Key workers

Every child and family has an allocated key worker especially to help with you and your child's journey through pre-school. Every child will be supported with their learning, emotions, any problems, and achievements. All staff will know about all children's needs, and they are all involved in all children.

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 Read to your child, take your child to the library, play with your child using magnetic letters, help your child learn the alphabet (lower case), teach your child numbers and counting, teach your child songs, poems or nursery rhymes, paint or draw with your child.  

When teaching writing, except for the initial of their name, all other letters are lower case...

All children will have a paper learning journal for their time at pre school. Their achievements, photos, fun times they have had, will all be recorded in this, by their key worker. Parents/carers are encouraged to look through these once a term, and comment on their child's progress.

When children start to use a pencil it is very important that they hold it in the correct way. The pencil should be held in the ‘tripod’ grip between the thumb and first two fingers. The grip is the same for both left and right handed children. If a child’s hold starts the wrong way, it is very difficult to correct later on .

Sing to your child, simple nursery rhymes, read simple books to your child, especially ones they can join in. when you ask your child a question, wait 7 seconds before they answer, so they can have time to process their reply.