Foxes Pre-School 2024 - 2025
Mrs Webster Foxes
Hello, my name is Mrs Webster and I have worked at Woodlands for many years, both in Nursery and Reception. I have a passion for Early Years Education and giving each child the very best start to their school life!
In my spare time I love running, baking and spending time with my husband and our two daughters, Freja and Klara. I also have a little puppy, Lottie, who I love taking for long walks. In the holidays, I enjoy visiting my family and friends in Sweden where I grew up. I am really excited to get to know all of the children in Foxes and I am looking forward to an amazing year together!
A very warm welcome to Foxes Pre-School!
We would like to give a very warm welcome to Foxes Pre-School children. The children are very lucky to work alongside a team of experienced professionals who move between the spaces and provide lots of opportunities to have fun, explore and learn.
Summer Term
Literacy
During our Literacy sessions, we will be focussing on the text, 'Silly doggy!' by Adam Stower.
This is a very cute story about a little girl named Lily, who desperately wants a dog and is thrilled when she finds one in her garden one morning. Of course, the reader knows that Lily's doggy is really a bear, but Lily insists in taking him for walks, playing fetch and trying to teach him tricks.
Literacy Mastery Targets For Summer:
Use some of their print and letter knowledge in their early writing.
Write some or all of their name
Write some letters accurately
Develop their phonological awareness, so they can:
-spot and suggest rhymes
-count or clap syllables in a word
-recognise words with the same initial sound, such as money and mother.
Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.
Maths Targets For Summer:
Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, without having to count them individually (‘subitising’).
Know that the last number reached when counting a small set of objects tells you how many there are in total (‘cardinal principle’).
Show ‘finger numbers’ up to 5.
Link numerals and amounts for numbers 1-5.
Experiment with their own symbols and marks as well as numerals.
Compare quantities using language: ‘more’ and ‘less’.
Talk about and explore 2D shapes using informal and mathematical language: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’.
Understand position through words alone.
Discuss routes and locations, using words like ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’.
Describe a familiar route.
P.E
Please make sure that your child wears their PE kit to school on their PE day (Tuesday will be an indoor kit and Thursday will be an outdoor kit).
Indoor kit: a white t-shirt, black shorts, pumps and socks (or anything suitable).
Outdoor kit: plain, dark coloured jogging bottoms, a jumper or hoody and outdoor trainers and socks (or anything suitable).
Polite requests:
Please send your child with a labelled bag and water bottle (water only). Could you also provide your child with spare clothes and a nappy/pull up, nappy sack and wipes if your child is not yet toilet trained.
Please label ALL of your child's belongings.
Please inform of any changes in advance of the adult that will be collecting at the end of the day (Children under the age of 16, will not be permitted to collect a child).
The outdoor environment is set up prior to arrival, please do not allow your child to play on the equipment.
As part of their curriculum, the children are encouraged to access outdoors, exploring and learning about the environment. We like to take the children outside whether it's sunny, rainy, windy or snowy. Having a coat in school will facilitate this.
Please encourage independence with health and self-care, including dressing and toileting.
We value your contributions to your child's learning journal. Each class has an E-mail address (see below) to allow you to send us pictures of your children doing things at home. You can also add pictures and activites to your child's Tapestry.
foxes@woodlands.cheshire.sch.uk
