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Our nurseries in Southwater and Horsham are a bit different. Our Forest School Nursery in Southwater has its own 11 acre woodland and our Horsham Farm School Nursery is based on a working farm with animals that children interact with every day.
We think a bit differently too. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach we employ professional artists to work with children in dedicated creative studios which are called Ateliers. We believe children love beautiful and interesting things, just like adults, so we put lots of them in our nurseries. We believe in listening to children a lot. We know if we help children work out what they are interested in, what questions they have and what they like to explore, they will be more motivated to learn. Sometimes this exploring and learning turns into children’s research projects lasting many months.
Nurturing Confident, Caring and Curious children is what we do.
At Little Barn Owls Day Nursery & Farm School we consider every child to be a beautiful, independent, fascinating, creative individual with a huge amount to offer the world. At Little Barn Owls we understand that the importance of the early years in a child's general development cannot be over-emphasised. Any experience which caters for the needs of the children, before they reach statutory school age, establishes the foundations of future learning in many areas of human experience. There are four main needs of a child in the pre-school years: