Welcome to NTS, we are really looking forward to welcoming our new Year 7 pupils in September.
Information will be posted on here for pupils and parents/carers to hopefully help you get to know the school a little better before starting.
Please check the website regularly to see if anything new has been posted.
(Information regarding contact sports and certain activities are under constant review in line with Covid – 19 guidelines).
Welcome to NTS information and virtual tour for parents/carers and pupils
Meet the NTS Teachers
Information and guidance from the Year 10 peer mentor pupils
Staggered start of term (first week only)
-Year 7s and Year 12s ONLY will come in for one day, Wednesday 2 September. (Year 7s will have missed out on their usual transition day and will need our close attention and support as they get used to a new environment, in addition to the revised COVID Code of Conduct. Year 12s require an induction day of sorts. These two year groups can also be kept apart for much of the day, as can the staff involved in looking after them.)
-Year 8s and Year 9s ONLY will come in for one day (Thursday 3 September).
-Year 10s and 11s ONLY will come in for one day (Friday 4 September).
-‘Normal school’ will then resume for all pupils in all year groups on Monday 7 September.
Update - letter from the Headmaster regarding plans for re-opening in September - 13 July 2020
Letter from the Headmaster regarding plans for re-opening in September - 7 July 2020
Letter from the Headmaster -school reopening for Year 10 & Year 12 - 1 June 2020
Code of Conduct - School Re-Opening
School Risk Assessment - School Re-Opening
Letter from the Headmaster for all Year 7 - 9 pupils - 4 June 2020
Letter from the Headmaster for all Year 11 & 13 pupils - 4 June 2020
Letter from the Headmaster - 22 May 2020
Letter from LA regarding the return of Year 10 & 12 students - 21 May 2020
Letter from the Headmaster to all parents - 13 May 2020
Local Authority letter to parents - 12 May 2020
Internet safety leaflet - Cumbria Prevent Team and DfE
Centre-assessed grades for Year 11 and Year 13 students, and Sixth Form information
Letter from the Headmaster - Remote Learning 14 April 2020
Safeguarding poster - Includes guidance and information to help keep children in Cumbria safe.
School provision for children of key workers letter 19 March 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) - advice from Cumbria County Council 16 March 2020
NTS Coronavirus (COVID -19) Information letter 13 March 2020
NTS Coronavirus (COVID-19) FAQs 13 March 2020
NTSmiles for the NHS - PE challenge (information and links)
NTS recommended websites for remote learning
How to sign up to SenecaLearning
How to attach files to emails (pupils)
How to create email inbox folders
Pupil use - Opening files online
Remote learning - careers information (also see our careers page for further guidance)
How to upload work onto Moodle
Moodle password reset guidance
Resizing images to upload to Moodle
How to support your child - COVID-19
Still "outstanding"
- Ofsted, May 2013
Nothing that happens at NTS does so by accident. The impeccable behaviour of our pupils (Ofsted’s phrasing, not mine), their politeness and good manners, their achievement (academic and extra-curricular) are all down to sheer hard work — theirs and ours. The standards we have fought hard to maintain have been established over many years by the commitment of a dedicated team of professionals.
The local context (a small industrial town in rural northern Cumbria) is, perhaps, not one you might associate with academic excellence and yet we were the first secondary school in the county to have been judged “outstanding” by Ofsted under their revised framework.
You will probably want to see for yourself what we have to offer and, to this end, I would be delighted to show you around.
Sam Northwood, MA, MEd
Headmaster
We hope you can find all the information you need.
Please feel free to get in touch with us by clicking the contact button at the top of each page.
The Nelson Thomlinson School was the first Cumbrian secondary school to be judged “outstanding” under the new Ofsted framework.
Ofsted, May 2013
It is crucial that, as we continue to develop as a school, we retain the atmosphere and environment that is ‘NTS.’
We call it NTS-ness.
We expect to ‘NTS’ all new members of our community. Staff and students need to understand why we are special, how we achieved this and recognise that it is not a ‘given’. To this end, we want everyone to have pride in ‘NTS-ness’.
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