History

Founded in 1966 as St. John’s Community Nursery School, a non-profit/non-sectarian Preschool opened in St. John's Church on Main Street in Hingham.  In 2004, we changed our name to Hingham Nursery School and parents, former parents, and the greater community came together to raise funding and search for a new location for our school.  In 2006, we opened the doors to our schoolhouse at 1101 Main Street, made possible by our dedicated parents and the supportive Hingham community.

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To date, over 2,000 students have spent their preschool years with us.  And we are proud to have students today whose parents were also once students. Hingham Nursery School is proud to be a part of the tradition of strong schools in Hingham.  We are a private, non-profit Nursery School open to families in Higham and the surrounding South Shore communities.

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Traditions

Hingham Nursery School has many annual traditions that the students look forward to each year.  

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Hingham Nursery School traditionally hosts a Touch-a-Truck event for the surrounding community in the fall.  Special Persons Week is a wonderful time for the children to welcome loved ones to join them for a day at school.  Each classroom celebrates Parade Day, and our Pre-K classes enjoy Bike Day in the spring.  We have a closing picnic each year on the last day of school, as a way to bring everyone together to celebrate the end of our year together.  Each child also has the opportunity to leave a lasting impression at the school by participating in Tile Day, where they create a handprint tile that is then hung on the wall of the entryway to our school.  HNS Alumni often enjoy coming back to visit school to find their handprints so they can see how much they have grown!

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