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| Mon 1 March 2010 | Ethan Gatenby | Our Star Student this week is Ethan Gatenby in Year 7. Ethan has had a very successful season on the Moto X circuit racing his Honda in the small wheel class.
These bikes can comfortably reach speeds of 60mph over the Moto X circuits. | More.. |
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| Mon 22 February 2010 | Senior Concert Band | We celebrate the Senior Concert Band as our Star Students this week for their excellent progress from Bronze status in 2008 to Silver status in 2009 at the National Concert Band Festival held at Northampton School For Boys in November. | More.. |
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| Mon 8 February 2010 | Natalie Edwards | This week’s Star Student is Natalie Edwards who is studying BTEC Performing Arts in the Sixth Form.
For the last three years, Natalie has been a member of a Street dance crew called DNA based at Fitness First in Telford. | More.. |
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| Mon 1 February 2010 | Abby Buchan | This week’s Star Student is Abby Buchan Howard from Year 10. Abby has fulfilled a long held dream to write and publish a book.
The book, called 'A Tear Drop of Love', can be ordered from the Library and is priced at £8.30 a copy plus pp of £1. | More.. |
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| Mon 25 January 2010 | Jak Harris-Thomson and Rachel Roberts | This week's Star Students are Jak Harris-Thomson and Rachel Roberts. On return from their visit to the battlefields of the First World War in France and Belgium, the students entered an essay competition run by the Western Front Association.
The aim was to write 500 words about 'Why should we remember the war?' | More.. |
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| Mon 18 January 2010 | Geographical Association Worldwise Quiz | This week's Star Students are Alex Grove, James Cox, Kiran Bhatia, Phoebe Calloway, Catherine Hutchinson and Nitesh Patel.
These Year 10 students formed two teams which took part in the Geographical Association Worldwise Quiz held at Shrewsbury School. | More.. |
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| Mon 11 January 2010 | Year 10 Business Enterprise | This week our Star Students are members of the two winning groups in the Year 10 Business Enterprise Competition -
Lauren Jones, Erin Arrowsmith, Rebecca Hall and Beth Hampshire plus Jenny West, Amber Richards, Phoebe Calloway, Daisy Dawson and Rachel Mantey. | More.. |
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| Mon 4 January 2010 | Public Speaking Competition | This week's Star Students are Rebecca Pugh, Grace Kendrick and Lauren Morgan from Year 9 and Alice Keay who is in Year 7.
Three TTS Teams entered the inaugural Public Speaking Competition for Years 7, 8 and 9 students against Madeley and Sandwell Academies. | More.. |
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| Mon 14 December 2009 | Bobby Standley | Our Star Student this week is Bobby Standley in 6.2 who recently starred in a play called 'Bouncers' at Oakengates Theatre.
Bobby and three former TTS students decided to stage their own production of this play by John Godber so as well as acting, they hired the theatre, secured performance rights and organised the marketing. | More.. |
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| Mon 7 December 2009 | Joe Ruston | This week's Star Student is Joe Ruston in Year 7 who has raised £1,000 for his favourite charity - Promise Dreams - by taking part in a sponsored climb up a Welsh mountain.
Joe handed a cheque for £1,000 to Wolves legend Steve Bull who is one of Promise Dream's patrons. | More.. |
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| Mon 30 November 2009 | Arkwright Scholarships | Our Star Students this week are 6.1 students Robert Palin, Nicholas Young and Sarah Evans who have been awarded Arkwright Scholarships for their outstanding work in Design and Technology.
The scholarships will help support their work in A Level Maths or Design and Technology over the next two years. | More.. |
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| Mon 23 November 2009 | Head Boys and Girls | The Star Students this week are the newly elected Head Boys and Girls:
Zach Williams and Alicia Albanese from Year 8, Enoch Mantey and Kate Coventry from Year 9, Jack Bennett and Rachel Mantey from Year 10 and Lewis Stevens and Angharad Francis from Year 11. | More.. |
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| Mon 16 November 2009 | Cricket Success | This week, we are celebrating the success of three Star Students during the 2009 Cricket season.
James Hudson (now Year 8), James Mackie (also now in Year 8) and Aswin Babu (6.2) | More.. |
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| Mon 9 November 2009 | Jack Underwood | The week before October half term, Jack travelled to Rome to take part in the European Kick Boxing Championships.
