Wild Explorers Forest School

About Wild Explorers Forest School

Wild Explorers Forest School is a nature-based nursery and pre-school in Poynton, Cheshire, for children from 12 months old. It is a predominantly outdoor, Ofsted registered setting where the majority of the day is spent outside in sun, rain or snow. The nursery room is called Little Squirrels, the pre-school room is Owls, and the whole approach is child-led: children’s interests shape where the learning goes next, and independence, resilience and school readiness are built day by day through real experiences in nature.

It is exactly the kind of setting parents fall for on a show-around. The trouble was that the website was no longer doing the setting justice.

The Challenge

The old site had been built on WordPress with a page builder that had become corrupted, so nobody could edit it any more. There was not much on it, the staff bios were out of date, and the team did not have copies of their own photos. For a nursery that is a real problem, because a nursery website is not a brochure: parents use it to check fees, read policies, meet the staff and decide whether to book a visit, and the early years rules expect certain information to be published and kept current.

Wild Explorers needed a website that matched the warmth of the setting, held everything parents and the EYFS framework expect to find, and could be updated in minutes rather than not at all.

What We Built

We rebuilt everything from scratch on our platform, as a nursery website design project on our Little Fruitcakes plan. The design leans into the forest school identity: the hand-drawn logo, woodland colour and hand-lettered type carry through every page, around the nursery’s own line of Explore. Grow. Belong. Outside.

Each room has its own page, so Little Squirrels and Owls each explain their day, their routines and, for pre-school, the transition towards school readiness. Our Approach sets out the forest school thinking for parents who are new to it. Meet the Team gives every staff member a photo and a short bio, rebuilt from the current team rather than the outdated list on the old site. The Parents section holds fees, FAQs and every policy as a PDF, kept in the footer so the information is always one click away without cluttering the main pages.

Booking a visit matters more to a nursery than any other enquiry, so Book a Show-Around sits in the header on every page and feeds a form that emails the nursery the moment a parent sends it. We kept the existing domain, handled the switch-over with the registrar, and lifted the usable photos from the old site so the nursery did not have to start a photo library from nothing.

The Result

The new website went live on 5 October 2026, around three weeks after the first content arrived, and the management team signed it off after reviewing every page. The stream of small changes they asked for along the way, a new room name here, an updated napping arrangement there, was turned around the same day, which is exactly the service a nursery is buying: send it over, we sort it.

Wild Explorers now owns a website that parents can actually use: fees and policies published and current, real staff on the team page, a gallery of children outdoors in every season, and a show-around button that works from a phone at the school gate.

Why It Worked

Nursery owners and managers do not have spare hours, and the websites that go stale are the ones that depend on somebody finding time to wrestle a page builder. Wild Explorers runs on the same basis as every Little Fruitcakes website: £79 a month including VAT with nothing upfront, hosting, SSL, daily backups and every change made for them, so keeping the site current takes a message rather than a login. You can see the standard we hold ourselves to on our reviews page.

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