Welcome to Hedgehog Room
Our Early Years Three nursery classes are staffed by qualified teachers and highly skilled Early Years Practitioners. The adult ration is 1:13 and children are placed in key groups and are supported by familiar key adults in their rooms.
The nursery sessions are developed around a supportive daily routine, which includes opportunities for the children to work in a small group, plan their own learning, make independent choices about what they want to explore, review their learning, and experience story, songs and rhymes.
Staff observe children closely, finding out what interests and motivates them, they then plan dynamic learning opportunities to extend and develop the children’s learning.
Across all our rooms, we offer flexible session options to suit your family's needs.
We provide 15-hour funded places over two and a half days. Monday and Tuesday all day, plus Wednesday morning or Wednesday afternoon, plus Thursday and Friday all day.
We also offer 30-hour places, which run all day Monday to Friday, subject to availability.
Latest News from Hedgehog Room
Hedgehogs Room Explores New Environment
In Hedgehogs Room, we've been exploring our new outside environment with trails, hunts, and autumn activities, helping children become familiar with the outdoor spaces available to them. Playing "Where's Bear?" has been our favourite activity, and we've been excited...
News from the Hedgehog Room – June 2025
Creative Collaboration in the Hedgehog Room The children in the Hedgehog Room have been immersed in a vibrant and collaborative art project. Working together on a large piece of card, they explored a variety of painting techniques and tools, sharing ideas and...
News from the Hedgehog Room – February 2025
The children in the Hedgehog Room have been feeling super adventurous and have been exploring a wide variety of activities. The rainy weather hasn't stopped the Hedgehogs from playing out in the garden, dressed in their waterproofs, the children have been collecting...
News from the Hedgehog Room – January 2025
Hedgehog room has had great fun exploring the frosty garden, it may be cold but that doesn't stop the children from enjoying their time outside. Stepping on crunchy frost makes a great noise under our feet. We also noticed some ice on the pond! When not in the garden,...
News from the Fox and Hedgehog Room – November 2024
We love welcoming back the children after half term. We hope you all had a wonderful time! The Fox's and Hedgehog's came back ready to learn new and exciting things and rekindle friendships. The first week back involved messy play, both indoors and outdoors. Indoors...
News from the Fox and Hedgehog Rooms – October 2024
Welcome to Term 1 at Knowle West Nursery School. We have been busy welcoming new families into our Knowle West Nursery family and settling in all the children into their new rooms. We are all enjoying exploring our new environments and making new friends. We are...
More News from the Fox and Hedgehog Rooms – July 2024
Creating Art The children love getting arty. Being able to freely create any type of art is such a great activity for them. Whether it's painting with a variety of painting tools, getting messy with papier-mâché and balloons or glueing pom-poms and beads to make...
News from the Fox and Hedgehogs Rooms – July 2024
Strawberries! The strawberries in the garden were ready to be picked! So, the children grabbed a bowl and picked all the ones that looked juicy and delicious. The children then gave them a good wash and ate them up! They were really tasty! It was so great that the...
News from the Fox and Hedgehogs Rooms – June 2024
Bill the Music Man Bill the Music Man came to see us on Friday the 21st of June to sing songs and play instruments. We plucked the strings on guitars, banged on drums, tapped, and shook tambourines and enjoyed singing along to some of our favourite songs together....
More News from the Hedgehog Room – May 2024
Out in the Garden All the wonderful sunshine means even more time to explore the gardens and enjoy the incredible space we have here. As it has been rather hot, we have made sure to stay extra safe by playing in the shady bits of the garden. We are so lucky to have so...
Hedgehog Room Team
Alice
Teacher
Adele
Lead Practitioner - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Clair
Lead Practitioner – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Debbie
Support Practitioner
Zara
Support Practitioner
