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 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.