We are happy to have helped support this worthy cause for a fantastic charity

The Daily Mile! For those of you who are new to our school, The Daily Mile is a worldwide initiative to simply get children to move a mile every day. With childhoods more sedentary than ever, it is important we provide several opportunities for children to be physically active throughout the day. In addition to this, studies have shown that when children take part in The Daily Mile before school, they are more focused in class, have better memory retention and improved moods! The Daily Mile is restarting tomorrow morning from 8:30-8:45am. With the wetter weather on its way, this may need to move from the field to the tennis courts. We have had blue lap lines marked out on the tennis courts, and 16 laps of the court is equal to one mile! Everyone is welcome, from our School Nursery children right up to Year 6, and parents and carers are encouraged to join in with their children and reap the benefits of some morning exercise too! We please ask that you keep the blue lap lines clear and stand around the edge of the tennis courts in the morning if you are not taking part so that everybody can easily see and access the Daily Mile. Where possible, staff will endeavour to bring the children attending Breakfast Club across to join in. However, this will be dependant on several factors on the day, as it is of course our number one priority to ensure we are able to keep all of the children safe at a time when there are a lot of people moving around the school site and gates are open. Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible getting your steps in with us in the mornings!

We are so excited to welcome everybody back tomorrow for the start of a brand new school year. With the opening of two new classrooms in The Nest, our specialist provision unit, as well as all of our brand new Reception children starting their very first day of school, we are going to have a lot of new faces! Remember that first day nerves are completely normal (for both adults and children!) and we are all going to settle in together and have a wonderful start to the academic year. We will see you in the morning!

We are always grateful for businesses to support our school. If you shop with Asda (in store or online) and are an Asda reward member you can opt in and select Thrapston Primary School and then 0.5% of the value of your shop will go to the school at no cost to you. If you aren't already a member you can sign up and then get rewards on your shopping too. We also get £1 for everyone who links our school to their account - bonus!

Congratulations to these lucky children who won on our Summer Celebration stalls last Friday! A lovely morning of presenting prizes

At TPS when a child completes 5 or more home reads in a week (and records them in their reading diary!), they receive a reading raffle ticket with their name on it. They can then post this ticket into a jar of their choice, in an attempt to win a book! The names are then drawn out of the jars in assembly. Congratulations to these Reading Raffle winners today, and keep up the good reading!

Thrapston Primary School's Summer Celebration 2024! This year was our second year of throwing our end of year summer celebration event - and what an amazing celebration it was! The sun shone (a lot!) and we were so pleased to see so many families enjoying themselves together. We had a variety of classic stalls ranging from 'Name the Teddy' to 'Guess the number of sweets in the jar' to a penalty shootout. There was a selection of children's writing and artwork on display for parents to view, and performances on the stage to enjoy. Performances included Samba drumming, Makaton singing, a Roman chant, a range of dances, a brass instrument recital and a closing performance by our wonderful choir. We'd like to say a huge thank you to the local businesses who also joined us on the day: Berry's, The Maker Mums UK, Bakeworks Co., The Square Choux, Melts & more by Emma, King Bounce Alot LTD and AM Ices ice cream van and Pecorella Whip. We made a total profit of £980.82 which we are absolutely over the moon with. Thank you to everyone who supported our school and thank you to the staff who worked so hard to put the day together!

We currently have a vacancy for a cleaner at TPS and the closing date for applications is on Monday. If you are interested please head to the website to apply. Thank you! https://www.thrapston-primary.northants.sch.uk/page/?title=Vacancies&pid=128

We are so excited for our Summer Celebration this afternoon! This is just one of the amazing businesses that will be there today

Our Year 2 Squirrel and Badger Classes were our joint KS1 winners of the National Sports Week competition, and today they also received their prize! The children enjoyed an hour of fun on a gigantic bouncy castle slide and a bouncy castle obstacle course, followed by ice lollies and ice creams! Great fun was had by all. Well done Squirrels and Badgers!