In Acorns we love to be creative! We encourage and support the children to develop skills for lifelong learning through adult-led group times and child-led ‘exploring’ time. The children work with their key worker during their group times and play independently during exploring time.
Our ‘Squirrel’ group are our pre-school age children while our ‘Hedgehog’ group are our youngest children.
Our Squirrel group work with their key worker Miss Wood during group times. Miss Wood is our Nursery Teacher.
Our Hedgehog children work with their key worker Mrs McGroarty during their group times. Mrs McGroarty is our lead teaching assistant.
Mrs Bradley our teaching assistant, works in Acorns Nursery and supports children with any additional needs, delivering interventions and supporting children with personal targets.
Our curriculum covers the seven areas of the Early Years Statutory Framework and is tailored to meet the needs of all of our children, building on their own interests. Our group times are planned carefully by our class teacher and include maths and phonics sessions as well as afternoon activities such as forest school and cooking. We follow the ‘Little Wandle Foundations for Phonics’ programme and ‘Master the Curriculum’ for maths. This is in line with our whole school teaching and learning so that children are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful learners when they start school.
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We love to be hands on in our learning and make links with our learning outside of school too. Please share your child’s learning experiences with us from home. We welcome visitors into our class and love getting out and about in school, making use of our wonderful facilities. We share our learning online through our learning journals on Seesaw and class updates in our school newsletters. We look forward to sharing our learning with you!
Things to remember:
Home learning:
Twinkl Here you will find a variety of topics and activities available for free.
CBeebies There are a wide selection of games and activities available for literacy and numeracy as well as other popular topics.
Topmarks Select early years in age group option and this will allow you a few free maths games.
Ideas for activities during school closure
We lowered the admission age at Acorns Nursery to enable the school to offer nursery provision to 2-year-old children.
We have our own purpose built Pre-School Nursery on site catering for 3 - 5 year olds. Please contact the school or see below for further details. We also offer the Early Years Education Grant for 15 hrs per week and we also offer the 30 hr per week Free Childcare. To see if you are eligible for this additional funding please see the link at the bottom of the page.
Application Form Acorns 2 year olds
Application Form Acorns 3 year olds
Acorns Price List 2024-25
Admissions and fees 2024-25
Complaints Policy
For information on help with childcare cost and to see if you qualify for the new 30hr Free Childcare inititaive please go to https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/
If you are eligible for 2 year old funding call: 01225 394317 to get your funding code.
We accept payment through the Government Tax Free Child Care Scheme, for every £8 you pay into your online account the government will pay £2. Tax free childcare payments can be used to pay your Nursery fees.
For more information and check eligibility click the link below
https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare
Information regarding free school meals can be found here.