Ascott Pre-School

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 […]

On Monday 2nd December Archie’s Daddy kindly invited the Pre-school to visit his workshop so we could see how he makes his beautiful Wychwood trees and other sculptures. Archie very proudly led the way through the village to the workshop on Crown Farm. Once there, after Archie had had a big cuddle from his dad, […]

We are really into the run up to Christmas now and the children have been busy making a host of ‘things’ to bring home at the end of term. They have been cooking, sticking, glittering, embellishing……., but we don’t want to spoil the surprise by telling too much! The Christmas tree is now up, and […]

Christmas Songs There once was a little mouse, who lived in a little hole, and when all was quiet, as quiet as can be……. Out popped he! Up the tall white candlestick Crept little mousey brown But when he got up to the top He couldn’t get back down So he called for his GRANDMA, […]

This week we enjoyed the Aliens in Underpants Book, as well as Dinosaurs Love Underpants, the Queen’s Knickers and The Royal Nappy. As usual there was messy play with children and staff getting stuck in to cover balloons with paper mache, resulting in some fantastic alien masks, they had fun painting & decorating them the […]

2 cups plain flour 2 tbsp vegetable oil ½ cup salt 2 tbsp cream of tartar 1 ½ cups of boiling water 1 sachet raspberry jelly powder few drops glycerine can be used to make it more shiny Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil Add the boiling water Stir continuously until it […]

Favourite pants are often mentioned in our chats here at Pre-School, whether they be printed with roaring dinosaurs or pretty, pink and frilly. With such interest from the children and a fantastic conversation starter, we felt that this topic needed further coverage! There are an incredible amount of children’s books available with this topic so […]

What a busy week we had continuing our birthday theme. We all enjoyed the story of ‘Alfie lends a hand’ when he went to Bernard’s birthday party with his blanket. The children listened very well and were able to engage in chat around the feelings and behaviour in the story. We planned our own parties […]

This week we have been learning all about celebrations; the children cut out cake using number cutters and decorated with icing and chocolate numbers as well as tiny marshmallows, they took their individual cakes home.  On Wednesday the children at Tiddy Hall made their own sandwiches, we used lots of butter, marmite, jam and cream […]

We have been talking about harvest this week – corn, fruit and vegetables and have continued with our harvest songs and reading The Little Red Hen, Scarecrow’s Secret and The Scarecrow Who Couldn’t Scare. The children have had the opportunity to make a scarecrow plate, a harvest shaker, a cheerio necklace and a blackberry and […]