St Thomas More Catholic School
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Throughout this academic year, students in Year 11 will complete Mini Mock assessments in English to practice the skills needed for the final examinations and to allow for intervention from staff should there be any gaps in learning. As you can see from the poster, Continue reading …
Throughout June and July within English, our Year 9 and 10 students will be completing the Spoken Language module for their GCSE qualifications. This is a compulsory task that has to be undertaken before students sit their written GCSE examinations and students will receive an Continue reading …
Students across school engage in one collective reading morning per week. This is just part of our whole school strategy to ensure that every child leaves STM a reader. Staff in school have nominated one student per tutor group who has demonstrated: Will you receive Continue reading …
Continuing on from the success of our revision podcasts from several departments within school, the English Department are now glad to announce that they are also going to be recording a series of podcasts to aid revision for those students who are leading up to Continue reading …
Over the half-term break, we have received the confirmed examination dates from AQA for the GCSE English Language and English Literature papers which will be sat in May and June of this year for all Year 11 students. Whilst focused preparation continues in school, we Continue reading …
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 …