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.

Mrs McGroarty and Miss Hartrey are our class teaching assistants.

Miss N Wood Teacher	Mrs T McGroarty EYFS Teaching Assistant	Miss C Hartrey EYFS Teaching Assistant

Our curriculum covers the seven areas of the Early Years curriculum 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. We follow the ‘Little Wandle Foundations for Phonics’ programme for Literacy 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:

• water bottle
• coat
• welly boots
• bag with spare clothes
• hat (woolly hat for winter / sun hat for summer)

Home learning:

• Read stories
• Use the toilet independently
• Practise putting shoes and coat on independently
• Sing songs and rhymes

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.

We lowered the admission age at Acorns Nursery to enable the school to offer nursery provision to 2-year-old children and families entitled to Working Parent funded hours.  

We have our own purpose built Pre-School Nursery on site catering for 2-4 year olds. Please contact the school or see below for further details. 

Flexible Funding:

We offer a range of funding options:

- 15 hours funding for eligible 2 year olds

- Universal 15 hours funding for all 3 year olds (from the main term after their 3rd birthday)

- Up to 30 hours funding for working families.

We also accept Tax Free Childcare and childcare vouchers from other providers.

You can use your funding entitlement to cover your child's hours at Acorns.  In line with statutory guidance, we offer funded places on a continuous basis (ie there is no break between sessions which you would be expected to pay for).  Funded hours will be used from the beginning of the week - any hours attended above your funding entitlement will be charged at the appropriate hourly rate.

Application Form Acorns 2 year

Application Form Acorns

Acorns Price List

Admissions and fees

Complaints Policy

For information on help with childcare costs and to see if you are eligible for any funding, please go to https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

Information regarding free school meals can be found here.