Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Dressing Up Day
Fri 12 Jan 2018Poetry Dressing Up Day
A big thank you to all our families who helped the children put together such wonderful costumes for our poetry/nursery rhyme themed dressinh up day today. We had great fun on the catwalk showing off our outfits and listening to the poems children had chosen.
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Parents' Poetry Competition!
Wed 10 Jan 2018Parents' Poetry Competition!
Calling all parents with a competitive streak! Can you write an entry for our parents' poetry competition? See Mrs Price's blog for more details:
http://torrisholme-community.primaryblog.net/blog/list-blogs/user-mrs-price-139522.html
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The Poe Tree!
Wed 10 Jan 2018Poe Tree Appears in School Hall!
On Tuesday morning, Mr Dodd was amazed to find a small tree had appeared in the school hall! Mrs Broom and Ms Thomas showed the children the mysterious seedling in assembly and the children suggested how we could look after it. They suggested watering it and so on, but one very clever boy in Year 3 suggested that it may in fact be a 'poe tree'. He suggested that we should read poems to it and on Tuesday afternoon, his class went down to the hall to share some poems with the tree.
Amazingly, by Wednesday morning, the tree had transformed into a beautiful, sparkling tree - our Torrisholme Poe Tree!
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Visiting Poet
Mon 08 Jan 2018Visiting Poet Andy Tooze
To kick off our poetry week, we had a visit from published poet Andy Tooze. Andy shared many of his poems with the children and held workshops with each different age group to inspire the children to write and perform their own poems.
After school, we held a book sale and signing in the school hall.
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Torrisholme Loves Reading at Christmas!
Fri 22 Dec 2017Torrisholme Loves Reading at Christmas
We would love you to send in photos of you reading over the Christmas holidays! Maybe you are enjoying a special Christmassy story, maybe you will share a book with visitors or friends over Christmas, or maybe Father Christmas will bring you a new book. Whenever and whatever you are reading, we would love to see your photos. Please send them to Mrs Price at deputyhead@torrisholme.lancs.sch.uk and during the first week back, all the photos will be entered into a draw to win a book voucher.
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Choir visit Eric Morecambe House
Fri 15 Dec 2017Christmas Carols at Eric Morecambe House
This afternoon, the choir visited Eric Morecambe House, where they sung a selection of Christmas carols for the residents. The children's singing was fantastic and was very well received by the audience, who joined in with many of the favourites.
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Foodbank Christmas Collection
Fri 15 Dec 2017Foodbank Christmas Collection
Each class worked really hard to collect items for this year's Christmas collection. The winning class on this occasion was Mr McAnespy's class, who collected an enormous amount of food! They will enjoy a treat from Mrs Penney next week.
A huge thank you to all our families for their generous donations - the foodbank volunteers were delighted!
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Year 1 Market Place
Fri 15 Dec 2017Around the World with Year 1!
Year 1's mascot, Gold Bear, has been travelling around the world, with the children learning about all the different places he has visited. This morning, they invited their families in to share in their learning.
It was lovely to see so many people popping in and the children enjoying sharing activities with the grown ups. Thank you to everyone who came along.
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Christmas Fair
Tue 12 Dec 2017Christmas Fair
Thank you to everyone who helped with our Christmas Fair - those who helped set things up on the day, ran stalls, baked cakes, sent in items for the tombola or hampers, hunted down raffle prizes, bought raffle tickets - every little bit helps. As a result, the PTFA raised an amazing £2073 for school funds! Add to this almost £800 raised by Christmas cards and gifts designed by the children and this gives us a fantastic amount of money!
Well done to our PTFA and volunteers!
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Santa's Surprise Shop
Tue 12 Dec 2017Santa's Surprise Shop
A big thank you to all the helpers that volunteered to help out in Santa's Surprise Shop over the last couple of days. The children loved their shopping experience and I'm sure lots of grown ups will be very pleased with their gifts!
