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 16th of March 2026

'This week we explore being a vet and looking after our pets!

Communication & Language:

This week we will learning about the role of vets at Surgery’s and at animal hospitals. We will be watching videos about caring for a variety of pets and we will talk about how vets can help our pets and how important their jobs are. We will use questions such as what type of pet do you have? Do you know how to look after them?.What does every pet need to be healthy and safe? Food, water, exercise and love will be our main points of discussion about a variety of animals.

   Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

This week we will enjoy learning about look after our pets and what foods they can eat to help them to stay fit and strong. We will explore how much we love our pets at home and how we help to look after them. We will be performing a variety of new songs and enjoy taking part in movement and yoga based around animals. We will also focus on the Relax kids process of massage and how stroking our pets and showing them, we care is a great way to feel happy and positive.

Physical Development:

This week we will enjoy playing team games and exercising our bodies to keep them fit and strong. We will also learn about how our body feels when we have exercised and how it is different from when we are still. We will add challenges to our movement through acting like different animals such as horses, snakes, dogs and rabbits.We have been so impressed with everyone's progress with their cutting skills, so this week we will enjoy a different challenge. The children will first discuss which pets we can see in the pictures then match them to the typical types of food they might eat.

Literacy:

This week we will enjoy the wonderful story of Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell and we will explore the different types of animal’s pets and the sounds and behaviours that link with them. We will get busy creating and building a 'small pet world and surgery' and even create our own letters and postcards to send the zoo for a pet of our choice. Our small tray challenges this week will explore the prints of small world dog figures and pathways that they might complete, going around and up and down.

Phonics:

This week we will have lots of fun exploring how to make the pure sound 'g', using are tongue correctly pushed up at the top of our mouths and switching our voices on in the throat area. We will also use actions to help us as we will pretend to 'wrap a scarf around' as we make the 'g,g,g,' sound with our fingers in the air. We will enjoy navigating through a 'gurgling' rhyme and playing our bingo game together as we say many words such as garden, gate, goose green and many more.

  Mathematics:

This week we will be continuing our exploration of shape space and measure. We will practise matchimg simple shapes, push shapes and blocks together and make simple arrangements. We will also talk about arrangements, follow simple routes outside and follow toys around a simple route. We will enjoy using cars and trains and sharing the journeys of the Red Train and the Naughty Bus in our maths stories this week.

    Understanding the World:

This week we will learn all about people who help us in vet’s surgery's and how we look after our pets at home. We will use a variety of technology and media to research information and facts about each type of pet and draw and write about our favourite animal or pet. What does every pet need to be healthy and safe? Food, water, exercise and love will be our main points of discussion about a variety of animals.

   Expressive Arts & Design:

We will enjoy creating a shell design and we will talk about the patterns and colours that we have chosen to decorate our shell. We will role play with the vet’s surgery role play props and writing materials. Each child will have the opportunity to practise taking a soft toy pet to the vets and will enjoy acting out real life scenarios and caring for animals.

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.