Wishing you all a joyful Christmas and a healthy, happy new year.

May the year 2016 bring love and peace, perhaps more babies and more togetherness, a calm and slow childhood full of magic and wonder.

​We will come back after the holidays ready for the new year and the Spring term.

Spring Term dates are: 11th January 2016 - 24th March 2016
​Some sessions offered during half term, check individual sessions

Bookings are now open, please book the usual way;
if you are not registered, you need to register first and follow the steps after you receive the confirmation email.

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For drop off Playgroup, please contact us about spaces and visits.

​Any queries, please, do not hesitate to contact me, Susannah, via contact form, or text 07837931643


​We are glad to announce that Forries education is now offering Wednesdays and Fridays outdoor sessions at Manor Park, Hither Green (10.30-12.00)
​A new outdoor session will commence soon on Tuesdays 2-4 pm at 
East Greenwich Pleasaunce, we will confirm in the next few days.

​Susannah and the Acorns Team

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We invite our Acorns families to join us at Forries Education on

Wednesday December 23rd 
12 am to 4 pm

at  a very special outdoor session at Manor Park:

Winter Solstice/Yule celebration

Winter crafts/wreaths, stars

Gingerbread biscuits and hot drinks

Winter Spiral (a large outdoor spiral of lights on the ground) 

Carol singing

Winter warmer storytelling

The day before Christmas Eve - we will meet in the woodland setting and make decorations, wreaths and just do Christmassy things! We will also do a Christmas Spiral by candlelight when it gets dark.
There will be hot chocolate and gingerbread to warm us up too! 14 SPACES -
now only 4 SPACES LEFT.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL - £ £30.00 PER CHILD. (siblings discounted, of course)

We can offer an option of two hour session for children under 6, priced accordingly.

please book with James: 

Forries Education 
02082970130, 07895608431
email: [email protected]

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Dear Mothers, 
you are warmly invited to our next La Leche League meeting 
​that aims to provide information and encouragement, mainly through mother-to-mother support to all women, who want to breastfeed their babies.

The meeting will take place on
Tuesday 15th December @ 10am-12pm
at the Church of Ascension,
the regular venue for the Acorns Parent & Child group. 
 Church of Ascension, Dartmouth Row, SE10 8AW

The meeting will be facilitated by Maria Yasnova (LLL Leader). 

La Leche League Leaders are mothers who have breastfed their own babies and are trained to provide breastfeeding help. As volunteers they provide information and support by telephone and email and lead local support meetings for mothers.

La Leche League can help you when you:
 - are expecting a baby and want to know more about how to breastfeed
- are already breastfeeding and want help with particular challenges
- need information on starting solids or weaning
- want to meet other breastfeeding mums and share experiences
- want to read more about breastfeeding, birth and parenting


Babies, toddlers and older siblings are welcome at our meetings.
You are welcome to bring a healthy snack to share, but you don't have to.
The meetings are free for all.

Please consider texting/calling Maria Yasnova on 07811825107 if you plan to attend and to confirm the meeting is taking place as sometimes they need to be cancelled for emergency reasons.

Dear Acorns families,

we are at our last week of this wonderful Autumn Term already!

The last official session will be on this Friday the 11th December; 

however we are offering two extra drop in sessions next week on 

Monday 14th
 (open session to the curious and newcomers) and 

Thursday 17th

from 10 am to 12 pm: 

these sessions will be special Christmas sessions.
Crafts include oranges and cloves, baking, making felted tree decorations.

You don't have to book, just come along, but they are popular, so come early!

we ask for a drop in donation of £7 per child,
siblings £3 
We warmly invite the Drop Off children and any other older children who are not going to be at school those days.
message me if you are bringing friends and or extra children and need a special family fee

Please can you bring an orange for each child, for the activity

Next term will start on week commencing 
Monday 11th January 2016

Bookings open from Boxing Day, 26th December.

We invite our families to join us on

December 23rd at  a very special outdoor session at Manor Park:

Winter Solstice/Yule celebration

Winter crafts/wreaths, stars

Gingerbread biscuits and hot drinks

Winter Spiral (a large outdoor spiral of lights on the ground) 

Carol singing

Winter warmer storytelling

The day before Christmas Eve - we will meet in the woodland setting and make decorations, wreaths and just do Christmassy things! We will also do a Christmas Spiral by candlelight when it gets dark. There will be hot chocolate and gingerbread to warm us up too! 14 SPACES - 9 SPACES LEFT. BOOKING ESSENTIAL - £ £30.00 PER CHILD.

please book with James: 

Forries Education 
02082970130, 07895608431
email: [email protected]

Acorns invites all Parent and Child groups, Drop off Playgroup families and
Kindergarten children to the

ADVENT FESTIVAL
on FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER at 13.30-15.00

at Church of Ascension,
Dartmouth Row SE10 8AW

Please arrive from 13.30, for a prompt start at 14.00


Advent Story - Puppet play

Music and Songs - Carols by Candlelight

Chai tea and biscuits
A very special Festival celebrated in a simplified way for our little Acorns children


It is through the darkness of the Earth we await the birth of a new inner light to warm our hearts and strengthen our thoughts and deeds. This is manifested in the Christ Child of light born on the night of Christmas. All the kingdoms of nature – Mineral, Plant, Animal and Human – from beneath to above – await the coming birth.
Advent is a journey inward to the soul, where we become aware of the eternal light that lightens our way.It is also so beautifully entwined in the northern hemisphere with Winter Solstice and the return of the Sun, and in the southern hemisphere with Summer– celebrating the Sun.
Advent is a fun, joyous time for children especially.
A time that will forever be etched in their memories.
 
For those celebrating the Advent festival, and to all spiritual beliefs and traditions, this time of year has something special for everyone – the Season of Light on so many levels.
 
It is a time of seeking and keeping that light aglow and sharing the light.

This Festival is an opportunity to give our children – and ourselves – the rare chance to experience peace and stillness in our modern world of noise and chaos, enabling us to experience an inner mood of awe and reverence.


Winter festivals of light are common around the world. As the days get shorter we move through a time of darkness towards the longest night at the winter solstice, and when Christmas arrives, a turning point is reached, the light increases, days grow longer and nature reawakens. The advent spiral reflects winter's dark growing to a close and the renewed promise that spring light and life will begin again.




​Deep Mid-Winter drawing near,
Darkness in our Garden here – –
One small flame yet bravely burns
To show a path which ever turns.
Earth, please bear us as we go,
Seeking Light to send a-glow:
Branches green and moss and fern,
Mark our path to trace each turn.
Brother animals, teach us too
To serve with patience as you do.
We walk with candle toward the Light
While Earth awaits with hope so bright:
In the Light which finds new birth
Love may spread o’er all the Earth.
Deep Mid-Winter drawing near – –
May Light arise in our Garden here.


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When Mary goes walking
The autumn winds blow
The poplars they curtsy
The larches bend low­--
The oaks and the beeches
Their gold they fling down
To make her a carpet
To make her a crown.


When Mary goes wand’ring
The sun shines like gold
The wheat and the barley
Their goodness unfold--
The larks in the meadow
Praise her from the sky
And sing her a glad song
Till evening is nigh.


When Mary is sleeping
The autumn stars shine
They twinkle and shimmer
In darkest night time--
The moon with its waxing
And waning on high
Whispers its secrets
For Mary’s delight.


For Mary is golden,
For Mary is true,
For she bears the Christ Child
For me and for you.