Ascott Pre-School

A huge thank you to everyone who made and bought cakes for the Ducks/Ducklings and Owlets Cake Stall on Tuesday. We are thrilled to say that the event raised £84.02 -a fantastic amount! Pauline & Sally have already had the brochures out looking for the best way to spend the money! The gel numbers could […]

Welcome back to pre-school, what a lovely time we all had during the Easter break. This week the children have made dragon masks and built a variety of machines including inspiration from one of our books, a dragon machine making use of some big boxes, tubes and packing tape. We have been writing in dragon’s […]

This week we have been looking at spring, seeds and growing. Thank you to all those who remembered to bring a sock in. The children have made grassheads and hopefully they will soon start to grow some hair! The children know that they have to put them in a sunny spot and give them water […]

This week lots of stories were read, mostly a child’s own book from home. On Monday ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ was revisited – lots of recall from the children about what was going to happen next plus continuing the rhyming strings within the narrative. As a treat ‘Gruffalo’ cake was brought in for snack time, it […]

Thank you to everyone who supported our topic and brought in cuddly bears and toys this week. We have had lots of picnics at snack times, which resulted in more shouts of ‘spillage’ than usual! Thanks also for the huge variety of ‘bear’ books that have been brought in – we have enjoyed lots of […]

This week we put on our lab coats and goggles and started some experiments. We saw colour mixing – watching the blue and yellow water travel along the kitchen towel to meet in the middle as green. We also saw a reaction with food colour in milk and added a drop of washing up liquid […]

Our Space topic started with a cardboard box rocket and space station attachment with lots of pulleys, dials, silver foil and star lights – the children enjoyed painting the rocket themselves with white and silver paint, even decorating the inside! The children made ‘gadgets’ out of small boxes with silver foil and ribbon with discs […]

Ni Hao, This week Pre-School celebrated Chinese New Year; we are leaving the Year of the Snake and moving into the Year of the Horse. Many, many thanks to Lucy who came in to talk to the children about our topic, she taught them how to make the words ‘big’, ‘small’ and ‘person’ in Chinese, […]

This week the children have been investigating ‘Under the Sea’. There were lots of good suggestions from them for names of underwater creatures. They have all joined in with dancing to ‘watery’ music whilst pretending to be crabs, puffer fish, eels, little fish, big fish and of course, sharks! Ask your children about the new […]

Last week we had a lovely settling back in period, two new starters and a catch up with everyone after the long Christmas break. Lots of chat about the big day, all the children were eager to share their thoughts on Christmas and especially the presents that they had received. One present had been a […]