Pre-School 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Pre-School Spring Term 2 2026  

Welcome Back! We hope that you have enjoyed your break together. This week we will be starting our second SpringTerm topic 'People who Help us' please enjoy looking at the topic web in the file section below.

We have lots to look forward to this half-term including information finding about jobs that members of our family do. If you have any spare time to talk to our children about the job that you do or how you help people in the community, please let a member of staff know.

Routines, Reminders & Messages for Children starting Reception 2026: 

• Tapestry – If you have not yet sent any family photos or photos of special times for your child then we would love to share them in class. Please upload a photo of your child’s family as soon as you can, thanks so much!  

• Book Bags – Please look out for our ‘wow stars’ to complete at home, we will share your child’s celebrations/achievements together at school. Also, it is really great to share any news or information about home life with us, we would love to see any type of news in their books when you bring them back to us each week  

• Reading for Pleasure' books - Your child will choose a 'Reading for Pleasure' every week.  These are lovely books for you to share with your child at home and are wonderful as a bedtime story or snuggling up on the sofa to read together. These books are also changed on your child's specific Book-Bag Day and again we have a limited supply, so would appreciate your support in ensuring they are returned on time to be available to be chosen by another child.  

• Phase 1 Phonics- We will be learning about how to hear and say sounds at the beginning of words. We will start with letter s and work on a new letter each week: a,t,p,i,n will follow. Each week you will receive a small poster with instructions on how to model the pure sound and practise new words at home together. 

• Lunches - You may change lunch option at any time for your child so if you wish to switch to a school lunch provided by our kitchen, please do not hesitate to let us know, an order form and menu can be obtained online or from the school office.   

• Passwords - We require a password for every child. If you have not provided a password on your registration form, then please inform myself or Miss Moss at drop-off or pick-up time so that we can update our records. Also, if there are any changes to normal collection routines, please let us know on the day or contact the school office.  

• 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 should be able to 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 23rd of March 2026

'This week we explore Easter time and signs of Spring!

Communication & Language:

This week we will learn about the role of bakers at bakery’s, shops and cafés. We will watch videos about baking and discover how they make hot cross buns, chocolate Easter nests and chocolate treats. We will talk about the Easter bunny and learn new words like Easter egg hunt, nest, shoot, bud, blossom and how to follow a recipe.

   Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

This week we will also have lots of fun playing a game called ‘Easter Bunny Where are you?’. We will sit in a circle, the Easter Bunny will sit in the middle and close their eyes and listen carefully to try to guess who has said ‘Easter Bunny, where are you?’.

Physical Development:

This week we will enjoy playing the bunny hop game making them fast and slow to the rhythm of the music and the beat of the tambourine. We will also join in with the Easter bunny dance copying the actions. Our scissor skills challenge will be cutting around eggs and placing them on a trail. We will also enjoy following different patterns on our Easter egg designs.

Literacy:

This week we will enjoy the delightful rhyming story of The Very Hungry Caterpillars Easter picnic by Eric Carle. The children will really love enjoy this funny playful story that adds little springtime challenges to complete…where are the eggs in nests, blossom on trees and daisies swaying in the breeze. As we explore the caterpillar having his Easter picnic we can look out for the many Easter eggs hiding in the pictures. We will move across the page of the book together and read each phrase.

Phonics:

This week we will have lots of fun exploring how to make the pure sound 'e’, using our smiling mouth with our lips stretched out making a quick sound with our voices on. We will enjoy playing our I spy game together as we say many words such as elephant, egg, eleven and many more. We hope you enjoy playing eye spy together!

  Mathematics:

This week we will become more familiar with dot patterns. As we play lots of different games involving eggs and ladybirds, we will say when there is 1 dot, when there are 2 dots and then practise recognising 1 and 2 in different arrangements. By the end of the week we will be able to say when there are 3 dots and recognise 1, 2 and 3 in different arrangements. We will also enjoy 'One Mole Digging a hole' rhyming story to help us to subitise 1,2, and 3 items.

    Understanding the World:

This week we will explore the fields and forest around us and look for many signs of spring including shoots and buds and leaves beginning to open. We will learn about daffodils and other flowers that bloom around this time including blossom trees and discuss what colours the blossom is and the scent too. 

   Expressive Arts & Design:

We will collage with tissues and other craft materials to create a beautiful blossom pictures for our Springtime gallery area.

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.