Introduction

Aspley Guise Pre-school offers high quality care and education in a safe and stimulating environment for children below school age. It provides a valuable resource to the local community, working in partnership with parents to help children learn, develop and socialize.

We offer:

•A purpose-built pre-school nursery facility
•A beautiful rural location
•A safe outdoor play area
•An excellent range of activities to promote learning through play
•A team of experienced, qualified & dedicated childcare experts
•A choice of morning & afternoon sessions

Affiliated to the Pre-school Learning Alliance, and regulated by OFSTED, Aspley Guise Pre-school has charitable status and is managed by a committee of volunteers. We accept children from the age of two.

Finding Us

Aspley Guise Pre-School
Spinney Lane
Aspley Guise
Bedfordshire
MK17 8JT

Tel: 01908 584219

email: gill@aspleyguisepreschool.org.uk

Aims

Aspley Guise Pre-School aims to:
provide high quality care and education for children primarily below statutory school age
work in partnership with parents to help children to learn and develop
add to the life and well-being of its local community
offer children and their parents a service which promotes equality and values diversity

As a member of Aspley Guise Pre-School, your child:

is in a safe and stimulating environment
is given generous care and attention
has the chance to join with other children and adults to live, play, work and learn together
is helped to take forward his/her learning and development by being helped to build on what he/she already knows and can do
has a personal key worker who makes sure he/she makes progress
is in a pre-school which sees you as a partner in helping your child to learn and develop
is in a pre-school in which parents help to shape the service it offers

Opening times & Fees

Aspley Guise Pre-School operates a total of 9 sessions per week, as follows:

Monday – Thursday
9.15am to 11.45am and 12.45pm to 3.15pm

Friday
9.15am to 11.45am

Term times are the same as for Aspley Guise Lower School

Our current fees are £8.00 per session. The government nursery voucher scheme is available to provide funding for children aged 3 and 4 who are not receiving pre-school education elsewhere.

A Typical Session at Aspley Guise Pre-School

We follow a timetable for all our sessions. This allows children to learn the routine and structure that they will experience when they begin mainstream schooling.

Daily Timetable

Morning Session

Time	Activity

9.15	Children Arrive
9.30	Register & Weather
9.45	Free Choice Play
10.35	Tidy-Up Time
10.45	Story Time & Nursery Rhymes
11.00	Snack Time
11.15	Outdoor Play
11.30	Interest Table & Song Time
11.45	Home Time

Afternoon Session

Time	Activity

12.45	Children Arrive
1.00	Register & Weather
1.15	Free Choice Play
2.05	Tidy-Up Time
2.15	Story Time & Nursery Rhymes
2.30	Snack Time
2.45	Outdoor Play
3.00	Interest Table & Song Time
3.15	Home Time

We are allowed time to settle in before we go and say hello to everyone in the book corner.

After this, we practice our days of the week song and continue with the date and seasons. We also talk about what we will be doing that day at Pre-School.

We are then free to choose any activity or toy that is out for us that day.

We have music played 5 minutes before tidy up time, to indicate it is time to finish playing. We then gather for a tidy-up song and all have jobs to do.

Once we are tidy it is time for a story & songs in the book corner.

Next we have our healthy snack, consisting of banana, apple and orange, and we can choose to drink water or milk.

Once we have finished and are fuelled up, we go to play outside in our playground. We have lots of toys for outside and a big climbing frame and slide.

Then we come in and show everybody what we have brought in for ‘show-and-tell’. If we bring something in that coincides with our theme, we get a sticker.

Then it’s time to sing our going home song, and off we go. What a busy day!