Our Environments

The beautiful setting of this large characterful building and its extensive gardens provide a wonderful backdrop to create the most exciting and inspiring environments in which children can grow and learn

Indoor Environment

The indoor environment at Bracknell nursery and preschool is outstanding. The nursery is equipped and resourced to the highest standards in every room. The nursery is decorated in neutral shades throughout, promoting calmness and tranquillity in the spaces, rather than overloading the children’s senses with abundances of bright colours. The nursery is furnished with beechwood items – all Early Years specific. 

Some of our highlight features are: our Community Playthings Nursery Gym in the Toddler Room, our curiosity materials in the Preschool Room and our large indoor climbing frame. 

The Community Playthings Nursery Gym is a firm favourite with our toddlers. It encourages them to explore and develop many skills, including physical ones, and they love playing on there with their friends. 

Our Preschool Room staff have collected many objects for the children to explore. These curiosity materials have enabled the children to become even more creative and imaginative in their play as they use these objects to support their ideas. We teach the children how to handle these items with care and we enjoy exploring them together. 

Our large indoor climbing frame is a wonderful addition to our indoor environment. It really challenges and supports the children’s developing physical skills. Monkey bars, steps and slides can be added to this fantastic piece of equipment so we can increase the level of challenge for the children who are ready for that. It also makes amazing dens and the children have enjoyed making it into both a fire engine and a pirate ship!

Outdoor Environment

Our outdoor environment is equally special. It features open lawns which allow the children the space and freedom to move and play fully, as well as giving us the space to hold outdoor activities such as ‘storytime’ when the weather allows. We have a large sandpit, dens and cosy areas, big climbing equipment, a Sensory Garden, a Mud Kitchen and a Growing Patch. We use all of these to give the children a varied and exciting outdoor life. As well as play on the open lawns and climbing equipment, they love getting stuck into the mud and sandpit. The Sensory Garden is great at stimulating all their senses, the dens and cosy areas allow rest and relaxation time in the fresh air, and the growing patch holds many valuable lessons and experiences. The garden as a whole is blessed with trees, which provide shade and beauty as well as enhancing children’s connection to nature. 

One of our favourite elements in our outdoor environment is our Forest and Nature Trail. This offers pathways and areas for children to explore, create and play in the small wooded area attached to the garden. There’s an area for stories and to dance and children enjoy looking for bugs and insects, making potions and mud pies, and use sticks in a thousand different ways (magic wands, swords, a horse etc).

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)