Ascott Pre-School

This week we have really been concentrating on maths and having lots of fun with lots of different activities on offer. All of the children have participated in number and action songs such as ten in the bed, 5 jelly fish, sitting on a rock (often lots more than 5!). We have had numbers on […]

This week we celebrated the start of Spring. The weather cooperated allowing us to open up the big sandpit in beautiful sunshine, a lovely treat to have socks and shoes off in the sand! We’ve read lots of stories, sung songs and joined in with action rhymes. The art and craft tables have been really […]

A huge thank you to all the parents and grandparents that supported the pancake café by donating ingredients, cakes and simply turning up with friends to make it such a great success. On the day we had 58 children in attendance and throughout the morning Nathalie and Daisy flipped 80 pancakes. A grand total of […]

This week we read the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We have 2 versions of this at Preschool and the children particularly enjoyed the modern one where Goldilocks didn’t want to eat a healthy breakfast and wanted to have jelly and ice cream instead. She was so cross at not getting her own […]

This week we have had a whirlwind trip around the World for International Week. On Monday we visited China and learnt about Chinese New Year celebrations, it is the year of the Rooster – the staff set up the role play area as a Chinese kitchen and there was lots of interest in this, looking […]

After watching some children playing Pirates we decided to incorporate a Pirate topic into the planning this week. What a fun week we have had! Those who chose were able to help plan the pirate galleon, drawing diagrams and shouting out ideas for us to write down, the children helped tape cardboard boxes together and […]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! We welcomed back a jolly band of children this week, all raring to go and keen to get back to the business of playing with the friends that they haven’t seen since Christmas. We have had a lovely few days settling back in, welcoming and including a new starter, Amy, in our […]

Phew, what a week! We have all been so busy getting ready for the Christmas Concert on Tuesday next week. We have practised every day and the children have all experienced going upstairs (there is always someone who thinks the staff live at Tiddy Hall and go to sleep ‘up there’!) The children should arrive […]

SONGS FOR CHRISTMAS CONCERT TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR STIR UP THE GINGERBREAD 1. Stir up the gingerbread, diddle, diddle, dum, Stir up the ginger ‘til the snow does fall. 2. Put your arm right in, Urgh! 3. Stir it all around, Stamp your feet upon the ground and turn yourself around. Repeat Verse 1 4. […]

This week we talked about the evenings getting darker earlier and started to investigate what it means to be ‘Nocturnal’ – some of the children could name some nocturnal animals. Thank you to everyone who brought in items to support this topic, it was much appreciated. We had lots of play in dark dens, using […]