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Ashton House Nursery in Chester

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Aug 2022)
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4.4(7 parent reviews) ·Church Road, Ashton Hayes, Chester, CH3 8AB · Cheshire West and Chester
Number of places
242 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Aug 2022
Local authority
Cheshire West and Chester

About this day nursery

Ashton House Nursery, a family-owned and operated establishment since 1988, is deeply committed to outdoor childcare. The nursery believes children thrive in fresh air and natural environments, offering them opportunities to connect with nature, take calculated risks, and develop resilience and self-belief.

Daily Forest School sessions are an integral part of their programme, conducted in on-site woodlands. The nursery operates across two locations, Ashton Hayes and Frodsham, both boasting spectacular natural surroundings that foster children's development.

The overarching ethos centres on outdoor learning, encouraging children to explore the world around them through hands-on experiences. This approach aims to cultivate a strong sense of character, instilling determination, kindness, compassion, appreciation, and courage, preparing them to confidently face future challenges.

Ashton House Nursery places high value on its staff, considering them their most precious asset and role models who are encouraged to feel empowered and inspired.

Our ethos

Ashton House Nursery is deeply committed to outdoor childcare, believing children thrive in natural environments and offering daily Forest School sessions. Their ethos centres on outdoor learning through hands-on experiences, aiming to cultivate character, resilience, and self-belief. They value staff as empowered role models.

What it's like

Children are exceptionally settled at this awe-inspiring and unique nursery. The environment is described as an oasis of play, adventure and exploration and children are highly engaged, motivated and resilient in their learning.

Forest SchoolOutdoor LearningFamily-runHoliday Club

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Mon 8am - 6pm Tue 8am - 6pm Wed 8am - 6pm Thu 8am - 6pm Fri 8am - 6pm Sat Closed Sun Closed

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2008

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Ashton House Nursery

Last inspected 31 August 2022 · David Lobodzinski; Rachel Waterhouse

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding

What it's like to attend

Children are exceptionally settled at this awe-inspiring and unique nursery. The environment is described as an oasis of play, adventure and exploration and children are highly engaged, motivated and resilient in their learning.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are exceptionally settled and highly engaged in learning
  • The environment provides extensive outdoor play, adventure and exploration
  • Leaders have an inspiring curriculum that supports excellent progress
  • Staff understand children's individual needs and promote communication and physical development
  • Partnership working with parents, schools and professionals is excellent
Inspection #10129187 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make excellent progress. Leaders and staff work well with external professionals and parents so children get the support they need to thrive.

Outdoor space

Children use an extensive outdoor environment and woodland for play and learning — they create large-scale art outdoors, read on blankets in the woodland, ride bicycles on a challenging track, climb trees and use tools such as saws and hammers. They grow and harvest produce, visit the nursery's animals, and cook on fires, and the local community helped to develop the outdoor environment.

Parent Reviews of Ashton House Nursery

4.4
(7)
N.E O
2 years ago

Highly recommend the Nursery and The Club during summer holidays. My toddler goes to the nursery and my boy who is 5 went the nursery since 10 months old and now goes the club. He is usually a bit nervous trying something new like the club but the staff have been so welcoming and he absolutely loves it! Can’t thank the nursery and club team enough they are great!

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Elan Rimmer
13 years ago

This is our second time round with Ashton House. Our son is now 7 years old and started when he was 3 months old and still goes back for Holiday Club in school holidays to see his old friends from nursery. Our daughter who is 20 months is now in Busy Bees. Both our children love going to nursery and always run in. We have recommended the nursery to all our friends. The staff are so caring, they geniunely love the children and go that extra mile to make them happy. The food is second to none and not one day is the same. We have always said that even if we did not need to work we would still send our children to Ashton House as the interaction and variety of activities could never be matched at home on a daily basis. We have made many friends through nursery over the years and would consider the staff personal friends as well.

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Mark Davies
9 years ago

Can't fault this place, the staff are accommodating, helpful and friendly. Both of our kids have been here since they were babies. Great place.

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Michael
2 years ago

I found the holiday club to be quite poorly organised.

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Inspection history

Date: May 2008

  • August 2022Outstanding
  • May 2016Outstanding
  • November 2011Outstanding
  • May 2008Outstanding

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