This week we welcomed a new member to the Acorns family: Paulina, who will be leading us in all sorts of forest fun. On Tuesday, we headed down to the woods to meet her. She had set up a circle of seats and she told us all about the fun activities we could choose from. We started by cleaning our hands in the special outdoor hand washing station made from an old plastic bottle with holes in. We then started on our activities. We had a go at using a hand drill to make a hole in

Week commencing 16th March 2020 – Lindfield. On Monday we welcomed another new member of staff to our team. Paulina is joining us every Monday and will be holding forest school sessions with the children both in the garden at The Acorns and out and about within the village. The older children were excited to go out on an adventure with Paulina and Miss Reay. They walked beautifully holding onto the magic rope to Pickers Green where Paulina had set up a camp. Upturned buckets

This week we have been thinking about focusing our attention and using our ears to listen carefully to the sounds in the world around us. Outside we have heard all sorts of sounds: wind, robins, great tits and even a woodpecker tapping away on a tree. In the hall we closed our eyes so that we could focus our attention on some instrumental music. We tried hard to identify the instruments: "I can hear drums." "I can hear bagpipes!" Next we all gathered round some paper and drew

Welcome to our weekly blog post. We have had lots of fun at The Acorns this week! We welcomed Mrs Nicola Howarth to our team, the children were excited to meet her and have been brilliant little helpers showing her the ropes. Some of the children visited Summerlands Care Home to enjoy a story, some games and a chat with the residents. The children walked there holding onto the magic rope and they saw lots of interesting things along the way. The children enjoyed a lovely stor

Welcome to the latest blog post. All week we have been celebrating World Book Day. Each day the children have been encouraged to come to The Acorns in fancy dress. We have seen some brilliant costumes Stick man, Elsa & Anna from Frozen, Belle, Harry Potter, Olaf the Snowman, Super Heroes and Peter Pan to name just a few. We have really enjoyed dressing up this week and talking about our favourite stories and characters. Tommy made a Supertato at home and brought him in to sha

We had great fun dressing up for Fancy Dress week. We were pirates, princesses, knights, parrots and many more characters besides. Thursday was World Book Day and we loved seeing the costumes some of the children had come in. We had Gaston the ladybird from Ben and Holly, an alien from Aliens in Underpants and Noi from Grandma Bird. It was fantastic to share these books and enjoy them as a group. Thank you to the grown-ups who helped to sort out costumes. Our focus this week

This week our focus has been on technology and we have had fun exploring some examples both old and new. We took it in turns to have a go on the laptop to create pictures. Some of us needed help with knowing how to move the mouse - we couldn't use our fingers on the screen like we can with some of our technology at home. It was fun to play with some real telephones as well. We had lots of interesting phone conversations about the weather and holidays. Pressing the numbers on