Henry Allen Nursery School is staffed by highly experienced and well-qualified teachers and early years educators.  They are all specialists in early years education and dedicated to making your child's experience at Henry Allen happy, fun , exciting, and active, whilst also ensuring they are safe and secure, and all their development needs are met.

At Henry Allen Nursery, we recognise how unique each child is; no two children learn and develop in exactly the same way, and all progress at different rates. Each and every child is valued, and no concern is too small. Please talk to us about any aspect of your child’s welfare, wellbeing or development; by working together the results will have a positive impact on your child’s development and learning.

We start our journey together with a home visit from your child's key person.  Staff use this as the first opportunity to make a special relationship with your child and you, which is then continued on a daily basis with opportunities to chat at drop-off, pick-up and also termly parent consultations.

"Staff understand children’s needs and interests exceptionally well. This enables them to plan children’s next steps with precision. They design stimulating activities, which build children’s cumulative knowledge and spark their interest highly successfully. Every moment is a learning opportunity, for example counting fruit during snack time and comparing with the food eaten by ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’."  Ofsted May 2024

The Co-Headteachers:

Mrs Charlie Macdonald - Co-Headteacher and SENDCo 

Designated safeguarding lead for Child Protection

Mrs Julie Manning - Co-Headteacher,  Forest School Leader Level 3

Deputy Designated safeguarding lead for Child Protection

Squirrel Class (3 and 4 year olds)

Mrs Poppy Goodchild - Deputy Designated safeguarding lead for Child Protection

Mrs Clare Taylor

Hedgehog Class (3 and 4 year olds)

Mrs Jenny Little 

Mrs Kelly Warwick 

Support Staff - Squirrel and Hedgehog Classes

Miss Danielle Thorpe

Ms Agnes Lobb

Mrs Sam Sharp

Mrs Olivia Hutchinson

Mrs Emily Hazzard

Robin Class (Rising 3 year olds)

Mrs Christine Wallman

Mrs Sabah Masood

Mrs Magda Brown

Mrs Louise De Liege

Rabbit Class (2 year olds)

Mrs Manjit Sagoo  

Mrs Kimberley Wooldridge

Mrs Emily Hazzard

Mrs Christine Wallman

Mrs Annie Patringel

Mrs Magda Brown

Mrs Emma Turner - Secretary

Mrs Emily Chatterton - Bursar

Henry Allen Nursery School also benefits from the addition of invaluable support as we provide placements for teaching and early years educator students and offer volunteer placements to those wanting to work in the field of Early Years Education. Any parent or volunteers are welcome too!

DBS checks are undertaken on all adults, we take the welfare of your children very seriously.