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

Spring 2025 Activities in Acorns

Over this half term, Acorns children have been participating in some exciting spring activities. We made a cosy den to relax in, read books, and looked at bugs. We also did some gardening and planted sunflowers, onions, carrots, tomatoes, radishes, parsnips, potatoes,...

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.

Welcome Back to Beech and Willow Children and Families

Sep 6, 2024

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

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...