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Bloomsbury Street Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Oct 2024)
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5.0(1 Google review) ·16 Bloomsbury Street, Brighton, BN2 1HQ · Brighton and Hove
Number of places
47 places
Age range
0–2 yrs
Last inspected
Oct 2024
Local authority
Brighton and Hove

About this day nursery

Bloomsbury Street Day Nursery, part of Hove Village Day Nursery, is situated in Kemptown, Brighton, at 16 Bloomsbury Street, BN2 1HQ. This nursery adopts a child-led approach, emphasising creative and exploratory learning within a stimulating environment.

Open all year, Monday to Friday, from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm, it provides full-day care for children. The nursery promotes a rich curriculum that includes yoga, dance, music, and art, aiming to offer diverse and enriching experiences beyond standard childcare.

Close proximity to local parks and the beach facilitates outdoor and community-based learning. Meals, including breakfast, lunch, tea, and snacks, are freshly prepared daily and are encompassed within the fees, as are nappies, formula, and extended hours.

The nursery prides itself on positive parent feedback, highlighted by strong communication and significant child development in social and language skills. With a recent "Good" rating from Ofsted in October 2024 across all key areas, Bloomsbury Street offers tailored support, including early interventions for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

Our ethos

Bloomsbury Street Day Nursery adopts a child-led approach, emphasising creative and exploratory learning. They offer a rich curriculum including yoga, dance, music, and art, and facilitate outdoor learning in community settings. The nursery focuses on positive parent communication and child development in social and language skills.

What it's like

Children arrive happily and settle quickly, demonstrating confidence. Staff work closely with families to provide tailored support, especially for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and act swiftly to provide timely intervention for developmental delays. Staff foster warm and nurturing relationships, planning interesting experiences that help children make good progress in their learning and development, such as practising yoga poses and engaging in meaningful language activities.

Creative-rich provisionCity-centre locationOutdoor and community-based learningInclusive and tailored support

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
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Key facts

Food

Freshly prepared breakfast, lunch, tea, and snacks are provided daily and included in fees, alongside nappies and formula.

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, all year round, with sessions from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm.

Age range

Children are accepted from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm for full-day care.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Session types

full-day care

Staff

58 children on roll, 47 places.

Registered with Ofsted

2022

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Bloomsbury Street Day Nursery

Last inspected 14 October 2024

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 happily and settle quickly, demonstrating confidence. Staff work closely with families to provide tailored support, especially for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and act swiftly to provide timely intervention for developmental delays. Staff foster warm and nurturing relationships, planning interesting experiences that help children make good progress in their learning and development, such as practising yoga poses and engaging in meaningful language activities.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders act swiftly on child protection concerns and work with statutory agencies to keep children safe.
  • Leaders provide training and mentoring for staff to help them plan an effective curriculum, and staff report favourably on this support.
  • Staff are clear about what they want children to learn and use their knowledge of children's interests to plan a sequenced curriculum.
  • Staff show good levels of vigilance and use appropriate strategies to support children's behaviour.
  • Staff provide experiences that help children learn about themselves and others, such as visits in the local community and reading stories.
  • Children demonstrate positive attitudes to learning, and staff support them to remember previously learned knowledge.
  • Staff who work with very young children foster positive relationships and provide a variety of sensory experiences.
  • Staff communicate effectively with parents verbally and through an online application, ensuring parents receive regular information about their child's day and progress.

Areas to develop

  • 1strengthen staff's teaching practice so that what is intended to be taught is implemented accurately
  • 2strengthen communication between staff to ensure that behavioural expectations are consistently promoted.
Inspection #10369938 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents say that their children have flourished in self-confidence as staff adapt and tailor every day to meet their individual learning needs.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff work closely with families to provide tailored support to children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff act swiftly when they identify children with delays in their development to ensure they receive timely intervention.

Google Reviews of Bloomsbury Street Day Nursery

5.0
(1 Google review)
Ana Salu
2 months ago

5 stars aren’t enough for this Nursery! Our son attended Bloomsbury Street for 6 months and he loved and was loved by this lovely staff. He had the best time and was so well taken care of by everyone. His carers would give us daily updates and feedback when we picked him up and are clearly very dedicated to the kids. They create great activities every day, teach them skills daily, have special theme days… their space might not be the biggest, but I assure you it won’t matter - they go out and staff is so creative that it doesn’t really impact them. We miss this nursery and they ruined all others for us, the bar is too high now 😂we miss you Bloomsbury!

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Inspection history

Date: May 2024

  • October 2024Good
  • May 2024Outstanding

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