Rode Heath Primary School
Pre-School 2023 - 2024
Mrs 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.
Mrs Soutar
Mrs Soutar Pre-School Teaching Assistant:
Hi I'm Karen. I live in Holmes Chapel with my husband Duncan and three lovely children- Izzy (16) Harry (14) and Emma (10). I've really enjoyed working with our fantastic team for the last 6 years at Rode Heath and before that I spent 10 years looking after my children and child-minding other peoples! I love the fun and unpredictability of working with Pre-Schoolers and enjoy seeing them progress and master new skills.
Mrs Moss-Brookes
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
Miss Belcher All Stars and Pre-School assistant:
Hi I'm Kerry, I live in the village very close to school with my partner and daughter Chloe (5) who currently attends Reception class. I'm based in the All Stars breakfast and after school club. 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 back SummerTerm 2024
Our topic for the first half of SummerTerm is 'Minibeasts and the natural world.We have planned lots of lovely learning experiences and are excited to begin the next stage of our learning adventure together. Each week we will explore an information book and learn about different minibeasts, the natural environment and various habitats. Even though we will be learning lots of facts through information texts we will also be focussing on stories that rhyme and in particular those that we can even sing our way thorugh, such as 'Walking thorugh the Jungle...and 'What the Ladybird heard'. We will have lots of fun making up actions and sounds as we say the rhyming phrases in these stories.
Routines, Reminders & Messages
- Book Bags- your child will continue to bring home a book of choice from our reading for pleasure box. We will always check for news or wow moments in your child's news book, so please feel free to write anything that you would like to share. We will change your child's book every week on their specific book bag day and we will continue to add the details from our story times into their news book so you can see what we have been learning about.
- Phase 1 Phonics- We will continue learning about how to make 'pure letter sounds' with our voices and mouths. To help you at home each week we will attach a copy of the instruction on how to correctly produce each sound and how to make the action with your hands that accompany the teaching of each new sound, it would be wonderful of you could practise producing each sound by following the instructions and then enjoy practising together. Please feel free to share any new words that you may discover togther as we continue to explore alliteration.
- We will also be consolidating initial sounds that w have already leraned and then begiinning to use them in smple CVC words such as sat, mat and cat. We will be practising segmenting CVC words like Metal Mike the Robot. Please enjoy these activities together when they appear in your child's news and vocab red book.
- 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 29th of April 2024
'This week we will learn all about ladybirds'
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Communication & Language:
This week we will enjoy learning new words in relation to habitats and Ladybirds in particular. We will discuss the names of our favourite minibeats and expleian why using the word because.
We will enjoy performng the song that accompies the story 'What the ladybird heard
Physical Development:
This week we will enjoy copy the movements in our whole class games involving stopping and starting, skipping, hopping and jumping slowly and quickly. This week will also enjoy new ribbon dance challenges with animal movements to copy and repeat. 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
We have been so impressed with everyone's progress with their 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. We will choose three pictures, to add a challenge the pictures have to then be placed linked to the correct starting sound of the word, i.e. p for pig, i for insect, and n for net. Let's see if we can complete the challenge.
Literacy:
This week we will enjoy the delightful rhyming story of 'Monkey Puzzle' by Julia Donaldson. The children will really enjoy this funny and playful story that not only rhymes but adds little extra fun with opportunity for making individual animal sounds and acting out the story as if we were in the jungle. Can we follow the clues in the story to match the baby monkey to his mother?
We will be focussing on moving across the page of a book from left to right and begin to discover how rhyming sounds work in words...can we repeat those rhyming phrases?. We will begin to notice some familiar graphemes in the words in this story, focussing on hearing and saying the letter sounds s, a and t, to begin matching pure sounds to its corresponding grapheme.
Phonics:
This week we will have lots of fun exploring how to make the pure sound 'r'. Instructions: Mouth soft and open wide. Tongue is central. Quick Sound.
We will also use actions to help us as we will pretend to 'make one hand into an umbrella and sprinkle rain on it' as we make the 'u,u,u,' sound. We will hunt for pictures including an umbrella, an arrow pointing up, a cat under a table, a sad face because we are upset ...oh what fun we will have!
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Mathematics:
This week we will explore 'Positional language' ‘On and Under’. We will practise placing an object on or under a chair, a table etc. We will then explore whether an object is ‘in or out’ of a basket, bag etc. Then finally this week we will decide whether the monkey teddy is 'in front of or behind' different animals that we have hidden in the setting. maps, directions in and out
Understanding the World:
This week we will continue care for our carrot and cucumbers seeds as they grow and will look after our Sweet Peas too. We will learn to recognise that the season has changed to Springtime. 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 which animals will be having their babies in the farms around us and what their babies are called. We will also continue our new sequence of learning about Minibeasts and their habitats, this week we will learn all about woodlice and millipedes and how they enjoy living in wet, dark places.
Expressive Arts & Design:
We will collage a variety of different shaped flowers and explore bluebells and tulips for our Springtime display. We will role-play with jungle animals and small world minibeast creatures. We will enjoy dressing up as minibeats explorers to hunt for woodlice and millipeads.
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.
