Our Nursery

Nature’s Nursery and Forest School is located on London Road, Sunninghill, near Ascot. We’re less than half a mile from the centre of Sunninghill (2 minutes by car) – and 2 miles from Ascot (5 minutes by car). We occupy a large detached period property, which sits in nearly two acres of natural grounds, in a rural setting between Ascot, Sunninghill and Virginia Water.

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.

What Our Parents Say

Very talented and caring staff. My son really loved this nursery. He learnt a lot in all aspects from communication, relationship building, being independent, to learning maths, shapes, letters, word, sentences etc. Really pleased with the development. Thanks to all the lovely staff, you are all the best.

Vaibhav H (Father of Child)

My daughter has been in the nursery since the Baby Room. It has been an incredible journey. Now she is in the pre-school and every day she is excited to go to the nursery. She loves the staff, her key worker, the other kids, the setting (especially the garden). She really enjoys all the activities organised through the week/day. She enjoys and has fun while learning. The staff encourage and support multilingual families making the kids feel proud they can speak more than one language. Now the staff are also getting her ready to go to school this September. The staff have always been amazing, very approachable, flexible and caring.

B C (Father of Child)

The staff are so kind and caring, they all know my daughter even those in different rooms. She skips in to see them every day and they are as excited as me when she does new things. It's a home away from home.

H G (Mother of Child)

I can't thank the staff enough for giving me peace of mind when my child is with them. The number and variety of activities each day is amazing and the fact they manage to get in the garden or go on trips - even in winter is fantastic. My child's development is streets ahead of his peers who don't attend nursery.

S H (Mother of Child)

The nursery has a lovely nurturing and vibrant atmosphere which my son loves. There is plenty of space for him to explore and learn via the vast range of toys and equipment they have. I know he is well cared for. I am always well informed and I work together with the nursery staff to give my son the best possible experience.

Claire F (Mother of Child) 

The care, consideration and attention my son receives is exemplary. Staff pay attention to his strengths and weaknesses and verbalise them to us and ideas for developing them are implemented. All staff demonstrate an excellent attitude and have excellent relationships with their designated children.

A D (Father of Child)

The staff were warm, caring and professional and the facilities are great. We felt like our daughter was part of a big family. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all working there.

E S (Mother of Child)

I have been impressed by the level of care given to my son since he started. The daily warm welcome of the staff makes both children and parents alike feel at ease. Seeing the smile on my boy's face as we drive into the car park is proof enough for me that the team are doing something right.

Alexander M (Father of Child)

My little girl has recently started and is absolutely loving her time at nursery. The settling in sessions were brilliant and really helped put my mind at ease, especially with me starting back at work. The ladies in the Baby Room are super friendly and enthusiastic and I can't thank them enough for their support in what could have been quite an emotional rollercoaster.

G W (Mother of Child)

Once I drop my son off into the Baby Room, I feel he's as safe and as well looked after as I do at home.

Laura R (Mother of Child)