Acorns Trip to Shrewsbury Museum

The Packwood minibuses magically transported the Acorns to the land of the dinosaurs, otherwise known as Shrewsbury Museum.  They had an exciting morning learning all about the dinosaurs and helping the curators create an exhibition.  The children learned how to identify different types of dinosaur by looking at their feet and teeth.  To help them […]

Acorns Enjoy Ice Worlds Theme Day

This week Acorns experienced a special ‘Ice Worlds’ theme day. All the children and teachers came to school dressed in fantastic costumes – there were polar bears, penguins, explorers, snow leopards and Arctic foxes and hares to name just a few. The children worked in groups and rotated around a variety of ‘Ice World’ activities. […]

Acorns Learn about Chinese New Year

Acorns have been learning about Chinese New Year. This involved an online storytelling session with Polly Yang from Settle Stories, who told the story of ‘The Great Race’ which explained how the animals of the Chinese zodiac were chosen. The children learned the names of the animals in Mandarin and have since been heard practising […]

Packwood Acorns Explore ‘Ice World’ Habitats

This term the Acorns are learning about ‘Ice Worlds’.  The focus for the first part of this term is all about identifying the many different species of penguins.  It won’t be long before they will be able to name at least a dozen penguins such as: Chinstrap, Adelie, Galapagos, Humboldt, Macaroni and Rockhopper to name […]