Ascott Pre-School

Fun when learning

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Summer

This week we talked about the kind of weather we hope to experience during the summer and the sort of clothes we might expect to wear.  Nicky got dressed up in various layers of clothes suitable for both winter and summer, with the children helping to define which would be appropriate for hot or cold weather. […]

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Train Trip

Ascott Pre-School Train Trip to Moreton-in-Marsh We plan to have our annual train trip to Moreton-in-Marsh on Tuesday 7th July 2015. We will all meet at Charlbury station for the train, which leaves at 10.37am and arrives in Moreton at 10.54. There will be a short walk from the station to the park where the […]

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A Sunday with Grandpa & Gus’s house

This week we looked at a book ‘A Sunday with Grandpa’ – all about a family taking a train journey to see the childrens’ Grandpa who lives in the Countryside. We made a start on a train display board for the hall and made tool boxes (Grandpa has a very old fashioned workshop full of […]

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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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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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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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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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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 […]