Pre-School (3-4 year olds)
Our Amazing Work!
September 2026
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to Preschool! We are so proud of all the children who are settling into their new routines so well. They are also enjoying making new friends.
We are all looking forward to an exciting year ahead where your child will be learning in a fun and safe environment.
Our theme for this half term is ‘All About Me.’ Your child will be learning through play as well as taking part in practical adult led activities based on our mini weekly themes. See below for the weekly theme, the story and the song of the week:
Week 1 – All About Me – Brown Bear Brown Bear and Brush Your Teeth.
Week 2 – My Body – Baby Bear Baby Bear and Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
Week 3 – My Senses – Wow! Said the Owl and the Rainbow song
Week 4 – Pets – Hairy Maclary and Wind the Bobbin Up.
Week 5 – Family and Homes – Five Minutes Peace and Miss Polly Had a Dolly
Week 6 – Feelings – The Colour Monster and I’ve Got a Body
Week 7 – Harvest – The Enormous Turnip and If you’re happy and you know it
Week 8 – Autumn – Room on a Broom/Leaf Man and Incy Wincey Spider
We will be starting our ‘Colour of the Week!’ Your child can bring in a small named object which is the colour of the week. They can bring in an object once a week or every day! The item will be stored safely and returned to them at the end of the day.
The colours for this half term are as follows:
Week 3 – Week commencing 14th September – ‘red’
Week 4 – Week commencing 21st September – ‘yellow’
Week 5 – Week commencing 28th September – ‘blue’
Week 6 – Week commencing 5th October – ‘purple’
Week 7 – Week commencing 12th October – ‘orange’
Week 8 – Week commencing 19th October – ‘brown’
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Caine, Mrs Boyden, Mrs North, Mrs Bruce and Mrs Fogwill
The Preschool Staff
2025-2026
The Life Cycle of a Frog 🐸
Monday 1st June 2026
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you all had a relaxing half term break. We are looking forward to welcoming the children back and have lots of fun learning activities planned for our last half term! Our theme for this half term is ‘People Who Help Us.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes are as follows:
Week 1 – People who help us – The Grand Old Duke of York – Directional Language
Week 2 – Transport – The Wheels on the Bus – 2D Shapes
Week 3 – Seaside- Row, Row Your Boat – 3D Shapes
Week 4 – Summer – Down at the Station – Directional Language
Week 5 – Under the sea – 1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive – Positional Words
Week 6 – Pirates- I’m a pirate – Capacity
Week 7 – Superheroes – One, Two, Buckle My Shoe – Weight
In Preschool the teaching of early reading skills is prioritised by reading lots of rich, engaging stories as well as learning rhymes and singing songs with sound patterns. In addition, we will continue to follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. A new sound will be introduced each week during carpet time and repeated every day. We will find objects that begin with the sound. We will also play blending and rhyming games with the children. This will be followed up by small group opportunities to read and write the sound throughout the day. Please can you help your child to say and write the Little Wandle sounds as this will help them when they start Reception, where they will repeat the sounds again in the first term. We would also like you to continue to help your child to write their name regularly at home with a comfortable pencil grip saying ‘nip, flip and grip.’ Any support you can give your child will really help their progress.
Our sounds and 3D shapes of the week will be as follows:
Week 1 – sound qu and sphere
Week 2 – sound ch and cylinder
Week 3 – sound sh and cube
Week 4 – sound th and cone
Week 5 – end sound _ck and cuboid
Week 6 – sound x and pyramid
Week 7 – end sounds _ng and _nk and triangular prism
In maths, we will continue to count objects and match them to numbers 1 to 5 (and to 10 and 20), as well as revising other maths topics such as shape, pattern, size, length, weight and capacity. Your child can still bring in an object to show if it is related to our topic or to the sound of the week.
