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Village Voice December 2019/January 2020
SCHOOLS
NEWS ROUND UP
Tylers Green Middle School
Events at TGMS: It was delightful to see our
Year 3 children lead the harvest assembly. They
were very confident in their delivery of their
message and used a combination of drama and
singing to relay their message. It was an
occasion to invite our Year 3 parents into our
school and we were overwhelmed by the
numbers of visitors. The whole school donated
items of food that to the One Can Trust. We
were joined by Reverend Mike Bisset who
engaged the children with a can of baked beans.
School Council: At TGMS we often see
democracy in action and each class elected a
School Councillor. The School Councillors are:
Max Sugden; Nellie O’Connor; Sebastian Bull;
Maisie Lomas; Emma Clark; Baxter Yule; Lily
Gurney and Chiara Sabatini. Miss Baker shall
be working with our School Council to support
our aim for a ‘greener school’ and reviewing our
School Citizenship award.
Mental Health and Anti Bullying: This
year, we will be wearing odd socks one day to
school to show that everyone is uniquely
different. This theme links with our PSHE
programme (Personal, Social and Health
Education) that is delivered through assemblies
and class lessons to support our children to
recognise each person’s strengths, and to not
tolerate bullying behaviour.
With so many concerns about children’s
mental health, we have held many assemblies
over the year to discuss that everyone has a
mental health and how important it is to look
after it. With our ‘Body Confidence Dress’, our
pupils developed a greater understanding of
being happy in their own skin. We were asked
by Racheal Kin, one of our parents, to help her
in designing a dress for an upcoming beauty
pageant. Whilst a more unusual request, I
considered the merits to our children being
involved. The pageant supports and raises
awareness for mental health. This was a subject
close to Racheal’s heart, after going through a
life changing operation to remove her large
bowel in 2017. Her goal was to represent the
issue of body confidence among young people
and the dress would make this the centre of
attention during the pageant. Rachel went onto
win the pageant and return to the school to talk
about her amazing journey. It was a very
inspiring assembly.
Super North Star: We have been fortunate
to have guest speakers in school to tell the
children about their passions and their type of
work. This was one of the requests from the
children from the pupil survey when asked
about the Compass For Life initiative. They
wanted to know other people's journeys.
In October, we were extremely fortunate to
have a very talented musician join us in
assembly. He opened by playing the piano and
immediately we all knew that this was
something special. Our piano has never sounded
so good! Matt Johnson is the keyboard player in
the band, Jamiroquai. Matt told us that he first
started realising he enjoyed playing music when
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