News from the Rooms
Acorns
Acorns room provides high quality early learning and care for children from 2 to 3 years. This provision is to support working parents or those returning to education or training. We also have free places for eligible children. These free places are allocated through a city wide referral system.
Beech and Willow
We provide two classrooms (Willow and Beech) for 3-4 year old pre-school children providing high quality learning and care.
Each child has an entitlement to 15 hours a week. We also provide paid wrap-a-round sessions for working parents.
News from Acorns, Beech and Willow
Dancing into Learning at Filton Avenue!
Our children had a fantastic time exploring movement and coordination during our outdoor tyre dancing activity! Watching them build confidence, develop their gross motor skills, and have fun reminds us why physical play is such an essential part of early learning....
Acorns Family Floor Book
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...
Beech and Willow Classes Embrace Active Learning This Term
Children in Beech and Willow classes have been making excellent use of our outdoor learning environment this term. The playground has become a hub of exploration, with children demonstrating strength and coordination as they navigate our monkey bars and climbing...
New Bird Hide Brings Nature Closer to Children in Acorns Room
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 looking out...
Big Brush Club Visits Filton Avenue Nursery School
We were delighted to welcome representatives from Big Brush Club to Filton Avenue Nursery School this week. They came to present Beech and Willow Rooms with wonderful role-play toys and an educational book about brushing teeth. These exciting resources were awarded to...
Spring 2025 Activities in Acorns
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,...
Acorns Make Chapatis
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.
Acorns Room Have Fun in the Sun With Limes
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 hands...
Spring Explorations in Our FANS Outdoor Learning Spaces!
Our outside area is beginning to warm up in terms of temperature and usage! The children have been making the most of the milder weather to engage with nature and explore our outdoor environment in exciting ways. In the sand pit, children worked together to draw...
Acorn Room’s Obstacle Course
This week in Acorns, the children built an obstacle course using wooden planks and mats! Working collaboratively, the children showed problem-solving skills as they carefully arranged the materials and then took turns navigating their creation with growing confidence....