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
Video: Table Top Painting
The children in Willow are exploring textures and starting to discover what happens when different colours are mixed together. https://youtu.be/S3y-CPWLuK8
Acorns’ Autumn Collections
We are encouraging the children to notice the changing seasons around them. We have created a special place outside Acorns' drop off area where your children can leave and share with us their autumnal finds. Specifically, we would love to see autumn leaves which have...
A Follow-up Note for Acorns Parents/Carers
Due to COVID restrictions and to keep you all safe, we understand it is hard for you as a parent to hand your child over at the gate and not be able to come into the room to see where they play or see them happily settled with their friends. It’s not easy for us in...
Exploring Vegetables with Acorns
Acorns have been picking potatoes, rosemary and apples which they have grown. We then explored them today along with a courgette from preschools' new vegetable patch. The children were cutting, smelling, tasting and even cooking the potatoes! They had lots of yummy...
World Book Day in Acorns
We're having a great week celebrating World Book Day and Book Week at Filton Avenue! We set up Acorns room ready for the celebrations, with reading areas, a tearoom (themed around The Tiger Who Came to Tea) and even a special bug-themed area (with nature-themed books,...
Acorns and learning to control tools
In Acorns, we have been very busy learning to handle tools with increasing control and having a lot of fun in the process! All this work, handling and controlling tools, will help us with our writing skills later on!
Chinese New Year Celebrations
To celebrate Chinese New Year, the children in our Beech Room helped decorate the head of a Chinese Dragon. Each group then performed the dragon’s dance at circle.
Our Children’s Kitchen
We are very lucky to have Jo Ingleby visit our nursery each week to help us learn about and explore food. On each of her visits, she brings in fresh produce for the children to learn more about and taste. In the spring we plan to sow and plant salad and vegetables in...
Willow Room’s Construction
In Willow Room, we have been exploring new construction resources. We've been making walkways, robots and houses. Some of the children are beginning to construct with a purpose in mind, selecting and using appropriate resources and techniques.