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Blackberry House Day Nursery (Peterborough)

Ofsted: Good
(Mar 2022)
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4.4(13 parent reviews) ·Park Farm Crescent, Stanground, Peterborough, PE2 8XA · Peterborough
Number of places
100 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2022
Local authority
Peterborough

About this day nursery

Blackberry House Day Nursery offers inspiring childcare and education for children aged 0-5 years across multiple locations, including Peterborough. The nursery prioritises a warm, nurturing, and stimulating environment where each child's individual qualities and potential are fostered.

They believe in the importance of parental involvement in a child's early learning journey and extend this belief into their nursery settings with a team of qualified staff. The nursery provides a broad curriculum enriched with activities such as Forest School sessions, structured learning, and creative play, designed to enhance children's development both indoors and outdoors.

They aim to simplify childcare for families by offering transparent and consistent services, including various funding options. The nursery also emphasises healthy eating with included breakfasts and snacks, and an optional hot lunch and tea service.

Communication with parents is facilitated through a dedicated nursery app.

Our ethos

To Provide Inspiring Childcare Education Nurturing each Child’s Qualities and Potential

What it's like

Children arrive confidently as staff take them into their room after speaking with their parents or carers at the door. Children express and communicate their needs well, for example, older children use 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' gestures to show if they feel happy or sad. Babies take staff's hands and say 'come' to show what they want.

Forest SchoolInspirational ChildcareQualified Staff

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday from 7.30am until 6pm, all year round except for one week at Christmas.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Blackberry House Day Nursery (Peterborough)

Last inspected 1 March 2022 · Anna Davies

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

What it's like to attend

Children arrive confidently as staff take them into their room after speaking with their parents or carers at the door. Children express and communicate their needs well, for example, older children use 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' gestures to show if they feel happy or sad. Babies take staff's hands and say 'come' to show what they want.

Inspector highlights

  • Children's communication and language development is supported well.
  • Children behave well and show concern for others.
  • Pre-school children benefit from rich-learning opportunities in smaller groups with free-flow access to side rooms and outdoors.
  • Children enjoy balanced and varied meals, and their individual dietary and allergen requirements are respected.
  • Staff feel their professional development and well-being is very well supported by managers and senior management.

Areas to develop

  • 1consider ways to better help children with times of transition throughout the day so that they feel an even greater sense of security and emotional well-being
  • 2improve the organisation of large-group times in the pre-school room to ensure that children receive the same rich-learning opportunities during this time as they do at other times in the day.
Inspection #10226704 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents of older children feel their children have been well prepared for school through their attendance at this nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language is good. Staff strive to ensure that these children get the early years education they deserve.

Outdoor space

Pre-school children have free-flow access to the outdoors, where they show great imagination and physical coordination by making 'chocolate milk' from muddy puddles and tossing bark chipping 'pancakes' in frying pans. Children also benefit from a forestry and nature area where they learn to take supervised risks and to explore.

Parent Reviews of Blackberry House Day Nursery (Peterborough)

4.4
(13)
Tina Miller
3 years ago

This nursery is such a wonderfully equipped and happy place that it's an absolute joy to drop our daughter off and know that she is having an exceptional experience. She just loves nursery and this is thanks to the quality and care of the staff, the facilities and their way of working. Since moving our little girl here at 11 months old, she has thrived and has developed so much and I can't thank them enough. We cannot fault this nursery and would recommend it to anyone interested. It's not the cheapest, but no doubt you absolutely get what you pay for

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GP Spices
2 years ago

My son just graduated this nursery and heading to school in September, he had a blast here. He went five times a week and we never had an issue with him going in. He made some great friends. Hannah, Charlotte, Rachel and Katrina and all the staff were always friendly and nice, thank you for prepping my little boy for school. A lovely touch by Hannah this year was to organise their new teacher to visit the children in the setting, I thought this was a lovely touch xxx

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Liz Rodgers
3 years ago

My daughter has been at the Park Farm setting for a few months now, she's so happy and loves attending. We've really noticed a huge improvement with her milestones. She's really come on leaps and bound in the short few months since being Blackberries, we regret her not joining sooner. Great setting with lovely, helpful staff.

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jindrich sedlacek
7 years ago

When asking about available space we were tricked into signing a contract. Response about the availability wasn’t coming therefore we had to make other arrangements. Answer eventually came that the space is available and that we have to pay for it regardless of whether our child attends or not. Company threatened us with legal action and debt recovery. It is hard to prove that you were tricked into signing the contract even when the t and c are on website and not the form itself. We ended up paying for one month childcare that we haven’t used. our child never visited the place. Discusting fraudulent practices, but I’m glad we found out before our child attended

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Bailey Robinson
3 years ago

This nursery isn’t the cheapest but you won’t regret joining. I can not recommend this nursery enough. Every single member of staff are kind, warm & welcoming.

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Inspection history

Date: June 2013

  • March 2022Good
  • February 2018Good
  • March 2016Good
  • June 2013Outstanding

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