There he took Bronze with his Open Hand routine and Gold with his Staff routine to Music. | More.. |
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| Mon 19 October 2009 | Jordan N Taylor and Joseph Smithyman | This week's star students are Jordan N Taylor and Joseph Smithyman. Now in Year 11, they have been developing their ICT prowess and their entrepreneurial skills and gone into the web design business.
Jordan and Joe have two sites of their own, both of which are now generating income. | More.. |
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| Mon 12 October 2009 | James Hewlett | Sixth Form student, James Hewlett has been involved in voluntary work organised by the 'Vinolved' Youth Action Team.
This is a national scheme which enables 16-25 year old young people to learn new skills and help others at the same time. | More.. |
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| Mon 5 October 2009 | Georgia, Phoebe, Alex and Matthew | This week's Star Students are Georgia Dixon, Phoebe Calloway, Alex Grove and Matthew Turner from Year 10.
These students distinguished themselves by achieving A* grades in their English Language GCSE in Year 9, a full two years early. | More.. |
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| Mon 28 September 2009 | Thomas Williams and Sarah Moreton | Sixth Form Business students, Thomas Williams and Sarah Moreton took part in an undergraduate degree module run by the University of Wolverhampton.
They studied human resources and linked this theory to their work experience and career plans to develop a reflective journal and group presentation. | More.. |
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| Mon 21 September 2009 | Megan Ward | Megan Ward is this week's Star Student. Megan achieved fantastic results in her GCSE examinations this summer with a total of 15 A* and 3 A grades.
Megan hopes to go on to university to study law. Her secret for success was to work studiously throughout the courses, keeping the need for revision to a minimum. | More.. |
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| Mon 14 September 2009 | Science Fair Champions | Star Students this week are Victoria Palin, Charlotte Cadman and Lauren Compton of Year 9 who are the current Science Fair champions.
They won the Science Fair held in July with a fascinating investigation into the effectiveness of a range of sun creams. | More.. |
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| Mon 20 July 2009 | Nvision | Star Students this week are a group from Year 10 who made a huge success of their Young Enterprise company - Nvision.
They succeeded in making £450 profit from the sale of soaps, bath bombs, key rings, and jewellery that they hade made. | More.. |
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| Mon 13 July 2009 | Mitchell Hoof | Mitchell has the distinction of being only the second student in the history of the School to score a Century in a 20:20 cricket match.
He achieved this feat in an exciting match against Ellesmere College. | More.. |
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| Mon 6 July 2009 | Kyle Gladwin | Kyle had the honour of unveiling a war memorial to Old Park, Telford soldiers of the Great War.
A war memorial was found and after some investigation the original location was discovered. The memorial was originally located on the Wesleyan Chapel in Old Park. | More.. |
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| Mon 22 June 2009 | Frances Ray | Frances Ray who is in Year 9 is our Star Student this week. Frances plays Wheelchair Basketball for both the Great Britain Under 23 team and the Great Britain Ladies team.
She is a member of the Wolverhampton Rhinos team and travels all over the country to play and train. | More.. |
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| Mon 15 June 2009 | Spelling BEE Team | This week's Star Students are the Year Seven Spelling BEE Team.
The team came second in the regional heat of The Times Spelling Bee, held at the Odeon Cinema in Dudley. | More.. |
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| Mon 8 June 2009 | Synchronised Swimming Championships | On the 2nd May TTS hosted the English Schools Swimming Association National Schools Synchronised Swimming Championships.
We entered a team in the duet competition namely Claire Brown and Gina Tarantonio and against fierce opposition the girls won a tremendous silver medal. | More.. |
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| Mon 18 May 2009 | Helen, Poppy and Tom | Congratulations to Helen Barnett, Poppy Bennett and Tom Coram who are our first Team to reach a National Public Speaking Final!
In fact they reached two Rotary Youth Speaks and the Business and Professional Women(UK) National Competition and, they won them both! | More.. |
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| Mon 11 May 2009 | Darts team | Riley's darts team:
Harundeep Sandhu, Tom Bird, James Bird, Joshua Chadwick, Tom Middleton (captain), Harandip Koner, Mark Burgess, Joga Sangha, Matthew Conroy, Rickinder Chima, Luke Owen, Inderpal Rayet. | More.. |
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| Tue 5 May 2009 | 6.1 A level Performance Studies | The 6.1 A level Performance Studies students devised a community theatre performance which was performed at Boscobel house on 25th April.
