St Thomas More Catholic School
God's servant first
The Second-Hand Book Stall across the last two days raised just over 217.00 which has been donated to The Good Shepherd in Wolverhampton. Thank you to everyone who donated books and those who purchased books alike! Don’t forget to ‘get caught reading’ with your new Continue reading …
Barrie McDermid, Teacher, Examiner, Consultant and most significantly ‘The Punctuation man’ himself visited St Thomas More Catholic School today to deliver his Reading Show to Y7 and Y8 students. This interactive show full of song, dance and laughter was met with rapturous applause from our Continue reading …
The battle of the shoe box scenes are back!This year students in Year 7 and Year 8 are invited to participate in the shoe box scene competition. We want you to get artistic and creative and create your favourite scene inside a shoebox! Year 7 Continue reading …
In every subject our young people engage with across their school week they’ll need to read for a range of purposes to access the curriculum. As they read they’ll inevitably access new words and need to use their developing comprehension skills to make new meanings. Continue reading …
Listen to our staff read out the first chapters from some of their favourite books. Our latest contribution is ‘Shug’, written by Jenny Han, and read by Miss R Reed. Continue reading …
Students across the school have now been introduced to the website myON, a virtual library we have invested in as a school. Y7 and Y8 students have also been trained on how to use this by our school librarian Mrs Simcox. Students are able to Continue reading …
Just ten minutes a day focusing on your literacy skills can help you to improve your overall reading, writing, comprehension, grammar and oracy skills. This will assist you in every subject you take across the school. Why not make these activities a daily routine just Continue reading …
A Short Ghost Story – We might not register, but we can still read! Virtual Reading Session Students in Y7-Y13 engage in a weekly reading activity called ‘Register and Read’ during registration time. Following the reading of a different 500 word extract each week students Continue reading …
After reading Register and Read in form this week you’ll understand the correlation between reciting poetry and song lyrics and positive mental health. As a school community we invite students from Year 7 – 13 to create a poem using the ‘It’s Ok Not to Continue reading …
At St Thomas More Catholic School we place so much value on the words we use. We are a community who choose our words carefully in order to praise each other, encourage each other and challenge each other! As part of our commitment to equipping Continue reading …