Glenhurst has served Havant for over 50 years, providing education to young children from our characteristic site on Beechworth Road. Operating a successful and popular nursery and pre-school for the last 20 years, hundreds of children have benefited from our learning environment.
The interior of both the main building and the purpose-built Nursery building are light, colourful and spacious. Outside we have a large secure playground and beautiful walled garden with play areas for differing activities and ages, including a sandpit, outside bikes, reading and construction area.
The Nursery is based in the purpose-built modern building, which is light and colourful and benefits from a large covered veranda, enabling children to play and learn outside even in wet weather. Inside you will find children’s toilets and a cloakroom, a baby changing room, a sleep room and a spacious, open-plan room with air conditioning.
The layout provides the children with supervised, regular access to the playground and garden both for free play and for learning.
Glenhurst operates a “free flow” play system which means that children move from a soft play, book and rest area to other areas to participate in cookery, arts and crafts, water, sand and messy play, and to the garden and playground for physical play and games, supervised and led by qualified staff at all times.
Activities are planned to develop babies and toddlers’ exploration and self-confidence, and include music with instruments, messy play, arts and crafts and simple cookery. The staff ratio in the Nursery is 1:3 for children up to the age of 2, and 1:4 for children aged 2 to 3 years.
The Rising 3 and Pre-School classes are based in the main building. Children with Autumn birthdays may spend a year in the Rising 3 Class before moving to the Pre-School Class for their final year at Glenhurst. Our staff ratio in the Pre-School is 1:8. We are proud to ensure our staff are all first aid trained, and that we have an above average level of qualifications across our team.
Outdoor play for all age groups is well provided for, with a range of cars, scooters, tricycles and balance bikes, sand and water play and outdoor provision boxes for all areas of the curriculum.