships, held at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham: Dalis Jones U13 Girls 1500m and U14 Girls 300m, Ceredig Jones U14 Boys 1500, Freddie Cooper U13 Boys 1500m, Peter Banks U13 Boys Javelin, Otis Walker U13 Boys 800m and Alys Wakeling U12 Girls 800m, Once again there were some excellent performances; Dalis won her race, Freddie won his graded race and came 7th overall and Peter came 7th in the U13 Javelin competition. Yet another National Champion!

Inter House Athletics It has to be said, however, that the highlight of the term, has to be the Inter House Athletic finals; it is the culmination of all the effort put in by the children throughout the term. The points gained for the times and distances posted during

The day was warm and still and the scene was set for some close competition. Many personal bests were broken and two new school records were set; Dalis Jones set new figures for the U14 Girls Long Jump, jumping 4.39m and Alexander ran 56.86s to win the Senior 4x100m relay. It was interesting to see the House scores grow closer and closer as the day progressed. Once again it came down to the final relays. It is remarkable, when you consider how many times and distances are recorded during the term, that the result of the 'Freeman Inter House Athletic Cup', should come down to one race! That record-breaking Senior 4x100m relay run helped Alexander to end the day as the overall winners on 560 points.

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557 points and Churchill remained in third place on 438 points.

The individual Victor Ludorum winners were as follows: U10 • •

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Boys: Angus Duncan Girls: Dalis Jones

As can be seen from the number of gold badges won this year (136), the overall standard of athletics in the school is heading in the right direction. When you consider that many of the times set by our children score gold, two years above their age group, it is remarkable.

At the end of term Athletics colours were awarded to: Dalis Jones, Ceredig Jones, Talia Curtis, Angus Duncan, Rachel Shutt, Jonathan Baguley and Georgina Loring.

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ur teams have worked well together and continued to develop their skills over the season.

Under 13s The season began for our U13 girls with the Kings Bruton tournament.

Here, we came up against schools from outside the area. The opposition is always tough and this year was no exception.

This was followed by two really exciting matches against The Downs second side and St.John'son-the-Hill. We won both of these matches with some excellent goals scored by Dalis Jones and Rachel Shutt. We lost three matches in

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total against Beaudesert, HMSG and Wycliffe, however, two of these matches could have gone either way and we were very unlucky to lose these.

There have been some tremendous individual performances, notably Dalis Jones and Rachel Shutt, our main goal scorers. Rachel started the season as GK but was itching to get out on the field and it soon became apparent that she was a force to be reckoned with. The position of GK was then taken by Georgina Loring, who proved to be very reliable. Talia Curtis as Centre Mid gave everything in defence and demonstrated time and time again true grit and determination.

She was ably backed up by Tabitha Huby, Maddie Summers and Isabel Browning, Anya Constantinescu and Isabel Ibanez.

There were occasions too, when we called upon Year 7 girls to bolster numbers and they always gave their best.

All in all, a good term for this spirited and close knit group of girls. They have been very supportive of one another and deserve credit for some very commendable team performances.

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Huby, Isabel Ibanez, Dalis Jones, Georgina Loring, Rachel Shutt and Madeleine Summers.

Mrs Price Under 12s The U12s worked very hard throughout the season; learning to work together as a team and to trust one another to do their job; whether that was attacking, defence or working hard in midfield.

Special mention should go to Isabelle Preston, Jimena Garat and Nomonde Daniels who had not played hockey before, but became proficient in their skills and were valuable members of each team that they played in.

Isabelle developed in her role as goalkeeper – understanding that she can move towards attackers and put them off their stride. She was ably assisted in matches by her two defenders, Carmen Rey-Jones and Lara Walker, who protected her and the goal as much as possible.

Luna Mirta-Loinaz was an excellent

centre forward – attacking and always seeking to drive the ball forwards into the opposition half of the pitch.

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Jenna Saluja covered midfield and attacking positions during matches, adding her speed and skills in any position she was asked to play.

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Unfortunately injury curtailed Iona Campbell’s season very early on, but we look forward to her return to the team in 2017.

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Under 11s This was the most successful season we have had. The girls won all their matches during the season and had incredible success in high profile tournaments as well.

In matches, we had the following successful results: •

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We entered 2 tournaments and competed incredibly well against very big hockey schools. At Kings Bruton we played against Salisbury, Hazelgrove, Taunton and only lost to Kings Hall who were the eventual winners. In the Severnside tournament, we won our group and then lost to the eventual winners, Dean Close, in the Semi-final. We came third overall in that tournament.

During the season we scored 47 goals: • • • •

Ines Martin, 1 Katie Shutt, 5 Elodie Preston, 3 Alys Wakeling, 38

I have been very impressed with the level of skill each of the players developed over the season. They also worked very hard together as a team and this was their most impressive element. All the girls knew what they had to do in each position and if they lost the ball they were determined to win it back. The attacking play was excellent throughout the season.

The forwards often just simply played the ball around the defence and created plenty of scoring opportunities. Well done to all the team, it has been a pleasure to take them this season!

