Little Cherries Preschool

Welcome to Little Cherries Preschool!


Class Teacher: Mrs Dawn

dsheehan@bewickbridge.co.uk

Preschool teaching assistants: Miss Hartley, Miss Finch, Miss Liu & Mrs West

This half-term, we will be embarking on the topic

 ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ 

 we will learn about transport and travel, measuring, and space!


Some of the key things we will be learning about are: 




In Communication Language and Literacy:

Please continue to borrow books from preschool to share with your child. 


Read Write Inc:   Please look at set 1 sounds located in the virtual classroom on our website. We will be introducing Set 1 through continuous provision and a letter of the week. 


In maths, we will be continuing with the ‘Master the Curriculum’ programme of learning; we will learn about:




In Expressive Arts and Design we will explore:


Mechanisms/ mechanical systems: exploring moving toys, making a simple wind catcher


In PE we will explore dance

English

In English, this half term our key text is ‘Aliens Love Underpants' During our circle times we will spend time reading, recalling and extending thinking around key themes in the story. 

Maths

In preschool, mathematical learning takes place through child initiated play, by exploring size, number, shape, patterns and solving problems.

We also develop our mathematical skills through stories, songs and rhymes .

In addition we deliver a Maths Mastery curriculum to enable children to develop key skills in mathematical concepts. 

Nursery-MTP-Year-overview.pdf

Communication, Language and Literacy

These are some of the ways that we develop communication, language and literacy skills in preschool:

Supporting learning at home

Partnership between home and preschool is extremely beneficial to your children's development. We will share photos with you on Tapestry and we would love you to share your child's learning and experiences from home on Tapestry as well.


These are some ways you can support your child's learning at home:



Some websites you might find useful:

https://cambspboro.50thingstodo.org/app/os# 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people


Reminders




Meet the Teacher 

Copy of Meet the teacher Little Cherries 2023_24.pdf