Pre-School 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Pre-School Summer Term 2 2025 

Date for your diary for Reception 2025 starters: Pre-School Graduation Thursday 3rd of 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 7th of June, please complete the consent box on Scopay and your donation will gratefully be accepted.

Routines, Reminders & Messages for Children starting Reception in September

• Pre-School Graduation/Leavers Celebration - Thursday the 3rd 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! orders need to be in by Friday the 20th of June
• 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 18^th of June, Thursday the 26th June and Wednesday 2^nd 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 all school books to be returned during 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 - If you are new to Rode Heath Pre-School then please look out for an email with instructions on how to get started. As always, please let us know if you have any problems.

Our Learning Journey

Week Commencing: Monday 30th of June 2025

'This week we will explore...'Croak the Musical?' 

Communication & Language:

This week we will discover a variety of new words and phrases through the sharing of our leavers performance Story. We will read at 'Croak, a right ribbiting musical', it is the story of Speedy the tadpole and his friends that live in the Summer Garden. We will enjoy learning about the insects and what their role is in the story. The ladybirds help the plants to grow, the bees make honey and much more!

   Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

This week we will be practising working as a team and sharing our ideas. We will all work towards our star certificates and think about how to help a friend in the classroom.

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!

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 focus on writing senetnces for our roles in teh musical startin wth I am a...frog and so on, as we copy and trace some of the letters and sounds that we have been explroing this term. We will even try a new challenge-taking turns to sound out rhyming 'CVC' words and then finding them next to the correct picture such as...hat, cat, mat, . 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 h-a -t then blend back together as we match the word to our picture cards. Please see the list of words provided for you to have fun with at home. Don't forget to pretend to be Metal Mike the robot to help you to 'sound talk' each word like this: c-a-t, then blend slowly like this.....c....a...t to 'stretch out' the word first before repeating once again, 'cat!'

Our rhyming words are: cat, mat, hat, pat, sat, splat

  Mathematics:

This week we will explore what comes before? We will practise counting along a number of lines including using the song 10 green bottles. We will identify what comes before the number that they know. Can we count backwards numbers form 5? what about counting backwards from 10? 

    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.

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.