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

Help Us Create a Fairy Forest in Our Den!

Calling all Acorns parents! We need your help to transform our den into a magical fairy forest. 🧚‍♀️🌳 Please collect some leaves from your garden or nearby park and bring them to school. We will use them to decorate the den and make it more cosy and enchanting. 🍁🍂...

Video: Gingerbread Men Cooking

We have been making gingerbread men. The children have been measuring their own ingredients with some interesting results! https://youtu.be/cpQkS0oASRo
Help Us Create a Fairy Forest in Our Den!

Help Us Create a Fairy Forest in Our Den!

Calling all Acorns parents! We need your help to transform our den into a magical fairy forest. 🧚‍♀️🌳 Please collect some leaves from your garden or nearby park and bring them to school. We will use them to decorate the den and make it more cosy and enchanting. 🍁🍂...

Video: Gingerbread Men Cooking

Video: Gingerbread Men Cooking

We have been making gingerbread men. The children have been measuring their own ingredients with some interesting results! https://youtu.be/cpQkS0oASRo

Five to Thive

Five to Thive

You may have noticed a change in our displays in the entrance hall and outside Acorns, introducing Five to Thive. Respond · Engage · Relax · Play · Talk These are our ‘building blocks for a healthy brain’. They are drawn from research into the key processes of...

Exploring Mint-scented Playdough, Lavender, and Flowers

Exploring Mint-scented Playdough, Lavender, and Flowers

Acorns have been exploring mint-scented playdough, lavender, and flowers today. A tray full of lovely smells! They have been sprinkling petals, adding sticks, making cakes and pressing the flowers into the playdough, making marks. 

Rowan, Zach and Finn’s Zoo

Rowan, Zach and Finn’s Zoo

Rowan, Zach and Finn have worked really hard today creating a zoo out of the grass mat and bricks - wow!

Video: Snails

Video: Snails

We have been practising being scientists watching snails closely and trying to be gentle. https://youtu.be/pZLQVRwX9YA

Platinum Jubilee

Platinum Jubilee

Yesterday at nursery we were celebrating the Platinum Jubilee with a teddy bear picnic and some fun jubilee inspired activities.  https://youtu.be/MD32JziOyiY

Video: Musical Jars

Video: Musical Jars

In this video, Willow Room children are exploring how to change sound with different amounts of water. They are introduced to how different amounts of water will change the pitch of the sound coming from the jar. Have a great half-term....