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New View Nursery

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Sept 2025)
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5.0(11 parent reviews) ·North Heath Hall, St Marks Lane, Horsham, RH12 5PU · West Sussex
Number of places
23 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
West Sussex

About this day nursery

The nursery prides itself on an environment where children are enthusiastic to learn, forming strong relationships with staff and demonstrating exceptional physical skills in their extensive outdoor areas. Staff expertly support children in activities such as tree climbing and balancing across rope bridges, fostering independence and confidence.

Reading is a key focus, with stories like ‘The Gruffalo’ brought to life in focused story times and during woodland adventures. The dedicated team, with qualifications ranging from level 3 to qualified teacher status, ensures all children, including those with SEND and EAL, receive tailored support to make outstanding progress.

Parents consistently provide positive feedback, highlighting the excellent care and education their children receive.

What it's like

Children thrive in this nurturing, welcoming and outstanding nursery. They enthusiastically enter with smiles and confidence, eager to join in with stimulating and exciting activities. They have formed exceptionally strong relationships with staff, engaging in warm, high-quality interactions that promote their emotional well-being. Children also thrive in the vast outdoor areas, developing exceptional physical skills and independence. Staff promote children’s love of reading, with stories brought to life during focused story times and in the woods, engaging children as they listen intently, recall details, and actively participate.

Nurturing environmentOutdoor learningExceptional progressStrong relationshipsPassionate staff

Key facts

Opening hours

weekdays during term time from 9am to 4pm

Term time / All Year

Term_time_only

Established

2007

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for New View Nursery

Last inspected 12 September 2025

Overall effectiveness
Outstanding

What it's like to attend

Children thrive in this nurturing, welcoming and outstanding nursery. They enthusiastically enter with smiles and confidence, eager to join in with stimulating and exciting activities. They have formed exceptionally strong relationships with staff, engaging in warm, high-quality interactions that promote their emotional well-being. Children also thrive in the vast outdoor areas, developing exceptional physical skills and independence. Staff promote children’s love of reading, with stories brought to life during focused story times and in the woods, engaging children as they listen intently, recall details, and actively participate.

Inspector highlights

  • Children thrive in a nurturing, welcoming and outstanding nursery, enthusiastically engaging with stimulating activities.
  • Children develop exceptional physical skills and impressive hand-eye coordination in the vast outdoor areas.
  • Staff promote children's love of reading, bringing stories to life during focused story time and woodland adventures.
  • All children make outstanding progress in their learning and development, benefiting from staff’s comprehensive understanding of individual needs.
  • Staff interact superbly with all children, fostering respect, kindness, creativity, and imagination.
  • Children clearly understand and demonstrate excellent hygiene procedures, explaining why they wash hands before mealtimes.
  • Parents make extremely positive comments about the partnership with staff and the excellent care and education children receive.
  • Leaders are dedicated to developing an exceptional staff team, encouraging professional development and prioritising staff well-being.
Inspection #10399005 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff provide exceptional support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, understanding individual learning strategies and quickly adapting activities to maintain engagement. They work closely with children, parents, and outside agencies to set clear, achievable targets and monitor progress closely.

Outdoor space

Children thrive in the vast outdoor areas, developing exceptional physical skills and impressive hand-eye coordination as they navigate their natural surroundings. They expertly climb trees and skilfully balance across a rope bridge, showcasing superb independence and confidence.

EAL / language support

Children learning English as an additional language receive exceptional support, with staff adapting activities and using clear language and visual cues to help them progress and engage.

Parent Reviews of New View Nursery

5.0
(11)
Lisa Gonzalez
11 months ago

New view nursery has been such a safe and nurturing environment for our daughter. The staff are all wonderful. She loves forest school and has really enjoyed her time there. We are sad to say goodbye to staff and friends.

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Hannah Cartlidge
11 months ago

New View nursery is amazing. All of the staff are wonderful and the amount of support given to your child is outstanding. The lovely large outdoor space where the children can play in all seasons is great fun. Highly recommend

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Sean McCarthy
3 years ago

An amazing nursery! It’s wonderful seeing our daughter get excited about going each week. The children have access to a large outdoor play space including some woodlands. The staff really make an effort to provide a safe, fun, and loving environment. They also keep us parents updated using an app with picture updates that allows us to see what they have been doing from music bus, role play, forest school and lots more activities. The staff also take the time to do a focus week on each child to see where they are progressing: Communication & language, physical development personal, social and emotional, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design. This was really helpful and just another example of how amazing the staff are at caring for the needs of each child. Our child also has severe food allergies and the nursery have been really attentive at making sure it's safe for her. We are very thankful to Sharon and the whole team at New View Nursery.

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Kimberly Rainey
a year ago

I find it hard to put into words just how much I adore New View Nursery! My son really struggled with settling in to a setting outside of home having spent his first 2.5 years at home with me during the pandemic. The staff at New View have been really fantastic from day one and my son now absolutely loves nursery thanks to their kindness, compassion, knowledge and understanding of children. Sharon, the nursery manager, has been particularly brilliant with him and really went out of her way to understand his needs and his personality. I’ll be forever grateful for everything that Sharon and the New View staff have done for my son. My son has learnt so much at New View and particularly enjoyed learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year this year. My son partakes in forest school at New View on Fridays and he absolutely loves this session. They have so much fun! The nursery itself is also a really lovely place. It’s warm and welcoming and the nursery garden is just fantastic. The children are able to play outside in all weathers if they like. New View nursery is a truly wonderful place.

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Samantha Moody
11 months ago

Absolutely excellent preschool. Staff are highly skilled and incredibly caring. My little boy has settled there so well so I’d highly recommend. We loved the forest school option and the lovely outside space. It’s a small setting so the children get lots of adult time.

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Inspection history

Date: November 2011

  • September 2025Outstanding
  • November 2019Outstanding
  • March 2016Outstanding
  • November 2011Outstanding

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