Wishing all our families a happy and safe holiday.
If you have time... this year’s Summer Reading Challenge is ‘Animal Agents’, illustrated by the UK’s best-selling children’s illustrator Tony Ross.
Why not sign up? Libraries are great places for children to discover reading for pleasure and there is no better time to do this than during the long summer holidays. Take a trip down to Tewkesbury Library and get involved. It’s free, local and inclusive!

We had a number of farewells to say in our assembly on Friday 21st July.
​It was our final farewell to the Y6 Class of 2017 at the end of another busy academic year. Many thanks for all the kind comments we received from families about the school and the memories that the Year 6 children will take with them, including: “excellent teaching”, fantastic opportunities”, “brilliant residential trips”, “keep doing what you are doing” and “Tirlebrook is a wonderful school”. 
We also said farewell to Mr Graham Dawson, our Chair of Governors, after many years of service to Tirlebrook Primary School and to Mrs Jane Fisher and to Mrs Joyce Jones who were leaving our teaching team. We wish them the best of luck for their future adventures and thank them for their time at Tirlebrook. ​

It was wonderful to gather together with other local primary schools to say farewell to our Y6 pupils in our annual Y6 Leavers' Service.  It was a time to celebrate their achievements and to wish them well as they move on to the next phase of their education.

On Wednesday 12th July, Year One travelled over to Cheltenham College and enjoyed a fantastic morning of Multi-Sports. There was much excitement as ‘Old Spot’, the School Games mascot, paid a visit to kick off the festival. That Cherry Class behaved brilliantly and after a Zumba warm up, had the opportunity to work alongside children from 6 other schools. The activities involved throwing, catching, balancing, hitting and running skills. They displayed many of the School Games values with three children being chosen for sports bands: Miles Cummings for Passion, Chloe Cranny for Respect and Olivia Camden-Hill for Honesty. It was a terrific morning, active and exciting and enjoyed by all.​

With the sun shining down on us, what a wonderful evening we had at the Tirlebrook Summer Fair on Friday 14th July! It was a great community event with staff, families and stallholders all enjoying the relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Well done for a fabulous fair, from the swingboats and hook-a-duck to the hot dogs and tombola and everything in between. The raffle was amazing once again; congratulations to all the prize winners! A huge thank you to everyone who lent their support in attending, organising, donating, setting up (packing away!), getting ‘soaked’ and running the fair. ​

On Friday 14th July we held our third Core Values Cup Assembly of the year. Four children from each class (nominated by their classmates and teachers) were recognised for modelling the core values of our school throughout this term and were awarded with medals and certificates. A cup for each core value – Creativity, Environment, Positive Attitude & Community – was then awarded to each of the overall winners. Thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate with us. Many congratulations to our winners.
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On Sunday 9th July the Medieval Festival Parade 2017 through Tewkesbury was a hugely enjoyable event. Hundreds and hundreds of people turned out and lined the streets of Tewkesbury to watch the procession pass. The paraders, from a number of community groups and schools, had all made the effort to dress up and bring along some wonderful artistic creations.
Holding the school banner high and proud and dressed as Medieval monks, Tirlebrook’s Y4 and Y5 children processed along the High Street, into Church Street, passing the Methodist Church and The Abbey along the way, before arriving at the Vineyards. Tirlebrook's artistic contribution, as one of the original parading schools, was commented on as being ‘extremely impressive as usual!’ and was prepared this year by Silver Birch Class. The children carried medieval shields that they had designed and created back at school. But the main attractions were the dancing medieval lady and an enormous cannon that were transported along the procession. Many thanks to Jo Teague and Mrs. Mills for working alongside our Y4 class to prepare these giant medieval replicas.
On arrival at the Vineyards, the participating children and adults were treated to a repeat of Friday’s brilliant Jester Show that included diablo, daring juggling and balancing on the wibbly wobbly board. It was great to see other Tirlebrook pupils also participating in the parade for a variety of community groups. Thank you to all of our Y4 and Y5 participants and their siblings and families for supporting us on what was another very successful community outing. Thank you also to all the staff who came along, dressed up and joined in with the parade. See you next year?
Do take a look at the Arts and Culture 2016-2017 tab on the school website to get a flavour of the parade.

Year 3 had a fantastic adventure last week when they went on their first residential. They visited the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge on Thursday morning and took part in a number of activities including orienteering and den building at Redwood in the afternoon. On Friday they had a fun-filled day at Cattle Country that included opportunities to feed calves, kids and lambs as well as playing in the fort and taking on the deadly drop slides. During the trip, the children demonstrated resilience and independence. We were very pleased with the support and encouragement that they offered each other with many children overcoming new challenges.
Please see the many photographs on the Maple class blog.

On Friday 7th July our Y5 class enjoyed a medieval day out, learning all about medieval times in Tewkesbury and the Battle of Tewkesbury itself. It was a super day and the children fully immersed themselves in everything that was going on – the squire training, archery, medieval music, the Jester Show, a visit to the King’s Camp and even having the opportunity to take part in a mini version of the battle! What a truly amazing experience for them! Many thanks to the staff (Mrs Perry, Mrs White, Mrs Ferrier, Mrs Cull) who accompanied them and to Miss Featonby for her organisation and leadership. What a great day!