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Dec 9, 2020
2 min

Terra Nova School appoints new Headmaster for Sep 2021

Following a comprehensive recruitment process held over the last four months by the Board of Governors with RSAcademics, Terra Nova Schoo...

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Nov 11, 2020
2 min

Live-stream of virtual Armistice Service enables wider participation throughout school community.

Terra Nova’s Armistice Service took place this morning. In a marked contrast to the usual assembling of all pupils and staff outside the ...

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Nov 6, 2020
3 min

The serenity to accept the things we cannot change

This morning’s assembly opened with Terra Nova’s Headmaster asking each class to talk about the main occurrences in current affairs this w...

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Oct 9, 2020
3 min

Inspiration through aspiration

Today’s assembly focused on how aspiration can be inspiring within the context of our school community. Aspiration to be the best that yo...

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Oct 2, 2020
2 min

Terra Nova community come to together, virtually, in celebration of Harvest Festival

The Terra Nova community came together this morning in celebration of Harvest Festival. This first live streamed event enabled parents to...

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Sep 25, 2020
2 min

Terra Nova School's teams delighted to kick off with first competitive football and hockey matches

Please see a match report written by Mr Jamie Gerrard, Director of Sport at TN: The U13A football team travelled to Holmes Chapel on Wedn...

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Sep 25, 2020
2 min

Pupil leadership positions & scholarship achievement inspire younger pupils.

This morning’s virtual Friday assembly showcased the many successful endeavours, in a broad variety of aspects of school life, by our old...

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Sep 11, 2020
2 min

1st Assembly of the year

The first full week back at school is nearly complete and everyone at Terra Nova is delighted to be back! Continuing a tradition started ...

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Jul 1, 2020
2 min

Last One Of The Year

As it is the last week of term, for this week's Wacky Assembly Wednesday' Mr Stewart allowed our children to vote for which outfit they w...

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Jun 24, 2020
4 min

The penultimate assembly

As we are in the penultimate week of the Summer Term and indeed the academic year, we had high hopes and great expectations for this week...

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Jun 17, 2020
3 min

Some very special guests...

No one could have guessed what Mr Stewart was going to arrive at for this week's 'Wacky Assembly Wednesday' but it certainly didn't disap...

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Jun 10, 2020
3 min

Another ‘Wacky Assembly Wednesday’ this week

Mr Stewart turned up today on horseback, which was fitting given that a lot of today's assembly centred around animals and wildlife. Whil...

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Jun 3, 2020
2 min

Off with the hair!

We have been waiting all of half-term for the return of 'Wacky Assembly Wednesday' and this week certainly did not disappoint. We have al...

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May 20, 2020
3 min

Some very special guests...

Wacky Assembly Wednesday was a busy one today and saw the return of Chewbacca as our host. Our assembly started with Mr Stewart telling ...

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May 13, 2020
2 min

It's that time of the week again...

We have been anticipating who would turn up for Wacky Assembly Wednesday this week and we certainly were not disappointed when none other...

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May 6, 2020
2 min

Superman hosts the assembly

This week's assembly was held by none other than everyone's favourite superhero; Superman. If you want to join in with fancy dress why n...

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Apr 29, 2020
3 min

Another ‘Wacky Assembly Wednesday’ this week

Wacky Assembly Wednesday was certainly a fun one today as Mr Stewart, in full Jabba the Hutt costume was joined by Mrs Westall and Mr Pea...

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Apr 22, 2020
1 min

Wacky Assembly Wednesday

We hope you all enjoyed assembly this afternoon, or as Chewbacca (aka Mr Stewart) has renamed it ‘Wacky Assembly Wednesday’. Inspired by...

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Apr 15, 2020
2 min

The FIRST Terra Nova live stream assembly!

Today saw the first Terra Nova live stream assembly.

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Feb 20, 2020
1 min

Terra Nova pupil acts and dances in Birmingham Royal Ballet's performance of The Nutcracker

We are very pleased to report that Max B in Year 5 performed in The Nutcracker, by Tchaikovsky, with the Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) at...

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