Pre-School 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Pre-School Summer Term 2 2025 

Date for your diary for Reception 2026 starters: Pre-School Graduation Thursday 2nd July 2:15pm in the school hall.

If your child is graduating from Pre-School this term then please look out for the letter listing all the details about our leaver’s celebration performance. You will receive a paper copy of this. Please complete the slip attached and return to us asap. 

We will be starting our second Summer Term topic 'Pond life...who's egg is it?' please enjoy looking at the topic web in the file section below.

We have lots to look forward to this half-term including two weeks with our hatching eggs and caring for the small chicks as they hatch! Our Chick eggs- arrive in Pre-School on Monday the 8th June, please complete the consent box on Scopay and your donation will gratefully be accepted.

• Routines, Reminders & Messages for Children starting Reception in September

  • Pre-School Graduation/Leavers Celebration - Thursday the 2nd 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!
  • 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 17^th of June, Thursday the 25th June and Wednesday 1^st 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 books back 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 Learning Journey - If you are new to Tapestry as a family then please look out for an email with instructions on how to get started by the end of this week. If your child has an older sibling and you already have an Tapestry login then please reactivate your previous account, it will be accessible by the end of this week. If your child attends another setting we can share accounts with the other setting with your permission. If your child had a previous account at another setting then we can continue their Learning Journey by accessing a Key Code from the manager, please contact your previous setting and ask the manager to email Rode Heath Admin with the key code and we can then transfer the data to our Pre-School. As always, please let us know if you have any problems.

Week Commencing: Monday 1st June 2026

'This week we will explore...What is a pond?' 

Communication & Language:

This week we will discover a variety of animals and will be practising lots of new rhyming words together in our Story ‘Oi Frog’.

   Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

This week we will be practising using rainbow colours breathing to regulate and calm when we care feeling frustrated. We will use the strategy of breathing in the colour of green to paint a rainbow and repeat 'I am calm'. We will talk about how to be a team and how working together is making us all feel happy, maybe we could play with someone different and then achieve something new. 

Physical Development:

This week we will continue to practise our action and sequence skills ready for our fantastic show.

We will also be starting new pencil challenges, choosing a dominant hand to practise making letter shapes to correspond to the letter sounds that we have been learning. This week we will trace the letter 'p’. We will continue practising our cutting skills, so using our dominant hand, we will try to hold the scissors using the correct finger positioning, thumb at the top and cut along a straight line.

Literacy:

This week we will enjoy the story ' Oi Frog’. We will focus on the characters in the story and the funny rhyming phrases that cat makes for each new animal.

Phonics:

This week we will have lots of fun exploring how to make the pure sound 'l'. 'The licking lolliopop sound.

We will continue with Metal Mike robot speaking challenges this week, we will practise segmenting our rhyming CVC words: lock, rock, clock and sock and blending them to read them.

  Mathematics:

This week we will sing rhymes to 5 and join in with movements. We will move props to 5 and back from 5 including moving our 5 little ducks and 5 Speckled Frogs in our small world and tough tray play areas. We will begin to begin to count 5 objects using one-to-one correspondence and match numerals to quantities when acting out songs.

    Understanding the World:

This week we will explore photos of pond life and see what lillipads and frogspawn looks like. We will compare different frogs and talk about be safe around water edges.

   Expressive Arts & Design:

This week we will enjoy learning about how frogs move and enjoy painting pictures of frogs and pond life.

We know that the first few weeks at Pre-School can be a bit of a scary time, even for mums and dads! If you have any worries then please come and talk to us- mornings at the door can be a bit busy but we have more time to talk at the end of the day. Please email the office directly if you would like a phone call or a meeting.

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.