Today is World Poetry Day! To help celebrate, School Council have hosted a poetry writing competition. There were lots of amazing entries and they found it incredibly hard to judge! In assembly this morning, 2 winners were announced… Ruby from Herons and Luca from Woodpeckers. A huge well done to everybody that entered! Below are …

After a successful term of running ‘Chill Out Tuesday’ for KS2 children, School Council have now swapped their club to allow Reception and KS1 children to attend. So far, it’s been very popular! The children have loved mixing with each other through playing board games, building models, reading, drawing, crafting and dancing (thanks to DJ …

This week is British Science Week. We read a story called The Most Important Animal of All. When reading, we talked about how different animals bring different things to our environment and the world around us. We thought that tigers were the most important. We found out lots of facts. Did you know a tiger …

We have had a super day learning all about birds. We took to the school fields and outdoor classroom to make our own binoculars and then quietly waited to see which birds flew by. It was really nice to sit and hear the birds singing. We learnt about where a bird would build it’s nest …

In PE this morning we use showed off our ball skills. After a quick warm up we learnt how to throw, catch and kick the balls with great control.            

At Bluebird’s drop in children were taking part in activities linked to Handa’s Surprise e.g. making fruit skewers, turning old CDs into a piece of fruit (!) and clipping the correct number of pegs onto pictures of fruit. We then had a quick dough disco and finished with the French song ‘Deux Petits Oiseaux’. They …

As part of World Book Day today, 3/4 and Reception have buddied up to read, share stories and draw/colour their favourite book characters.

Thank you to those who have been bringing in their dead and used batteries across the past few weeks. So far, we have recycled a total of 2553! A big thank you also to our school council team who have been out recycling the batteries at various recycling points after scores have been totalled in …

We have had a lovely day. The children were very excited as we boarded the coach. We enjoyed our own VIP tour around Lord and Lady Clifford’s castle. We learnt so much! We even pretended to be knights and got to defend the castle with our pretend bow and arrows. After lunch we took to …

Today saw the first of three visits from the Leeds Library Bus. Each of the children in Robins and Bluebirds spent time on the bus this afternoon, listening to stories being told by the onboard librarian, singing songs and exploring the wonderful array of books. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and are already looking forward …

The school council have signed us up to join in with Duracell’s big battery hunt. Duracell are encouraging pupils up and down the country to recycle their batteries instead of putting them in landfill to help make our planet greener and cleaner. They’ve set schools a challenge to try and collect and recycle as many …

This term our new topic is called Feed Me Please! Throughout the topic we will be finding out where our food comes from, looking at how we can grow our own food, discussing changes around Spring and changes in the weather. Today we started by making our own pancakes. We added different healthy fruits, along …

Happy pancake day! As part of our school council meeting today, we were given a very special treat as a thank you for all of our hard work so far this year. They were delicious!!

As another term comes to an end we have finished our topic about ‘Let’s Pretend by learning a Medieval Dance. We learnt to count and move to the rhythm of the music and even pretended to be kings and queens. We can’t wait to visit Skipton Castle to preform our dance again in a real …

Lots of parents and other family members attended our puppet making workshop this morning. Our guests were given a brief overview of the EYFS Expressive Arts and Design curriculum and then challenged to release their own inner creativity and make something from a variety of small wooden pieces, matchsticks or lolly sticks! Next, Bluebirds and …

Ed and the School Council would like to say a HUGE thank you to Team Tranmere for all of the wonderful donations that have been given for the food bank. Everyone has been so generous and we know that this donation will make a big difference to those in need.

This week is children’s mental health week, and the theme this year is all about making connections. This afternoon, Woodpeckers, Red Kites, Robins and Bluebirds decided to get together and do just that! They had lots of fun playing and exploring together. They even had a go at creating portraits using the natural materials around …

Bluebirds played along to Rock a Bye Baby on the chime bars. They all played D beautifully!

Today we have celebrated Safer Internet Day.  This year’s theme is Want to Talk About it? We talked about different apps we use and how this leaves a footprint.

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf…  Reception are certainly not! As part of our Muddy Puddle Day we read the story of The Three Little Pigs. It was great fun playing circle games and singing on the banks. We re-told the story and talked about the different types of materials each house was made …

This week is National Storytelling Week. To help celebrate this, the School Council have hosted a storytelling competition. Those who wanted to enter needed to write a story (true or made up) and hand it in to their class councillor. On Friday, the councillors got together to choose a selection of their favourite stories. These …

Muddy Puddle Day Muddy Puddle Days are our outdoor learning days and are part of a whole school initiative.  Please send your child in non-uniform, but in clothes that you DO NOT MIND GETTING DIRTY OR WET.  It may also be cold, so make sure that your child has plenty of layers, including gloves and …

We have had a wonderful day. Lots of festive cheer. The children enjoyed the Christmas Party, playing games, dancing and of course eating!      

