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
End Of Year Reflections In Acorns Room
As we reach the end of another wonderful year in Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School, it is a lovely opportunity to reflect on just how much the children have grown and achieved. Over the year, the children have developed in so many ways. They have grown in...
Fond Farewells and Wonderful Gifts: Thank You, Johnny, Gavin and Liz!
We have some bittersweet news to share, as Johnny, Gavin and Liz will be retiring from Filton Avenue Nursery School in a couple of weeks. After many years of dedication to our nursery and the countless children they have taught and cared for, all three will be greatly...
Exploring New Tastes in the Acorn Room
Children in the Acorn Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School have been busy celebrating Healthy Eating Week, enjoying a wide range of hands-on experiences with fresh fruit and simple food preparation. They explored different textures, colours and flavours as they tasted...
The Rain Doesn’t Stop the Acorns
The rain certainly did not stop the fun in the Acorns room at Filton Avenue Nursery School. Children put on their waterproofs and headed outside, ready to explore the wet weather together. There was lots of laughter as they splashed in puddles and playfully splashed...
We Need Your Help for Healthy Eating Week!
Next week is Healthy Eating Week in Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School, and we would love to make it a really exciting one by exploring some new and unusual fruits and vegetables together! We are asking families to bring in a fruit or vegetable to share at...
Squeezing, Chopping and Juicing in Acorns Room!
Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School has been making the most of a wonderful delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables from Children's Kitchen, and the highlight has been making their very own orange juice! The children have been getting hands-on with the produce,...
Planting Sunflower and Carrot Seeds in Acorns Room
This week in the Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School, the children sowed sunflower and carrot seeds as part of their early years learning. After planting the seeds, the children were keen to water them regularly and check to see if they were growing. Planting...
Meet the Acorns Room Millipedes!
Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School has some very exciting new additions — we have got pet millipedes! Our new residents are Black Fire Millipedes (Centrobolus fulgidus) and they have been an absolute hit with the children. The children have been watching them...
Celebrating World Book Day in Little Acorns and Acorns Rooms
Little Acorns and Acorns at Filton Avenue Nursery School have had a lovely week celebrating World Book Day, with parents and staff coming together to read and retell their favourite stories with the children. The children enjoyed hearing all the different books and...
Making Our Mark: Exploring Mark Making in Acorns Room
Children in Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School have been exploring mark making in some really lovely ways this term. Outside in the garden, the children have been making the most of our brand new acorn shaped chalk board, creating marks, patterns and drawings...