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 31st of March 2025

'This week we explore how to be a baker amd Easter '

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Communication & Language:

This week we will learn about the role of bakers at bakery’s, shops and cafés. We will watch videos about baking and discover how they make hot cross buns, chocolate Easter nests and chocolate treats. We will talk about the Easter bunny and learn new words like Easter egg hunt, nest, shoot, bud, blossom and how to follow a recipe.

   Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

This week we will also have lots of fun playing a game called ‘Easter Bunny Where are you?’. We will sit in a circle, the Easter Bunny will sit in the middle and close their eyes and listen carefully to try to guess who has said ‘Easter Bunny, where are you?’.

Physical Development:

This week we will enjoy playing the bunny hop game making them fast and slow to the rhythm of the music and the beat of the tambourine. We will also join in with the Easter bunny dance copying the actions. Our scissor skills challenge will be to cut around eggs and placing them on a trail. We will also enjoy following different pencil patterns on our Easter egg designs.

Literacy:

This week we will enjoy the delightful rhyming story of The Very Hungry Caterpillars Easter picnic by Eric Carle. The children will really love enjoy this funny playful story that adds little springtime challenges to complete…where are the eggs in nests, blossom on trees and daisies swaying in the breeze. As we explore the caterpillar having his Easter picnic we can look out for the many Easter eggs hiding in the pictures. We will move across the page of the book together and read each phrase.

Phonics:

This week we will have lots of fun exploring how to make the pure sound 'c’, using our tongue correctly pushed up at the back of our mouths. We will enjoy playing our I spy game together as we say many words such as caterpillar, cat, cup and many more. We hope you enjoy playing eye spy together!

  Mathematics:

This week we will begin our last few days on consolidating how to subitise and the names of numerals to 5. We will practise seeing different amounts and saying what we can see. We can also try challenges like numerals out of order and matching them to the correct amount to 5.

    Understanding the World:

This week 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 blossom trees and discuss what colours the blossom is and talk about the scent too. 

   Expressive Arts & Design:

We will collage with tissues and other craft materials to create a beautiful blossom pictures for our Springtime gallery area.

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.