A culture with nature at its heart
As our name suggests our entire nursery culture is built around nature. Our outdoor spaces and Forest School are what make our nursery so special, though our four large, superbly resourced indoor rooms are top quality too. Our outdoor environments include a mixture of grassed tree lined areas, hardstanding areas, and an area of play bark and safety flooring. We have developed play spaces that include a vegetable patch, a mud kitchen, digging and planting areas, and a sensory garden. The children can also explore our hay barn, help in our chicken coup and learn in our outdoor classroom.
Forest School
In addition to those outdoor environments and play spaces, we have our Forest School. This is a place where children learn about the natural world, our environment and conservation whilst enjoying wonderful experiences such as den making, interactive storytelling, and toasting marshmallows, developing valuable skills such as fire safety and outdoor cooking.
Working in partnership with families
The team at our nursery in Ascot works hard to ensure that children and their families feel welcomed at our setting. Children and their families are involved in what happens at nursery, influencing activities that are delivered because these will be about what children are interested in. By sharing children interests at home with our staff teams it enables us to take a lead from the children and provide activities, experiences, and resources to enhance and support their current knowledge, then extend this.
Our team introduce interesting and exciting stimulus to support the children’s development further and provide teaching and learning opportunities in the everyday activities that can sometimes be taken for granted. For example there are so many mathematical opportunities in children helping to set up for lunch time – how many plates do we need? We’ve 4 plates now how many more should we have? We’ve 12 plates now – that’s too many – how many shall we put back? We make every opportunity count and involve children in every aspect of the day. We share the children’s experiences with families so they can talk with children about what they are learning when they’re at home too.
Nature’s Nursery and Forest School caters for children aged between 3 months and 4 years old.
To register your interest at our nursery, contact our friendly team today.