Knowle West Nursery School offers an environment of psychological safety where children and families feel valued, respected, and genuinely listened to. The physical learning environment is both predictable and exciting, and promotes children’s autonomy. The staff team have created calm purposeful places for play and engagement indoors, alongside extensive outdoor garden spaces offering risk and challenge. Access to green space and the outdoors is fundamental to good health and wellbeing. The school offers children opportunities to enrich their learning and development in both wild and nurtured garden spaces where they can feel free to express themselves and extend their imagination.

Knowle West Nursery School has a strong culture of safeguarding and inclusive practice, ensuring that every child and their family are nurtured and get what they need to thrive and succeed.

The dedicated team at Knowle West focus on developing the skills, dispositions, and attitudes children need to become confident lifelong learners, offering every child and their family warmth, care, compassion, and understanding.

Through carefully designed experiences, children develop a strong sense of self and belonging, while cultivating a desire to learn, grow, and develop. The school has strong links with multi-agency partners and works in partnership with parents to ensure that the voice of the whole family is heard and understood.