Acorns: Blog items
Date: 18th Mar 2026 @ 11:07am
Acorns had a fabulous time watching Spark Curiosity and exploring a variety of activities in the hall for Science day.
we loved looking at the flashing wands and learning that they only flashed when we touched the metal ends, conducting electricity. They even worked when we held hands passing the current through us all.
We then had fun creating silly string circles. Following by watching big bubbles being made and having a turn, watching the bubbles rise over us.
Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 2:30pm
This term we have been developing our understanding of core words, want, what and who. We have been developing our learning through songs and story's and explicit hands on sessions using the core words in our daily vocabulary and signing.
This weeks story, The enormous Turnip, has been great to explore "who". Who has been pulling up the turnip?
Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 2:17pm
This week's sensory theme was bread art. We had lots of fun rolling and cutting out Easter shapes. We then explored developing our spreading skills, using a choice of strawberry or apricot jam or cream cheese. We had lots of fun exploring the textures with all our senses. It was a great opportunity for us to communicate our choices too.
Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 8:00am
Acorns have enjoyed engaging in our sensory story; the three little pigs, for the last two weeks. Our sensory stories offer the opportunity to develop engagement and learning. Developing speech and language, social skills and imaginative play.
Take a look at our learning.
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 3:48pm
Acorns have enjoyed engaging in a variety of experiences celebrating World Book Day. They all looked fabulous in their outfits and we had lots of dressing up opportunities to engage with throughout the day.
This afternoon we had sensory cooking and explored making faces, happy and sad, using a variety of different fruit, including kiwi, grapefruit, blackberries, pineapple, peaches and strawberries. We engaged with choice making and making our own interpretations of faces. We enjoyed eating them too and trying new flavours!
Date: 26th Feb 2026 @ 9:17am
Acorns had a fabulous time during our sessory cooking session. We were exploring mixing, storing and pouring using flour milk or water. We had fun and developed our learning and engagement alongside other, building our focus and concentration. We then enjoyed a pancake at snack together.
Date: 13th Feb 2026 @ 1:15pm
Acorns have loved having our PE sessions with Blackpool football club. We have been developing our engagement and participation in group activities as well as our ball skills. We have been developing our catching, throwing and kicking, using balloon balls, large balls and moving to smaller tennis balls. Have a look at our progress.
Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 3:20pm
Acorns have enjoyed engaging in a variety of stories this week to celebrate National story week. We love how our stories come alive and engaging with lots of sensory props, especially the water spray!
This week we listened to Whatever next, Pete the Cat and Space adventure. We also shared lots of different stories one to one.
Date: 5th Feb 2026 @ 10:59am
Acorns are exploring and developing their understanding of daily routines. This week we have been looking at our morning routines. We enjoy learning through songs and rhymes and visuals. We are beginning to show our understanding by independently show a morning routine of with n adult supporting us.
Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 11:38am
Acorns engage in a veiety of activities to develop our fine motor skills in preparation for writing and other activities. This week we have been putting those skills to use, practicing cutting with scissors and developing control over our movements. We had fun exploring a variety of materials to cut and developing our choice making too.
Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 10:36am
We love exploring maths in a variety of ways in Acorns. This week we have had spaces themed activities alongside our space story. We are developed a variety of skills from matching shapes, shadows to images and developing our counting skills. We have also been developing our number formation and mark making skills. Some of us have even been counting backwards from 10 to blast off!
Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 10:49am
This term we have been having lots of fun exploring colours and mixing colours during expressive arts. We loved using lots of different mediums to explore mixing colours, including paint, play dough and coloured water. We have been developing our curiosity and anticipation as we wait for the colours to change.
Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 2:00pm
Acorns have been sharing the story of Brown Bear over the last two weeks. We have really enjoyed looking at the different coloured animals that Brown Bear can see.
Together we have been learning colour names and signs and developing our communication skills, by repeating modelled words or finishing the ends of sentences. We have also been developing our engagement and concentration skills.
Date: 14th Jan 2026 @ 8:58am
Acorns had the pleasure of welcoming Blackpool football club coach Paul in to run our PE session this week. We have introduced building our independence, changing into kit, before hand and then developing our engagement and participation during the activities.
We enjoyed engaging in parachute games and then developing our ball throwing skills and accuracy.
Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 3:38pm
Happy New Year to all our families. Acorns have had a great first week back and settled in well.
Our topic this term is colour and light. This week we have had fun exploring colours and colour mixing through a variety of multi sensory activities. Take a look!
Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 9:45am
Wishing all our families a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the NewYear.
Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 9:37am
Acorns had fun taking part in the Elf run in the dance hall. We enjoyed reindeer racing, elf running and Santa snowballs. It was lots of fun.
Acorns - Gingerbread decorating
Date: 17th Dec 2025 @ 2:44pm
Acorns have had lots of fun decorating gingerbread trees and snowmen. We have been developing our choice making, choosing which item we wanted to decorate. We then made a choice between different coloured icing to decorate. We love using a variety of different opportunities to develop our communication skills and learning.
Date: 10th Dec 2025 @ 9:23pm
Cinderella, the pantomime came to Boundary. Some of our Acorns students enjoyed watching the performance in the hall, and even enjoyed shouting out!
Acorns had the pleasure of welcoming Cinderella and Buttons to class. We got to see some interactions between the performers and then engage with some of their masks and props. We had lots of fun exploring the props and even gave our own starring performance, signing 'twinkle, twinkle' whilst engaging with the magic wand.
Date: 10th Dec 2025 @ 9:00pm
Acorns enjoyed sharing their Christmas jumpers and noticing different Christmas images on their peers Jumpers. We all looked so smart.
Some of Acorns enjoyed trying the Christmas dinner for lunch and we all celebrated with a Christmas cracker and tried our Christmas hats on.
To get into the Christmas spirit, we were excited to take a trip to the grotto and explore a magical place. We loved seeing the sparkling lights an sitting in Santa's chair. We also found an elf or two!!
Some of us finished off our day with a lovely Christmas disco and pass the parcel.
What a great day.
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:57am
Christmas has hit our Bucket Time. Acorns have been developing the focus and attention during our sessions and we loved our new Christmas additions to the bucket. We all showed an interest in the activity and was excited to see what came next. We were thrilled at the end for it to start snowing.
Acorns - We’re going on a journey
Date: 1st Dec 2025 @ 5:20pm
Acorns have enjoyed going on their very own journey this afternoon to see our local community. We liked going on the minibus and looking at our local sights including the beach, Blackpool tower, the fairground rides and the Christmas lights.
We also looked out for different modes of transport as part of our topic. Although it was a wet afternoon, we saw lots of cars, buses, lorries, a number of trams and even a Spitfire aeroplane on the roundabout.
What a lovely journey!
Date: 26th Nov 2025 @ 11:28am
Acorns had a lovely afternoon sharing their activities with family and friends. We enjoyed participating in a shared learning experience to support sharing resources and turn taking.
Then we introduced our families to TACPAC. An activity to support regulation through sensory touch experiences.
Thank you to our families for joining and sharing our fun and learning experiences.
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 11:23am
This week Acorns have been exploring the celebration of Diwali.
We have enjoyed sharing songs and stories, exploring light up toys and lamps in our 'Bucket time' sessions and creating Diva lamps.
We have had so much fun.
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 3:57pm
This week we have been exploring travelling by cars as part of our travel and transport topic. We have had lots of fun exploring a variety of resources including a garage, roads and car park, with lots of ramps and new cars.
Acorns have been developing their social skills, playing skills and turn taking skills through a variety of activities with these resources. We have also been developing our communication skills with the support of choice boards and visuals.
