Little Trotters Farm & Nursery School

Over the bridge passing the pond with two resident ducks, and nestled within a farmyard setting, vegetable patch and butterfly garden sits Little Trotters school house where play, laughter, use of imagination and endless opportunities for social interaction are abound.

Little Trotters provides a nature-based education, where emphasis is placed on traditional values, kindness and responsibility. Academically strong, children are prepared for primary school, and integral to the curriculum is Maths and Literacy (via the Jolly Phonics approach), which are taught age appropriately.

Children leave Little Trotters having had three years of laughter, joy and learning through play while knowing deep down that learning is fun! They come out at 4.5 years knowing their phonetical alphabet, they can decode simple words, count well into their twenties and beyond, have learnt to play well together, share, resolve conflicts and have developed a passion for learning. They know their colours, shapes, life cycles of butterflies, frogs and plants, they have flown to the moon, learnt about Mozart, Beethoven, Vincent Van Gogh and other famous but complicated historical figures, they have learnt about weather systems, how dinosaurs lived and died, they bake, paint and have literacy and Maths lessons four days a week. They learn how to hold their pencil properly and Little Trotters has a SENco teacher on staff that will spot and step in as soon as a SEN issue is identified, so that work can begin on resolving it.

Children are accepted into the Turtle class at 18 months and then progress at 2.5 years to the Stingray class before moving to the Iguana class at 3.5 for their final year.

Little Trotter was graded as 'Excellent' in their last school inspection report. Please see the report here.

If you would like to put your child on the list at Little Trotters you must do so before you are two months pregnant. The waiting list is very long and you are very unlikely to get a place if you do not plan well in advance. Please email Lesley Maddox on littletrotters@candw.ky if you would like a tour or would like to be put on the list.