Chestnut Class (Preschool)

Welcome to Chestnuts!

Pre-school is run by Mrs Trigg. Mrs Trigg is in Pre-school every day (Mon - Thurs with the children) and Friday mornings working on planning and admin. 

We have  our main forest school session on a Wednesday afternoon where we join up with Willow class. During the rest of the week we aim to spend sometime in Forest School for outdoor learning, for those who don't attend our main Forest School session. 

The children will be having a PE session on a Monday morning 11.30 -12.00. 

We use the online journal Tapestry to take observations of the children’s development and share them with you and we also have our own Instagram account for sharing photographs of our learning.

 A typical day looks like this:

Our Curriculum

In Chestnuts we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage. Our curriculum is organised thematically, using a book or traditional story as our inspiration. We plan activities linked to the book as well as planning to follow children's interests.  A theme usually lasts a term, with a focus book lasting a fortnight which allows children enough time to become familiar with a text (especially if they are part time attenders). 

Our themes for the Autumn Term:

 Autumn term 1  - Traditional Tales

• The Ghanaian Goldilocks
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Rapunzel

 Autumn term 2 - Traditional Tales

• The Princess and the Pea
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Chicken Licken
• The Gingerbread Man

If you have any of these stories at home, feel free to read them with your child during the weeks that we are focusing on them.

We will also be focusing on a different nursery rhyme each fortnight, to build up the children's repertoire during their time in Chestnuts. 

Autumn Term 1