Science Club and Diversity Club have teamed up to celebrate LGBT History Month. We had a wonderful (online) guest speaker Sarah Cosgiff from Schools Out, and LGBT+ Education Charity.

Sarah shared some of her history as a scientists and a member of the LGBT+ community. She explained some of the challenges scientists and teachers have struggled with throughout history including Section 28. We also celebrated the innovation of some LGBT figures. In particular, we learned about:

• Barbara Burford, a medical researcher who established NHS equality and diversity guidelines
• Charles Beyer, a locomotive engineer and a founding member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
• Elke Mackenzie, a lichenologist who researched lichens in Antarctica
• Jemma Redmond, a biotechnologist who developed 3D bioprinters to create tissues and organs
• Robert Boyle, a founder of modern chemistry and of the modern scientific method

Science Club and Diversity Club members asked a lot of really interesting questions, varying from specific science questions about cells, LGBT+ scientists and how Sarah herself became interested in science.  

More information about Schools Out can be found on their website: LGBT+ History Month 2026 - LGBT+ History Month including some short videos about the scientists we leaved about.

Well done and thank you too all the pupils who took part, to Sarah Cosgiff for the fascinating presentation and brilliant answers to (many, many) questions.

Two Year 10's had a work experience placement with Brum Radio for the evening to see how a radio station works. Callum and Oliver got to meet the presenter and production team, they got to see how a show is created, what the presenter was going to talk about and the timings of each topic. They worked with the sound engineers, who explained how they checked and monitored throughout the show.

We are delighted to share that our school recently hosted a fun and engaging penalty shootout event in support of our Schools Trust charity, Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide.

Papyrus is a UK-based charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people. They provide vital support, resources, and helplines for those struggling, as well as guidance for families, schools, and communities.

Our penalty shootout brought students together in a spirit of friendly competition, teamwork, and generosity. Thanks to the enthusiasm and participation of everyone involved, we are proud to announce that we raised a total of £86 for this important cause.

A big thank you to all pupils and staff who took part or contributed -  your support helps make a meaningful difference. A massive well done to Luka -  Year 7 our overall shootout winner!

We are incredibly proud to celebrate the achievements of one of our pupils, Freddie, who has had an outstanding year in wakeboarding.

Over the past year, Freddie has taken part in several wakeboarding competitions, including the National Championships. Through consistent dedication and impressive performances, his combined scores across these events have placed him 1st in the Under-14 category-a remarkable accomplishment. Even more impressively, Freddie is currently ranked 34th in the world for his age group.

Freddie’s hard work, determination, and passion for the sport have now led to an exciting milestone: he has been selected for Team GB. This is a fantastic achievement and a testament to the commitment he has shown both on and off the water.

Freddie continues to set his sights high, with ambitions to further establish himself within the GB Wakeboarding Team in the years ahead.

We are delighted to share a selection of photos capturing some of Freddie’s recent successes and look forward to following his journey as he continues to excel.

Congratulations, Freddie-we are all very proud of you!

On World Book Day, many pupils were engaged in a book treasure hunt around the school.  Various members of staff had displayed their favourite book and pupils had to look for all 22.  It was great seeing the boys trying to find the answers and the first entries were handed to Mr Warner at breaktime even though the entry sheets had only been handed to them during form time two hours earlier!  All pupils who entered the competition were given ClassCharts points for demonstrated that they were Self-Motivated to Achieve. Those who got all 22 correct by the deadline of breaktime the following day were rewarded by selecting a book from our Book Vending Machine during their celebration time at the end of lunchtime. Well done to the following for getting all 22 correct:

• Ethan
• Ace
• Lennon
• Archie 

In an effort to make Turves Greener, and support our local community, several Eco Committee members donned their high-vis jackets, gloves and litter pickers and were out around our local area picking up litter! While some of us were out and about, the rest of the Eco Committee stayed on site and helped pick up the litter that had blown into the school grounds after the rather blustery weather we had recently. It was nice to be able to be out in our community, making our area a more pleasant place for us all to live. We had originally pledged 6 bags to the Great British School Clean, but ended up collecting 10! Go team Eco! This is going to really strengthen our application for the green flag award this year.

