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Nursery at Forest Glade Primary School
Last reviewed: October 2026 · Inspection data and key information above update regularly, however, this review below is refreshed bi-annually and may not reflect recent changes. Contact the nursery directly to confirm current arrangements. If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
Stories, sound games and a Code of the Week give Forest Glade’s nursery a clear focus on the beginnings of reading. This is the nursery within Forest Glade Primary School in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Its character comes through most clearly in the activities children use to explore language: listening, playing with sounds and recognising letters before formal reading develops.
Teeny Reading Seeds is the named nursery approach. Children notice print around them, explore capital and lower-case letters, and use pictures as memory prompts. They also practise joining spoken sounds together and separating words into sounds. These are small steps with a practical purpose: preparing children to understand how spoken language connects with print.
Stories supply another route into language. Nursery children listen to stories and encounter new words through both storytelling and play. Reading preparation includes distinguishing sounds, making rhythms with their bodies, exploring rhyme and noticing words that begin alike. Voice sounds are part of the work too. The emphasis is on hearing and using language, alongside learning about letters.
Later in the autumn term, a Code of the Week becomes part of nursery learning, using Teeny Reading Seed resources. This gives letter-and-sound work a named focus alongside the broader sound activities. The school’s curriculum covers the Early Years Foundation Stage framework, with vocabulary and reading as explicit priorities. For parents, the concrete nursery examples are useful: stories, rhyme, rhythm and spoken sound games explain what that emphasis looks like in practice.
Support for additional needs sits within the school’s SEND structure. Forest Glade caters for children with identified special educational needs, disabilities and specific medical needs. The school plans individual provision around children’s needs, so inclusion is approached through adjustments for the child rather than an expectation that everyone needs identical support.
Parents can contact the special educational needs and disabilities coordinator through the school office. Existing parents can also use Class Dojo. That gives families a direct route for discussing additional needs. For medication required during school hours, parents complete a form, and the adult delivering the medicine must sign at the office. This creates a specific handover step for care that needs to continue during the day.
Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate application through the normal school admissions process, handled by the local authority under the Nottinghamshire Coordinated Admissions Scheme. Applications can be made online, by post or by telephone.
For the September 2026 intake, the application deadline was 15 January 2026. That cycle is now past. Keep the nursery decision and the Reception application separate: choosing this nursery does not remove the need to apply for school admission.
The school office is the enquiry route, on 01623 452770. Forest Glade is on Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4FL, and a school visit can be booked. A Nursery Pupil Admission Form is provided for nursery applications.
Breakfast care. The school’s Breakfast Club accepts children from Reception to Year 6. Nursery children fall outside that stated age-group eligibility, which matters for families planning care before the nursery day.
Teeny Reading Seeds develops awareness of print, spoken sounds and letters, using pictures as memory aids.
Children listen to stories, learn vocabulary through play, and explore rhyme, rhythm, body percussion and spoken sound blending and segmenting.
No. Families need to apply separately through the normal local-authority school admissions process.
Contact the school’s special educational needs and disabilities coordinator through the office. Current parents can also use Class Dojo.
The stated eligibility is Reception to Year 6, so it does not include nursery children.
