A break from tradition saw the Ascott Pre-School Christmas dinner move to Pre-Schools headquarters, Tiddy Hall, this year. With fundraising so vital to our Pre-School, and an offer from Mum, Kate Mowbray, to do the catering, gave the Committee a perfect excuse to have this event as the Winter fundraiser whilst enjoying a good night […]

CHRISTMAS CONCERT SONGS. TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR HERE WE GO ROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Here we go round the Christmas tree, the Christmas, the Christmas tree, Here we go round the Christmas tree, while Santa has his tea. This is the way we clap our hands, clap our hands, clap our hands. This is the […]

We started the week learning about Diwali, the Festival of Light and all gathered around lots of candles and our own diva lamps – we celebrated by singing a new Diwali song ‘Little Lights’. We also made Rangoli patterns with chalk on cardboard and the children learned that a rangoli is a colourful design made […]

We hope you all enjoyed fireworks at the weekend. On the run up to fireworks night we made rockets and fireworks pictures using brightly coloured paints. We also made lovely bonfire pictures – the children could practise ‘writing’ by joining up the dots and making a bonfire using leaves and red, orange and yellow handprints […]

Saturday mornings are usually a slow start in our house but not this weekend, we were off to the Ascott Preschool Craft morning. The smell of bacon sandwiches wafted through the door and straight away the children were off into the hall to make a whole host of crafty things.. badger and fox masks as […]

This week we celebrated harvest time with a sharing breakfast – we learnt a new harvest song and acted out a special story about a scarecrow who needed help from his animal friends. We also read the very funny book, ‘Vegetable Glue’ which caused much hilarity as well as ‘the Little Red Hen’. The children […]

During a quiet moment last week, Harriet and I enjoyed reading the book Do you still love me? by Charlotte Middleton – all about one pets anxiety about being displaced by a new different pet, all ends happily.  We enjoyed it so much and talked about various pets that she and I thought that everyone else would […]

Many thanks to Max who kindly gave us the idea of choosing this lovely book as our topic this week.  We had great fun re-enacting the story using dressing up props – especially funny were the BIG size 10 shoes on such tiny feet and there were also many laughs when the giant’s trousers fell […]

Wednesday 9th September was our first Forest School session. We walked down the Lane over the road from the Hall-there was lots to see – the leaves on the trees were green and brown-we talked about the leaves dying off in Autumn time, so please keep an eye out for this! There was discussion about keeping […]