It was a successful day where all enjoyed the sunshine and mix of dance, drama and music skills on display. | More.. |
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| Mon 27 April 2009 | 2009 Engineering Educations scheme | This weeks star students are our 2009 Engineering Educations scheme students Joe Mc Philips, Rajinder Sami and Gavinder Gill.
The team were set the challenge of producing a device to reduce the volume of scrap Graphite grease tins to enable a more environmentally friendly recycling programme to develop. | More.. |
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| Mon 20 April 2009 | Emily Oldham | Emily Oldham in Year 8 is a talented poet and writes different pieces on a range of themes that include the first world war and the environment.
Emily recently entered a national competition and came second in her age group. | More.. |
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| Mon 30 March 2009 | BTEC National in Business | This week's star students are from the BTEC National in Business course and were approached by Tesco to organise and promote three fashion shows to launch the Spring clothing lines.
The events took place in the Telford Homeplus store on 21st and 22nd March. | More.. |
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| Mon 23 March 2009 | Joseph Grogan | Joseph is in Year 8 and has recently raised over £200 for the Comic Relief Red Nose Day appeal. He ran a number of different activities including a quiz which was won by Mrs Millwaters, Miss Sharp and Miss Harden.
Joseph's initial target was £100 - but his enthusiasm for this worthy cause meant that he succeeded in doubling this. | More.. |
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| Mon 16 March 2009 | Georgie Wheeler | This weeks star student is year 9 student, Georgie Wheeler.
Georgie has raised money for Comic Relief by dressing up and cycling 40 km's during session three today. She's raised over £100 which is a really good effort! | More.. |
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| Mon 9 March 2009 | Senior Public Speaking team | This week’s star students are Poppy Bennett, Tom Coram and Helen Barnet our senior public Speaking team.
There are two competitions that the team have been competing in, the Rotary Club and the Business and Professional Women UK. | More.. |
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| Mon 2 March 2009 | Kirsty Armour | As part of her practical GCSE PE, Kirsty Armour in Yr10, has just completed her 10 week unit of Personal Survival in the Swimming Pool.
Kirsty demonstrated excellent qualities in all areas of survival and scored a maximum unit score of 100% | More.. |
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| Mon 23 February 2009 | Swimming Championship | This week's Star Students, Alex Hooper, Holly Haywood, Emma Hugh, Laura Pacey and reserve Emily Davies, all competed in the National Schools Swimming Championships in Gloucester on Feb 7th.
All four girls swam to the absolute maximum of their abilities and claimed a fantastic silver medal. | More.. |
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| Mon 9 February 2009 | Matthew Pacey | This week's Star Student is Matthew Pacey from Year 11. Matthew has recently been selected for the final Hockey trials for the Wales Under 16 team.
He plays club Hockey for Wolverhampton 2nds and this has had a really positive impact on his performances. | More.. |
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| Mon 2 February 2009 | Oxbridge Students | Three of our Year 13 students have been given offers by Oxford or Cambridge University for next year.
Neil Allard - Magdalene College, Cambridge
Phil Liebman - Clare College, Cambridge
Ed McGovern - Corpus Christi College, Oxford | More.. |
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| Mon 26 January 2009 | Will Hughes, Callum Rose and Ryan Hart | This weeks Star Students from year 8 are Will Hughes, Callum Rose and Ryan Hart.
The students entered a competition run by the Western Front Association to write a essay based on why we should remember the First World War. The students wrote the essay on their return from the battlefields trip in October. | More.. |
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| Mon 19 January 2009 | Natasha Rush | Natasha Rush Y11 is this week's star student in recognition of her achievements with 1046 Squadron of the local Air Training Corp.
Natasha was recently awarded a trophy for the Most Improved Cadet and her Pilot Officer said she is "hard working and enthusiastic". | More.. |
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| Mon 12 January 2009 | Thomas Wheeler and Ryan Hickman | During last term, Yr7 students re-enacted the Battle of Hastings.
