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Chichester Nursery School

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Chichester Nursery School and Up to 3s’ Nursery offers high quality nursery education for children from 6 months to 5 years.

Chichester Nursery School and Up to 3s’ Nursery which offers high quality nursery education for children from 6 months to 5 years in a stimulating free flow learning environment, supported by qualified teachers and other highly qualified staff. We are passionate about putting children at the very heart of the learning experience, allowing them to follow their interests, focus and revisit experiences that interest and excite them, and to see themselves as successful learners from the very beginning of their education. Our well-resourced, free-flow environment supports the discovery of new interests and skills and, all the time, our qualified teachers and experienced staff are on hand to support, extend and challenge children’s learning. Come and book an appointment to look around the Nursery and see for yourself!

30/10/2026

What an exciting half term holiday club we’ve had. The children have enjoyed visiting our nursery library to choose a book each then sharing their chosen book, with staff and the other children. The children were really interested in hunting for bugs in the nursery garden where we found lots of worms.
We also created a witch hat house using an old cardboard box after a discussion about Halloween, and baked some delicious banana bread.

26/10/2026

What a fabulous start to our Autumn holiday club! We provided paint, leaves and pumpkins and the children took the initiative, using their colour mixing skills to paint pumpkins and make leaf prints. The children loved talking about what colours they’re making, the patterns they could see and what other natural objects we could use to paint with! 🍁🍂🎃

23/10/2026

What a brilliant INSET Day we had today, led by our own staff-member, Amanda, who also works for The Froebel Trust and has such a wealth of Early Years expertise and research to share!

She talked to us about observing and responding to patterns in children's play and helped us continue to reflect on our Continuous Provision, ensuring we are building on children's skills from babies through to Nursery School!

23/10/2026

Reminder that we are closed for INSET Training today - looking forward to seeing everyone after half term!

22/10/2026

What a lovely start to the Autumn Term - Reminder that the entire nursery is closed for Inset Day training tomorrow and next week is half-term, open for pre-booked childcare only.

This week, we (some of us) have been making the most of the rain. We discussed weather, explored cause and effect and experimented with floating and sinking.

The children also have the opportunity to develop independence in self-care and dressing skills with the waterproofs and any socks that don’t survive the splashing! (This week our spare socks and trousers have been emptied so please return these after half-term.)

22/10/2026

What an exciting Nursery environment to come in to!

At Chichester Nursery School our children have access to a range of resources in each area that stay the same every day. This allows children to return to ideas and familiar play and build on this.

Alongside this, we also provide stimulating 'Enhancements' which provide carefully planned learning opportunities or an exciting starting point for children from which they can start exploring!

Sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day to fit it all in!

19/10/2026

In the baby room painting and drawing are an important part of our everyday activities. The babies enjoy smearing the paint on the hands and skin as a sensory experience and also using brushes to create marks on the paper. We use large paper and crayons for our small children who are learning that their movements make different marks on the paper. This all helps to build their fine motor skills whilst having lots of fun.

19/10/2026

✨Makaton Monday✨ This week the sign is ‘to eat’. We use this sign a lot at Nursery before and during snack time, and today we also used it when reading the very hungry caterpillar story in the garden 😊

16/10/2026

Over the last few weeks we introduced our core book in the Up to 3s ‘Room On The Boom’!

The children instantly loved reading this book, using the story spoons to role play along with the story. We also went on adventures round the garden to look for materials to add to our story such as a pine cones, leaves, flowers and sticks. 🍁

We’ve enjoyed seeing the children so engaged with the story and using their imaginations to make up stories of their own, getting creative by painting their own broom and developing their language.

15/10/2026

Following the children’s interests provides some wonderful learning opportunities; colour mixing introduces children to sensory exploration, scientific concepts and creativity.

This week we have:
👩‍🍳made and combined our own colourful play dough - based on children’s preferences
🧊explored the effects of coloured ice melting in white water
🫟mixed cornflour with colourful water

The children have shown high levels of curiosity and wonder, developed important pre-writing skills by strengthening hand muscles, created their own songs, made predictions and tested them out, communicating their findings with friends. The children have explored states of matter, capacity and other STEM concepts and learned some new vocabulary, but most importantly - had heaps of fun!

Address

St. James' Road
Chichester
PO197AB

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Website

http://www.chichesternursery.org/

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