Mrs Gray, our Assistant Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead, has been working on developing student leadership through the Digital Leaders programme. She has written the following message to recognise our pioneering first cohort of leaders: “We are extremely proud to present the first four fully-trained Digital Leaders"  READ MORE

After months of meticulous planning, we are absolutely thrilled to announce a landmark achievement this week: the official launch of the first-ever Army Cadet Force (ACF) detachment hosted right here at Thurstable! This is the culmination of close collaboration with the Army Cadet Force regional team, resulting in an exciting agreement to host a closed detachment of D-Company ACF from Thurstable.  READ MORE

Please support us by ensuring your child is in school every day, unless there are genuine and unavoidable reasons for absence. Together—with your support, our school’s commitment, and the expertise of Aquinas—we can ensure that every child in our community has the very best chance to succeed. Thank you for your continued support. READ MORE

We have had more tours this week and the feedback has been really positive from prospective parents who were really impressed with how calm, orderly, purposeful but relaxed the atmosphere was in school. The positive culture at the school can also be seen by just how many positive points the students have been awarded as the table below shows. READ MORE

Our data for the first two weeks shows 99% of behaviour records have been positive commendations compared to just 1% negative entries. Equally impressive is that since we have returned to school 94% of our students have received zero negative points. This is a phenomenal achievement and to be celebrated and shows the positive culture at the school. Staff have really enjoyed catching the great character of our students and rewarding them by signing their commendation cards. READ MORE

Welcome back to the new academic year and I hope that you all have had some form of Summer break as well as the students. The students have come back in fine fettle and it has been great to formally greet Year 7 as Thurstable students. I cannot praise them highly enough, they have impressed everyone with their impeccable behaviour, manners and friendliness and have made an absolutely brilliant first impression, they have managed every routine seamlessly and are all experts at using their Yondr pouches after just four days. Well done Year 7!   READ MORE