This week we celebrated Environment Week in Acorns, by including both World Forest Day and World Water Day! From now on, we will focus very much on nature, the environment and its effect on people and vice versa. This focus will include the Green Fair on 12th April when you will be able to join […]
Our first Bake Sale was a great success! Each group in the nursery made delicious cakes during this wonderful activity which was also linked to the theme of reading, in addition to our Book Week event!
Baby Acorns made banana muffins related to the Monkey Puzzle story, Shiny Stars prepared Ginger Biscuits while being inspired by […]
Last Friday, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with typical Irish music, dance, symbols and stories and we invited our children to come dressed in green on this special day! All the activities were based on the green colour, leprachauns, Irish symbols, music and dancing.
On behalf of all the team, a big thank you for all the lovely flowers, Spring gifts and chocolates that we received for the 1st of March! We really appreciate your thoughtfulness and wish you all a very Happy Spring!
Last weeks’ special day was International Women’s Day! The aim of this day was to celebrate […]
As in industry and technology, trends also exist in education – some come and go while others have a longer life depending on the principles on which they are based.
One such principle which meets with a lot of approval from specialists is “a teacher to 4 children”. In short, this strategy means that the days […]
At a time when children are passionate about virtual reality in video games, specialists draw our attention to how reading has enormous benefits while parents can do much more for their children than simply telling them to read. Valentina Secara, the founder of Acorns Nursery and initiator of a story telling programme in the nursery […]
Rainbows began December by revising the names of the seasons and the colours, sounds, weather associated with each one. They read the story “Froggy gets dressed” about a frog that gets ready to go out in the snow.
We watched clips about frogs hibernating and talked about other animals that go to sleep during winter time. […]
