What a glorious week !

We have had so much fun this week at The Acorns. 

All week we have been planting cress seeds with the children.

We decorated a yogurt pot by drawing a picture of ourselves on the front. We then stuffed the pot with kitchen roll, filled it with water...

This week we have been thinking about people who help us in our community. We had great fun dressing up and talking about the different roles these people have. 

We even had a fire engine in the hall which really sparked our imagination. 

We've been busy making card...

Welcome to our OUTSTANDING blog post.

We have had an OUTSTANDING week enjoying all that The Acorns has to offer.

We had a pottery session with Jane and she brought back the models that we made on the last session. They are truly OUTSTANDING and we were so excited to tak...

Maths has been a focus for us this week at Westmeston, specifically size and shape. 

We looked at different shaped blocks and tried to match them with their outlines. An even bigger challenge was to put shapes together to match a larger outline. We did lots of talk...

This week we have been thinking about keeping healthy. We thought about different things that are important to our health - activity, good food, water, keeping clean and being aware of our feelings. 

On Tuesday, we used fruit and vegetables to create different patt...

What a wonderful week!

Thank you to everyone who came along to support our open day on Sunday.  
The sun was shining and a great time was had by all.

The children were so excited to have you here and to be able to show you the wonderful garden we have here at The Acorns...

We have been busy making and creating this week. We used pegs and sheets to make dens on Tuesday. We worked hard and had to be resilient to make the pegs and sheets stay where we wanted them. Pinching the pegs onto the rope was good for our fine motor skills and we had...

Even though we were only at Westmeston for three days this week, we managed to fit in lots of fun and adventure. 

Our new puppet friends were very popular. They joined us in lots of imaginary games and we kept them well fed! 

We have found a new favourite spot for d...

Our traditional story at the moment is The Elves and The Shoemaker – We have read the book each day and have enjoyed crafts and role play to support the story.

On Monday we decorated and laced our own shoe. We used colouring pencils to colour in the shoe, used a hole p...

Welcome back.

We hope you had had a wonderful Easter and enjoyed the break.

This week we have spent lots of time outside in our lovely garden. The flowers are bright and colourful and the beautiful wisteria is in full bloom.

We have been busy doing a ‘Spring Clean’ of...