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 February 2025

'This week we explore being a doctor'

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Communication & Language:

This week we will learning about the role of doctors at GP Surgery’s and at hospital. We will be watching CBBies very own DR Raj as a starting point to talk about how doctors can help us and how important their jobs are. From information books will pick out words to practise during role play and learn about what they mean such as 'waiting room' and 'surgery' and using props such as bandages and toy stethoscopes and thermometers. We will use questions such as; How are you feeling? and how can I help you?

   Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

This week we will enjoy learning about looking after ourselves and what foods we can eat to help us to stay fit and strong. We will explore how we may feel if we have had an accident or when we need treatment as we may feel worried or scared. We will use the Colour monster story to help us stay calm like the green monster. We will also enjoy celebrating how much we love our mums! We will enjoy a story called 'Why I Love My Mummy' by Daniel Howarth and practise saying I love my mum because...she holds my hand, she takes me to nice places, she plays with me and many more reasons that we share with the animals in the story.

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. The children will discuss first what each of the new words mean and then match them to the doctor’s equipment. You can read each word to your child when they bring their activity home to you.

Literacy:

This week we will enjoy the wonderful story Dazzling Diggers by Tony Mitton and we will explore the different types of diggers and the jobs they do. We will get busy creating and building a 'small digger world' and a 'big digger' world to play with and we will practise carrying out tasks such as clearing sites and carrying heavy loads. We will move each digger around in anti- clockwise directions and follow instructions to cross pathways and move along roads. 

Phonics:

This week we will have lots of fun exploring how to make the pure sound 'd', using are tongue tip correctly pushed up behind out teeth and switching our voices on in the throat area. We will also use actions to help us as we will pretend to 'play our drum kit as we make the 'd,d,d' sound with pretend drum sticks. We will enjoy navigating through a 'dinosaur stomp' rhyme and playing our drums as we say many words such as digger, dinosaur, dog, dolly etc.

  Mathematics:

This week we will start our exploration of Mass, we will start by introducing Balance Scales and we will explore what happens when we put different objects in them. We will then practise using the words heavier and lighter and explore objects to determine which object is heavier and which is lighter. We will enjoy singing one of our favourite songs 'Head, shoulders knees and toes and 'One finger, one thumb. 

    Understanding the World:

This week we will learn all about people who help us in doctor’s surgery’s and hospitals. We will use a variety of technology and media to research information and facts about each type of job and talk about the information with our friends and teachers.

   Expressive Arts & Design:

We will collage and paint with a variety of different tissues to create a beautiful Mother’s Day card. We will role play with the doctor’s surgery role play props and writing materials. Each child will have the opportunity to practise being a patient or a doctor and will enjoy acting out real life scenarios and caring for each other.

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.