Little Oaks Pre-School

Little Oaks Pre-School Little Oaks Pre-School offers children of 2 years and over the opportunity to play and learn in a safe, nurturing and stimulating environment.

A few pictures of what the children at Little Oaks have been upto recently, before half term we celebrated festivals and...
01/03/2026

A few pictures of what the children at Little Oaks have been upto recently, before half term we celebrated festivals and special dates. We have enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year, the children have explored tuff trays, songs and videos to learn all about it. Next we celebrated Valentines Day. The children have been talking about who they love and why they love them. They have also been making hearts and had a tuff tray full of pink slime. We then went on to Pancake Day. The children got to make their own pancakes and eat them at snack time.

Our book of the week has been Dinosaurs Love Underpants, we have been focusing on lots of exciting and engaging activiti...
02/02/2026

Our book of the week has been Dinosaurs Love Underpants, we have been focusing on lots of exciting and engaging activities within the setting covering all areas of the curriculum and to develop communication and language, literacy and understanding of the world. There has been lots of sensory play, role play, crafting and storytime.

It’s been a great first half term and our play has been full of seasonal magic. We have been to the woods to collect lo...
05/11/2025

It’s been a great first half term and our play has been full of seasonal magic. We have been to the woods to collect lots of natural resources including conkers, leaves, sticks and acorns which has been a wonderful way to explore textures and the beauty of autumn. We have also been learning about Harvest Festival and Diwali.

The children have enjoyed listening to the book The Magic Paintbrush they then created their own magic paintbrush, we had some great ideas of what they would paint with their magic paintbrush.

We have been exploring colour and colour mixing, they loved rolling conkers down the slide covered in paint and watching the colours mix.

The hammers and nails were a big hit they showed how they could use one handed tools independently with good control.

What an amazing start back in Little Oaks, we have been focusing on lots of settling in activities, learning Little Oaks...
29/09/2025

What an amazing start back in Little Oaks, we have been focusing on lots of settling in activities, learning Little Oaks rules and routines, how to share, look after our pre school toys - applying our moto “choose it, use it, put it away” and talking about our families.

We have been sharing stories together - The Owl Babies and Brown Bear we then used different materials to create some wonderful art work.

We’ve been talking about Autumn, this gives the children an opportunity to explore the natural world around them and gain an understanding of the different seasons.

We’ve made play dough, counting the number of scoops of flour etc into the bowl and we have used blocks to explore counting, building towers together and counting together.

Another academic year is done! All the staff at Little Oaks would like to say a huge thank you for all the gifts and ca...
19/07/2025

Another academic year is done! All the staff at Little Oaks would like to say a huge thank you for all the gifts and cards, it’s been an amazing year.

We hope you have a wonderful summer break, we look forward to seeing you back in September and we would like to wish the very best to all our leavers.

Thank you from the Lirtle Oaks team.

Since being back from half term we have been having lots of fun at Little Oaks, we have been busy making our own pirate ...
16/06/2025

Since being back from half term we have been having lots of fun at Little Oaks, we have been busy making our own pirate ship along with lots of other pirate related activities going on, the children had a great time having a go at walking the plank! They’ve created treasure maps, made telescopes and helped to put feathers on our own parrot.

We’ve been exploring the mud kitchen, we used some herbs from the garden to create lots of potions and some of the children have been to forest school.

We made Fathers Day cards and talked about the men that are special to us.

The older children have been enjoying our Friday pm sessions with Mrs Harwood and they’ve been practicing their phonics.

Before half term at Little Oaks we explored lots of sensory play, this included making play dough, cornflour and water, ...
28/05/2025

Before half term at Little Oaks we explored lots of sensory play, this included making play dough, cornflour and water, shaving foam and a dinsour ice tuff tray. The children enjoyed exploring all the different textures.

We have been learning about the life cycle of a frog and making some wonderful frogs and cutting out lily pads for our display board.

We have been using hammers and bubble wrap to make marks with paint, the children also enjoyed popping the bubble wrap with their fingers.

We’ve been learning a new nursery rhyme, twinkle twinkle traffic light.

We focused on the book Mrs Honey’s Hat which follows on from learning the days of the week, which also led into designing and making some creative hats.

We have also enjoyed being outside, the water tray was very popular, the children used different sized jugs to fill and pour with and they used the large pipettes to suck up the water.

Have a wonderful half term and we will see you on Tuesday 3rd June as Monday is an inset day.

Another busy couple of weeks at Little Oaks, last week we focused on looking after our planet, the children created some...
11/05/2025

Another busy couple of weeks at Little Oaks, last week we focused on looking after our planet, the children created some wonderful planet earths of their own and they had a lot of fun saving the fish from the rubbish in the water tray using nets, this led to talking about how important it is to recycle.

We have also been busy looking after the beans we planted and watering them. They are getting quite big! The children have enjoyed planting cress too, we’ve been watching how they are growing.

They have also painted flowers using bubble wrap, made play dough and enjoyed the farmyard tuff tray outside.