Thomas played Duke William of Normandy and Ryan played Harold, King of England. | More.. |
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| Mon 5 January 2009 | Tom DeVere | This week's star student is Tom DeVere.
Tom, who is in Y11, recently completed a tandem parachute jump to raise funds for Compton Hospice. | More.. |
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| Mon 15 December 2008 | Connor Goldson, Aoife Kelly and Nicola Hall | This week's Star Students are Connor Goldson, Aoife Kelly and Nicola Hall, our captains of the Year 11 Boys' and Girls' Football teams who have just won their respective County Qualifying Events to progress to the National Stages of the RAF Cups. | More.. |
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| Mon 8 December 2008 | Megan Saville | This week's star student is Megan Saville from Year 7. She recently produced seven boxes of gifts for the Operation Christmas Child Appeal. Megan organised her friends, family and neighbours to collect the gifts and assemble the boxes. | More.. |
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| Mon 1 December 2008 | Senior Concert Band | This week's Star Students are several representatives from the Senior Concert Band. The Band achieved a Bronze Award at their first ever competition, the National Concert Band Festival in Northampton two weeks ago. | More.. |
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| Mon 24 November 2008 | Abby Clifford | Abby has been our top skier for a number of years and hit top form at the recent British Schools Skiing Finals on a very steep dry slope in Edinburgh. | More.. |
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| Mon 17 November 2008 | Charlotte Monk | Charlotte appeared last term as a star student for achieving an Arkwright scholarship. However, since then things have progressed. | More.. |
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| Mon 10 November 2008 | Battlefields Trip | At half term, Year 8 students visited the Battlefields of the First World War. During their trip, five students were chosen to take part in the ceremony at the Menin Gate to remember the fallen of the War. | More.. |
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| Mon 20 October 2008 | Natasha Rush | Our Star Student this week is Natasha Rush who is in Year 11. Natasha has been in the Air Cadets for around two years and, training at Fordhouses and Cosford, she has shown a high level of aptitude for this service. | More.. |
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| Mon 13 October 2008 | Daniel Goodall | This week's Star Student is Daniel Goodall in Year 11. Daniel has had an outstanding season in his sport of Ten Pin Bowling. | More.. |
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| Mon 6 October 2008 | Cleaning Queens | This week’s Star Students are Annalisa Parrino and Amy Charman who were the well deserved winners at the Annual Science Fair held in July with a project entitled ‘Cleaning Queens’. | More.. |
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| Mon 29 September 2008 | Design Technology students | Our Star Students this week are from among a group of Design Technology students (currently in Year 10) who took up a challenge from a local Pet Accessories company – Rosewood Pet Products. | More.. |
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| Mon 22 September 2008 | Sam Benton | This week's Star Student is Sam Benton in 6.1 who has recently qualified for the prestigious Daily Telegraph National Junior Golf Championship finals. | More.. |
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| Mon 15 September 2008 | Helen Barnett | This week's Star Student is Helen Barnett who was our highest achieving student in Year 11 this Summer. She had a phenomenal set of results with fourteen A* grades and two A grades. | More.. |
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| Mon 8 September 2008 | Mathematical Bright Sparks | Our Star Students this week are Callum Rose, Rhys Nickless and Rachel Conway who, as Year 7 students last term, volunteered to take part in the very difficult United Kingdom Junior Mathematics Challenge. | More.. |
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| Mon 7 July 2008 | Charlotte Monk | This week’s star student is Charlotte Monk from Year 11. Charlotte has been successful in securing a prestigious Arkwright Scholarship Award.
This award commences in September and will provide financial support for Charlotte during her A Level studies. | More.. |
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| Mon 16 June 2008 | Jugjeevan Brar | This week’s Star Student in Jugjeevan Brar who is in Year 7.
Students have been studying Sikhism this module in Humanities and Jugjeevan volunteered to speak to several Year 7 groups about his Sikh faith | More.. |
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| Mon 9 June 2008 | Jack Harris and Joseph Furlong | This week's Star Students are Jack Harris and Joseph Furlong who have recently represented the Midlands at Rugby League.