On Wednesday 11 March the Maths department began its early celebrations for Pi Day 2026! Every year on 14 March, mathematicians and enthusiasts around the world celebrate Pi Day, honouring the infinite number π and its crucial role in mathematics and engineering. And as a bonus it is also Einstein’s birthday.

Pupils took part in a hidden question hunt, searching for multiple-choice maths questions placed around the building. Each question tested their knowledge of Pi and circles. Correct answers provided a letter, and once all were found, they had to be rearranged to spell the surname of a teacher.

A massive congratulations to all participants, especially Charlie in 10A2 as well as Ethan and Yisehaq in 8T1 who were the first to hunt down Miss Harrison and deliver the code. Each pupil has received a special Pi day 2026 coin as well as positive points for their house.

Our reading rewards vending machine continues to be a focal point of our weekly celebrations on a Friday lunchtime.  Pupils from all year groups are considered and selected for a range of approaches to demonstrating our TURVES Values, representing the school and attendance at extra-curricular clubs.

16/03/2026

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Bailey – strong return to school after the half-term following the schools values .  

Year 9: Harley - for the most positives this week in his year group in Tolkien 

Year 10: Mason – most positives in year 10 Austin this month 

Year 11: Alfie – brilliant attainment in RE mocks. 

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06/03/2026

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Romeo - a hard working, polite pupil who always seems to have a smile on his face. Bounces back when things get challenging.  

Year 8: Joseph – most positives for last month.

Year 9: Tyler - a determined pupil wanting to be successful in all that he does. Keeps his head down, gets on with everything without causing any issues. 

Year 10: Mohammed - brilliant effort in BTEC sport.

Year 11: Jacob - an outstanding attitude towards his studies and mock exams.  

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02/03/2026

Winners this week include

Year 7: Freddie - wakeboarding 

Year 8: Miles – extra-curricular sport and goal scoring 

Year 9: Logan - consistently meets Values, role model 

Year 10: Jay – excellent effort in lessons and mature approach to learning. 

Year 11: Tyler – Values every day – great work in mocks 

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13/02/2026

Winners this week include

Year 7: Denis - a hard-working, respectful and resilient individual. Cannot say a bad word about this pupil 

Year 8: Leo- a polite, hard working pupil who shows great determination in all he does. Works with others to support them in lessons, particularly PE. 

Year 9: Jamie - hardworking, polite and always doing what is expected of him. 

Year 10: Israfiel - very hardworking – excellent demonstration of self-motivated to achieve. 

Year 11: Owen - voted by staff and prefects for being an outstanding, humble, hardworking pupil who epitomises the Turves Values every day.

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06/02/2026

Winners this week include

Year 7: Callum – consistent demonstration of the Turves values – 100% effort, 100% of the time 

Year 8: Ethan - a quiet pupil who often goes under the radar. He is hard working in all lessons and shows respect and manners to everyone he comes across.  

Year 9: Tommie-Lee – a polite, respectful, hardworking pupil who just gets on with it and goes unnoticed. 

Year 10: Kamron - deserves to be recognised. Great worker, polite and diligent. 

Year 11: Dylan - hardworking, polite and model pupil to the lower years. 

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30/01/2026

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Carl - a quiet pupil who keeps his head down and demonstrates everything it means to be a TGBS pupil.  

Year 8: Aidan – a quiet and respectful pupil who is consistently hard working.  

Year 10: Jacob – a valuable contribution across all lessons. 

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23/01/2026

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Maurice - polite young man who embodies the values. Always self-motivated to achieve and handing homework in on time. Taking pride in his work and being respectful and kind to those around him. 

Year 8: Ethan - for applying himself to the best of his ability each and every day, having 256 positives to date.

