Rode Heath Primary School
Pre-School 2024 - 2025
Ms Burton
Ms Burton Pre-School Teacher:
I am extremely excited about starting my eighth year as Pre-School Teacher at Rode Heath. I am passionate about Early Years education and have enjoyed a varied and fulfilling career teaching children from Pre-School age, right up to Lower Key Stage Two. I have been teaching in Cheshire for 17 years now and as an experienced EYFS teacher I pride myself in placing each family's needs first. I am passionate about the arts and literature have a varied artistic background in music and drama. Outside of school, my two not-so little boys keep me very busy, we spend most of our time outdoors exploring and playing football. As a family we treasure the precious time we get to spend together and especially enjoy story time.
Miss Moss
Miss Moss-Pre-School Teaching Assistant:
Hi I'm Lisa. I'm extremely excited to start my sixth year at Rode Heath Pre-School and to be part of this dynamic team. Before I came to Pre-School I enjoyed being a stay-at-home mum to my three young children. Prior to that, I taught in a Primary School and thoroughly enjoyed teaching in Early Years classrooms. Outside of school my three children keep me very busy and we love exploring new places and enjoying exciting days out together.
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson Pre-School afternoon Lead and Deputy Manager of All Stars club:
I am very excited to be starting my 6th year at Rode Heath Pre-School. I will be leading at Pre-school on Wed/Thurs and Friday afternoons and I am so looking forward to leading the team at our fabulous All Stars breakfast and after school clubs, for another successful year. I have had many years working with young children and recently started working with children with additional needs. I am a qualified 'Relax Kids' Coach which enables me to teach children to learn to manage their emotions through play.
Miss Belcher
Hi I'm Kerry. I live in the village very close to school with my partner and daughter Chloe. I'm based in All Stars breakfast and after school club and also Reception. I've spent the last two to three years gaining my Early Years Practitioner qualifications at Rode Heath and now I can assist in Pre-school and help the youngest children to transition into club. I am always there to help each child and support them and their families, both early in the morning and into the evening.
Welcome to Pre-School Summer Term 2 2025
It's nearly time for the Summer Holidays. Thank you to all our families for a wonderful Summer Term and a special thank you to all that came to support our children at their graduation performance, it was fanatstic!
Dates for your Diary:
- Please return all book bags and books- from Monday the 7th of July we will be checking off all books that have been loaned to you and then we will keep book bags so that we can send home a few fanatstic treats, pictures and photos for each child.
- Pre-School Party - For all children graduating this year, we will be holding a little party from 9am on Thursday the 17th of July until 11am. Dress code - anything...dress up or dress down, or bring a costume to change into.This will also be to celebrate Miss Moss' special birthday...which we are supposed to be keeping a secret but I'm sure the children will like to surprise her. We will sing her happy birthday and play party games.
Routines, Reminders & Messages for Children starting Reception in September
- Pre-School Graduation/Leavers Celebration - Thursday the 3rd of July at 2:15pm. You will receive further information about this via letter, all Pre-School children going up to Reception are invited to take part.
- Graduation Photos- Look out for the letter and order form for your child's Graduation photo, we will be dressing each child in a hat and gown for the photo! orders need to be in by Friday the 20th of June
- Move-Up Days - The children going to Reception in September will be spending some time with their new teachers this half-term. They will visit on Wednesday 18th of June, Thursday the 26th June and Wednesday 2nd of July. All visits will take place during the school day
- Book Bags- Last few weeks taking a new book home to read. Please look out for the memo when we will be requesting all school books to be returned during wk commencing the 7th of July and ensuring all news books are shared and returned to you.
- Phase 1 Phonics- We will be learning about how to 'blend pure sounds' together to create each word we have segmented. We will learn how to blend them together to say the word. Each week I will add a list of words that we have been practising in our sessions, you will find this in your child's new phonics folder
- Tapestry - If you are new to Rode Heath Pre-School then please look out for an email with instructions on how to get started. As always, please let us know if you have any problems.
Our Learning Journey
Week Commencing: Monday 7th of July 2025
'This week we will explore...'the ocean'
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Communication & Language:
This week we will learn about the Smiley Shark character in our story and talk about what makes him a helpful and kind shark !
Personal, Social & Emotional Development:
This week we will be practising working as a team and sharing our ideas. We will all work towards our star certificates and think about how to help a friend in the classroom.
Physical Development:
This week we will create our own Sealife page, cutting around the pictures of sea animals and coral. We will focus on control to cut curved lines, turning our paper and checking the position on our hands and fingers.
This half-term we will practise moving to music -this week we will learn how to clap in time to our new song A 'Sailor went to Sea, sea, sea,' clapping three times and stamping to the beat of the music.
Literacy:
This week we will focus on the information we collect from the story The Smiley Shark. What is is like in the ocean and what animal names do we already know?. We will learn about 'Why questions' and how to find out the information from what happens to the characters in the story. We will also enjoy writing a sentence about a sea creature and talking about which one is our favourite.
Phonics:
This week we will have lots of fun playing phonics games on the smartboard and practising forming some familiar graphemes using our Smartboard writing tool. We will the sound out the letters that make our CVC words. We will practise segmenting then blending back together as we match the word to our picture cards in each game.
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Mathematics:
This week we will explore shape and colour and making designs uisng a plan. Looking carefully at a list we will follow each step and then enjoy some map reading challenges.
Understanding the World:
This week we will explore the bottom of the sea and what kind of creatures live there.
Expressive Arts & Design:
This week we will enjoy desigbing and making a range of exciting things to take home. Look out for them in your child's school book bag, as they will be tucked safley inside along with all our cutting and sticking challenges and our fabulous under the sea paintings!
Our door is always open, please contact us for help at any time. At busy times, please telephone to leave a message or email and we will respond as soon as we can.
