Pre-School
Welcome to Pre-School!
Pre-School Lead: Jane Bland
Mrs Smith - Preschool Deputy
Mrs Griffiths - EYFS Practitioner
Miss Elliott - EYFS Practitioner
Knowledge Organiser Autumn 1
Summer
Week commencing 1st June 2026
This week as part of our topic work, we have begun our focus on heroes and adventures and looked at Valentina Tereshkova and adventures into space.
We have been reusing plastic bottles to make rockets. We decorated the bottle and planned carefully how we would like to decorate our rockets and what material we could use to attach it together. We learnt about all of the different parts of a rocket and then blasted them off to see how far they could fly. Thank you to everyone who brought bottles in for us to use.
We used our fingers to mark make in galaxy sand and drew pictures relating to space of rockets, planets, shooting stars and aliens.
In our creative area we have been using chalk to create space pictures. We looked closely at pictures of the galaxy to see what colours we should use and then drew our picture using different methods with the chalk.
Our book of the week has been Hello Mr Moon. The book talks about the different stages of the moon each month and how its shape appears to change.
The children enjoyed the storm this week and learnt how thunder and lightning is made. They have since been very busy exploring the puddles and mud that has been left, making mud pies in the mud kitchen, writing our names in mud and splashing in puddles.
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Week commencing 22nd May 2026
This week as part of our topic work, we have continued our focus on wild animals and in- particular elephants and turtles. We used descriptive words to describe the elephants and found out some interesting facts in our non-fiction animal books.
Our story of the week has been, ‘Elmer and the Tune, by David McKee’. We have been decorating our own Elmer elephants using cotton buds and paint and practising humming different tunes like in the story.
To help develop our early writing skills we have been using tweezers to pick up pom-poms and feed a very hungry toy elephant, whilst talking about what elephants in the jungle really like to eat and how they use their trunks.
In our loose parts area, we have been looking closely at turtle shells and decorating turtle pictures to make different patterns.
Whilst exploring wild space we played, the floor is lava and practiced our balancing skills and quick moving.
Have a lovely half term break, and we look forward to seeing you when we are back, the week commencing 1st June 2026.
Week beginning 27th April
This week as part of our topic work, we learned about woodland areas. We discovered what animals live in the woodland and explored the effects that humans can have on woodland spaces and what we can do to save our wood.
In our creative area we have been exploring the texture of clay and manipulating it to create a hedgehog using beads and match sticks, we are very proud of how our hedgehogs look. We have also been using paint and thin paintbrushes to create woodland pictures.
In the garden we have been exploring a woodland tuff tray with woodland animals. We added rubbish to the tray and used litter pickers to clean up the woodland. We spoke about the effects the rubbish will have on the animals and the woods and what we can do to keep our woodlands tidy. The children decided that we all need to take our rubbish home after we have had a picnic in the woods.
After thinking about the effects that humans can have on the woods, we had to rescue the animals from the diggers as they were coming to destroy the woodland and we made bridges using toilet rolls and lolli-sticks for the animals to walk along to get to safety.
As part of our school readiness, we have started to provide milk and water in open cups during snack time. The children have enjoyed pouring their own drinks and having the choice between either milk or water. They have also been very helpful and washed up their cups and jugs.
We hope you have a lovely bank holiday weekend.
Week Commencing 20th April 2026
This week as part of our topic work, we learned about the farm. We discovered the names of baby animals on the farm and spoke about where our food comes from. We found out that farmers are very busy, with lots of jobs to do including looking after the animals, sowing seeds and collecting eggs from the chickens.
Our story of the week has been, ‘A squash and a squeeze, by Julia Donaldson ’. We have been squashing and squeezing playdough with our fingers to get our finger muscles working, and using tongs to squash and squeeze Pom poms into different containers.
In our creative area we have been painting pictures of the farm using hay.
The weather has been lovely this week so we enjoyed the outside by making marks in the shaving foam trays with farm animals in them and then cleaning the animals with small sponges and pippets. We also explored a small world farm tray, thinking about what the farmers jobs are, and where each of the animals live on a farm.
We were very excited to have a lesson on the life education bus; where we learnt about taking care of ourselves. We also got to meet Harold the Giraffe and helped him to look after himself.
What a busy week!!
Spring 2
Spring 1
