Newsletter June 2023
Welcome back to Pre-school. I hope you all had a lovely half term break and enjoyed the sunshine!
I would like to welcome our new children and their families to Pre-school this month.
Focus: We have had a delivery of some very tiny caterpillars and for the coming week we will be looking closely at these and learning about the life cycle of the butterfly. Our focus story will be ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and we will also be tasting the fruit he eats in the story and counting out the correct amounts. After this we will move on to the topic of under the sea. We will be exploring our own rockpool and naming the fish and animals we find in it. We will do shell rubbings and learn about the number 8 as each child makes their own octopus, counting out the 8 legs they need. We will paint bubble wrap to make water like prints that we will stick our own colourful fish on to. Two of focus stories will be ‘Sharing a Shell’ and ‘Commotion in the Ocean.’
Some of the children will continue to take part in more focused phonics sessions at their own level where we will be practising listening skills as a priority but also learning letter sounds and copying/writing letters from their names and other words if the children are ready. The children will also learn about rhyme. As I said in in my last newsletter, we will be basing some of our plans around the early stages of the ‘Read Write Inc’ phonics’ programme which is used in Bollinbrook Primary School and if you google ‘Read Write Inc guide for parents’ there is lots of information on the website. If your child is going to school in September, they will be borrowing some early reading books from our library over the next few weeks, and you will be receiving a separate letter about these books when they bring their first one home.
Transition Visits: If you child is going to Bollinbrook Primary School in September you should now have received details of their transition visits. If their visit falls on the day that they are usually in Pre-school we can drop off and collect them from school if you wish us too. Please let me know if you require us to do this.
Sun Cream: If the weather forecast is for sunny weather could you please ensure you have applied long lasting sun cream to your child before they come into Pre-school and that they have a named bottle of sun cream in their bag. Could you also send them in with a sun hat. If your child is in Pre-school all day, we can help them re apply cream after lunch.
Spare clothes: Could you ensure that your child always has a spare set of clothes in their bags. We will be exploring lots of water activities over the coming weeks and could well need them! Please also ensure that outer clothes, particularly coats, hats and the Pre-school sweatshirts and cardigans are named, as well as lunch boxes, drink bottles and any containers within them. Thank you.
Leavers Assembly and Picnic: On Friday 21st of July we will be holding a Leaver’s celebration for those children leaving us for Primary School. The children can come in at 9 as usual and then the celebration will start at 11.30am with a picnic afterwards and all parents are invited to attend. After the picnic the children can go home. All children who are leaving us are invited, even if they do not normally attend on a Friday. Pre-school closes for all other children on Thursday 20th July.
Dates for the diary:
Pre-school closes for younger children: Thursday 20th July
Leaver’s Assembly and Picnic: Friday 21st July
Caroline Bickerton Pre-school Manager
