TGS students and staff celebrate being shortlisted for TES School Awards
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A school which pledged to ensure students still enjoyed opportunities to use their creativity despite lockdown has been shortlisted for a national award.
Thomas Gainsborough School, near Sudbury, has made it to the final eight in the Creative School of the Year category in the TES Awards.
Assistant headteacher Ed Clark said: We have always been very proud of the creative opportunities we have offered to students.
“The last year has been challenging for us all, but we didn’t want the lockdowns - and move to largely online learning - to prevent these opportunities from taking place.
Kate and Oliver Trethewey are opening a new bed and breakfast in Westleton
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A Suffolk couple have taken a complete shot in the dark and given up their school jobs to open up a new bed and breakfast in Westleton.
Oliver and Kate Trethewey purchased Argyll House in Westleton, near Southwold and Walberswick, slap-bang in the middle of the initial Covid lockdown last year.
The couple, who have four children, said they had been looking to open up a guest house since the end of 2019 and searched for a suitable property across the country.
The couple gave up their jobs to open the guesthouse
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11:30 AM April 21, 2021
Emily Gillbanks was awarded the de Laszlo Foundation Prize for her artwork in the Mall Galleries
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Suffolk schooled Emily Gillbanks has been awarded the top prize and £1,500 at the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition after her work was showcased at the Mall Galleries.
The former Thomas Gainsborough School student won the prestigious de Laszlo Foundation Prize and the money which is awarded to the best artwork from a life by an artist aged 35 or under featured at the Mall Galleries show.
The Royal Society of British Artists exhibition where Miss Gillbanks work was shown, boasts just over 100 of the UK’s top painters, sculptors and printmakers as members, all possessing the highest level of skill in their chosen styles and media.