We started the week with the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk where Jasper the cat decides to plant a bean on the Monday and by the end of the week when it hasn’t grown after all the care and attention he has given it, decides to dig it up again. Eventually after a long time it […]

Shapes, numbers, size, position it’s everywhere around us. And this week we enjoyed activities inside and out to stimulate the children’s curiosity and confidence about both their mathematical knowledge and language. Using a variety of our resources in order to appeal to all the children they explored counting and combining groups of objects, shapes of […]

Ascott Pre-School were honoured when the Queen found time in her busy schedule to visit us on her 90th Birthday! She was guest of honour at our tea party and joined the children in enjoying some delicious food, we think her favourite was the hula hoops. The children were primed for her visit and had […]

The long awaited 21st day arrived and we came into Tiddy Hall on Monday to the sound of cheeping! Great excitement all around and the staff were like mother hens! We removed the egg shells from the incubator and revisited how the little chicks got out of the shell by using their egg tooth – […]

This week we have enjoyed learning about Jungles whilst creating some lovely art projects…. Parrot figures with bright feathers, a huge brightly coloured snake and a bright orange orang-utan which will take pride of place on one of the board displays at Pre-School. We have also learnt two new songs, ‘there was a terrible crocodile’ […]

Well, the week began celebrating Chinese New Year…….Year of the Monkey. All the children got to make a monkey mask, they listened very well placing the eyes above the nose & nearly all put the smiley mouth below the nose…with a couple of exceptions! The Chinese restaurant was out again – some cooked, others served, […]