OUTDOOR FOREST NURSERY & CHILDRENS HOLIDAY CAMPS
LOCATED IN PUTNEY

outdoor nursery

We are a full time outdoor education nursery for children aged 2-5 years old operating from 8am until 5.30pm.

Our aim is to help our children have the best possible start to life physically, emotionally and cognitively.

Giving space and allowing those wonderful sparks of imagination to flourish is important for our children while they rest, rejuvenate and reset during the school holidays, and our dynamic outdoor sessions offer exactly that.

wild about play

At Wild about Play, we deliver engaging, exciting and dynamic forest school education to spark, inspire and extend children’s imagination and learning at nursery and primary school age. With birds-eye views of Putney Common and Woods from our rooftop base camp at Oasis Academy, Putney, we run our Ofsted-approved outdoor nursery all year round, outdoor learning camps during school holiday breaks, and wild families’ sessions on select weekends.

Wild About Play’s
Mission

Our mission is simple: “To help our children have fun, feel free, explore and progress their inner strengths through playful learning in and while caring for local nature.”

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Outdoor education for the community.

Our wonderful, highly-qualified practitioners curate sessions that incorporate the natural world and the EYFS curriculum into our children’s education ensuring they unleash their full potential. Children are encouraged to explore their surroundings and spearhead their learning through a mix of fun physical, musical, artistic and construction challenges. The calming and rich effects of nature coupled with skilled adult support provides the framework to support meaningful play, enriching learning and developing key skills such as enquiry, expression, experimentation and team work.

At WaP we do not rest until children can be mindful and motivated to follow their path and express themselves. Our WaP way is about developing and extending personal and social skills that will be there to guide them through the rest of their lives, ensuring our children of tomorrow are not just school ready and thriving but also life ready and resilient.

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Learning & Creativity With Wild About Play Forest School and Nursery

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Just Some Of Our Recent Reviews

					Wild about play has been a fantastic first step for our 3 year old daughter. Our daughter is a premature baby with both sensory issues and adverse eating challenges. The... read more staff and management has gone well beyond to help us get special assistance and help for our daughter as well as been very flexible and accommodating with financial arrangements. I can not praise the school and staff enough.
Thank you
Jens				
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08/15/2022 

					This nursery is fantastic and our daughter has progressed significantly since she started going there 6 months ago.  When she started she had just turned 2. Her vocabulary and... read more general knowledge about the world around her has grown tremendously, which is all due to the teaching methods of the staff. She has made many new friends at the nursery and seems to play very nicely with the other children. The staff are so friendly and thoughtful and our daughter always wants to go to 'her nursery'. She becomes happy when mentioning the nursery, gets excited when we leave home for nursery and doesn't look back once when we have dropped her off. The staff report in-depth about their outings together with the children, share particular moments and pictures of our daughter and keep us up to date when something has happened (she fell down once). We really appreciate this as parents and we hope they keep doing the reports. Initially we chose this nursery for the reason that it is an outdoor 'playful learning' nursery and we are so pleased they actually do spend 100% of their time outdoors, learning about nature and interacting with all living things around them. In a playful way the staff engages the children with their surroundings to create an amazing learning environment.				
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01/14/2022 

					WAP is an amazing experience for my child. Every time he goes he loves it more. The children are active, learn the nature, learn to be creative. The organisation of... read more the camp is excellent, there is a specific person that replies all the parents questions immediately, they offer what they promise and even more.				
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06/03/2021 

					My Reception age son has done three wild about play holiday camps this academic year and been super happy in them all. The staff are really engaging and he’s learnt... read more a lot. The mix in ages has been great for him as he’s an only child.				
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06/03/2021 

					Wild About Play is an exceptional place for children! The activities, the staff, the setting, it's all so fabulous! Our son has attended their holiday camps and he loves it... read more - he comes home with lots of stories of adventure and all he learned that day about the outdoors. The best part is always the toasting of marshmallows over the camp fire!				
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04/23/2021 

					My son absolutely loves Wild About Play! It is a fantastic forest school where he plays outside all day while also learning about animals, nature and many other things besides.... read more The staff are amazing - hugely knowledgable and caring as well as being great fun. A brilliant outdoor learning experience.				
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04/22/2021 

					Our daughter LOVES spending time at Wild About Play. The setting and team are wonderful, a perfect balance of nurture and adventure, providing opportunities to explore, discover and learn through... read more play. She always gets so much out of her days there, beaming with contentment and full of news afterwards! Very lucky to have such a wonderful organisation on our doorstep. Highly recommend.				
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04/16/2021 