Avanti Brook Primary School Nursery

A nursery within a primary school: Avanti Brook’s provision sits at Avanti Brook Primary School on Newland Avenue in Bishop’s Stortford. It is the school’s own nursery provision.

There is no Ofsted graded rating yet. Parents should therefore make no assumption of an inspection grade for the nursery.

The Avanti Way supplies the wider school ethos. Avanti describes its educational aims through educational excellence, spiritual insight and character formation. Its emphasis on curiosity and effort expresses what it wants children to bring to learning.

Across Avanti, the trust aims for children to benefit from the support of its whole network. It also sets an ambition for every child to achieve, whatever their starting point, linking high expectations with sustained effort. For parents, these aims provide a useful focus for conversations with the nursery team: how staff respond to a child's interests, encourage persistence and adapt expectations to individual starting points. The emphasis is on both learning and the attitudes children develop alongside it.

Courage, empathy, gratitude, respect, integrity and self-discipline are the trust’s named virtues. These describe the values surrounding the provision, rather than a session timetable or a particular nursery activity.

Avanti places relationships first in its approach, aiming for children to feel known and valued. That is an ethos statement about the experience it seeks to create.

Trust policies apply across its schools, including those covering special educational needs and disabilities, support for medical needs, and child protection and safeguarding. These establish the wider policy framework for the provision.

That framework also includes an Accessibility Plan, an Equality Policy, an Online Safety Policy and a Safer Recruitment and Recruitment Selection Policy. Their scope extends across the trust's schools. A Respectful Communication & Conduct Policy addresses another aspect of school life: communication and conduct. For families, these are useful topics to discuss with the team when explaining access needs, agreeing communication expectations or asking how the nursery applies the trust's safeguards in everyday care.

Attending Avanti Brook’s nursery does not guarantee a place in the school’s Reception. Nursery admission and Reception admission are separate processes: families must apply again through the normal Reception route by the normal deadline. Treat the two applications as separate decisions when planning your child’s next step.

The school’s address is Newland Avenue, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 2UW. Its telephone number is 01279 211116, providing a direct contact route for nursery enquiries.