Pre-School

Welcome to our Pre-School Class Page, the place for you to find out all the amazing things that have and will be happening in your class this year.

So click on each of the headings to find out more information about the given topics.

Your Class Teachers

This year you are lucky enough to have two different teachers within your class. Mrs Harbidge will be your teacher Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Westwell will be your teacher Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Miss Davies is your full time teaching assistant in Preschool and Mrs Khan currently supports in Preschool in the mornings.

PE

Stretch and grow will take place after February half term on a Monday afternoon and a Friday morning. Please send your children in comfy active clothes so that they can join in!

We will be doing forest school every Wednesday so please come dressed appropriately - waterproofs, wellies and layers during the winter months.

Reading

It is important that your child builds up a love of books and reading for pleasure!

Reading to your child every night is so important to help to develop their communication and language skills. This is also a precious time for you to share with your child.

In school, we also share stories daily and base some of our learning around a chosen key text. We focus on orally re-telling the stories, adding actions and making marks to represent the characters and key parts.

Story bags will be given out to your child when they are a focus child for that week. This includes a book for you to share and enjoy with your child, as well as some other resources. Please look after the resources within the bag and return it on the Monday ready to be sent home with another child.

Curriculum

Our Spring Term topic focusses on Animals and our topic question is Who are the amazing animals that appear in my story?

Within this topic, the children will be learning about different animals, including pets, jungle and farm animals and sea creatures. We will be naming the different animals, talking about their habitats and learning what their animal babies look like. We will learn about the features of the different animals, i.e. the patterns on their skin to help us identify them and within our phonics we will be exploring our voices and making lots of animal noises. Each week we will focus on a different story that links to our weekly questions.

Our key text is:

Brown Bear, Brown Bear , what do you see? by Emma Dodd

Our Personal, Social and Emotional focus for this term will be...

To be able to mostly talk about his/her feelings in more elaborated ways, “I am sad because…” or “I love it when…
To safely explore emotions within his/her normal range through play and stories
To express their own preference and decisions. To try new things and start to establish their autonomy.
To begin to develop friendships with other children.

Our Communication and Language focus for this term will be...

To recognise and point to a range of objects if asked about them.
To focus on an activity of his/her choice and can be distracted by an adult.
To develop pretend play; ‘writing a receipt’ or ‘paying using the till’ and pretending to use everyday objects on themselves
To understands simple questions about who, what and where most of the time

Our Physical Development focus for this term will be...

To join in moving to music i.e. clapping, stamping, jumping
To use large and small motor skills to do things independently, most of the time, e.g. manages buttons and zips, and pours drinks
To kick and throw balls
To explore a range of wheels toys i.e. bike and scooters

Our Literacy focus for this term will be...

To enjoy listening to different sounds through rhymes and stories
To explore and share a range of different books independently and with adults or peers
To explore making marks with different media and to draw freely with a range of resources beginning to give meaning to their marks.
To engage in daily phase 1 phonics activities focussing on voice sounds and environmental sounds.

Our Maths focus for this term will be...

To begin to show counting like behaviour such as making sounds, pointing or saying some numbers in sequence.
To compare sizes, weights etc using gesture and language – ‘bigger/little/smaller’, ‘high/low’, ‘tall’, ‘heavy’
To begin to count in everyday contexts and take part in finger rhymes with numbers.
To begin to notice patterns and explore arranging things in patterns.
To begin to compare amounts saying ‘lots’ or ‘more’

Our Understanding the world focus for this term will be...

To recall and talk about significant past events such as trips, celebrations, family outings
To explore what happens to the immediate environment in Spring
To share special events and festivals that they celebrate and learn about other festivals
To develop new relationships and friendships
To get involved in sensory experiences in the classroom
To explore the indoor and outdoor environment in the classroom
To use photographs to talk about their family focussing on any pets they may have.
To begin to notice the animals and plants in their local environment
Our Expressive, Arts and Design focus for this term will be...
To begin exploring music and sound through playing instruments, joining in with songs and rhymes and moving their body to music
To engage in some real life pretend play, role playing their own personal experiences.
To access the mark making and creative areas in the classroom
To use a range of different media when mark making