Jack and Joe both play Rugby Union for Newport RFC and League for Telford Raiders. | More.. |
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| Mon 19 May 2008 | Synchronised Swimming Team | This week's Star Students are our Synchronised Swimming Team who recently won a Bronze medal at the National Championships at Birkenhead. | More.. |
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| Mon 12 May 2008 | Engineering Education Scheme | This week’s Star Students are Kellyann Shorter, Ian Rowlands and Tom Davies who have been working on the Engineering Education Scheme (EES) as part of their Product Design A Level. They worked in conjunction with GKN who gave them a design challenge. | More.. |
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| Mon 28 April 2008 | 6.2 Business Studies students | The Star Students are a group of ten 6.2 Business Studies students who recently took part in a Business challenge at Aston University. | More.. |
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| Mon 21 April 2008 | Laura Pacey | This week's Star Student is Laura Pacey who recently became National Schools Biathlon Champion for the fourth year in succession. | More.. |
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| Mon 14 April 2008 | Chloe French | Chloe French has made excellent progress since starting to play saxophone last September and has already progressed up to Grade 5 standard which a fantastic rate of development in just six months | More.. |
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| Mon 7 April 2008 | Lauren Webb, Joseph Grogan and Nathan Wilkes | There are three Star Students this week - Lauren Webb, Joseph Grogan and Nathan Wilkes who are all in Year 7. | More.. |
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| Mon 17 March 2008 | Public Speacking Teams | Star Students this week are members of our two Public Speaking teams who won both the Senior and Intermediate competitions in the District Finals of the National Rotary Public Speaking Competition-"Youth Speaks". | More.. |
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| Mon 10 March 2008 | Public Speaking Teams | Star Students this week are members of our two Public Speaking teams who won both the Senior and Intermediate competitions in the District Finals of the National Rotary Public Speaking Competition -"Youth Speaks". | More.. |
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| Mon 3 March 2008 | Robert Palin | Robert recently completed a ten week block on Personal Survival as part of his GCSE PE coursework. | More.. |
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| Mon 25 February 2008 | Carla Munro | Carla has been dancing since she was four and recently auditioned successfully for the English Youth Ballet to take part in a production of ‘The Nutcracker’ at the Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton in September. | More.. |
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| Mon 18 February 2008 | Charlotte Proud | Our Star Student this week is Charlotte Proud. 6.1 student Charlotte is unable to play football because she has brittle bone disease so she channels her love for the game into coaching other young people. | More.. |
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| Mon 4 February 2008 | Rebecca Taylor | | More.. |
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| Mon 28 January 2008 | 6th Form Boys Basketball team | This week's star students are the 6th Form Boys Basketball team who recently performed a miraculous comeback to win their game against Old Swinford Hospital School in the National Cup Qualifying Rounds. | More.. |
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| Mon 21 January 2008 | Kellyann Shorter | Kellyann, who is a 6.1 student, dedicates her spare time to assisting in the Guide movement. | More.. |
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| Mon 14 January 2008 | Ryan Stevens and Annis Richardson | This week’s Star Students are Ryan Stevens and Annis Richardson who have been successful in securing places at Homerton College, Cambridge | More.. |
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| Mon 7 January 2008 | Kelly Edwards | Kelly has just become Junior (Under 20) Great Britain Champion as well as Senior Women's Great Britain Champion in her weight category! | More.. |
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| Mon 17 December 2007 | Holly Wild, Samantha Lunn and Adam Unwin. | Star Students this week are Holly Wild, Samantha Lunn and Adam Unwin who have won a competition organised by the Western Front Association. | More.. |
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| Mon 10 December 2007 | Chelsea May, Lauren Williams, Emily Mould and Lacie Ward | Year 11 students Chelsea May, Lauren Williams, Emily Mould and Lacie Ward are this week’s Star Students. | More.. |
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| Mon 3 December 2007 | Will Hughes and Ellie Boden | This week our Star Students are from Year 7. Will Hughes and Ellie Boden are the first two recipients of Gold Sports Leadership Awards. | More.. |
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| Mon 26 November 2007 | Under 19 Girls Ski Team | Our Star Students this week are the Under 19 Girls Ski Team - Abby Clifford, Becky Brown, Claire Brown and Chloe Ruston. | More.. |
