Rode Heath Primary School
Pre-School 2025 - 2026
Miss Moore
I am extremely excited about starting my eleventh 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.
Miss Moss
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
I am very excited to be starting my 7th year at Rode Heath Pre-School. 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.
Welcome to Pre-School Summer Term 2 2026
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.
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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 17th of June, Thursday the 25th June and Wednesday 1st 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 22nd of June 2026
'This week we will learn...'what is a Dragonfly?'
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Communication & Language:
This week we will discover a variety of new words and phrases through the sharing of our Dragonfly fact file. We will look at the life cycle of a Dragonfly, discover how they move and live around the pond. We will ask questions about what Dragonflies eat, where they lay their eggs and what their wings look like.
Personal, Social & Emotional Development:
This week we will be practising working as a team and sharing our ideas. We will Listen to each others ideas and show that we care.
Physical Development:
This week we will create our own pondlife page, cutting around the pictures of insects and various plants. 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 as we get ready for our leaver’s performance called 'Croak'. Each week we will listen to a different piece of music that depicts how frogs move, bees and dragonflies soar and ladybirds dance. We will sing new songs and learn new actions. We can't wait for you to see it! We will each learn actions to accompany songs and individual dances that correspond to our roles in the performance.
This week we will continue to produce our own phonics booklets starting with the most frequent sounds that we have been learning over the last few weeks: s,a,t,p,i,n.
Literacy:
This week we will focus on the information we collect from the pondlife facts files and what we have learned about frogs and Dragonflies. We will share the story Bug life and learn about words that rhyme with bug. We will even try a new challenge-sounding out 'CVC' words and then finding them next to the correct picture such as...hug, jug, mug. I'm very proud of everyone for all their amazing progress with mark making and letter formation. Well done!
Phonics:
This week we will have lots of fun practising the sounds that letters make in our CVC words. We will practise segmenting like this j-u-g then blend back together as we match the word to our picture cards. Try to be Metal Mike the robot to help you to 'sound talk' each word like this: b-u-g, then blend slowly like this.....b....u...g to 'stretch out' the word first before repeating once again, 'bug!'
Our rhyming words are: bug. jug, hug, mug, plug and slug
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Mathematics:
This week we will Compare up to 5 different objects, compare by matching and then Match by type. We will Make the same set by matching and Recognise attributes of objects and begin to sort objects to a type.
Understanding the World:
This week we will explore under the surface of the pond, what lies underneath...fish, tadpoles, waterlilies, reeds, eggs. We will ask, what can I see?
Expressive Arts & Design:
This week we will enjoy creating glistening dragonfly pictures with cellophane and glitter.
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.
