Pre-school - Mrs Ward 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Little Acorns Pre School

Hello everyone and welcome to Little Acorns Pre School website page. 

We hope that you have had a lovely Christmas with your children and we are really looking forward to seeing you back at Little Acorns.

We will use Seesaw to communicate any important information as it arises, days or events to look out for and to let you know what we have been doing each day. Please feel free to contact any of us via Seesaw and we will respond in our working day. If you need to get an urgent message to us then please phone the office and Miss Eden will contact us straight away.

Our school day begins at 9am and ends at 3pm. Our snack time is 10:15am, the children are offered fresh fruit, milk or water. We will also provide drinks at lunchtime but please send your child with a water bottle so that they can access water throughout the day if they wish.

We wear slippers in the classroom so please feel free to bring some in to leave in school. As the weather changes, please make sure your child has a coat, hat, gloves and wellies as we do go out in all weathers.

Our PE days are Wednesday and Friday so please make sure your child is wearing trainers on these days, thankyou :)

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Our topic for this half term is 'People who help us' and we will be reading lots of stories and doing lots of activities based on this theme across the ciriculum. 

Our literacy programme is write dance - this is a pre-writing programme that supports young children's physical development. Each week there is a different story, dance and material to mark make with which we will video and pop on Seesaw.

In maths we will be looking at matching, grouping, counting, basic 2d shapes, composition of numbers to 3 and simple repeating patterns. We also sing lots of counting and number songs and bring mathematical vocabulary into the setting wherever possible.

We deliver concept cat, which introduces the children to new vocabulary and it is taught in a structured and engaging manner using songs, stories and play based activites. The word of the week will sent out on Seesaw if you want to discuss it at home.

We teach letters and sounds Phase 1 phonics. Each morning the children will listen to environmental sounds, play rhyming games, make different sounds using different materials, match sounds, compare sounds, play games such as I spy and learn to 'Fred Talk'. Phase 1 phonics prepares the children for their formal ReadWriteInc phonics journey which preschool will begin in the summer term.

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Best wishes, Mrs Ward & Miss Andrews x