Easter Service

Just before the Easter holidays, all of the classes visit our local church. Reverend Miranda Hayes shared the Easter story and the origin of lots of our favourite Easter Traditions. As an academy, we held an annual Easter Egg Raffle – a huge thank you to all of the staff who donated treats – and all children took home a Cadbury’s Crème Egg.

Parliament week 2024

We kicked off Parliament Week 2024 with a very special visitor! Jake Richards MP came to our school to help launch our week of learning all about the UK Parliament. Mr. Richards joined a special assembly, explaining what it means to be a Member of Parliament and how he represents our local area. He also took the time to meet with our School Council, sharing ideas on how they can make a meaningful impact in our school. It was an exciting and eye-opening experience for everyone!

Coronation Competition

In March, our pupils took part in a National Project called ‘Coronation Competition’ in which they had to collaboratively create and illustration for some specially designed benches to mark the coronation of King Charles III. The winning schools will work with an artist to actually create their designs on the bench ready for the King’s Coronation in May and then after the Coronation, the benches will be transported to the winning schools for them to keep forever. We have our fingers crossed!

TJA Student wins competition to turn on the village lights 

Lots of TJA students demonstrated their creativity and entered the village Christmas competition, designing a picture that captured Christmas. We are delighted to announce one of our year 3 students was selected as the winner! He had the privilege of turning on the Christmas lights.  

University of Sheffield – STEM Project

In March, all of our pupils worked with several PHD students from Sheffield Hallam University to learn about microorganisms. As part of this, they even created their own artwork using micro-organisms from their own bodies – wow!

Visit from PC Robson

Our Y6s have been visited by PC Robson, who spoke to the about staying safe within our local community and surrounding areas. He focused on anti-social behaviour and social media.

Rotherham United 

We have made new links with Rotherham United who have been into school teaching our Y5 and Y6 students about healthy, active lifestyles (alongside some football skills).

Open the book

The children had a wonderful time during our 'Open the book' visitors came in to perform a puppet show all about the birth of Jesus. 

Rotherham Creative workshops

This year, each year group will be offered two sessions with Rotherham Creative linked to their learning. For the afternoon they will work with a parent/carer to produce art/craft project. Y6 had their Banksy inspired workshop in Autumn.

Town Hall Visit

In March, our school councillors took part in a tour on the Town Hall and met the Lord Mayor Councillor. They asked lots of interesting questions about his job and were amazed to find out he works for King Charles!

STEM Workshop – Flying High 

This year, all of our pupils took part in a STEM day organised by ‘Flying High’.

Wales High School 

Miss Gelder from Wales High School came in to complete a science experiment with pupils in Y6.  She tested our knowledge on our recent topic 'healthy humans' and then we carried out an experiment to see which drink contained the most amount of sugar. All of the children worked incredibly hard together showing great team working and bounce back ability. 

Remembrance

On Friday pupils from our School Council and Cllr Collingham paid their respects at the Cenotaph by placing handmade wreaths created by everyone. The children remembered and honored those who have fallen by observing a 2-minute silence and raising funds for the poppy appeal.

Christmas Service

Just before the Christmas holidays, we were visited by Reverend Thomas and his puppet, whom all of children love. He spoke to us about the meaning of Christmas and our favourite traditions.

Councillor Collingham visited the School Council

Once our school council had been elected, they were lucky enough to be visited by our local councillor, Councillor Collingham. Pupils had the opportunity to ask him question about his job role and how he planned to help our community.

Community Christmas Card Competition

Our Parish Council invited all of our pupils to create a Christmas card design with the winner being chosen as the official Christmas card for Thurcroft Parish Council. Good luck everyone.

Community Christmas Card Competition Results 2023

This year's winning card was designed by Brooke (Y6) and the runners-up were designed by Arabella (Y4) and Pippa (Y5). These cards will be sent across the Thurcroft community. 

Harvest Festival

In October, we visited our local church to hold our Harvest celebration assemblies. Reverend Thomas spoke to the children about the meaning behind the festival and how we can support others. All of the food donated to the harvest festival was successfully delivered to our local food bank. Thank you for your amazing generosity.

Visit from Alexander Stafford

Our Year 6 cohort had a wonderful visit from our local MP, Alexander Stafford. He spoke to the children about democracy and they asked lots of interesting, insightful questions.

ROAR

ROAR (Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance) along with Thurcroft Creatives kindly offered and arrange for local artists to come into our school and complete workshops with our children.

Ask Charlotte for more information.

Thor the Thurcroft Troll

We were asked to be part of the ‘Thor’ project, which resulted in a sculpture being built in Thurcroft’s park. Our Foundation children and our school councillors were invited to plant wild flowers around the sculpture in the park. Every child within school also took home their very own book about Thor and Thurcroft. At Thurcroft, we value the importance of learning the History of our local area.

Active Travel

Jim from Living Streets came into school to deliver some training for our WOW ambassadors to help increase the number of pupils who are making their way to school active. We also had a visit from Strider the WOW mascot where every pupil in school received a WOW badge.