Year 9: Rowan - for his excellent efforts in all of his subjects, more specifically in core subject English, Science and Maths where most of his positives are coming from. 

Year 10: Mason - a Year 10 pupil who has shown great efforts and determination in the first term of his GCSE studies.  

Year 11: Joshua - positive role model to younger pupils.  

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19/01/2026

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Kierell - a polite and hardworking pupil who consistently demonstrates all values, despite some of the distractions taking place around him.  

Year 8: Hayden – a hardworking, polite and respectful pupil who is a credit to Boulton house. 

Year 9: Luke - never puts a foot wrong.  A young man who lives by our values. 

Year 10: Aiden - a fantastic pupil all round. Hardworking, polite and respectful. An excellent addition to Boulton house this year.  

Year 11: Josh - do we really need a reason why? Surprisingly, has not been nominated this academic year.  

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08/12/2025

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Shingirai - made huge inroads into his work and has been noticed by staff members due to his hard work.  

Year 8: Nathan - a pupil who never puts a foot wrong. Committed to succeeding in everything that he does.

Year 9: Emaan-Tawheed - new starter to TGBS and what an amazing start he has had, he has settled in well and already taking advantage of our amazing extra curricular clubs such as Duke of Edinburgh.

Year 10: Ryan – fantastic settling in at TGBS.

Year 11: Darren - a model pupil. Lives and breathes the TURVES values. Showing an outstanding effort in his GCSE studies. 

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24/11/2025

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Ace - hard worker/consistent effort across all subjects.  

Year 8: Jack -made a serious improvement this week and deserves the nomination.

Year 9: Kaiden - has impressed in science this term with his thoughtful questions.  He clearly takes in information and really tries to think about it and connect with his prior knowledge then asks follow up questions, from Dr Patchett.

Year 10: Zack – a mature, polite, hard-working pupil who has shown an excellent approach to his GCSE studies. 

Year 11: Archie - helping a pupil out of a dangerous situation and showing great compassion.

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14/11/2025

Winners this week include:

Year 7- Codi – a polite and respectful pupil who works hard in all lessons. Has returned to school following an operation and has not let this stop him.

Year 8: Oscar – valuable contributions to the class as well as involvement extra-curricular activities like the Warhammer painting and music.

Year 9: Suber - a quiet, hardworking pupil who keeps his head down and demonstrates all things TURVES

Year 10: Ahmed – for living and breathing the TURVES values every day

Year 11: Noah - a self-motivated, respectful, hardworking pupil who continuously shows an outstanding approach to his GCSE studies.

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20/10/2025

Winners this week include:

Year 7: Jayden - for his hard work and his wonderful enthusiasm towards school.  

Year 8: Charlie - shout out from Dr Patchett: “He showed great enthusiasm for every single workshop.  He wowed me in the first when he very quickly told the mentors that he thinks electrons behave like particles and waves, during a session on coding he showed a huge enthusiasm.  He owns a Raspberry PI at home where he does coding himself and he worked hard to calculate the probability of getting two questions in a row right in the maths session, including volunteering to be a gameshow contestant in front of the group and another school.  He showed great enthusiasm and model behaviour the whole time and it was great to get to hear more of his ideas and interests, especially in STEM.”

Year 9: George - a hardworking, focused and hardworking pupil who shows outstanding effort in ALL of his lessons.  

Year 10: Justin - has shown a real mature approach to the start of GCSE studies.

Year 11: Harry - showing a determined and focus approach to his mock exams.  

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10/10/2025

Winners this week include:

Year 7: George - has had an excellent start to TGBS, demonstrating many of our values each day and working hard in all of his subjects.

Year 8: Ollie - a polite, respectful pupil who demonstrates our Turves values in all that he does.  

Year 9: Abdullah - a polite, hardworking pupil who puts in 100% effort into everything.

Year 10: Jamie – a quiet but hardworking young man who has started year 10 off outstandingly.  

