Our mission is to be a beacon of inclusive excellence developing confident, tolerant and enthusiastic young people who enjoy working with others and are ready to influence the world.
Boarding at Truro School is all about feeling at home; the warm and welcoming houses, the support of friends and family and settling in to the quaint and gorgeous city of Truro.
Starting the tournament strong, we came out powerful and determined to get a result in the first game knowing our second game was going to be our biggest...
On 12 March, four badminton teams from Truro School represented Cornwall in the Regional Finals of the National Schools Badminton Championships at Torbay Leisure Centre, the only school to have teams in all four...
As well as developing your child’s speaking, reading, writing and numerical skills from an early age, we place equal emphasis on the wider aspects of education including self-confidence, social skills and of course, learning to cook the perfect Hot Cross...
The Spring exhibition at The Heseltine Gallery, Truro, showcases the glorious colour of one of Cornwall’s leading painters, Ashley Hanson. His sensuous, enigmatic, canvases, painterly responses to place and the novel, blur the borders between fact and fiction, abstraction and...
The British Red Cross, St John Ambulance and the British Heart Foundation, who have formed the Every Child a Life Saver Coalition, have been trying to persuade the British Government to make First Aid training part of the curriculum as 59% of deaths from injuries could be stopped if more people learn basic first...
Last time I wrote, I reported on an initiative started by one of our Year 6 boys – The Starfish Club – based on the story where a young boy taught an older man a lesson that every small action counts and can lead to change. The starfish pledges involved every child from Nursery to Year 6; they all committed to doing at least one thing to help our...
Monday and Tuesday evenings in the Burrell Theatre saw the culmination of the EPQ projects with the students performing their viva, explaining their work and taking questions from the...
It's been a busy week at Truro School Cookery, but our Easter courses are now live at www.truroschoolcookery.com. Spring clean your cookery skills with our fabulous Adult's 'Spring has Sprung' Skills Cookery. Alternatively, if you need a child-free house to do some actual spring cleaning why not send your children on our Children's Easter Skills...
Truro School Prep, who work to a more rounded Prep Diploma curriculum, are thrilled to have maintained excellent standards in literacy and numeracy in their most recent results. Taking reading as an example, over the last 12 months pupils have averaged a 17.45 month increase in reading age, 45% above the national...
Our Year 5 waste warriors headed to Chapel Porth to take part in an organised Beach Clean with the National Trust. The pupils made their way enthusiastically along the beach, scouring the ground and rocks as they went. The children collected litter with gloves and litter pickers and managed to find a wide variety of rubbish, ranging from old trainers to fishing wire and plastic...
The theme for this year’s Rotary writing competition was ‘My inspiration.’ Entries were allowed to be either fiction or non-fiction, providing that they fitted the theme, and were 500 words or fewer....
A 14 strong team travelled to Crystal Palace in London last week to compete in the largest fencing competition in the country, the Public Schools’ Fencing Championships. This year we dominated every category our fencers entered and secured the Brian Howes and Johnson cup, securing our position yet again as the number 1 public school at sabre fencing in the...
It was a rare treat to attend the recital of nationally renowned bass baritone Darren Jeffery which took place in the chapel on Thursday evening. Darren was with us to give a masterclass to some of our students, and to bring our school Singing Week to a memorable...
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