We have also been talking a lot about healthy and unhealthy foods, the children have been sorting the foods and placing them either on the happy tooth or sad tooth.

The dinosaurs invaded our sandpit which the children loved, they had a wonderful time digging holes and hiding them.

We celebrated VE Day by wearing red, white and blue, the children enjoyed dancing to some music from this time and created a wonderful flag for the window.

We hope you all had a good Easter break, at Little Oaks this week we have been talking to the children about what they d...
27/04/2025

We hope you all had a good Easter break, at Little Oaks this week we have been talking to the children about what they did over the Easter break, it sounds like they all had lots of fun and chocolate!

Before the break we focused on our topic roots, shoots and fruits, this involved planting some seeds and understanding the key features of the life cycle of a plant and an animal.

We also celebrated world book day and St Patrick’s Day.

This week we also celebrated a couple of dates one being Earth Day, which fits in well with our our topic this term, Stewards of the Earth, this will give us the opportunity to look and learn about being kind to our planet, we will be particularly focusing on recycling and people who help us in the community.

It has been a very busy and fun first half term back at Little Oaks with the start of the term being quite snowy! The c...
08/03/2025

It has been a very busy and fun first half term back at Little Oaks with the start of the term being quite snowy! The children enjoyed building their own snowman and exploring the snow in the tuff tray, we added some paint with pipettes to explore colour and colour mixing. We also discussed how the snow felt.

The children worked really hard on making our winter display board look absolutely fantastic. We learnt and talked about where arctic animals live.

We have celebrated some special dates, Chinese New Year and Valentines Day. We learnt a lot about Chinese New Year by exploring tuff trays, watching videos and even tried some Chinese noodles. As it was the year of the snake the children enjoyed making their own snake with wool. This was a great activity for working their fine motor skills.

We then celebrated Valentine’s Day talking about who is special to us, we had lots of very cute replies, even Vivi got a mention!

Little Oaks hair salon was open for all, the children loved making the teachers look fantastic! This was a great opportunity to provide lots of activities to practice their scissor skills.

We have been learning the days of the week song and signing every morning, we hope the children have been practicing at home too.

Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on our topic of roots, shoots and fruits.

This week has kicked off to a great start with us celebrating the start of the Euros. The children had the challenge on ...
21/06/2024

This week has kicked off to a great start with us celebrating the start of the Euros.
The children had the challenge on Monday morning to score a goal past our best
keeper in Little Oaks… and they all SCORED! They really enjoyed practicing their
football skills although I did see far too many hand balls, we let them slide… this
time! This has linked into learning about the England flag and other countries flags,
the children have really enjoyed making them and displaying our giant flag in the
window.
The sports talk continued through the week as the children in big school were
practicing for their Sports Day. Our children were very curious about what they were
doing and enjoyed copying lots of the games in Little Oaks garden. We even set up
our own long jump game and encouraged the children to measure how far they had
jumped in the sand using the numbers.
This week we have also learnt about Eid, the children watched a video and spoke
about how Eid is celebrated. They then enjoyed designing their own Henna patterns
and a lovely tuff tray.
Today is World Music Day. We have been busy making instruments using various
materials, exploring a variety of sounds and songs. The children have really enjoyed
making their own words up to “If you’re happy and you know it” and using the
instruments to sing along.
Along side all of the fun activities above, the children have been playing listening
and attention games, I spy, reading lots of different books and working hard on their
phonics!

What a lovely week we’ve had! The children have been making the most of exploring the garden and the playground this wee...
07/06/2024

What a lovely week we’ve had! The children have been making the most of exploring the garden and the playground this week.
We have been playing pirates in the garden; the children wanted to take the pirate ship in the garden to play walk the plank. They have been enjoying the role play alongside reading lots of different pirate books.
Before the half term, we were learning about life cycles. The children were very excited to see the butterflies, unfortunatley they didn’t wait until after the week break to turn into butterflies! They emmerged and had a couple of days to dry their wings and eat some yummy fruit before they flew off to go and continue their lives and hopefully lay some eggs. We have been looking at pictures of the butterflies and we have been reading the Hungry Caterpillar story. The children have also been painting bow pasta to make some little butterflies that we will put up in Little Oaks next week with some pictures of our butterflies.
The children have had fun in the school role play this week, we have been reading lots of books about going to school and the children have really enjoyed putting on uniform and ‘teaching’ eachother.
They have enjoyed playing with the Poo in the Zoo tuff tray this week. We have explored the tuff tray as well as reading the book and the older children trying to make rhyming words like in the book.
Our Sunflowers have been planted in the garden this week, the children really enjoyed looking at how tall they have all got over the half term and helping to plant them in the garden. Hopefully they will flower soon and your children will be able to show you their lovely sunflowers in the garden.

Address

Church Road
Turners Hill
RH104PA

Opening Hours

Monday 8:45am - 3:15pm
Tuesday 8:45am - 3:15pm
Wednesday 8:45am - 3:15pm
Thursday 8:45am - 3:15pm
Friday 8:45am - 12:15pm

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+441342715412

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