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
Cooking in Acorns
Last week we had some tasty vegetables provided to us from The Children’s Kitchen. A city-wide project here in Bristol that focuses on encouraging children to explore, cook and eat fresh food. The children chose to investigate spring onions, mushrooms, lettuce and...
Acorns Explore Pumpkins
This week in Acorns, we have been exploring and investigating a pumpkin! We cut the top off the pumpkin and encouraged the Acorns to explore the stringy insides and seeds with their hands and spoons. This prompted a lot of conversation and laughter about how it felt...
Acorns Explore Clay
This week in Acorns, we have been exploring clay. Clay is a great open-ended natural material that is perfect for young children; it provides them with endless opportunities and possibilities. By exploring the clay with their hands by twisting, squashing, and...
The Acorns Making a Beach in the Sand Pit
The Acorns created a beach in the sandpit! They found a big pipe and began by pouring water down it into a big hole that they dug at the bottom. Before long the children decided to sit in the sand with their feet in the hole waiting in anticipation for the water to...
News from Acorns – Preparing Our New Allotment
We have been getting the ground ready for our new allotment in Acorns' Garden. We worked together digging the soil using tools to help develop our physical skills and coordination. This has also been a good opportunity for the older Acorns to help the new Acorns...
Welcome Back to Beech and Willow Children and Families
After a lovely long holiday, the children are settling back into Nursery and exploring the various areas of their new rooms. It’s lovely to see them engaging with their surroundings and each other. In the painting area, the children have been paying close attention to...
Welcome Back to Returning Acorns Children and Families
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!
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
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...