The U11 team consisted of: Elodie Preston, Erin O’Leary, Angel Burrows, Elizabeth Allan-

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Jones, Tilly Jordan, Katie Shutt, Alys Wakeling, Jeanne Veron, Ines Martin

This year we were able to play 11-a-side to include all the girls in the tournament. The overall winners of the 'Taylor House Hockey Cup' were Alexander.

However, there were many very exciting moments and some excellent goals scored 18 over the whole tournament.

Mrs Wakeling

Under 10s The U10 hockey team developed their skills and team play as the autumn term progressed.

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Anna Baber and Kaya Priove showed great tenacity as strikers pushing up the field and were regularly assisted by Poppy Newman and Lily Edwards on the wings. During tournaments, all Year 5 girls were able to play in the matches and experience different positions on the pitch.

Bethany Gill improved her goal keeping skills throughout the term and was supported tirelessly by Hannah Williams and Charlotte Gill in defence.

The most improved players were Charlotte Gill and Melissa Mapondera.

responsibilities during fast paced match play. Super promise was demonstrated for the future.

Particular players of note include Sophie Cresswell, Georgia Cooper and Maya Sapkota.

Mrs Gooch and Miss Collins

Notable players: Angel Burrows, Beth Gill, Anna Baber, Luna MirtaLoinaz, Melissa Mapondera, Tabitha Huby, Tilly Jordan, Georgina Loring, Elizabeth AllanJones, Jimena Garat, Poppy Newman, and the Cunningham defence.

Most Improved: Lily Edwards and Angel Burrows.

Top Goal Scorer: Rachel Shutt Players of the Tournament: Talia Curtis and Dalis Jones Hockey colours were awarded to: Georgina Loring, Talia Curtis, Maddie Summers, Tabitha Huby, Rachel Shutt and Dalis Jones.

Mrs Wakeling

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Under 8s & Under 9s TMS was able to put two teams out from Year 3 and 4 this season, therefore lots of match experience was gained. The girls are coming together as a team and learned about the different roles and

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nce again this proved to be one of the outstanding days of the year. Perfect weather, excellent entertainment and superb teamwork resulted in a memorable day. We were joined this year by the Clifton College Soul Band which included lead singers, OTs Sophie and Will. The clear high points of the afternoon were without doubt Denzel the

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Dinosaur, the Rock Pipes, Rich Goodwin in the Anana stunt plane and the Red Arrows. I thank everyone for their help with this event and especially Nicola Duncan and Russell Rolls. In the end over ÂŁ5,000 was raised for the FOTM Music and Performing Arts Suite.

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e are always absolutely thrilled to hear news from our OTs and welcome them back to the school as visitors.

GCSE & A LEVEL RESULTS Thank you to all of our OTs who got in touch in let us know about their fantastic GCSE and A Level results, well done to all of you. In particular, our congratulations go to Roshan Patel who sat his GCSE Maths a year early and achieved an A* result. Well done Roshan, we are incredibly proud of you.

OT UPDATES Mathis Bellino We offer our congratulations to OT Mathis Bellino on his rowing success since leaving the school last summer.

Mathis, along with many of his fellow rowers at his club, Cercle Nautique de France, based just outside of Paris, only started rowing in September 2016 but has already achieved great success.

The club entered two boats of 8 into the qualifying tests and both got through to join the French National Youth Rowing Championships in Vichy recently. After three 1000m races, they came home in 4th out of 51 boats, just missing out on 3rd place by a meagre 1 second!

Mathis and his team did incredibly well and it was an amazing achievement for a young team from a small club (only 21 members in the U14 category – called ‘Minimes’), which has now been pushed up to 23rd place in the French rankings. Well done, Mathis!

Will developed a love of running here at TMS and earlier in the year was selected to run for the Great Britain Team in the European Cross Country Championships, bringing home the bronze medal.

Well done Will, we look forward to hearing more of your successes in the near future!

Holly Hill Old Tockingtonian, Holly Hill (pictured below, far right), and her fellow crew mates came home in amazing style to win the annual Cambridge-Oxford Women’s Boat Race this year.

William Christofi We also congratulate OT Will Christofi on his very successful running career to date. He left us in 2008 with a scholarship to Dauntsey's and from there went on to study Classics at Oxford.

For the first time since 2012, the women’s team powered through the finish line to claim victory in 18 minutes, 34 seconds, and with an impressive 11 length lead!

Oxford finished in 19 minutes, five seconds.

Cambridge coach, Rob Baker, was quoted as saying this years women's crew was "the best in my time as coach".

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Honours degree in Philosophy and Politics from University of Bristol. Rob's achievement made the regional and national news as his feat came less than four years after he was paralysed from the neck down in a car accident.

We hear that Rob will now study for a law conversion course at the University of Law in Bristol. Well done Rob, we are all very proud of your achievements.

CAN'T STAY AWAY! It's always lovely to see our OTs join us at our events throughout the year, pictures from Bonfire Night (left) and on our 70th birthday Fun Day (below). Look forward to seeing you all again soon!

