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We have been musicians, carpenters, writers and restauranteurs in Challenge time today. We have used what we learnt about food in Zambia to open our own restaurant and Nshima is on the menu. 🌎

Editing is a tricky skill. This week, Year6 have created quick writes and have then edited, re-edited and edited again a chosen paragraph. They have worked so hard to make their great writing even better. Here are just a few examples. Stay tuned for their final published narratives. #Year6

Meeting author Ele Fountain at Bluecoats this morning 📖

Year 3 drew some wonderful rangoli patterns on the playground for art this week!

Maths reasoning in year 4

Following on from our Kapla Workshop on Monday, Year 1 and 2 have loved making fantastic structures in challenge time! #kitestps #hawkstps #eaglestps

Year 4 have been busy publishing fantastic travel brochures about the Cornish village of Zennor this week. year4tps englishtps @theliteracytree #year4tps #englishtps

More Kapla fun in Y1 this morning! Take a look at our amazing creations

Children in Dolphin class have been incredibly busy this week having a go at mummifying oranges and adding watercolour shades to their sketched leaves! #dolphintpsancientegyptartnolimitstps

Amazing resilience and team work in Y1 building Kapla this morning! We used what we learnt at our workshop yesterday to build pyramids, towers and a castle for a queen!

We had great fun at the Kapla workshop

Year 1 enjoyed a Kapla workshop this morning! 🪵

Some great scientific thinking about lifecycles in Year 5.

Year 6 Starfishtps are looking at portraits this half term. We’re focussing on getting each facial feature as realistic as possible before creating a self portrait. This week our focus was the nose. The children are doing a fantastic job and making amazing progress! #Starfishtps

All the year 3/4 boys have been enjoying being back at football club!

Leopard class LOVE our class reader this term. These two were very excited to find other books by the same author in our school library to read too. #leopardstps #readingtps #welovebooks

Fantastic teamwork in Lions class whilst practicing basketball skills 🏀

Leopard class showed lots of school values during PE with a few team games to help develop their basketball skills today. #leopardstps #petps #resiliencetps #nolimitstps #belongingtps

Thank you so much to Reading Blue Coat School for coming in to run our weekly choir for Years 2-6. The children had a great time and can't wait for next week!

Having fun in Year 2 with our Goldilocks storytelling spoons! #lovebooks

Exploring the world in Reception @thamesideprimary

Tiger Class are working hard in their French lessons. Ask us how we are feeling in French!

Year 4 have been working hard in English, publishing some fantastic letters linked to our book The Mermaid of Zennor. year4tps englishtps @theliteracytree #year4tps #englishtps

Children in Dolphin class had fun practicing and showing off their Oracy skills. #Dolphinstpsoracy

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Some lovely artwork in Year 5 - scientific illustrations.

In KS1, we are making and modelling rivers just like the Zambezi in Zambia. We have ensured we’ve built a fence to keep the animals out!

Some great teamwork during maths in Lion class.

Together our differences build something beautiful. Loving the result of our summer holiday whole school project! #belonging

Some great persuasive writing from Sharks this week!

#stingraystps practiced writing 7 digit numbers by choosing some very nice houses we found online and “buying” them with cheques! Someone even bought a 62 bedroom apartment block!

In Science, Year 1 and 2s have been exploring properties of materials through boats. To introduce the topic, we made boats out of lots of different materials! #kitestps #falconstps #eaglestps #hawkstps

Panther class are observing rocks in Science this week!

Some ‘Challenge Time’ craft based on our English book ‘Stanley’s Stick’ in Year 1.

Challenge time in KS1! 🎨☀️🌲✍️

Starting school in Sept 2026? Come and take a look around Thameside Primary - we can’t wait to meet you!😁

In Year 1, we had a special visitor this morning who gifted us a magical stick! Our stick could turn into a boat, a pen and even a ship! We have had fun writing about what our stick can do for our first English lesson. 🪵 #Hawkstsp #Eaglestsp #resilience

Our first Summer Extreme Read entry!

The Big Help Out Volunteering day at Thameside....thank you to all the parents and children who came to clean out the Pond today! Fab morning, and we can see the fish again!

Leopard class are enjoying playing games together this morning #leopardstps #lastdayofterm #allthegames

Year 7 knocked it out of the park with incredible karaoke skills this afternoon! #year7tps

Fun in the sun!

The youngest children in the school have dealt with their transition into year 1 with nothing but independence, courage and resilience. We are super excited for a fun filled year ahead!

Amazing Rocksteady concerts this week including a surprise performance from the newly formed staff band. 🎸🎤🎹🥁 #belongingtps #nolimitstps #musictps

The new #tpsstingrays have had an amazing start to Year 6! Check your our DNA models!

Leopard Class are enjoying sharing their own work projects with the class. What a range of talents and interests we have. #leopardstps #belongingtps #Nolimitstps

Well done to our top Accelerated Readers of the Summer Term! Year 6: Ameena Ali (1,686,189 words read); Year 5: Faatima Khamis (473,411 words); Year 4: Rahul Parbhoo (1,249,061 words); Year 3: Aiden Loh (691,331 words); Year 2: Camilla Jani (157,580 words); Year 1: Elison Eames (1,519 words).

🏑✨ We were thrilled to welcome GB Olympian hockey player Tess Howard to Thameside yesterday! Tess is the founder of the Inclusive Sportswear Movement, and we’re proud to have pledged our support. www.inclusivesportswear.com

Lots of food and a good time in Leopard class today for the end of year y4 party! #leopardtps#belonging