Nursery - Forres Sandle Manor

“Growing young minds surrounded by nature”

Outstanding year-round Nursery for children aged 2-4 years old

Nursery Booklet

Download our Nursery booklet here.

Forres Sandle Manor School offers a unique Nursery experience. Set in the Pre Prep building of our small school, we have a lot of space for our smallest pupils!

Our school setting in the New Forest is friendly, and nurturing and ensures each individual child feels happy, safe, and keen to learn. The nursery and playgrounds provide an opportunity for every child to grow and develop, while our incredible location allows us to incorporate the use of specialist teaching into our nursery curriculum. The individually designed outdoor classrooms are a fundamental part of our nursery offering. Pupils develop physical, imaginative, and social skills in the natural setting and learn from the world around them.

Children at our nursery will benefit from:

35 Acres

Our Nursery is set within 35 acres of beautiful countryside with an on-site Forest School, playing areas and outdoor classrooms and first-class facilities.

Literacy and Numeracy

We follow a phonics programme, as well as lessons in reading, writing and numeracy for all our nursery children.

Specialist Teaching

Our Nursery children have weekly specialist teaching sessions in Music, PE and Dance

Forest School

Most of our children get excited when we say that we are going to our Forest School - a fantastic area set in an area of our woodland, which has a wide range of toys, swings, rope walk, mud kitchen, log stools and a wattle and daub hut. Come rain or shine. Our children will experience the great outdoors as part of their usual day. They also have the opportunity to experience our large playing fields - running around, playing games and a range of sports in a stunning and safe setting.

Our forest sessions allow children to grow in confidence as they explore with freedom, build social and communication skills through play as well as developing their knowledge and understanding, physical skills, whilst also providing opportunities for development in such areas as problem-solving and, very importantly, resilience. During our sessions, we offer both a creative activity as well as the opportunity to allow your child to engage in their own, all-important child-led play. At the end of a session, we all enjoy a story or songs around the log circle.