Ascott Pre-School

It was books, books and more books this week! Thank you so much to all of the children who brought in their favourites for us to share. We celebrated World Book Day and focused on ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’ – a huge soft toy tiger had taken up residence in the kitchen role […]

Doors are open from 10am-12pm on Wednesday 20th February and you would be welcome to join us at any point during the morning for some half-term fun and opportunity to catch up with friends. There will be hot and cold drinks available as well as cakes and slices to buy as an alternative to pancakes. […]

Ni Hao, This week we celebrated Chinese New Year; we are leaving the Year of the Dog and moving into the Year of the Pig. It was a busy and enjoyable week learning all about customs and traditions. The children heard the story of how the Chinese zodiac came to be and some listened really […]

The staff and older children have helped to settle the new starters in and everyone is doing really well, a lovely start to term. As always, things are very lively and we have enjoyed child led play both inside and out. The children’s staying power for being outside is amazing so please do remember to […]

Join us for ‘The Enormous Christmas Pudding.’ Family members and friends are all invited to watch the children perform Christmas songs while enjoying festive mulled wine and mince pies. Children to arrive at 5.15pm for a 5.30pm start please. Please find attached words to the Christmas Concert – I’ve heard that lots of the children […]

Thanks so much to everyone who came to and supported the Craft Morning that we held on Saturday. A lovely, relaxed morning with coffee, cake and bacon rolls all round! Lots of lovely crafts for the children to enjoy too! A total of £114.14 was raised which will go towards some nice new equipment for […]

It was the children’s first time on the minibus, so excitement was definitely in the air! The weather was beautiful…even tropical for this time of year. Once in Leafield village, Lisa noticed another minibus, the sign read ‘Railway children’ so after very many years of visiting Leafield Community Woods we were going to be sharing […]

We walked to Ascott Church on a beautiful Autumn morning this week to visit the vicar, Mark, who told us all about Harvest. The children were so chatty with him, it was lovely to hear. When he asked what we use to harvest crops the answers included a tractor, a spade and a motorbike! The […]

Staff were really excited about seeing everyone after the long summer holidays. We welcomed new starters and it was lovely to see how all of the existing Pre-School children have grown, it’s all the sunshine we had! Of course, we miss all of the children who have gone up to Primary School but have heard […]