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By Sophie Gwynne

Ofsted Report March 2017

We are pleased to say that we have been officially designated as good. Some of the key comments from the report can be found below: “Strong leadership and effective self-evaluation have enabled the setting to maintain its good quality service since the previous inspection. The views of staff, parents and children are valued and acted […]

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By Sophie Gwynne

All things Easter

The children have enjoyed Easter activities over the last couple of weeks. They made Easter bonnets – great care was taken in the positioning of the flowers and we have a lot of photos of some very proud children. There were many different sizes of bunnies brought in and we looked at the similarities and […]

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By Sophie Gwynne

Horses & Ponies

Many thanks to Charlie T, Chris, Emma & her Mum who all brought ‘Tommy’ the miniature Shetland pony along to Pre-School on Thursday –he was tiny & very sweet, the children stroked him and he behaved impeccably throughout. Charlie rode him to Tiddy and back to Crown Farm and it was great for us to […]

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By Sophie Gwynne

Weights & Measuring

The cooking club children had so enjoyed weighing and measuring ingredients, that we wanted to extend the experience into the rest of preschool. This past week we have measured all manner of things, stand still long enough and a tape measure or scales loomed large! We have measured our heights and weights, we have compared […]

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Pets & Vets

On Monday we welcomed a new Pre-School Assistant, Marta, to our happy setting and it already feels like she has become one of the ‘gang’. She has made many new little friends over the course of the week and she says she is coming back next week, so we are all very pleased about that! […]

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By Sophie Gwynne

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum!

This week we read and did some activities around Jack & the Beanstalk. The ‘Listening Rabbit’s’ listened very intently to the story and on another day they listened to the CD version which really held their attention. They were able to answer and ask many questions about the pictures in the book – the conversation […]

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By Sophie Gwynne

Music & Movement

We made music, listened to music and had lots of singing. The children enjoyed joining in with lots of action songs as well as bringing in lots of instruments – we had guitars, drum kits and harmonicas (Sally’s favourite!!). We had lots of dancing with ribbons and scarves, ring games and we put music to […]

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By Sophie Gwynne

The Forest School Site

Well we finally got to the Forest site…the weather was kind to us but still muddy! They have done a lot of clearing so able to see many chopped trees & spoke about counting the circles to work out how old the trees were….all great fun for maths. Lots of digging went on-exploring holes plus […]

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By Sophie Gwynne

Bad Weather Arrangements

When bad weather warnings are issued it is possible that the Pre-School could be closed. Any decision to close will be taken early in the morning and details will be posted here on our website under the ‘Recent Posts’ heading. Many thanks. Sharon.

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By Sophie Gwynne

Christmas Play

Well what can I say?! It was such an incredible performance on Wednesday evening by our amazing little people. There was such a warm welcome from the staff and as we sat in eager anticipation of the performance we were offered a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie to get us into the […]

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Important Posts

  • Constitution of Ascott-under-Wychwood Pre-School
  • Ofsted Report March 2017

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Ascott Pre-School Parent/carer Information

Application to join Ascott Pre-School

Privacy Notice

Parents Guide to 30 hour funding

Little Dancers Themes Term 1

Phonics Read Write Inc

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