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

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...

Welcome Back to Returning Acorns Children and Families

Sep 6, 2024

We have enjoyed welcoming our returning children back to Acorns this week. We have been practising our fine motor skills by chopping fruit and making smoothies. We've been mark-making on a huge box that our water tray arrived in, and we have been learning numbers and...

Help Us Create a Fairy Forest in Our Den!

Oct 5, 2023

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

Feb 13, 2023

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

Feb 2, 2023

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...