Barbour Nursery School is a bright, purpose built and modern building, situated on a spacious south facing site which borders the Lagan Valley Regional Park. A particular feature of the school is its extensive and well secured outdoor play area which, in addition to a wide range of climbing apparatus, includes a vehicle circuit, role play cottage, a sand house, log seating, willow tunnels, wooden train, fruit trees, raised vegetable beds, construction play area and a gardening area.
Funding from "The Big Lottery" has provided an additional landscaped "Butterfly Garden" that includes a challenging mini assault course, pond, forest den and wild meadow area.A large indoor multi-purpose play room with safety surfacing is a further tremendous asset of the school as well as a "Family Room".
Funding from "The Big Lottery" has provided an additional landscaped "Butterfly Garden" that includes a challenging mini assault course, pond, forest den and wild meadow area.A large indoor multi-purpose play room with safety surfacing is a further tremendous asset of the school as well as a "Family Room".
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100% of parents rate the quality of teaching at Barbour Nursery School as "excellent" or "very good". 92.5% of parents feel their child has learnt "a tremendous amount" or "quite a lot" from Eco-schools & Forest School activities. 89% of parents "strongly agree" or "agree" that they now know how young children learn and develop since attending information sessions and receiving regular news and feedback.
Forest School is an inspirational process, that offers ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees. Forest School is a specialised learning approach that sits within and compliments the wider context of outdoor and woodland education.
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