Nursery

Hadleigh Hedgehogs is the nursery that nurtures in partnership with nature.

Here at Hadleigh Hedgehogs we pride ourselves in being able to offer your child a place in a high-quality teacher led nursery that works in partnership with nature and yourselves to nurture your child’s development. Our children have regular on site Forest School (Link to page on website) sessions. Children have opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem through hands on learning experiences. We strive to provide our children with an education that is both enjoyable and inspirational, whilst ensuring challenge to enable the children to take risks and develop skills to allow them to become independent learners. Through our partnerships with parents/carers and other relevant outside agencies we strive to provide a curriculum which meet the needs and interests of our pupils.

Our children receive a curriculum that:

Provides children with the opportunity to learn through a mixture of play, child initiated and adult led activities and learning experiences.
Children have time and space to engage in their own child-initiated activities whilst also participating in planned adult led activities.
We observe and listen to children and provide opportunities for them to express feelings, opinions and ideas.
We engage in play with the children, providing exposure to positive role models of language to support the development of communication skills.
We observe and involve ourselves within play to help develop and extend the children’s learning, vocabulary and address any possible misconceptions.
We encourage children to ‘take risks’ and to challenge themselves.
We promote gender and cultural diversity through the choice of appropriate topics and resources.

The school has an onsite Nursery which takes one intake per year and which currently has 60 places in the morning, split between 2 nursery classes both lead by a qualified teacher. The children are able to alternate their sessions between our traditional nursery building and our Forest School nursery. We also have the capacity to offer 60 places during our afternoon session, with the exception of Friday afternoons where there are 40 spaces. Further information can be found in the Nursery Admissions Policy (attached below). The Nursery sessions run from 8.30am to 11.30am with an additional Lunch Club running from 11.30am-12.30pm. For those children adding afternoon sessions the timings are 12.30pm to 3.30pm. There is also the opportunity for Nursery children to attend wrap around care from 7.45am until 5.45pm.