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Welcome to Thomas Tallis. We are a large, happy and exciting school with a commitment to comprehensive values of challenge and creativity. Coronavirus means that we are closed to visitors so we can’t make our usual open offer of a visit. This website paints an accurate picture of Tallis life, so have a good search if you’d like to know more. I hope that you find what you are looking for.

Carolyn Roberts, Head

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COVID-19 Documents

Our COVID-19 Risk Assessment, System of Controls and guidelines for Reporting Absences and Test Results can be found on the Policies & Guidelines page of the website.

LATEST NEWS:

September return dates for students

We are very sorry that we will quite get back to a normal start immediately in September, but you will know that all schools have to test students twice with 3-5 days between, at the start of the year. This is a critical part of safety measures to tackle the virus. To accommodate the testing of over 2000 students, we cannot have them all arriving on the same day. This means there will be a staggered start for different year groups.

On the first testing day for each year group, the students will only come to school to be tested. They will then be sent home after testing. If any student has tested positive, we will tell the student and you.
When a student has had their first test, they will attend school the next day at the normal time. They’ll have a tutorial to do start of year things.
Because everyone needs to have that, we need to have some late starts for tested year groups. This is just like last year!
For the second test, students come to school at the normal time, 0830 for an 0840 start. They will go to lessons and we’ll take them to be tested. They’ll stay in school UNLESS the test result is positive.
It is inevitable that some students will have to arrive or leave later than normal but we are constrained by the time scale, sorry.

You will receive a text of the timings to support the process.

Below is the testing scheme to ensure all students have received the two tests on site in line with the government guidance.

School Business Leader of the Year

Congratulations to our Cheryl Campbell who has just been awarded the TES School Business Leader of the Year. We are very proud of Cheryl who works tirelessly on behalf of the school. Her oversight of our COVID-19 arrangements has been exemplary. This is just reward for her professionalism, integrity and kindness.

Creativity Collaboratives

We have been invited by Arts Council England to bid to become one of eight new Creativity Collaborative hub schools, working with a cluster of partners to embed teaching for creativity across the curriculum. We are very excited about the potential of this work to further develop our longstanding commitment to creativity through the Tallis Habits. We will know whether or not our bid has been successful early next term. Fingers crossed!

Parent View

Ofsted is inviting parents to let them know what they think of their child’s school. If you would like to share your views of the school with Ofsted, please click on this link. Ofsted will take your views into account, and use the information provided to help them decide when they will inspect the school.

Ethical Leadership

Thomas Tallis School tries to live up to the values and virtues of the Framework for Ethical Leadership in Education. Please talk to us if you think we have fallen short.