Don’t forget you can borrow a book from Preschool to share with your child once a week. Please can you send in the old book to swop for a new one. Please do not hesitate to come and speak to any of the Preschool staff if you have any questions or would like a chat. Our next ‘Special Man in my Life’ Stay and Play will be on Tuesday 16th June from 8.40 until 9.30. Your child can come with you to the Stay and Play even if it is not their session. Family members are welcome.
Thank you for your continued support,
The Preschool Staff
The children enjoyed making symmetrical butterflies using Numicon.
The children have loved learning all about dinosaurs this week! 🦖
Enjoying the new playground markings! 😍
Helping the Little Red Hen make the bread!
Monday 13th April 2026
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you all had a very happy Easter break. It is lovely to welcome the children back into Preschool and we have lots of fun learning activities planned for the summer term!
Our theme for this half term is ‘Plants, Flowers and Minibeasts.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes are as follows:
Week 1 – Plants – Jack and the Beanstalk
Week 2 – Farm – The Little Red Hen
Week 3 – Minibeasts – The Bad-Tempered Ladybird
Week 4 – Dinosaurs – Dinosaur Roar!
Week 5 – Life Cycle of a Butterfly – The Hungry Caterpillar
Week 6 – Life Cycle of a Frog – Oi Frog!
In Preschool the teaching of early reading skills is prioritised by reading lots of rich, engaging stories as well as learning rhymes and singing songs with sound patterns. In addition, we will continue to follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. A new sound will be introduced each week during the carpet time and repeated every day. We will find objects that begin with the sound. We will also continue to play games where the children learn to hear the first sound of a word as well as blending sounds to make words, plus rhyming games. This will be followed up by opportunities to read and write the sound throughout the day, for example, in their sensory play or on paper. Please continue to support your child using the sound sheets we send home as well as helping your child to write their name using a comfortable pencil grip, by saying ‘nip, flip and grip’ as this will really help your child to make progress and be Reception ready!
Our sounds and 2D shapes of the week are as follows:
Week 1 – sound l and circle
Week 2 – sound j and triangle
Week 3 – sound v and square
Week 4 – sound w and rectangle
Week 5 – sound y and pentagon
Week 6 – sound z and hexagon
Your child can still bring in an object to show if it is related to our sound or topic. We will continue to revisit reciting, touch counting, subitising and reading numbers up to 5, 10 and above. We will also have a maths focus each week.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the staff if you have any questions or just need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
The Preschool Staff.
Easter Egg Hunt! 😍
The children have enjoyed learning about the Muslim festival of Ramadan and Eid. They have built mosques out of 3D blocks, dressed up for an Eid party and performed a traditional Eid dance! 🌙
Spring Stay and Play 😍
Outdoor fun! 😍
Making two and three colour patterns with beads!
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful half term break. We are looking forward to welcoming the children back and have lots of fun learning activities planned!
Our theme for this half term is ‘Jungle and Pattern.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes and possible stories are as follows:
Week 1 – Jungle and Rainforest – Dear Zoo and Walking Through the Jungle
Week 2 – Safari – Handa’s Surprise
Week 3 – Spring and Mother’s Day – I Love My Mum and Come on Daisy
Week 4 – Ramadan and Eid
Week 5 – Easter – We’re Going on an Egg Hunt
We will also be continuing with our Sound of the Week. We would like you to go on a sound hunt and help your child to find a small object from inside or outside of the house beginning with the sound of the week. Please use the sound of the letter, for example ‘a’ for apple, and write your child’s name on the object. They can then bring it in to show. We will keep your child’s object safe and they will bring it home at the end of the day. Your child can bring in one object a week or a different object every day if they wish. We have a number of the week and we will be revisiting numbers 1 to 5. We will also have weekly maths topics which fit with our theme.
