Welcome

At St Thomas More School you will be sure of a great education and will make lots of new friends too. Our mission tells us that we need to live, love, and learn together and we try to remember this every day in our actions.

RE requires a lot of understanding and thought since the Bible isn't always easy to interpret. Luckily our amazing RE teachers in Year 6 guide me and support me so I can fully understand the class task. One of the RE teachers is our Headteacher, Sister Susan, who also supports Year 6 for their Confirmation which is always very successful and meaningful. RE also provides excellent opportunities for meditation which helps us to understand our lessons in a deeper way.

The Computer suite has 30 computers which children use to learn ICT skills and each class has at least one computer to use daily in their class work. The computer suite is also used for the School Newspaper. For the past two years the newspaper has entered a competition in the Times Educational Supplement and we have received a Commendation for the second year running. It was hard work but lots of fun and we learnt lots of new ICT skills and learn to work as a team - we are often featured in the local press too!

Literacy at St Thomas More is fantastic for everyone, We have covered a whole host of different types of writing. Something that I particularly enjoyed was story writing, this gave me a chance to let my imagination soar and put my author skills to the test. My teacher Miss Hallahan helped me improve my story writing dramatically by giving me a great range of amazing ideas.

Our school has bought an interactive whiteboard for every class. The Interactive whiteboards have many exciting facilities such as allowing children to take part more fully in lessons, they can even become teachers as one of the Year 6 classes attempted recently and it was great fun. The interactive whiteboards improve our lesson because they enable the teacher to go on to the internet to find many interesting and useful websites around the world. It also makes lessons more interesting and learning easier.

Our outside environment is enriched by a beautiful garden area where we can sit and play in the water and sand, play board games and meet with our friends to talk. We all have the opportunity to grow lovely plants and vegetables for the garden and Mrs Shakespeare helps us. Reception have their own playground with a play house and lots of play equipment including bikes for exercise. There are another two playgrounds for Infants and Juniors with games painted on the ground to encourage us to play together. We can play football and running games to keep us fit too! There are grassed areas and we use these in the summer months. We recently had a gazebo built where we can have lessons in the fresh air.

Numeracy is a great subject. We have been learning about measurements, mean mode median and range, percentages and fractions. I enjoy measurements and Mr Tipping and Miss Hallahan are great maths teachers.

Music is a particularly popular lesson in school. We have a visiting viola and violin teacher and a guitar teacher who come in weekly to teach children from reception upwards. I really like music and in our weekly assemblies and school masses I play the whistle, recorder and guitar. This Year our music teacher Mrs Morgan's organised a CD production company to come in and record our voices. We also have class assemblies were we are given a theme from a parable to act out in front of our parents and the whole school, these are thought provoking and give a fuller meaning to our RE lessons.