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Here’s why Innsworth Preschool is one of the best early years settings in Gloucester.
Choosing a preschool is about more than childcare. It is about finding a place where your child feels confident, curious, and supported every day.
Strong teaching sits at the centre of everything we do. Our practitioners understand how young children learn and how to support development across communication, physical skills, emotional wellbeing, and early independence. Learning is carefully planned, observed, and adapted so children are supported as individuals and encouraged to progress with confidence.
We invest continuously in modern early years resources and learning environments. Our spaces are well organised, well resourced, and intentionally designed to encourage curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving. We regularly refresh and upgrade our resources so children benefit from current best practice rather than outdated approaches.
Innsworth Preschool is a setting that reflects, reviews, and improves. We reinvest in staff training, professional development, environments, and equipment so we continue to grow and raise standards. This commitment to improvement ensures we stay ahead of the curve and provide children with the best possible start.
High-Quality Teaching and Continuous Improvement
Strong teaching sits at the centre of everything we do. Our practitioners understand how young children learn and how to support development across communication and language, physical development, emotional wellbeing, early independence, and school readiness. Learning is carefully planned, observed, and adapted so children are supported as individuals and encouraged to progress with confidence.
We invest continuously in modern early years resources and learning environments. Our spaces are well organised, well resourced, and intentionally designed to encourage curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving while remaining safe and appropriate for young children. Resources and equipment are refreshed and upgraded regularly so children benefit from current best practice rather than outdated approaches.
Innsworth Preschool is a setting that reflects, reviews, and improves. We reinvest in staff training, professional development, environments, and equipment so we continue to raise standards internally and externally. This commitment to continuous improvement ensures we stay ahead of the curve and provide children with the best possible start.
A Strong Indoor and Outdoor Curriculum
Children at Innsworth Preschool benefit from a balanced curriculum delivered across our indoor learning spaces and our outdoor areas. Inside the building, children access well-planned continuous provision with a wide range of modern resources that support early literacy, early maths, communication and language, creativity, construction, and purposeful play.
Our outdoor provision includes a hard-surface play area used for physical development, movement, games, and active learning. All areas are carefully supervised and risk assessed so children are encouraged to challenge themselves safely while building confidence and physical skills. Teaching balances child-led exploration with guided activities and adult support. This ensures children remain engaged while developing the skills they need to transition smoothly into Reception.
A Preschool Built Around Real Experiences
What truly sets Innsworth Preschool apart is the scale and ambition of our farm-based learning space, which offers children experiences that are rare in early years settings and difficult to replicate elsewhere.
Our farm classroom is almost larger than our main building and is used throughout the year, in all seasons. Children spend regular time in this space and the surrounding outdoor areas growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and plants, observing insects and birds, and learning directly from the natural world.
Children take part in planting, watering, tending, harvesting, collecting eggs, creating natural art, and exploring messy, hands-on play. These experiences build confidence, resilience, responsibility, and independence in a way that feels meaningful and memorable for young children.
All farm-based activities are carefully planned, supervised, and risk assessed so children can enjoy real responsibility and practical learning within a safe and supportive environment. This learning is delivered through our structured programme of paid Farm Experience Clubs, which enrich children’s learning and provide access to experiences beyond the statutory Early Years Foundation Stage.
A Curriculum That Feels Alive
Our curriculum is designed to be broad, balanced, and engaging, with learning happening indoors, outdoors, and through real-world experiences. The farm environment adds depth and meaning to what children are already learning, bringing topics to life through seasons, nature, and responsibility.
Children do not simply learn about growth, care, or change in theory. They experience it through practical activity, exploration, and purposeful routines. This approach supports language development, social skills, problem-solving, and emotional resilience, while keeping children motivated, active, and involved throughout the preschool day.
Our Amazing Farm Experience Clubs
The Farm Experience is delivered through a range of carefully planned Clubs that reflect the seasons and the interests of the children. The Farm Experience: Growing and Harvesting Club focuses on planting, tending, and collecting what we grow. The Farm Experience: Food from the Garden Club helps children understand where food comes from and how it is prepared.
Creativity and sensory learning are developed through the Farm Experience: Flowers and Floristry Club and the Farm Experience: Nature Art and Messy Play Club, where children explore colour, texture, design, and experimentation using natural materials. Care and responsibility are strengthened through the Farm Experience: Animal Care Club, and learning is brought together through the Farm Experience: Seasonal Projects Club, which links activities to the natural cycle of the year.
These Clubs enrich the core Early Years Foundation Stage provision and allow children to access experiences that go beyond the statutory curriculum.
A Consistent Preschool Day, With Meals That Make Life Easier
We are open from 8:00am to 6:00pm, term time only, and we run a single, consistent preschool day so children attend together as one group. This supports strong routines, friendships, and a shared sense of belonging, while helping children and families settle into a school-style rhythm early.
Meals are an important part of how our day works. Children eat together in a calm, social environment, supporting independence, routine, and positive relationships with food. For many families, our daily meal service is a key convenience, allowing simple drop-off and pick-up without the daily pressure of planning, preparing, and packing multiple healthy meals and snacks.
Our setting supports children with a wide range of allergies and medical needs, including children who carry EpiPens. Because these allergies are protected under equality legislation, we operate very careful allergen controls across the preschool. When families provide their own food, this involves strict requirements, including limits on permitted foods, the use of insulated cooling bags with ice packs, providing an empty named 500ml stainless steel water bottle, and daily confirmation that food has been prepared safely and is free from allergens.
Many families choose our meal service because it removes this complexity, ensures consistency, and allows us to manage food, hydration, and safety in a controlled and reliable way throughout the day. Meals, learning, and enrichment then flow smoothly as part of a predictable routine that helps children feel settled and secure.
Further information about food provision and allergen controls is always available on request, and we are happy to talk through individual needs with families.
Experienced in Supporting Children With English as an Additional Language
Around seventy percent of our children come from military families, many of whom relocate to the UK from around the world. Supporting children with English as an Additional Language is therefore a well-established and confident part of daily life at Innsworth Preschool.
We help children develop spoken English through consistent routines, visual support, repetition, play-based interaction, and strong adult modelling. Children are supported in a secure environment where they feel understood, included, and confident to communicate. Families new to the UK often choose Innsworth Preschool because they know their child will settle quickly, build confidence, and be supported both socially and linguistically.
Convenient Location and Excellent Value
Our location makes us a first choice for many families working at Imjin Barracks, Gloucester Royal Hospital, and the University of Gloucestershire. We are close to Gloucester city centre with easy access to Cheltenham, making daily drop-off and collection straightforward for working parents.
As an independent setting, we are able to offer excellent value compared with many larger franchise and chain providers. Families benefit from a more personal service, a consistent staff team, and a high-quality experience, without the higher costs often associated with large organisations.
The best way to understand Innsworth Preschool is to visit. A tour allows you to see the indoor learning spaces, outdoor areas, farm classroom, meet the team, and understand how safety, teaching, and enrichment come together in practice.
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Monday - Friday 8am - 6pm
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01452 739090
