Our Nursery

Our nursery consists of six classes, providing high-quality early years education and care for children aged 6 months to 4 years.

Confident Grasshoppers (6 Months–2 Years)

Our Confident Grasshoppers room caters for children aged 6 months to 2 years. This provision has a separate Ofsted registration from the main nursery.

We are delighted that our baby provision was awarded a 'Good' rating by Ofsted in April 2024.

View our latest Ofsted report:

Woodside Primary Academy Baby Provision Ofsted Report April 2024

Independent Dragonflies & Kind Caterpillars (2–3 Years)

Our Independent Dragonflies and Kind Caterpillars rooms provide a nurturing and stimulating environment for children aged 2 to 3 years.

Through play-based learning and carefully planned activities, children are supported to develop their independence, communication skills, and confidence as they prepare for the next stage of their learning journey.

Responsible Ladybirds, Honest Bumblebees & Respectful Butterflies (3–4 Years)

Our Responsible Ladybirds, Honest Bumblebees, and Respectful Butterflies classes are for children aged 3 to 4 years.

These classes help children build the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need for a successful transition into Reception. Learning is carefully planned to develop communication and language, early literacy and mathematics, personal development, and a love of learning.

We are delighted that our school and nursery provision for children ages 2–11 years was awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by Ofsted in July 2023.

View our latest Ofsted report:

Woodside Primary Academy Ofsted Report July 2023

A Supportive Start to Learning

Across all of our nursery classes, we provide a warm, safe, and engaging environment where every child is valued as an individual and encouraged to thrive through play, exploration, and meaningful learning experiences.

Woodside Nursery Funding Offer

We offer a wide range of provision to support the needs of all families.

• Free early education funded 30-hour places for children aged 9 months (Government eligibility criteria applies).
• Free early education funded 15-hour places for two-year-old children (economic criteria applies).
• Free early education funded 15-hour places for all three and four-year-old children.
• Free early education funded 30-hour places for two, three, and four-year-old children (Government eligibility criteria applies).
• Full day-care and extended wrap-around day-care starting from: 8:00am and available until 6.00pm (Fees apply). Full day-care places require a £150.00 deposit which is non-refundable.    
• Call Nursery Operations Manager John Coggin in the nursery office on 0203 839 4971 for more information about our competitive fees.

Meal Provision

We provide healthy choices for breakfast, lunch, tea-time and midday snacks, all freshly prepared daily and cooked on site by our in-house catering team. 

Nursery Curriculum

Woodside Primary Academy is located in an area with a rich social and culturally diverse community; we use this as a basis for our curriculum which celebrates diversity and utilises the skills, knowledge and cultural wealth of the community whilst supporting the pupils’ spiritual, moral and cultural development. 

Learning at Woodside nursery, journeys through well-planned repetitive fun and meaningful learning opportunities that include ’concrete’ experiences and some direct teaching. This is to ensure each child builds up the necessary procedural skills and knowledge to move on to the next stage of their learning journey and gain love and excitement for learning new things.

It encompasses the programmes of study: prime and specific areas of learning (Early Years Foundation Stage Framework) and is guided by research, our professional knowledge and experience of child development.

Prime Areas (Main focus for under 3's)	Specific Areas
Personal, Social and Emotional Development  Self-regulation Managing self Building relationships	Literacy  Comprehension Word reading Writing
Physical Development  Gross motor skills Fine motor skills	Mathematics Number Numerical patterns
Communication and Language  Listening, attention and understanding Speaking	Understanding the World  Past and present People, culture and communities The natural world
	Expressive Arts and Design  Creating with materials Being imaginative and expressive

How do we support the development of each child at Woodside?

We support children’s learning and development through play and exploration, active learning, direct teaching and critical and creative thinking. The nursery provision provides a wealth of learning zones and activities to create and foster excitement and a thirst for independent learning. Teaching builds on from what children already know and can do.

Learning Partners

Parents are encouraged to contribute to their child’s learning from home via the interactive on-line ‘Tapestry App’. Parents are able to add videos and photographs to their child’s online learning journey.

The nursery team use the ‘Tapestry app’ to create a time map of each child’s learning journey by gathering a few of the children’s work samples through:

• Photographs, video recordings and written observation notes of the children support planning for each child’s next step in their learning journey.
• Information gathered or observed is used to assess each child’s progress while at Woodside. Parents can comment on what is uploaded by the staff team.

Terrific Tuesday

Each half-term parents are invited to stay, play and learn alongside their child for a short 45-minute period.  Parents have the chance to join in with activities, e.g. creative play, a story & rhyme session, early mathematical exploratory play and talk to their child’s key person or teacher and ask questions about our approaches to teaching and child development.