Ascott Pre-School

We had lots of chat this week about the colder weather in Winter and also made use of the new days of the week and weather calendar. The child whose turn it is to choose a toy from the cupboard also changes the details on the calendar, this is so that we ensure every child […]

Glue, glitter and all things sparkly! The children enjoyed the freedom to explore the Christmas stampers, stickers and glitter and made a variety of decorations this week. Everyone had a chance to do some Christmas cooking and we enjoyed some new stories including ‘The Smelly Sprout’ – I hope this hasn’t put them off sprouts! […]

As parents, carers, siblings and other family and friends gathered for the grand event that is the annual Pre School Christmas Concert amidst smells of mulled wine and minced pies, the children were carefully magicked away “upstairs”. The children were a delight. They all knew exactly what they needed to do – from displays of […]

We’ve all had a very busy week practising every day for the Christmas concert which is on Monday. The staff always wonder how it is all going to come together on the night but somehow it all works out and we hope it will be the same this year! At this time of year it […]

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 […]