Pre-school room
Sunflowers
Getting ready for school without rushing it: phonics through songs and games, forest-school mornings and lots of choosing for themselves.
Ages
3 to 5 years
Ratio
1 adult to 8 children
Places
Up to 24 children a day
About the room
Sunflowers is our biggest room and it's built for curious three and four-year-olds. There's a reading den, a woodwork bench with real tools (and a grown-up), a writing table and a garden with a mud kitchen and vegetable beds.
In the year before school we do short, playful sessions on letters, sounds and numbers, practise putting on coats and opening lunchboxes, and visit the local primary schools with the children who are going there.
A day in the room
Pre-schoolers help plan their own day, but it always includes time outdoors and a bit of quiet.
7:30am
Arrive, breakfast and free choice until 9am.
9:00am
Group time: news, the calendar and the day's plan, made together.
9:30am
Forest school on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, garden and projects on the other days.
11:45am
Lunch, served family style, with children taking turns to lay the tables.
Afternoon
Phonics games, stories, building and baking, tea at 3:30pm and garden time.
What to pack
Wellies and a waterproof all-in-one for forest school
A full set of spare clothes
A named water bottle
A book bag if they want to borrow a book
A warm hat and gloves from October
Label everything, especially wellies. Every pair looks the same at 5pm.
Book a visit
All our rooms
Every room, from babies to pre-school.
Fees and funded hours
Baby room
Buttercups
A calm, light room on the ground floor with its own sleep room, a door to the garden and a key person for every baby.
Ages
3 to 18 months
Ratio
1 adult to 3 babies
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Toddler room
Bluebells
Paint, sand, water and stories, plenty of time outside, help with potty training when they're ready and a nap after lunch.
Ages
18 months to 3 years
Ratio
1:3 under twos, 1:5 for twos
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Pre-school room
Sunflowers
Getting ready for school without rushing it: phonics through songs and games, forest-school mornings and lots of choosing for themselves.
Ages
3 to 5 years
Ratio
1 adult to 8 children
Look inside →
Come and see us
The best way to choose a nursery is to visit one.
Look round with your little one, meet the room leaders and ask anything you like. Visits take about 45 minutes, any weekday.