The Nursery School Dorset House

OPENING JANUARY 2027

The Nursery School Dorset House is located within the beautiful grounds of Dorset House School. Focused more on Nature and Forest School, we provide exceptional early years education and care for children in a nurturing, inspiring, and stimulating environment where every child is encouraged to learn, explore, and thrive.

Combining The Nursery School Company’s expertise in early childhood education with the outstanding setting and facilities of Dorset House School, we offer a rich curriculum that fosters confidence, curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning. We look forward to welcoming your family to our vibrant nursery community.

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Facilities

Nature School
Forest School
Beach School
The Nursery School Company Food
Outside Play Area
Parking

Fees

Prices are specific to The Nursery School Dorset House.

TBC
Full Day
8am - 6pm

Admissions To The Nursery School Dorset House:

The Nursery School Dorset House offers admissions for children aged two years onward.
The Nursery School Dorset House offers Term Time Only admissions.
The Nursery School Dorset House charges a registration fee of £100;
Once your place has been offered, we require a £200 deposit, which will be refunded once you leave;
The Nursery School Dorset House has a minimum attendance of 2 full days.

If no places are available then you may join our waiting list and we will inform you should a place become available .

Places are offered in order of the following priority:

a child who is currently at The Nursery School Dorset House;
a child who has a sibling already in attendance;
a child transferring from another Nursery School Company setting;
the date of waiting list request;
full time bookings will get given priority over full day requests.
priority will be given to full days before sessional requests.

The Small Print

Changing or cancelling your place

To cancel or change the sessions your child attends or to cancel your place we require 2 months notice in writing for our Standard FE Placements and 1 months notice for our FE Only Placements.

Should you choose not to start with us then we will not be able to refund either your £100 registration fee or your £200 deposit.

Hours

We are open from 8am – 6pm we do not charge any extra for early starts or late finishes.

We are open 39 weeks a year however this excludes our inset day and bank holidays.

The Nursery School Company closes for one week between Christmas and New Year.

Funding

Early years free entitlement (15 hours) is Government funding which pays for up to 570 hours/year of free education to all 3&4 years olds in England from the term after their third birthday. This covers 15 hours per week. Parents may be able to access an additional 15 hours provided they meet the eligibility criteria. For more information about funding please follow this link

Learn More About Government Funding At The Nursery School Company