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Monday 8:30am - 3pm Tuesday 9am - 3pm Wednesday 9am - 3pm Thursday 9am - 3pm Friday 9am - 3pm

Kingsclere Preschool

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The official page of Kingsclere Preschool Welcome to Kingsclere Preschool.

Located midway between Newbury and Basingstoke on the edge of Watership Down, our preschool boasts a strong and committed team with many decades of childcare experience. We place your child's safety, welfare and development before all else in an environment which is secure, happy, and stimulates children’s learning and development. Established in 1976 as Busy Bees Preschool, Kingsclere Preschool is a community run nonprofit preschool (Charity reg no: 1202047). Since 1998 we have been located at the Scout Hut in Strokins Road, serving the village and wider community.

03/11/2026

If anyone has any old items of clothing they would like to donate to our Bags2School, our collection is this week on Friday 6th November. Please drop bags off at the preschool before 9am this Friday.

Thank you.

30/10/2026

Join us at our open evening/AGM on Tuesday 10th November at 7:30pm for more information.

There will be cake 🍰

24/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween Disco. We hope you had lots of fun!

Watch this space for more information about upcoming events and fundraisers.

Have a lovely half term and we will see you back on the week commencing Monday 2nd November.

23/10/2026

It's the last chance to get tickets for tomorrow's Halloween disco at the preschool.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/halloween-disco-43

23/10/2026

This week we have been exploring Halloween sensory trays. We talked about what it felt like, what it smelt like, what it looked like, what it sounded like when squished and what it tasted like as some children chose to have a little snack! Children use their senses to explore unfamiliar materials and we use these activities to introduce new vocabulary.

Don't forget it's our Halloween Disco on Saturday 24th at 3:30 to 5pm. Tickets can be purchased prior to the event for £5 through the QR link from the poster or bought on the door for £6.

17/10/2026

We still have tickets for our Halloween disco! One week left, on the 24th October at the scout hut on strokins road. For preschool and reception children, you don't have to have been to the preschool to attend. Tickets at https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/halloween-disco-43

16/10/2026

This week the children have been using different types of construction in their play. They had a little help from the grown-ups but we have made car parks, jungles, animal enclosures and a trolls forest together. By combining construction and small world play, we can provide opportunities for our children to develop their imagination and lead their own play using their own ideas.

09/10/2026

This week the children have been enjoying playing with our new water wall. They have been exploring volume and capacity, and creating ways to transport water from one place to another. This helps our children to develop hand-eye coordination and control when using resources.

We sometimes leave our container resources and trays outside to catch as much rain as we can so we can reuse the water in our play 🌧

05/10/2026

We are on the hunt for:

A very loud speaker we can borrow that can fill a hall for our upcoming Halloween disco 🎃

If you can help, please email the preschool at [email protected].

Thank you.

02/10/2026

This week we have been looking at our emotions/feelings and reading The Colour Monster story. We matched coloured pom-poms to the right emotion and talked about what might make us feel a certain way.

The children also made their own colour monster using different coloured bits of paper.

Can you think of a memory that makes you feel happy?

Address

The Scout Hut, Strokins Road
Newbury
RG205RH

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 3pm
Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm
Friday	9am - 3pm

Telephone

01635299566

Website

https://www.kingsclerepreschool.co.uk/

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