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| Mon 19 November 2007 | Emily Hunt | Star Student this week is Emily Hunt who was named as the Outstanding Student of the Year at the Year 11 Achievement Evening on Wednesday. | More.. |
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| Mon 12 November 2007 | WW1 Journal Winners | Our Star Students this week are from Year 8. Harriet Brace, Alex Grove, Matthew Vernon, Charlotte Lampitt and James Cox. | More.. |
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| Mon 5 November 2007 | Jonathan Whiting | Star Student this week is Jonathan Whiting who got full marks in all three of his AS Level Business units | More.. |
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| Mon 15 October 2007 | Adam Brookes and Philippa Stewart | Our Star Students this week are Adam Brookes and Philippa Stewart who are studying A Level Product Design. The key element of this course in 6.1 is the coursework and both students have distinguished themselves by scoring 100%. | More.. |
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| Mon 8 October 2007 | Kiran Bhatia | Our Star Student this week is Kiran Bhatia who entered a competition for Telford and Wrekin Social Services Department. | More.. |
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| Mon 1 October 2007 | Katherine Welch | This week’s star student in Katherine Welch. She is studying A level Psychology and scored 105 in a recent modular exam. | More.. |
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| Mon 24 September 2007 | Sports Stars | This week's Star Students are five of our most promising Sports Stars who have each performed brilliantly in their own sport during a busy Summer holiday. | More.. |
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| Mon 17 September 2007 | Holly George and Jade Evans (year 8) | Holly and Jade began Synchronised Swimming at the start of Year 7. They progressed very quickly and were soon part of the TTS Synchro Squad which competed in the National Championships in Leeds. | More.. |
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| Mon 10 September 2007 | Science Fair Winners | Our first Star Students of the new academic year are Year 9 students, Lily Penfold, Rosalyn Ball and Katie Jones who were the winners of the Science Fair held just before the end of term in July. | More.. |
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| Mon 16 July 2007 | Institution of Civil Engineers | This week’s Star Students are Charlotte Monk, Ben Allen, Jamie Harris and Molly Clarke. | More.. |
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| Mon 9 July 2007 | Jack Whetton | Jack has had a great year in Tennis and has helped the Year 8 Boys' team to become County Champions and qualify for the regional competition in September. | More.. |
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| Mon 2 July 2007 | Young Enterprise Challenge | They all participated enthusiastically in the Young Enterprise Challenge last week and were the winning team in the Bracelet Game. | More.. |
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| Mon 25 June 2007 | Alex Nwenwu | Alex is one of our most promising young Athletes and recently broke the record for the 100 metres Hurdles at the Shropshire Schools Championships in a time of 13.8 seconds. | More.. |
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| Mon 18 June 2007 | Hurneet Kalirai | Hurneet, who is in Year 8, volunteered to help Miss Nicklin prepare a new module on Sikhism for Year 7 Humanities. | More.. |
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| Mon 4 June 2007 | Tom Bird | This week's Start Student is Tom Bird (Year 8). Tom plays cricket for Brewood Cricket Club and performed an outstanding feat in a recent match. | More.. |
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| Mon 21 May 2007 | Chris Glover | Our Star Student this week is Second Year Sixth Form student Chris Glover who, following a successful three week placement at Alcoa Fastenings last Summer, was offered an extended work placement on Wednesday afternoons from last September. | More.. |
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| Mon 14 May 2007 | Year 10 Technology Students | Ben Brierley, Erin Davies and Demi McCann are our Star Students this week. They have taken part in an electronics residential programme at Harper Adams University organised by the Smallpeice Trust. | More.. |
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| Mon 30 April 2007 | Six Sixth Form German Students | Six Sixth Form students have been nominated as this week’s Star Students by Miss Howard and Miss Milkamanavicius for their impeccable behaviour during a recent visit to Cologne. | More.. |
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| Mon 23 April 2007 | Laura Pacey | This week's Star Student is Laura Pacey in Year 10. Laura has recently won the National Biathlon title for the third year in succession. To qualify for the final, Laura had to take part in the West Midlands stage held at Cheslyn Hay School. | More.. |
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| Mon 26 March 2007 | TTS debating team | This week’s Star Students are the youngest ever debating team that TTS has entered in a public competition and they finished the night with two awards. | More.. |
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| Mon 19 March 2007 | Sam Harrow | Sam Harrow’s outstanding achievement in Physics makes him this week’s Star Student. | More.. |