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...
Chinese New Year Celebrations

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

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

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.