The sounds and numbers for each week for this half term are as follows:
Week 1 – Week commencing 23rd February – letter ‘u’ and number ‘6’
Week 2 – Week commencing 2nd March – sound ‘r’ and number ‘7’
Week 3 – Week commencing 9th March – sound ‘h’ and number ‘8’
Week 4 – Week commencing 16th March – sound ‘b’ and number ‘9’
Week 5 – Week commencing 23rd March – sound ‘f’ and number ‘10’
Our next Mother’s Day themed Stay and Play will be on Tuesday 10th March from 8.40 am until 9.30 am. You are welcome to bring your child in if it is not their session and take them home at the end.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the staff if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
The Preschool Staff.
The children loved making and decorating heart shaped biscuits for Valentine’s Day 🩷
The children have loved learning about Chinese New Year. They have danced with the dragon puppet, made Chinese lanterns and built the Great Wall of China! 🐲
The children enjoyed being space explorers in P.E. They jumped across planets, visited the dark side of the moon, collected stars and jumped past craters!
Outdoor fun! 😍
This week we have been learning about the season ‘Winter’ and it has been so cold! The children have loved rescuing all the animals stuck in the ice by cracking it with little hammers and watching it melt. ⛄️
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you had a wonderful and restful Christmas break. Thank you so much for our lovely gifts last term we really appreciated them all. We would also like to wish you all a Happy New Year! We are looking forward to welcoming the children back into Preschool and hearing all their news.
Our theme for this half term is ‘Winter, Day and Night.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before. Our mini weekly themes and possible stories are as follows:
Week 1 – Happy New Year, Winter and Hibernation – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Week 2 – Polar Regions – The Snow Queen/The Runaway Iceberg/Lost and Found
Week 3 – Day and Night – Peace at Last/Owl Babies/ A Tale of Two Feathers
Week 4 – Space – Whatever Next/Back to Earth with a Bump
Week 5 – Chinese New Year – The Chinese New Year Story
Week 6 – Valentine’s Day – The Story of St Valentine/Love Monster
This half term we will be continuing our Sound of the Week. We would like you to go on a sound hunt at home each week and help your child to find a small object which begins with the sound of the week, for example, ‘a’ for apple. They can then bring it in to show. Please can you name your child’s object. We will also have a Number of the Week and your child can bring in an object to show which is related to this as well if they would like to.
The sounds and numbers for this half term are as follows:
Week 1 – Week commencing 6th January – sound d and number 1
Week 2 – Week commencing 12th January – sound g and number 2
Week 3 – Week commencing 19th January – sound o and number 3
Week 4 – Week commencing 26th January – sound c and number 4
Week 5 – Week commencing 2nd February – sound k and number 5
Week 6 – Week commencing 9th February – sound e and numbers 1-5
Your child is welcome to choose a book from our class library to share with you each week, swopping an old book for a new one.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
The Preschool Staff
Christmas Stay and Play ✨😍
Christmas fun! 🎅
The children had so much fun on their trip to St. Peters Garden Centre. Spotting reindeer around the lake, whizzing around on the rides and of course meeting Santa!
The children have loved our story ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ They have built the three pigs houses, acted out the story and made their own paper plate pink pig by mixing red and white paint!
The children enjoyed the story ‘Goldilocks.’ They rocked and rolled like baby bear in P.E., they tasted and described porridge, they listened to instructions to draw their own baby bear, and they made messy porridge outdoors! 🐻
This week the children enjoyed learning about Diwali. They cleaned the house, made temples with 3D wooden blocks, painted simple mehndi designs and performed a Diwali dance!
Bonfire Art! 🔥
Monday 3rd November 2025
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you had a restful and enjoyable half term break. We have an exciting half term ahead with the build up to Christmas and have lots of fun activities planned!
Our theme for this half term is ‘Time to Rhyme.’ Our mini weekly themes are as follows:
Week 1 – Bonfire Night
Week 2 – Diwali
Week 3 – Goldilocks
Week 4 – The Three Little Pigs
Week 5 – The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Week 6 – Christmas
Week 7 – The Nativity
We will continue to share a story and learn a new rhyme or song each week, which the children love joining in with every day. We will also be continuing with our ‘Colour of the Week’ and your child can bring in a small named object which is the colour of the week.
