Now taking applications! Spaces available from early 2026

Open day Saturday 22nd November 2025

 

Fingertips Forest Nursery at Luton Hoo Estate is our newest location. We are a Term-time setting and offer 8.00 am till 4.00 pm. You can drop off for free as early as 7.45 am and also have the choice of an optional 4-5pm stay late session for additional cost.

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Indoors​

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Our highly qualified and passionate team ensures that each day is packed with exciting and motivating learning opportunities.  We strive to offer our children the opportunity to embark on an exciting journey towards a lifelong love of learning.

 

To do this, we strategically plan, based on the children's own interests, to include social and language skills, physical development, an understanding of the incredible world around them, the fun in science, the excitement of mathematics and literacy, and also very importantly, expressive art and design, with the imperative being on them having fun with every area of learning.

 

We see our parents as very much a part of their child's learning process, and we keep them informed of their child's individual plan and our group plan so that we all work together on this exciting learning journey.

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Our outdoor space includes sensory corners, swings, slack lines, a gardening area, fire circles (for making hot chocolate) and much more!

 

On a daily basis, we invite our children to a small learning group where they will play games that help to extend their learning.

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Forest School at Luton Hoo Estate

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Fingertips were the first preschool to pioneer forest school in Harpenden.  We have been able to share our expertise and skills with local schools, pre-schools and nurseries, working with them and giving their children opportunities to experience this amazing approach. 

 

Forest School is based on the Scandinavian educational learning approach where children can develop their confidence and self-esteem in a natural outdoor woodland environment. They learn new skills, how to manage their own risk and are given opportunities to use their own initiative to problem solve. Their play is imaginative and helps them grow into creative thinkers. We see our children beginning to share and co-operate with their peers while achieving their own goals. Forest School is an all-weather, all year approach and by attending forest school sessions the children learn about themselves and to appreciate the changing natural environment.

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Some of the things we do at forest school;

 

 • Whittling sticks

 • Making mud pies

 • Sawing

 • Climbing trees

 • Playing on rope swings

 • Playing imaginary games

 • Lighting fires

 • Learning about the environment and the natural world​​

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