Love Your School: Thomas Adams School in Wem.

Shropshire Star

We pay a visit to Wem and The Thomas Adams School for our : Love Your School feature. A school rich in artistic talent with a healthy sixth form and boarding section and a school investing in new buildings for student support.

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00:00My name's Tom McAlevey, I'm deputy head for quality of education here at Thomas Adlam

00:06School.

00:07And what's so special about your school sir?

00:09We cater for a wide variety of intake from a wide catchment of North Shropshire, we're

00:16very fortunate to have a lot of 11-19 provision including a very rare but unique state boarding

00:24opportunities which is fantastically run by Mr Irwin and we're very proud of our comprehensive

00:32offer that we offer our young people here at Thomas Adams including the opportunity

00:36to offer alternative provision, we very excitedly got built on the back car park an opportunity

00:43to add to our provision with a new build that will help with external agencies involvement

00:48for those individuals that may need additional support and needs and we're very proud of

00:53the curriculum offer here that is very broad and balanced and we personalise that to meet

00:58the individual needs of all our young people.

01:04How you doing guys, what you reading?

01:08What you got there bud?

01:09Beast Quest.

01:10Cool, what sort of books you like to read then?

01:12Errr, I like to read like adventurous books.

01:16Oh yeah cool, fair do's.

01:17And who have we got over here then, what are you girls up to, what you picking?

01:20Picking historical books.

01:23Historical books?

01:24Cool.

01:25You into your history then?

01:26Yeah.

01:27What are your favourite subjects?

01:28History and RE.

01:29Ah yeah, good, cool.

01:30And what about you, what's your favourite subject at school?

01:34Drama and history.

01:35Good shout.

01:36So we're here with three of the boarders at Thomas Adams and introduce yourselves guys.

01:41I'm Abio.

01:42I'm Aratha.

01:43And I'm Julian.

01:44So what's your experience been at the school here, a positive one I hope?

01:49Yeah, I would say so for sure.

01:51It's different than what I've been used to back home.

01:54Where's back home for you?

01:56The Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.

01:58Oh wow, okay.

01:59A lot different from here.

02:00So what happens when you've finished here at school, do you kind of go back that way or what's your plans?

02:06I think off to university for sure.

02:09Yeah.

02:10Probably stay in England.

02:11Yeah.

02:12But you know, back and forth between here and there.

02:15What do you want to study at uni?

02:17Zoology.

02:18Oh wow, that's interesting.

02:20Cool.

02:21And what about yourself?

02:22So your home's not a million miles away, Cheshire.

02:25No, I live in Wemsdale.

02:27This is my first time being in a boarding school.

02:29Yeah.

02:30And it's been quite a positive experience and I'm enjoying it so far.

02:33Yeah.

02:34And what do you want to go on to do when you leave here?

02:36I want to go uni and study psychology to become a therapist.

02:40Fantastic.

02:41And your home's a bit further afield again.

02:44Go on.

02:45So I live in Kuwait, which is quite far away.

02:48Yeah.

02:49And it's quite a different experience from here.

02:52But I think it's quite nice being over here.

02:55It gives me a different perspective to what I'm used to.

02:58So it's quite nice.

03:00And you might be, you've kind of fell in love with Kuwait, haven't you?

03:03You're saying you'd be quite happy to kind of go and settle over there.

03:06Yeah, 100%.

03:07What would you like to do yourself then once you leave here?

03:09Hopefully I'll go to university and do veterinary medicine.

03:12Yeah.

03:13So, yeah.

03:15So what's kind of, if someone was, you know, thinking of choosing this school,

03:19you'd give it a thumbs up then?

03:21Yeah.

03:22Yeah, your experience from it.

03:23Cool.

03:24And what's kind of some of your favourite subjects that you've got here?

03:27What about yourself?

03:28Probably biology.

03:29Yeah.

03:30It's my favourite subject.

03:31Yeah.

03:32I would say health and social.

03:34Cool.

03:35Biology as well.

03:36Yeah, yes.

03:37We've got some brilliant scientists.

03:39I always struggled with science.

03:40I did enjoy it, but it wasn't great.

03:43So, in terms of the life here, like as a boarder, you know, me not being a boarder,

03:49is there much that's kind of to do outside of school hours?

03:52You know, is there kind of good social things, activities, that kind of stuff?

03:56There's always somebody to talk to.

03:57Yeah.

03:58You'll always have somebody around that you can have a conversation with.

04:01Yeah.

04:02And, you know, you do have activities during the weekends and things like that.

04:05So that's school organised stuff you can get involved in?

04:08Yeah.

04:09What sort of stuff?

04:10We've got a trip coming up of paintballing.

04:12Oh, wow.

04:13Next week, I think it is.

04:14Yeah.

04:15There's a trip to Ikea this Friday.

04:16Yeah.

04:17We recently went pottery painting.

04:19Yeah.

04:20And it was really fun.

04:21Oh, that's cool.

04:22That sounds nice.

04:23Yeah.

04:24And any particular stuff you've been involved in, kind of, in the social side of things?

04:27Yeah, I'm going on the Ikea trip.

04:29Yeah, yeah.

04:30But, yeah, I think in boarding, there's, like Julian said, there's always people to talk to.

04:34Yeah.

04:35Like, you're practically living with your friends.

04:37Yeah.

04:39Like, they're in your room.

04:40I'm in their room.

04:41So it's quite nice.

04:42Cool.

04:43Well, thank you for chatting to us, guys, and good luck in your future careers.

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