The Ark - Ripley Court Nursery 

The purpose of the Ark is to encourage the children's love of school, to give them the first building blocks of literacy and numeracy, and to expose them to specialist tuition in French, Swimming, PE and dance.

Ripley Court offers a splendid teaching nursery, where children are welcomed on or about their third birthday. The huge advantage of being attached to a school is that the children can use the facilities and specialist teaching in the whole school.

They follow the Foundation guidelines which guides their development in Personal, Social and Emotional development; Communication, language and literacy; Knowledge and understanding of the world; Mathematical development; Creative thinking and development and Physical development.

We do not push children too early into reading and writing – but they do take their first steps here.

Most children start on a part-time basis. The week is divided up into ten sessions, and parents are billed pro-rata.

Due to government regulations and the desire to keep the nursery grant for parents, children from September 2010 will have to attend five sessions per week as a minimum. Nursery children may choose any five sessions. Transition children (rising four) must attend Monday to Thursday mornings and one other session.