by Tom Walbrin | Jul 1, 2025 | Acorns Room, News, Rooms
Following our core story The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the Acorns embarked on a real-life journey of transformation by raising their very own butterflies! We began with tiny caterpillars, carefully feeding and observing them as they grew. The children were fascinated...
by Tom Walbrin | May 23, 2025 | Acorns Room, News
In Acorns, we are creating a Family Floor Book- a big, shared scrapbook where each child will have their own page to fill with family photos, drawings, and stories. This is a great way for children to make connections between home and nursery, and to proudly share...
by Ali | May 23, 2025 | Acorns Room, Rooms
In Acorns, we are excited to share a fabulous new addition to our top garden – a bird hide that doubles as a climbing frame! This unique structure offers the children a peaceful place to sit quietly, observe birds, and connect with nature. Whether they’re...
by Ali | Apr 4, 2025 | Acorns Room, Rooms
Over this half term, Acorns children have been participating in some exciting spring activities. We made a cosy den to relax in, read books, and looked at bugs. We also did some gardening and planted sunflowers, onions, carrots, tomatoes, radishes, parsnips, potatoes,...
by Ali | Apr 3, 2025 | Acorns Room, Rooms
This week in nursery, the children in Acorns celebrated Eid by having an Eid Mubarak party. The children helped Rahma make some Chapatis. We practised our rolling skills by rolling the dough and our fine motor skills by picking up the chapati to flip it over.
by Tom Walbrin | Mar 24, 2025 | Acorns Room, Rooms
We had some fun in the sun with limes! The Children’s Kitchen gave us lots of limes to explore this week. We gave the children cut up limes and hand juicers to experiment with. Using the hand juicers encourages children to use and develop strong muscles in their...