We are pleased and proud to show you our school.

Please apply to Dorset School Admissions for all school places. Please contact the office for information about a nursery place.
Three Legged Cross First and Nursery School is a small, friendly village school for children from 2 to 9 years, situated between West Moors and Verwood.  Our school has the benefit of large grounds with a number of field areas and playgrounds, along with a dedicated forest area and pond..

If you are looking for a school place for our reception class in September 2026, please contact the school office to arrange to look round.

If you are looking for a nursery place, please contact the school office to have a tour and arrange a settle session.

Our school has a family feel with small classes, (our published admission number is 20), and a focus on high achievement within an ethos of ‘learning, perseverance and manners’.

Active learning for the future is promoted using high quality resources to bring learning to life. Our children use the benefits of technology to support their learning in our Apple Mac library area. Weekly forest learning sessions reinforce our commitment to good manners and the application of learnt skills in the outdoor environment. Maths mastery, sometimes also known as Singapore maths, is taught through concrete, pictorial and abstract approaches, backed up with high quality text books to ensure embedded learning.

We make regular visits to the local environment to inspire our children and bring learning to life. Visits include Etches Museum, Corfe Castle, the Science Museum in Winchester, the Roman Baths in Bath, Longdown Activity Farm and the Springhead Trust.

We provide hot lunches from a local company with local ingredients. We ensure that the lunch time experience is a high quality social time to practise table manners and learn to enjoy food. Lunchtimes mean china plates, napkins and vegetables in serving bowls at Three Legged Cross. This is a time to consolidate manners in a calm comfortable atmosphere.

We value the sporting life and enjoy a range of different sports. We take part in regular inter school competitions with our local Heath Academy Trust schools. After school sports clubs take place weekly.

Music tuition is provided for Key Stage 2 children with our dedicated music teachers. Currently, our Year 3 and 4 children are learning guitar. Learning this new skill helps prepare our children for the next stage of education.

We open daily from 7.30am for breakfast club and until 5.00pm on Mondays to Thursdays and 4.00pm on Fridays for after school club. These clubs focus on a range of art and craft activities, games, construction, such as Lego and outdoor play opportunities. These are run by school staff.

Apply through Dorset School Admissions for a place at our school:
https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/education-and-training/schools-and-learning/apply-for-a-school-place/apply-for-a-school-place.
For a nursery place, please email the school office.