Reception
WELCOME TO OUR RECEPTION PAGE!
Here you will find newsletters, helpful links and lots of pictures about your child's learning journey in Reception! Please keep checking back for updates. Our class organisation is below:
Class RS
Class teacher: Miss Shepherd
Teaching Assistants: Mrs McDonald, Mrs Thornburrow and Mrs Nixon
PPA teacher: Mr Harding (Tuesday morning)
Class RB
Class teacher: Mrs Baker
Teaching Assistant: Miss Brister
PPA teacher: Mrs Green (Tuesday morning)
If you wish to contact us, please do so on our email address: classr2021@torrisholme.lancs.sch.uk
Newsletters 21-22
Waterfest 2022
Bee Bot adventures
Sports Day!
Some brilliant cake baking!!
We enjoyed a walk around Torrisholme where we discussed all of the features of our local area. We saw a bus stop, lamp posts, double decker buses, for sale signs, road signs, shops and lots more!
We enjoyed visiting the Year 6's Science Fair this week - it was lots of fun! We tested our many different experiments and activities.
We 💖PE! 💪🤸🏼♀️🥇
Today, the whole school welcomed the Commonwealth Baton!
We enjoyed the Queen's platinum jubilee celebrations. We made our own crowns to wear for our picnic. We also enjoyed a jubilee photobooth in class!
The Reading Fairy came into school to deliver some reading workshops. We joined in with songs, acted our stories, followed a story map and had lots of fun!
We invited our parents in for a picnic! We shared the gingerbread biscuits that we made and looked through our literacy books together. We then gave out grown ups a tour of our classroom - it was fun! Thank you to everyone who came along.
We made our own gingerbread men as part of our Traditional Tales topic. We are looking forward to sharing them with our grown ups at a picnic.
We drew pictures of the Queen in preperation for her Platinum Jubilee
We have been enjoying our Zumba sessions. We have learnt dance moves to music, used sticks to beat in time with the music and danced with scarves and shakers.
We had a fantastic time learning to ride our bikes.
We enjoyed a visit from a vet, 2 dogs and 2 Guinea pigs!
British Science Week! We have been scientists this week! We carried out lots of different science experiments. We tested different materials to see which objects float or sink. We made raisins dance using lemonade. We explored how skittles and water can show colour mixing. We explored how to freeze water to make ice lollies.
Spring has sprung! We enjoyed taking photos of buds and flowers.
We've enjoyed visits from a fire fighter, nurse and police officer! They told us all about their jobs and what equipment they need to do. It was so much fun!
World Book Day! We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters, sharing lots of stories during the day and writing our own stories.
People Who Help Us Day! We all came to school dressed up in what we would like to be when we are older. We had lots of children wanting to be vets, doctors, nurses, builders, teachers. We even had princesses, the tooth fairy and batman.
Safer Internet Day - 8th February 2022
In class we have shared Buddy the dog's story all about keeping safe online. He told us lots of information and a song about how to stay safe.
"Ask your grown up, ask your grown up,
Ask for help, ask for help,
Use your tablet safely, Use your tablet safely,
Woof, Woof, Woof!"
We know to ask a grown up for help if something pops up or if someone messages us. If we want to download a new app, we must ask our grown up too. Also, we know not to talk to strangers online.
Take a look at our useful online safety tips!
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Chinese New Year
Spring Roll making! We practised our chopping, cutting and grating skills to make spring rolls today. They were yummy!
We have enjoyed role-playing preparations for Chinese New Year in our Home Corner. We have cleaned the house to get rid of any bad luck, given oranges to our visitors, written New Year cards and served yummy Chinese food!
We have made some Chinese lanterns! We practised our cutting skills.
Christmas Party Day! Santa gave us a special visit too! Can you spot him?
We really enjoyed the Christmas fair and our yummy Christmas dinner!
Santa Dash 2021 🎅We began with our 12 moves of Christmas warm up. Next we enjoyed our Santa dash. We all looked very festive!🎄Thank-you for all sponsor money, sent so far.
Additional photographs of today’s Santa Dash.
We've had SO much fun walking to the postbox to post our letters to Father Christmas. We talked about the features of the local environment along the way!
The Big Little Nativity!
We LOVED our first school trip to Greenlands Farm. We got to see lots of animals which was really fun. We planted some seeds and have now taken these home to look after.
The children had a lovely time this afternoon working with Year 6 to make poppies for our hall remembrance display. The children were fantastic and loved working with each other. We can’t wait to do it again very soon. 😃
Diwali Day
We have been learning all about the celebration of Diwali in school today. We have pracitsed making different types of Rangoli patterns and we know that they bring people good luck. We sculpted clay to make diva lamps. We also learnt about Mendhi patterns and designed our own.
Making diva lamps!
Outdoor Rangoli patterns!
Computing
We have been practising our skills of click, drag and drop using the laptops.
Bear Hunt
This week we have been learning the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. We learnt the story off by heart with actions, went on our own bear hunt outside and made a craft bear!
We've had lots of fun during our first half term at school!
We have enjoyed PE in the hall! We have been practising gross motor skills!
Funky finger! We’ve been making our fingers and muscles strong. We practised developing our gross and fine motor movements by using link it chains, pinching pins and screwing bolts and we even mopped the floor and washed the windows. Maybe we could do this at home too?!
We have enjoyed our 1st week at school!
We enjoyed walking around new school. We visited Mrs Pym's and Mrs Price's office, the office and the other classrooms!
We have had the BEST first day at school! We enjoyed exploring our new classrooms, learned how to sit smartly on the carpet and enjoyed lunch in the school hall. It has been so much fun!
BELOW IS OUR TRANSITION INFORMATION
Meet the staff...
A short video to introduce the staff in our Early Years team!
A message from our Headteacher, Mrs Pym!
Our teachers and teaching assistants
A tour of our classrooms
Below you will find a video of our Early Years learning environment! We have two indoor classrooms and a big outdoor classroom. These are all filled with different areas for the children to work and play, this is where we believe they learn best!