Welcome to Pre-School
Spring Term in Pre-School
The inspirational texts on our Spring bookshelf will inspire our learning across the curriculum.
We are excited for another fun-filled term of learning and exploration in Pre-School.
We will continue to strive to make your child’s first experience in education special, continuing to develop their relationship with their teacher and other learning support assistants, who will support them and ensure that their emotional and academic needs are met daily.
Our aim is for your children to become confident learners and to carry their love of learning throughout their lives.
As well as following your unique children, their interests and what engages their learning. Our curriculum will be inspired by our Spring Bookshelf filled with exciting, high-quality texts, helping children to develop our Character Traits:
Published in 2025. This is MIchael Rosen’s newest book, ‘Oh Dear, look what I got!’, exploring repetition and rhyme.
Dr Seuss’ imaginative book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish explores numbers, colours and opposites whilst making us smile!
Jabari Tries, written by Gaia Cornwall, highlights patience, resilience and collaboration as Jabari, an inventor, does not succeed the first time, does not give up and asks for help.
Traditional tale ’The Little Red Hen’ written by Ronne Randall explores, teamwork, responsibility and kindness.
The Growing Story by Ruth Kraus is a celebration of life, growing and changing as a person and through the seasons.
‘Is it a Seed?’ by Emily Ann Davison, encourages us to become imaginative storytellers whilst exploring growth and the Spring season.
As our school year progresses, we will encourage the growth of new skills, resilience and understanding as part of the children’s development. We will also be looking at new life during Springtime, in both animals and plants. We will enjoy reading books and listening to stories. We will begin to learn about sound and rhythm.
Spring Learning at a glance
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Developing relationships. Understanding empathy, rules and needs.
Physical Development
Developing more complex movements. Fine motor skills. Independence in self-care.
Communication and Language
Telling longer stories, building vocabulary, understanding questions and explaining.
Literacy
Rhyme, alliteration and syllables. Giving meaning to marks. Understanding the concepts of print.
Mathematics
Subitising. Counting backwards and forwards. Shape and positional language. Noticing and continuing repeated patterns.
Understanding the World
Exploring the world, learning about different countries, cultures and traditions. Understanding events in my life and in different countries and cultures.
Understanding forces.
Expressive Arts and Design
Musical and movement using instruments. Drawing with increasing detail. Colour mixing.
Spring Term Highlights
- Tapestry and Instagram updates
- Opportunities to learn outside of the classroom
The Pre-School Team
Mrs Jones- Class Teacher
Miss McKenna- Learning Support Assistant
Miss Mosca- Learning Support Assistant
Mrs Barber- Learning Support Assistant
Mrs Talbot- Learning Support Assistant
Important Information
- Pre-School use Tapestry, an online journal, to share your child’s learning and Pre-School specific information. We also love to see photographs and videos from home to talk about and celebrate in Pre-School.
- Please ensure your child wears footwear suitable for outdoor play and sports.
- Wellington boots and waterproof coats will be required for outdoor learning.
- Important information will be shared through MCAS and our weekly school newsletter.
- Your child will receive a library book to enjoy reading at home, please return weekly to change their book on their allocated day. We would encourage you to read to your child every day to develop their love for reading.
- Pre-School children will enter school through their own classroom door. Please support a successful start to their day by being on time. Whilst we appreciate it can be tricky to say goodbye on some mornings, it can be helpful to keep this brief and for children to enter school independently from the moment they start.
- The children will be dismissed from their door, directly to their parent/carer. If the person collecting at the end of the day is different to usual, please inform the school’s admin team before pick-up so that Class Teachers are aware and know who to look out for.
- Mrs Jones and the Pre-School Team will be available every day before and after school to answer any questions, receive messages and celebrate successes.
As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Pre-School this term. Please speak to our admin team for access to the Pre-School Instagram feed @chps.preschool
Tapestry
You will receive personalised activation information from Tapestry to your registered email.