Pre-School 2026 - 2027

Miss Belcher

I am excited to return to Pre-School this year. I have been in the Early Years team for 7 years and help aid the children with transition into wrap around care. I live in the village with my family and we love to explore.

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.

Welcome to Pre-School Autumn Term 2 2026

We have started our Autumn Term 2 topic 'Celebrations and Light' and we have lots of lovely learning and play activities planned for you.

Please scroll down to view the topic web.

We have lots to look forward to this half-term including our Christmas Performance which will take place in December.

Pre-School Parents' Evenings - Wednesday 25^th November and Wednesday 2^nd December - (Any questions please email the main office)

Christmas Fair - Friday 4^th December - more information to follow

EYFS Christmas Performance- Wednesday 2nd December and Thursday 3^rd December at 2.15pm. Ticket letters have been sent home.

Routines,Reminders & Messages:

Passwords- We require a password for every child. If you have not provided a password on your registration form then please inform the office via telephone or email and we can update your information.
Changes to collection arrangements - If there are any changes to collection arrangements for your child then we must have a password and please let us know the details in advance.
Lunches - If you would like to order a school lunch for your child then please look at the Pre-School menu on the website and complete any payments via Scopay. If you require any assistance then please contact the school office. New Scopay accounts require a code which the office will provide for you once your child has enrolled in Sepetmber.
School Spider App- Please ensure that you have uploaded the School Spider App at your earliest convenience. General messages and information from both Pre-School and the main school will be communicated to you.
Book Bags - By the end of the first full week at Pre-School every child will have enjoyed a short group read session and will be provided with a book bag for the year. Please read the letter inside and look at the news book together. There is a short guide to what to expect and which day to bring your child's book bag back into school.
Reading for Pleasure - Your child will choose a 'Reading for Pleasure' to share with you at home. During the Autumn term the selection of books we provide will specifically focus on skills such as observing the pictures, the textures and discovering what's behind the flaps. Enjoy sharing the simple repetitive phrases and sentences together and discussing what they can see. We will record the book that you have shared in a column on the inside of their news book and you can keep it safe at home for that week.
Phase 1 Phonics- We will be learning about how to tune in to the sounds around us both inside and outdoors. Any contributions of Pine Cones, small twigs, bark and shells or pebbles would be gratefully received.
- 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, this will be accessible by the end of this week. If your child attends another setting then 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 November 2026
  
  'This week we will explore night’

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This week we will continue with our new nursery rhyme 'The Grand Old Duke of York' repeating phrases and recalling the actions. We will add actions to the song ' Super Singers' and practise answering simple questions about the pictures in our new story this week 'Cuddle up tight' and our information book ‘My Night’.

Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

We will be playing alongside other children in role play activities with our colour monster resources, looking at the colour Pink and how it makes us feel love. We will repeat calm breathing techniques and talk about how to be a kind friend. We will enjoy talking about night time and how we get ourselves ready for bed.

Physical Development:

This week we will be learning how to create textures with different resources including rough/soft materials We will also enjoy making hedgehogs with leaves and snipping at them with scissors to make them look spiky. Our pattern this week is a sloping line pattern that is made up of straight lines that lean to the side and as we join them together they look like mountains.

Literacy:

This week we will continue to look at our capital letter written down and practise forming them with our whiteboard marker pens. We will enjoy the rhyming story 'Snuggle Up Tight ' and repeat rhyming phrases that the baby panda says. Look out for the list of words to share with your child in their new news and phonics book.

Phonics:

This week we will sing our new song 'Ready Steady Stop' and 'listen to the sounds' made by clapping and tapping on our instruments. We will begin to guess the sound made with by covering our eyes as we distinguish between two different sounds. We will also start to clap along to the beat.

Mathematics:

This week we will explore repeats in patterns. We will share the story Dig, Dig, Digging by Margaret Mayo. This text encourages children to recall and repeat words and phrases that help them to explore how patterns are made. We will also join in with repeats in songs such as ‘BINGO’ and copy the patterns as we clap for each letter sound. We will make line patterns as we build roads and bridges for vehicles and print with wooden blocks.

Understanding the World:

This week we will continue to talk about night time. We will enjoy looking at our fact book and discover which animals come out at night and to think about what we do at night-time as our bedtime routines.

Expressive Arts & Design:

This week we will discover how to use the junk modelling materials to create a new design to fit our salt dough hedgehogs. We could make a house or bed for them to hibernate in.

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.

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