We will be starting our phonics scheme ‘Little Wandle’ this half term. The children will take part in daily phonics games to hear the first sound in words, blend sounds to make words and play rhyming games also. We will be sending home weekly phonics sheets so you can consolidate your child’s learning. We will have a ‘Sound of the Week!’ We would like you to go on a sound hunt and help your child to find a small object beginning with the sound of the week. For example, ‘s’ for sock, and write your child’s name on the object if possible. They can then bring it in to show. We will keep your child’s object safe and return it to you at the end of the day.
The sounds and colours for this half term are as follows:
Week 1 – Week commencing 3rd November – ‘s’ ‘black’
Week 2 – Week commencing 10th November – ‘a’ and ‘grey’
Week 3 – Week commencing 17th November – ‘t’ and ‘gold’
Week 4 – Week commencing 24th November – ‘p’ and ‘pink’
Week 5 – Week commencing 1st December – ‘i’ and ‘green’
Week 6 – Week commencing 8th December- ‘n’ and ‘white’
Week 7 – Week commencing 15th December – ‘m’ and ‘silver’
We will continue to have a weekly maths focus as well as practise reciting, touch counting, subitising and reading numbers through our adult led activities and continuous provision.
Your child is welcome to borrow a book from our class lending library every week. They will need to return the old book to borrow a new one. Please continue to sing nursery rhymes and share a story daily with your child as this plays a key role in their development.
We will also be continuing with P.E. on a Tuesday morning (your child does not need a P.E. kit) and Forest School on a Thursday morning. Please can your child come to school wearing tracksuit bottoms or leggings, a warm waterproof coat (hat and gloves weather depending) and either bring wellies in for the day or leave them in Preschool. We will provide waterproof dungarees.
Our next Christmas themed Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 17th December from 8.40 to 9.30/40.
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support, The Preschool Staff.
Autumn Stay and Play 🍁😍
The children have been learning about emotions and enjoyed designing their own fruit faces!
Meeting Mrs Featherstone’s tortoises and learning how to look after them. 🐢
In Pre-School we have been learning about our 5 senses. We went on a treasure hunt to find things with our magnifying classes. We also used the view finders and described to a friend what we could see. Later in the day Mrs Mitchell hid some things in a feely bad and we had to guess what the things were by feeling them.
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to Preschool! We are so proud of all the children who are settling into their new routines so well. They are also enjoying making new friends. We are all looking forward to an exciting year ahead where your child will be learning in a fun and safe environment.
Our theme for this half term is ‘All About Me.’ Your child will be learning through play as well as taking part in practical adult led activities based on our mini weekly themes. See below for the weekly theme, the story and the song of the week:
Week 1 – All About Me – Brown Bear Brown Bear and Brush Your Teeth.
Week 2 – My Body – Baby Bear Baby Bear and Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
Week 3 – My Senses – Polar Bear Polar Bear and I’ve Got a Body
Week 4 – Pets – Hairy Maclary and Wind the Bobbin Up.
Week 5 – Family and Homes – Five Minutes Peace and Miss Polly Had a Dolly
Week 6 – Feelings – Wow Owl and the Rainbow Song
Week 7 – Harvest – The Enormous Turnip and If you’re happy and you know it
Week 8 – Autumn – Leaf Man and Incy Wincey Spider
We will be starting our ‘Colour of the Week!’ Your child can bring in a small named object which is the colour of the week. They can bring in an object once a week or every day. The item will be stored safely and returned to them at the end of the day.
The colours for this half term are as follows:
Week 3 – Week commencing 15th September – ‘red’
Week 4 – Week commencing 22nd September – ‘yellow’
Week 5 – Week commencing 29th September – ‘blue’
Week 6 – Week commencing 6th October – ‘purple’
Week 7 – Week commencing 13th October – ‘brown’
Week 8 – Week commencing 20th October – ‘orange’
Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Caine, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Featherstone, Mrs Lane and Mrs Bruce.
The Preschool Staff