Pre-School 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Pre-School Spring Term 2 2025 

We will be starting our second SpringTerm topic 'People Who Help Us' please enjoy looking at the topic web in the file section below.

If you are able to offer half an hour in your afternoon to come and talk about a job or vocation, or to help in the Pre-School garden please speak to a member of the team... we would love to see you!

We have lots to look forward to this half-term including all our dressing up and role play scenarios with different equipment and our gardening tasks such as trimming and tidying the Pre-School garden as we head into seed planting season

Routines, Reminders & Messages for Children starting Reception in September

• • Tapestry – If you have not yet sent any family photos or photos of special times for yourchild 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. 

Our Learning Journey

Week Commencing: Monday 24th of March 2025

'This week we explore how to be a good helper '

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Communication & Language:

This week we will learning about our families and how to help them. We will be exploring what it is to be grateful and thankful as we prepare for our mothers day celebration.  From information books will pick out words to practise during role play and learn about what they mean such as 'being kind' and 'helping hands'. We will use questions such as; Do you know how to help at home? What is a team? We will practise saying 'I love my mummy because...

   Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

This week we will enjoy talking about how we feel about our families and how we love them. The colour monster pink pages help us to understand what love feels like and how to feel it for yourself.

Physical Development:

This week we will enjoy playing team games and completing team tasks such as following game rules together, whats the Time Mr Wolf and The Bean game.

Literacy:

This week we will enjoy the delightful rhyming story of 'Why I love my mummy' by Harper Collins. The children will really love hearing each baby animal say why they love their mummy. We will practise saying 'I love my mummy because..'. We will also practise writing our names and copying  some phrases with our new handwriting pencils in our mother's day cards.

Phonics:

This week we will have lots of fun exploring how to make the pure sound 'e'. This is the short vowel sound and we have to make sure the sound is coming from our throat area. 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 begin our last few days on consolidating how to subitise and the names of numerals to 5. We will practise seeing different amounts and saying what we can see. We can also try challenges like numerals out of order and matching them to the correct amount to 5.

    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. We will also continue to plant seeds this week in our Pre-School garden and we will start to care for our seeds in the greenhouse. We will role play with gardener’s materials and learn about the important jobs that we can do to help at home and why it is important to look after each other.

   Expressive Arts & Design:

We will paint daffodils using the correct colours for the stem and petals to create a beautiful picture for our Springtime gallery area.

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.