Ascott Pre-School

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 […]

The craft afternoon was held on November 5th and lots of children headed out to watch fireworks later on in the evening. The preschool staff had prepared crafts activities all to do with fireworks, rockets and autumnal things to get everyone in the mood for Bonfire Night celebrations. There were dazzling crowns, sparkly wands, see […]

We learnt that Diwali is the Hindu “festival of lights” which celebrates the New Year. … Diwali is celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs in Britain and all over the world. We talked about this and had lots of twinkling lights on display, the children all heard the story about Rama & Sita, some really loved […]

Such a busy week this week. We have enjoyed the story of the Little Red Hen who eventually got her friends to help her sow, look after and harvest grain before making bread to enjoy together. We made our very own bread rolls to take home and also apple crumble too. The children have played […]

On Monday the children were greeted by a huge tiger who had taken up residence for the week in the role play area! He proceeded to eat all of the food in the cupboards and drink all of the water from the tap before leaving on Friday for his home in Milton-Under-Wychwood. The children have […]

Today was our first Forest School session. We walked down the Lane from the Hall-it seemed very quiet! The leaves on the trees were mostly green, but we did talk about the leaves changing soon, becoming brown and falling off the trees…we all found it odd to think it was autumn time, especially as the […]

Despite the weather we decided to have a small camp fire at Forest School. Both groups were good at listening to all of the safety issues and took everything onboard so that they could be safe. We toasted marshmallows on a long stick and watched as they changed colour and became squidgy. We looked at […]

The children enjoyed a quick train ride from Charlbury to Moreton-in-Marsh… we played at the playground on the swings, slides & zip wire before having a picnic, icecream and return journey on the train. A short and sweet trip!

We were very lucky to have Kelsey, a work experience student with us this week, the children took to her straight away and she was so helpful to the staff and brilliant with the children – especially as it was such a busy week, with lots of activities going on.. the Wychwood School teacher visit […]

The teddy bears got a lift in Sally’s car but we all had to walk to the cricket pavilion at Ascott today to enjoy our Teddy bears picnic. It was a lovely, sunny walk and we had lots of time to look at interesting things along the way including slugs and snails on the pavement […]