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30

Jul

Teesside High School students plan Spudding Club takeover Tuesday 30 July 2019

Students at Teesside High School will host an exclusive ‘Spudding Club’ event at 12 Harland Place on Monday 23 September. GCSE Food and Nutrition students will first visit the Norton High Street venue on Monday 16 September to meet the Harland Place kitchen team and present ideas for their very own event. They will see […]

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16

Jul

Georgia’s World Jamboree Tuesday 16 July 2019

Georgia in Year 10 will later this week travel to the USA and Canada to represent the UK Scout contingent for the 24th World Scout Jamboree. Over 45,000 young people from 200 nations and territories attend the Jamboree for a truly life changing experience. The travelling Scouts will take part in a global learning initiative […]

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8

Jul

Head’s blog – Teesside High School Monday 08 July 2019

Welcome to the final school newsletter of the 2018-19 academic year. You can hopefully see from the content of this newsletter just what a full three weeks we have had since the last edition. It certainly has been a hectic run into the final day of term. At the end of a long year, the […]

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5

Jul

Teesside High School says ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to its longest-serving teacher Friday 05 July 2019

After more than 30 years of teaching, Teesside High School’s longest-serving teacher will retire at the end of the summer term. Gabriele Waddoup – known as ‘Frau Waddoup’ to the many hundreds of students she has taught over the years – is retiring to spend more time with her family. Born in Tauberbischofsheim, near Stuttgart, […]

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4

Jul

Reception class achieves record results in national attainment profile Thursday 04 July 2019

We are thrilled to announce that the Reception class at Teesside High School has this year achieved a staggering 100% Good Level of Development (GLD), which is the national measure of attainment at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage. The national average last year was 71.5%. At Teesside High School, discrete assessment is […]

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28

Jun

When the going gets tough, the tough start growing Friday 28 June 2019

At Teesside High School, we believe the opportunity to engage in adventurous activity in the outdoors is fundamental to developing our young people in every way imaginable. Improving quality of life through better health, fitness and movement is the most basic of expectations from this type of activity, but it is proven to run so […]

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26

Jun

‘6.49 seconds but 14 years in the making’ – Richard Kilty inspires students at Teesside High Wednesday 26 June 2019

It was an absolute honour to have Olympic athlete and World Indoor Sprint Champion Richard Kilty in school this morning. Richard led an inspirational assembly on his career before working with our Able, Gifted and Talented Sport students in a small group sprint session. Richard talked students through his career highlights, including World Indoor Gold […]

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14

Jun

Head’s blog – Teesside High School Friday 14 June 2019

As we enter the final few weeks of the summer term, our events and activities schedule gets ever busier and I do hope the children are excited for what the final days of the term will bring. Yesterday we made the difficult decision to rearrange Prep Sports Day due to the inclement weather forecast and […]

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13

Jun

Sprint champion Richard Kilty to visit Teesside High School Thursday 13 June 2019

World Indoor sprint champion and local athlete Richard Kilty will visit Teesside High School on Wednesday 26 June. We will be delighted to welcome the British track and field sprinter to present a Senior School assembly fitting with our theme of that week, Competition. Richard will discuss how his love of sport at school developed […]

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5

Jun

Head’s blog – Teesside High School Wednesday 05 June 2019

I was invited to speak on BBC Tees this morning to share my thoughts on a leading geneticist claiming that ‘academic success is written in the genes’. Robert Plomin, Professor of Behavioural Genetic at King’s College London, has been reported to claim that 50 per cent of academic success is due to genes, and schooling […]

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