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nce again, our children have made the most of the variety of clubs and activities on offer after school, including running club, ballet, horse riding, archery, fencing, tennis and street dance amongst many others.

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It seems like only recently that I was sitting here writing the last article for the Tockingtonian, yet here we are again, another year gone!

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ulling it over, it is clear that it has been another extremely busy and successful year for FOTM. We are, I believe, at an unprecedented level of financial stability with FOTM and are putting on more events than ever. I am so grateful for the way in which the committee just roll up their sleeves and get on with the job in hand – always with great enthusiasm and humour – even at midnight in the kitchen washing up endless glasses.

It is that spirit which will keep the events going and keep the committee strong – and I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart.

I appreciate every one of you and your contributions are never unnoticed or go unappreciated.

Our main fundraising goal is now our new Performing Arts Suite and we hope as many of you as possible will support our attempts to fundraise throughout the next year, especially by buying a brick and consider other ways in which you may be able to support us. I am always happy to talk to you about our plans for this great project and hope you all feel as excited as we do to help raise

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music and performing arts to a new level within the school!

Now, casting your minds back if you can to last September, we started the new academic term with a wine and cheese evening, which we hoped would introduce new parents to FOTM and be a good opportunity for people to catch up. Whilst the number attending wasn’t enormous, it was a really lovely couple of hours socialising and one which I think led to a few new parents interested in what we were doing!

This led on a few weeks later to two of my favourite events of the whole year – Bonfire Night and the Christmas Fayre. Both these events are so much fun to put on, and I really feel think they help to show off the school at its very best.

We celebrated in our usual style encompassing years of tradition - the delicious mulled wine, chilli and hot dogs have come to symbolise this time of year in the school for many of us. I know that the children love these events too and it’s always wonderful to see the OTs coming and catching up

with school life since they were last here. The figures raised are always a wonderful boost to our account and kick started our plans for the new Music and Performing Arts Suite that we are all so excited about.

After the festivities of Christmas and the new year, we tried to get our brains working again with our ever popular quiz and curry night.

This is always a really fun night – not to mention quite competitive – although it is usually over who will win the wooden spoon rather than the winners bottle of fizz!

Again a welcome boost to our bank account whilst having a huge amount of fun along the way.

Later in Spring term we admired the sheer talent of the children during the annual school production – this year ‘Beauty and the Beast’. It certainly spurred on our determination to get the suite up and running to be able to support the talent we have at TMS as quickly as possible. Whilst we were all bowled over by the performances, we also managed to raise some money selling (hopefully) welcome refreshments TH E TO C K INGTONI AN 2017 31/01/2018 09:33:50

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We finished the term - at the Easter Egg hunt! Again another wonderfully fun event and slightly better weather than last year! It’s always a real joy to see all the children from Nursery upwards enjoying what is outside their classroom windows.

After Easter we had a slight break from tradition. Instead of our usual end of summer term ball, we decided to hold a Midsummers Ball in the school itself to try and maximize our profits. With the help of some extremely imaginative parents and staff we managed to decorate the school to look like a magical forest and were able to dance the night away to a fabulous band after enjoying a sit down meal served by the excellent AHM caterers again. So many lovely comments after, concluding that it was such a lovely relaxed night in beautiful surroundings, and a magical way to start half term.

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school’s 70th birthday. We couldn’t fit all the photos in to this article so it has the honour of having its own special section for you all to remember such a glorious day in the sunshine.

Whilst all these events have been going on, we have quietly been raising money through ‘Clothes for the Cause’ and we thank all of you for all your donations in the clothing station, keep them coming! We also sold various ice creams, bacon rolls, and Pimms on an industrial level to see us through the summer events of sports fixtures and concerts.

Never a chore!

To finish then, as well as a dedicated and wonderful committee that I work with, thanks must also be offered to all the parents and teachers who may not be on the committee officially, but consistently support our events either by helping out, coming up with new ideas or giving advice on how to move forward with things.

Most importantly however, by showing up and supporting us at our events – without that we would not have had the success we are now enjoying, and be able to support the school in providing the children with an environment that goes above and beyond what they would find elsewhere.

I have had a wonderful almost 10year involvement with FOTM from when my son was in Lower School and have obviously now done 4 years as Chair. I feel that the time now is right for me to begin to make way for a new fresh team to take over and take the committee

forward to even better things. So, I state my intention to stand down as Chair and from the committee from the next AGM in April. It has been an absolute honour and privilege to stand as chair and serve on the committee for as long as I have but I know I will leave behind a steady, safe and committed group of wonderful people to take up the baton. Hopefully, in my time, I have made a small difference to the life of TMS. I am confident and excited that fundraising and FOTM will go on from strength the strength in the next year and beyond, as we fundraise hard and we will reap the benefits through watching the children benefit from the things we can provide. You should all feel very proud of the ways in which you all help us reach our goals, and I hope that you will feel spurred on to carry on giving your invaluable support to the FOTM committee in the next year.

Thank you all for everything you do.

Leanne Edwards – Chair FOTM

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