Acorns News

A few photos of our Christmas lunch, party day, a visit from the village travelling Posada nativity scene (or the ‘knitivity’)  and a very exciting visit from Father Christmas.  

We were so proud of all the Early Years and Key Stage 1 children who took part in our production of Baa Baa Bethlehem. Every one of them behaved beautifully and sang and performed with huge enthusiasm and lovely big ‘playground voices’ so that everybody could hear the words and enjoy the lovely story. Well […]

Last week the children in Acorn class discovered all sorts of keys lying around school. Our Reception children made some posters, which you may have seen around the village,  asking if anyone had lost their keys and our Year 1 children wrote to Father Christmas because they were quite convinced that one particularly large and […]

On Monday 11 th November we invited members of the local community to join us in school for a special Remembrance Day assembly.

We have been running Acorn Class as an Early Years Unit for just over half a term now and last week in assembly we shared a little about how well this new venture is working for the benefit of everybody within the class and even beyond.

This week in Acorn Class we have had a theme of fireworks.

On the third Monday of each month the mobile library bus calls outside our school.

Last week our Reception and Preschool children had a lovely visit to the meadow for forest school and used their five senses to explore :- feeling the rough bark of the oak tree, smelling the wet grass, listening to the leaves rustling in the trees, looking at the acorns  and footprints in the mud and […]

11th October This week Mr Archer brought in a hand grain mill and we learned about how wheat is grown in the fields and harvested to make flour and used to make bread and cakes.