Welcome to our Year R, Squirrel Class page 

Class Teacher: Mrs B Taylor

Support Staff: Miss D Mitchell, Miss A Friday 

PE Days: Tuesday and Thursday  

In Squirrel class we are just beginning our exciting journey through Thorpe Acre Infant School. In our class we work hard on developing our understanding of ourselves and our feelings, making friendships, communicating effectively with others and learning rules and routines. 

Please click on the link below for all the information on what we are learning about this half-term. 

Week Ending 12th September 2025

This week in literacy, the children have been thinking about all the things that make them 'unique'. The children also brought in photographs of their family members and got to share these during Circle Time.

In Maths this week they have been learning about 'matching' and 'sorting' objects.

Week Ending 5th September 2025

The children in Reception have been focusing on getting settled into school life, learning the rules and routines and starting to develop friendships with their new classmates. They have also been working on awareness of rhymes and have been singing and acting out lots of nursery rhymes in Literacy and number songs in Maths. They have started Phonics lessons, learning how to read and write the sounds m, a, s, d, t. They have been playing some Fred games with our new friend Fred, listening to sounds