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Acorn Notices & Class Archive

On this page you’ll find important and useful information about our class, including what we have been and what we will be doing. Please click ‘read more’ to find out about our weekly timetable.

Acorn Class 5th-9th October 2026

Next week, we are learning… Literacy- Next week, we will be continuing to focus on our Vehicle text ‘The Something’. We will be planning and writing a sentence for the

Acorn Class 28th September – 2nd October 2026

Next week, we are learning…. Literacy- Next week, we will be exploring our focus text for this half term ‘The Something’ by Rebecca Cobb. We are introducing the Acorns to

Acorn Class 21st-25th September 2026

Next week, we are learning…. Literacy- Next week, we will be introducing our focus book- The Something by Rebecca Cobb. We will be making predictions and sequencing the story using

Acorn Class 14th-18th September 2026

Next week, we are learning… Literacy- Next week, we will be focusing on initial letter sounds. We will be listening for the initial letter sound in words and matching phoneme

Acorn Class 7th-11th September 2026

Next week, we are learning…. Literacy– Next week, we will be focusing on recognising and ordering letters in our name. We will be also learning how to hold a pencil

Acorn Class 2nd-4th September 2026

This week we have been learning…. Class routines This week in Acorn class has been all about settling into being at big school and getting to know each other. We

Acorn Class 6th-10th July 2026

Next week, we are learning… Literacy- Next week, we will be taking part in a independent write to practise all our writing skills we have learnt over the term. We

Acorn Class 29th June-3rd July 2026

Next week, we are learning… Literacy- In Literacy next week we will be using our writing toolkit to create our own guess who games. We will be writing descriptions of

Acorn Class 22nd-26th June 2026

Next week, we are learning…. We will be off timetable next week to take part in the whole school’s Health and Fitness week. We will be taking part in a

Acorn Class 15th-19th June 2026

Next week we are learning…. Literacy– In Literacy next week, we will be continuing to read our vehicle text ‘The Storm Whale’ where we will be planning and writing using

Acorn Class 8th-12th June 2026

Next week, we are learning… Literacy – Next week we will be looking in more detail at our vehicle text for this half term ‘The Storm Whale’. We will be

Acorn Class 1st June-5th June

UTW- Dinosaurs We have kicked our Summer 2 half term with a dinosaur theme. It has proved very popular with the Acorns. We have had lots of themed provision including

Acorn Class 18th – 21st May 2026

Here we are at the end of another half term! I’ll miss Acorn class terribly but I know they will adore Mrs Marsden. I hope you all have a wonderful

Acorn Class 11th – 15th May 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be finishing looking at writing the story of our text ‘The Extraordinary Gardener‘ . Phonics- Next week, we will be practising both

Acorn Class 4th – 8th May 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be finishing our exploration our new text ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’. We will be saying, planning and writing the last instructional sentences for

Acorn Class 27th April – 1st May 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be continuing to explore our new text ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’. We will begin to say, plan and write different parts of the

Acorn Class 20th – 24th April 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be continuing to explore our new text ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’. We will begin to say, plan and write different parts of the

Acorn Class 13th – 17th April 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be continuing to explore our new text ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’. We will be looking closely at the text and sequencing the events

Acorn Class 23rd – 27th March 2026

Have a fantastic Easter break! This week we have been learning… Maths – This week we have been learning about 3D shapes! Literacy – The children have been busy writing

Acorn Class 9th – 13th March 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be continuing to explore our new text ‘Little Red’. We will be planning and writing the ‘build up bear’ and ‘penguin problem’

Acorn Class 2nd – 6th March 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be continuing to explore our new text ‘Little Red’. We will be saying and planning different parts of the story to then

Acorn Class 23rd – 27th February 2026

Next Week: Literacy – Next week we will be continuing to explore our new text ‘Little Red’. We will be writing more dictated sentences, sequencing the story as well as

Acorn Class 9th – 13th February 2026

I hope you enjoy your half term and that we all bit of well deserved sunshine! We will be exploring traditional tales when we return. This week we have been

Acorn Class 2nd – 6th February 2026

Next Week: Literacy– Next week we will be continuing to explore our new text ‘Juniper Jupiter’ by Lizzy Stewart. We will be planning and writing a part of the story.

Acorn Class 26th – 30th January 2026

Next Week: Literacy– Next week we will be introducing our new text ‘Juniper Jupiter’ by Lizzy Stewart. We will be exploring the text, learning new vocabulary and sequencing the story

Acorn Class 19th – 23rd January

Next Week: Literacy– Next week we will be continuing our journey with our new text ‘The Odd Egg’ by Emily Gravett. We will be using planning, drawing and writing a

Acorn Class 12th January – 16th January

Next Week: Literacy– Next week we will be exploring our new text ‘The Odd Egg’ by Emily Gravett. We will be using our story friends to sequence and talk about

Acorn Class 5th – 9th January 2026

Next Week: Literacy– Next week we will be drawing images and writing words or captions to describe different parts of our text ‘Poles Apart’ by Jeanne Willis Phonics- Next week,

Acorn Class 15th – 19th December 2025

I wish you all a very happy Christmas and new year! This week we have been: Enjoying Christmas dinner… Learning about 1 more and 1 less in maths on the

Acorn Class 8th – 12th December 2025

Next Week: Lots of Christmas fun!! This week we have been learning… Maths – This week we have been identifying, describing properties and combining four sided shapes! UTW/Topic – This