Recent school Partnership Projects

Primary School Science Afternoon

This is ongoing programme on Wednesday afternoons when Tonbridge hosts science classes for local primary schools.  Taught primarily by Tonbridge senior boys, the aim is to interest young children in the study of science.

Canaries in a Coal Mine

Tonbridge School was a leading partner in organising the Canaries in a Coal Mine project to raise awareness about Climate Change.

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Work Experience

Tonbridge regularly takes 8 - 10 local students on work experience

UCAS and Oxbridge

Evening seminars for those considering University entrance and Oxbridge applications are opened to pupils from other schools. Furthermore, in some subjects our Oxbridge classes and interview technique sessions are also made open to pupils from other schools.

Our special conference about applying to the American University system is especially popular as there is no other similar event in the area.

Music and Drama Events

Tonbridge acts as host and shares its facilities for a number of joint school productions annually.

Footprint Friends at the Slade School

As part of the build up to the Canaries in a Coal Mine climate change awareness project, 70 of the Novi visited Slade Primary School for a day to help with a foot painting project that enhanced younger pupils understanding of the concept of an individual's Carbon Footprint.

Left: The Ragged Child, a recent drama production
Right: Footprint Friends at the Slade School

Tonbridge / Tonbridge Grammar School Director in Residence

We have been very fortunate at Tonbridge Grammar School to have benefited from Tonbridge School's generosity in sharing the services of Clare Dunn, the director of Unpacked Theatre Company. Tonbridge School employed Clare as a director in residence during the first part of the autumn term, and on Mondays and Wednesday afternoons, she worked with students at TGS. She helped to shape the A2 students' devised project and her skills in creating theatre from scratch, and particularly when working inventively with props and physicality, has very much affected the style of the final piece, entitled Smothered. She also worked with an accelerated group of year 11s, taking AS Drama a year early on reduced time, and she helped them to explore staging and status issues in Our Country's Good. All the students saw her show Funeral Games and she helped them to shape notes for the theatre review section of the exam.

Clare's creativity, flexibility and practical skills has kick-started the A level courses for the students and helped them to understand the work of a theatrical practitioner.

Lesley Tyler - TGS