Over the past couple of weeks, all children, from EYFS to Year 6, have been working hard on their Little Inventors Christmas Competition task. Children were given the following brief and had to come up with their own original, weird and wonderful ideas! ‘Tis the season to hang the stockings, roll up the snowmen, and …

We are all so excited to show you our nativity tomorrow. Here is our programme in case you would like to print a copy to keep and some pictures of a few of our costumes when we tried them on! Baaarmy Bethlehem Programme

Today marks the start of Anti-Bullying week for 2022. To show our support, we have all come to school dressed in odd/crazy socks! In classes, we have discussed that this represents how is it cool for us all to be different, and how we should never be unkind towards others because of their differences. Throughout …

This week we have talked about remembrance day. We found out that it marks the very day that World War One ended in 1918.  We also talked about the Purple poppy. We discovered the purple poppy is often worn to remember animals that have been victims of war. Animals like horses, dogs and pigeons were often …

We made a wonderful start to our ‘Celebrations’ topic this week. We learnt about Divali and made diya lamps, rangoli patterns and Divali biscuits. We even made firework fruit kebabs! We learnt a Divali dance and ended the fun with a (digital) firework display!

This week school council have been decorating their suggestion boxes! These will be placed in their classes after half-term, ready to be filled with pupil suggestions. Thanks to our year 6 helpers who also helped us decorate these at lunch.

What a wonderful term we have had. We are so proud of all the children. They have settled into their new routines and become part of Team Tranmere!  We have enjoyed our topic  learning about ourselves, different families, our senses and painting pictures of our faces. To complete our topic we made some fantastic face …

This week in English we read the story of Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake. We found out how she turned one ordinary bike into an eye-catching contraption as she went for a bike ride. We re-told the story by completing story maps and using props to act out the story in order. We …

Today our newly appointed school councillors received their badges in assembly! They were all very excited and proud to show themselves off to the whole school. They also took part in their first school council meeting at lunch time, and have been tasked with their first job of finding a box suitable to turn into …

Tonight your child will bring home a reading book. These books have pictures and come with a guide for you to support your child as you look at them together. Please encourage your child to talk about the front cover enabling them to think about what the book might be called. As you move through …

Bluebirds and Robins had fun tapping and scraping and shaking instruments and trying to keep the beat. They were SO good at stopping and being quiet when they needed to as well. See if they can sing you the ‘Shake and Stop’ song!

This week in our topic work we have learnt all about how to look after our teeth. We used some of the teddies to demonstrate how to move the tooth brush up and down, whilst placing small amounts of toothpaste on our brushes. We have even made our own dentist in the classroom.  We would …

Today, the first half of our brand new Robins and Bluebirds classes joined us in school.  We are all so impressed with how they settled so quickly.  They were investigating the provision in the classrooms, beginning to learn their new routines and are starting to make new friends too!  The children even enjoyed their first …

Today we have taken part in different activities and enjoyed the outdoors. We have created pictures using natural materials. We also learnt the  Green Cross Code. Then we drew a road with a zebra crossing and took it in turns to cross safely.  We took part in different problem solving tasks making our own ramps. …

What a super day we  have had! We were all very excited as we got onto the coach. When we got to the park we became little explores spotting giraffes, leopards, tigers, lions, and even a polar bear or two. Well done Robins and Bluebirds your first school trip. What an adventure. We are so …

Didn’t we have a wonderful time the day we went to Yorkshire Wildlife Park! It was amazing seeing all the animals and the children were a credit to school and their families. Here’s a taster ~ more pictures to come soon.

This summer, Queen Elizabeth II has her platinum jubilee – the longest reign of any British monarch! In the 70 years that she has been queen, the world has changed in many ways. Each year group at Tranmere Park have researched a decade and created a collage. These collages, collected as one, tell a story …

As part of our entry point for our new topic of ‘Amazing Animals’ we read Judith Kerr’s ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea.’ We then decided to write invitations, make masks, have our faces painted and even have a wonderful picnic lunch in the sunshine.  What a super way to start our topic and get …

What a surprise this morning. A lovely white blanket of snow. We decided to bring the outdoors in. We collected some snow and played with our Antarctic animals. We found out some interesting facts and talked about why the snow melted as we were playing.

This term we have learnt about where our food comes from, talked about healthy and unhealthy foods and even looked at planting and caring for plants. As our exit point we used different foods to create pictures. We started by learning how to use the ‘bridge’ technique when cutting our fruit, the grating techniques for …

This week in Maths we have learnt all about shape. We first learnt  the names of  2-d and 3-d shapes. We then went on a shape hunt to discover the different shapes in and around our environment.

This week, as part of our topic we have planted some Broad Beans. We observed the different sizes and described how they felt. We then talked about what plants need to help them grow. We are going to take very good care of them and watch to see all the changes that take place. We …

This week we have started our new topic all about Food and Plants. As part of our entry point we discovered more about our senses. We first had to smell different types of food and plants. We had to guess what we were smelling and decide if we liked or disliked the smell. We smelt …

Here are some pictures of Bluebirds adding music to We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

We all looked fabulous today as we celebrate World Book Day. We shared some of our favourite books with our friends talking about the characters and events that happened in the stories. We then made book marks,  designed our own book covers and even went on a book scavenger hunt. As part of our music …

  We have completed our topic about Let’s Pretend this week. We have continued our theme pretending to be Kings and Queens preparing for our banqueted on Tuesday. We baked  bread using a kneading technique. We were very excited on Tuesday, as we all came dressed up and one of our parents, Mrs Lee came …

This week we have carefully thought about our mental health and wellbeing.  We talked about how other people support us when we ‘Grow Together’ (the theme of this week).  We looked at different emotions and how these emotions can make us feel.  We found out that we have lots of people who like to help …