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
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....
Exploring With Lemon Tea
Children from Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School delighted in a sensory play experience centered around lemon tea. Equipped with miniature teapots, cups, and saucers, the Acorns Room children practiced pouring, stirring, and serving their lemon tea. This...
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Provocation
At Filton Avenue Nursery School, the children in Acorns Room embarked on a delightful sensory adventure inspired by We're Going on a Bear Hunt. We created an immersive learning environment featuring a cozy storytelling den draped with colorful fabrics and twinkling...
The RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch
The children from Beech Room and the children from Willow Room have been awarded a certificate from the RSPB for their amazing bird spotting and counting skills! Filton Avenue Nursery School signed up to partake in this nationwide event back in the autumn term, and...
Acorns Room Book Share!
In Acorns, the children love to read and look at books. We thought we would share this joy with their families by creating our Acorns Book Share! We want to encourage families and carers to take a book and share a book together at home. This is a great way to share...
Acorns Room are Growing Vegetables
A Wonderful Donation In Acorns we have been very excited to start growing vegetables in our garden. We contacted local businesses to see if they could help us with this project and the Filton Community Garden said they could! The Filton Community Garden is located in...
Beech and Willow’s Outdoor Adventures and Chinese New Year Celebrations
What an exciting time in our outdoor space! Our children in Beech and Willow have been exploring, learning, and growing in so many ways. Climbing has been a favourite activity, with children carefully climbing our trees with their winter branches and showing amazing...
Beech and Willow Children in The Big Brush Club
Learning How to Keep Our Teeth Healthy Children from Beech and Willow Rooms who stay all day have joined The Big Brush Club where we clean our teeth after lunch and will be learning how to keep our teeth healthy. The Big Brush Club is a service provided by At Home...
Child Led Provocations in Acorns Room this Week
Baby Acons Role Play The children have been busy playing in ' baby Acorns ' in the role play area, feeding them bottles, keeping them warm wrapped up in blankets and reading them stories. Dinosaur Land in Playdough Dinosaur land in the playdough proved to be a lot of...
Outdoor Adventures in Beech and Willow Rooms
It's been an exciting term of hands-on learning and outdoor exploration for our children in Beech and Willow Rooms at Filton Avenue Nursery School! The children in both rooms have embraced the natural world and developed their skills through various engaging...