Torrisholme 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.

Christmas 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.

Foodbank 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!

Around 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.

Christmas 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!

Santa'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!

Christmas Fair Crafts and Gifts

The children have been very busy today, creating all sorts of crafts and gifts to sell at tomorrow's Christmas Fair.

In Reception, the children were mixing magic reindeer dust! There were some beautiful, glittery decorations coming together in Year 1. Year 2 were whipping up a mouth-watering selection of treats including marshmallow snowmen and sweetie selections. Year 3's finger paintings were drying out, ready to be transformed into cornucopias which will be filled with sweets. Year 4 were busy decorating their 'jingle jars', ready to fill with goodies! In Year 5 and Year 6, the children have been sewing tree decorations worthy of any garden centre!! 

We hope to see you at the fair tomorrow night, where we can sell our wares! You can find each year group's stalls in their classrooms from 3pm.

Reception Teachers Collect Quality Award

Further to being judged ‘Outstanding’ at our recent inspection, the Early Years team have continued to develop the provision offered to our youngest children.

In the autumn term 2016, the school enrolled on the Lancashire Quality Award for Early Years called ‘Step Into Quality.’

Over the last 12 months, Mrs Kippax and Mrs Robinson have led the Reception team in reflecting on existing practice and how this could be enhanced to ensure the very best outcomes for all our children.

Today is the culmination of all the hard work and Mrs Kippax and Mrs Robinson have been presented with their award (Mrs Penney was like a proud parent taking the photo!).

Congratulations to all the staff in our reception classes, you give the children a great start at Torrisholme School.