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

We Need Your Help for Healthy Eating Week!

Next week is Healthy Eating Week in Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School, and we would love to make it a really exciting one by exploring some new and unusual fruits and vegetables together! We are asking families to bring in a fruit or vegetable to share at...

Squeezing, Chopping and Juicing in Acorns Room!

Acorns Room at Filton Avenue Nursery School has been making the most of a wonderful delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables from Children's Kitchen, and the highlight has been making their very own orange juice! The children have been getting hands-on with the produce,...
New Bird Hide Brings Nature Closer to Children in Acorns Room

New Bird Hide Brings Nature Closer to Children in Acorns Room

In Acorns, we are excited to share a fabulous new addition to our top garden - a bird hide that doubles as a climbing frame! This unique structure offers the children a peaceful place to sit quietly, observe birds, and connect with nature. Whether they’re looking out...

Big Brush Club Visits Filton Avenue Nursery School

Big Brush Club Visits Filton Avenue Nursery School

We were delighted to welcome representatives from Big Brush Club to Filton Avenue Nursery School this week. They came to present Beech and Willow Rooms with wonderful role-play toys and an educational book about brushing teeth. These exciting resources were awarded to...

Spring 2025 Activities in Acorns

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

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

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...

Spring Explorations in Our FANS Outdoor Learning Spaces!

Spring Explorations in Our FANS Outdoor Learning Spaces!

Our outside area is beginning to warm up in terms of temperature and usage! The children have been making the most of the milder weather to engage with nature and explore our outdoor environment in exciting ways. In the sand pit, children worked together to draw...

Acorn Room’s Obstacle Course

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

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

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 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...