Year 11: Charlie - for his excellent start to the year and determination shown across all subjects. Charlie has really shown he is ready to work hard to get the grades he deserves

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03/10/2025

Winners this week include:

Year 7:  T Mitchell – understated and determined.  He will smash his work and is being nominated by multiple members of staff.  Keep it up!  

Year 8: G Deeley – a polite and respectful young man that has made a really positive start to year 8.

Year 9: J Sibanda - a quiet, polite, hardworking pupil who has settled in tremendously since starting TGBS.  

Year 10: Y Khan – excellent start for this young man who came from a different house and has been a great addition to the Austin roster.  

Year 11: A Kilburn has turned it around after a shaky start to Year 11, well done!

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26/09/2025:

Winners this week include:

Year 7: A Slotta – polite, respectful, hardworking. He has made a real positive start at TGBS.

Year 8: L Brown –  a hardworking, considerate, and respectful young man who exemplifies our values on a daily basis.  

Year 9: M Jinks - for an excellent performance in the Matthew show.  

Year 10: T Fox- his efforts do not go unseen in the classroom, there has been many good things said about his work ethic particularly in English  

Year 11: O Perret – an excellent performance playing Miss Trunchbull in Matthew show.

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12/09/2025:

Winners this week include:

Year 9: D Hawkins – great start to September

Year 10: L Taggart – fantastic approach to KS4 & GCSEs.  

Year 11: A Burton: Approaching year 11 with a great mindset. A polite, respectful, hardworking young man.  

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05/09/2025

Winners this week include: 

Year 7: Alfred L - Amazing start to TGBS, showing many of our Turves values each day. 

Year 8: Archie M: Has started year 8 with an excellent approach, one that I would expect nothing less than. Always a polite and respectful young man who lives our values. 

Year 9: Lamar L Has come back to school a new person. Polite, mature and focused. Has had an outstanding first week back. 

Year 10: Doubra P great start to KS4 

Year 11: Noah T mature start to Year 11 

On the 4 March the Warhammer Alliance made their annual visit to Warhammer World in Nottingham, the home of all thing Warhammer.  After arriving by minibus and the obligatory selfie by the rhino tank outside the shop we headed inside to start our day of hobby.

Pupils visited the exhibit halls which host the largest display of dioramas and models from across the Warhammer universes.  These dioramas display some of the epic battles of Warhammer as well as showcase the incredible models painted by the ‘Eavy Metal’ team or paint the official miniatures for the website and box art.  Pupils were inspired to take their own pictures competing in a photography competition kindly ran by Callum in 10A1.  He kindly volunteered some models he no longer wanted as a prize for the competition and acted as the judge.

When pupils were not in the exhibit, they spent the time playing Warhammer on the tables in the giant castle themed gaming hall.  Lots of pupils also visited the shop, and with Warhammer World celebrating its 29^th anniversary pupils like Oliver, 11A1, took the opportunity to purchase some of the limited time celebration models.  Lots of pupils also got some free gifts with their purchases of some badges and shiny green metal dice.

As always, a fantastic day out for our pupils and they are already looking forward to going again next year.

During the first term of this academic year, pupils from across our Trust came together for a special creative project celebrating the theme of community. Hosted at Turves Green Boys’ School, pupils from each of our schools collaborated to design and create a vibrant collection of artwork that reflected what community means to them, their classmates, and their individual school environments.

Working side by side, pupils shared ideas, stories, and artistic styles to produce individual pieces. Following the event, the artwork has now been transformed into signage and distributed to every school within the Trust. This means that each school now proudly displays a piece of the collective mural, ensuring that a small part of every school community is represented across all of our sites.

These displays are now proudly showcased in various locations around each school, celebrating creativity, collaboration, and the shared values that unite our Trust. The project not only produced beautiful artwork but also created lasting connections between pupils and schools, reinforcing the importance of belonging, respect, and community.

We are incredibly proud of all the pupils who took part and the creativity, teamwork, and thought they brought to this project. The pieces stand as a lasting symbol of the spirit of our Trust – many schools, one community.