Ascott Pre-School

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.

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 […]

We have had a week of circles. The children used circles to make pictures, sticking pre-cut shapes and drawing round laminated circles. We looked at the different colours and sizes of the circles and used pens to add features – a few caterpillars, snowmen and funny faces! The listening rabbits found lots of circles in […]

The theme this week was Remembrance and the colour red. The children made lots of different poppies… poppies on sticks, printed poppies, cut-out poppies and we mounted them on one of the display boards at Tiddy Hall – they also enjoyed painting cardboard boxes to make the Tower of London and a barge on the […]

This week we have planned our activities around fireworks night and the children have enjoyed making rockets with lots of lovely sequins & Catherine wheel spinners as well as glue and glitter firework pictures. During register we spoke about fires and being careful around matches, the children also heard the very noisy fire alarm and […]

The nights are drawing in very rapidly and the clocks go back at the weekend. This week we have been discussing how dark it is getting when the children go to bed and that it’s still dark first thing in the morning. We have looked at a super variety of lamps, candles and torches – […]

We started off the week with splatter painting outside-lots of chat, giggling and laughter during this activity! Plus inside the children used different parts of their hand to make pictures, some children loved this-others said they preferred to use a brush. The tuff spot had earth, pots and water with small containers, with chopsticks to […]

We continued our Autumn theme this week, looking at a variety of vegetables and using them to make vegetable soup. Some of the children were very proficient using a knife and all enjoyed ‘having a go’. In case they couldn’t remember when they got home the vegetables we used were – leeks, carrots, parsnips, potatoes […]

Cooking Club has started! We cooked ‘treasure chest tart’ which was puff pastry filled with vegetables so lots of chopping, cutting and stirring of herbs and vegetables. The children enjoyed making their own individual dish to take home and the staff enjoyed the lovely smell that filled the hall as the tarts were cooking! If […]

This was our first time for the Forest School group – they all got sorted putting on our great new waterproof trousers with their wellingtons, then off we went! We walked down the Lane – crossing the road safely – we felt the rough wall and then the smooth telephone pole – talked about safety […]