Our Space topic started with a cardboard box rocket and space station attachment with lots of pulleys, dials, silver foil and star lights – the children enjoyed painting the rocket themselves with white and silver paint, even decorating the inside! The children made ‘gadgets’ out of small boxes with silver foil and ribbon with discs […]

Ni Hao, This week Pre-School celebrated Chinese New Year; we are leaving the Year of the Snake and moving into the Year of the Horse. Many, many thanks to Lucy who came in to talk to the children about our topic, she taught them how to make the words ‘big’, ‘small’ and ‘person’ in Chinese, […]

This week the children have been investigating ‘Under the Sea’. There were lots of good suggestions from them for names of underwater creatures. They have all joined in with dancing to ‘watery’ music whilst pretending to be crabs, puffer fish, eels, little fish, big fish and of course, sharks! Ask your children about the new […]

Last week we had a lovely settling back in period, two new starters and a catch up with everyone after the long Christmas break. Lots of chat about the big day, all the children were eager to share their thoughts on Christmas and especially the presents that they had received. One present had been a […]

On Monday 2nd December Archie’s Daddy kindly invited the Pre-school to visit his workshop so we could see how he makes his beautiful Wychwood trees and other sculptures. Archie very proudly led the way through the village to the workshop on Crown Farm. Once there, after Archie had had a big cuddle from his dad, […]

We are really into the run up to Christmas now and the children have been busy making a host of ‘things’ to bring home at the end of term. They have been cooking, sticking, glittering, embellishing……., but we don’t want to spoil the surprise by telling too much! The Christmas tree is now up, and […]

Christmas Songs There once was a little mouse, who lived in a little hole, and when all was quiet, as quiet as can be……. Out popped he! Up the tall white candlestick Crept little mousey brown But when he got up to the top He couldn’t get back down So he called for his GRANDMA, […]

This week we enjoyed the Aliens in Underpants Book, as well as Dinosaurs Love Underpants, the Queen’s Knickers and The Royal Nappy. As usual there was messy play with children and staff getting stuck in to cover balloons with paper mache, resulting in some fantastic alien masks, they had fun painting & decorating them the […]

2 cups plain flour 2 tbsp vegetable oil ½ cup salt 2 tbsp cream of tartar 1 ½ cups of boiling water 1 sachet raspberry jelly powder few drops glycerine can be used to make it more shiny Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil Add the boiling water Stir continuously until it […]

Favourite pants are often mentioned in our chats here at Pre-School, whether they be printed with roaring dinosaurs or pretty, pink and frilly. With such interest from the children and a fantastic conversation starter, we felt that this topic needed further coverage! There are an incredible amount of children’s books available with this topic so […]