We provide a high quality caring, inclusive, stimulating and safe child centred learning environment. The wellbeing and happiness of each child is of upmost importance to us while providing a high quality of education and care. We work in partnership with parents to ensure there is a holistic approach to their children’s learning.
We have 3 rooms at Acorn Nursery:
- Sunshine room (three months old to 2 years)
- Starlight Room (2 Years to 3 Years)
- Rainbow Room (Over 3 Years)
Sunshine room (three months old to 2 years)
Our Sunshine Room is the environment for the children aged from 3 months to 24 or 27 months.
We have created a nurturing space for our youngest children to explore, try new things and practice their new skills as they are beginning to make sense of the world. Sensory play is offer everyday which includes either sand, water, playdough, lentil or rice play to name a few.
Sunshine room has its very own outdoor space attached to the room where the children can move within the spaces freely and safely. The larger garden can be accessed as a group and here the children can experience some more challenging activities, gardening and growing or climbing and get used to the new spaces ready for moving up through the nursery to different age group rooms.
The staff are committed to helping the children to learn through play and while playing they communicate by chatting together, singing together, looking at books together, using Makaton signs and other visual clues and objects to help the children to make connections between words and actions and helping them to begin to communicate.

Starlight Room (2 Years to 3 Years)
The Starlight room supports and provides stimulating and exciting indoor and outdoor environment for 2 to 3 year old children to play and enjoy whilst growing in confidence and developing their independence.
Children are actively encouraged to express themselves and their needs verbally or non-verbally whiles engaging in a variety of activities that reflect diversity and offering a range of opportunities to explore the world around them. We celebrate and embrace all our children as individuals, helping them develop their understanding of themselves, friendships and emotions, empowering and challenging them to become confident in who they are in their abilities.

Rainbow Room (Over 3 Years)
The Rainbow room is where the children continue to develop their skills and exploring different materials in both indoor and outdoor environments. We allow time for them to become independent in their learning and everyday skills to prepare for the transition to school.
We are exploring more intricate activities to develop our hand muscle, needed for pre-writing. We explore the natural environment developing language and communication through play experiences. We embrace all aspects of our natural environment and enjoy the local area where possible, including walks on the downs and growing a range of fruit, vegetables and herbs to be used in our snack time and in daily activities.
