TGBS has a clear focus on academic excellence, and our school day seeks to ensure that students achieve the very best examinations results. By concentrating our teaching within a four-hour period each day, our students are able to use the remaining time as they see fit, consolidating their learning, enjoying family time, or getting involved with a pastime or other activity of their choice.
We strongly recommend that our students make good use of this time, and we particularly encourage them to meet up with other young people locally, through sports or other clubs, at your place of worship or with your extended family and friends in the neighbourhood where you live. While all of our students will have their TGBS friends online, it is also good for them to have relationships and activities with those who live close by.
The balanced education of all young people needs to reflect the different dimensions of their character, commonly described as BODY, MIND and SPIRIT. This means that they should be encouraged to develop physically, emotionally, academically, spiritually and socially. There will be strands within their TGBS education which will touch on all of these features but there is only so much that can be delivered in a school, and only so much that can be delivered online.
With four hours of concentrated study each day, it is therefore important that our children have time away from their screens, up and away from their desks, and with friends and family with whom they can relax, play and run around.
We therefore do not run a daily co-curricular programme after school hours.
Instead, we encourage every one of our students to be active with other
things, and to
keep their own
Personal Activity Diary (myPAD)
in which they
can record the things they do in addition to their studies. Teachers never ask to see a
child’s Diary as they are personal, and so we do not consider
them to be ‘schoolwork’.
However, teachers will speak with the children from time to time about their individual hobbies, activities and interests outside of school, all of which make them unique. At the end of the year, we will then be able to use what they have recorded in their myPAD to add a section to their Academic Report Card to capture their personal highlights alongside the academic achievements.
The House Cup, which is a trophy competed for across the whole school year, is based on a series of events, competitions and challenges which happen regularly in the classroom and through occasional special events and opportunities to shine outside of school hours.
Our school crest is the image of a multi-branched tree, and so the four Houses in TGBS are named after four forests in different parts of the UK.
Northern Ireland
South of Scotland
Central England
South Wales
Every student in school becomes a member of a House at the end of their first week with us, and they remain in that House throughout their time here. Together with boys and girls from other classes and from other Year Groups, they collect House Points throughout the year in the hope of earning more than all of the other Houses, and so winning The House Cup.
Students are also chosen to serve as Captains within their Houses, in order to develop leadership, team building and organisational skills.
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