Bognor Regis Nursery School

Bognor Regis Nursery School was established during the war and transferred to the present Edwardian building in 1947.

The School has a long history of high quality education and care and close partnership work with parents and carers; focusing on the well-being of the whole family as the key factor in enabling each child to thrive.

The School caters for 78(fte) children who are supported by an experienced teaching staff team and highly skilled nursery nurses. The innovative work of the School was recognised in 2002 when it became a Beacon School, disseminating its good practice locally, nationally and internationally including China, Belarus and the Oman. In July 2003 it became an Early Excellence Centre and the new extension was commissioned to support its partnership work with parents, create an under-threes provision and develop further training opportunities for early years practitioners. In April 2007 it opened a Special Support Centre for 8 (fte) children aged 3-5 with significant speech and language needs. Inspired by the principles of Woodland Schools and the Kindergartens of Denmark and Norway, we established our Beach School in 2009. The children visit and revisit the same part of the beach several times throughout the year with their key worker and other children from their group and whenever possible, the children’s parents. As in the Nursery environment the adults follow the interests of the child encouraging them to engage with their environment and the changing weather and seasons.

In September 2011 the School became one of 16 Teaching Centres across the country and is working in close partnership with Pen Green Research Centre and the National College. In 2015/16 the school worked in partnership with Blue Flag Alliance Teaching School and the DfE to deliver quality improvement in early years’ provision and create an infrastructure locally to support this in a sustainable way. In 2018, the School became a Centre of Excellence for Helicopter Stories.

Our special interests and expertise are in:

• Beach School
• Helicopter Stories
• Makaton and Visual Support
• Support for children with SEND
• Support for children’s executive functioning through the use of social problem solving strategies
• Enabling environments including planned risk and challenge
• Cross Curricular Workshops
• Outdoor play
• Mathematical learning
• Loose Parts
• Core Book approach