Opening hours
Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 3:30pm
Bluebells of Ratby
Ofsted: Good
(May 2024)
Number of places
44 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
May 2024
Local authority
Leicestershire
About this day nursery
Bluebells of Ratby Preschool is dedicated to providing a nurturing and stimulating environment where all children can thrive. With a strong commitment to safeguarding, the preschool works collaboratively with parents, external agencies, and the community to ensure each child receives the best possible start in life.
The approach is holistic, focusing on the seven areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and adapting to individual children's needs. Learning is balanced between child-initiated discovery and adult-led activities, utilising continuous play, engaging provocations, and small group interactions.
The facility is designed to support development through a supportive and welcoming atmosphere, offering a variety of resources that foster curiosity, imagination, and engagement. Activities are carefully planned to build emotional resilience and social skills, ensuring each child's voice is heard and clear expectations are set.
Bluebells of Ratby also prioritises collaboration with parents and carers and provides ample time and space for children to focus and retreat when needed. The preschool is particularly praised by parents for its ability to boost children's confidence and for the dedicated and responsive staff.
Our ethos
Every child is unique and is constantly learning, and we want to help them become resilient, capable, confident and self-assured. Each child has the right to equal opportunities and the best possible start to their EYFS years. We as 'Practitioners' look holistically at the 7 areas of the EYFS and the child's needs in the setting at any given time. We offer a balance of child-initiated and adult-lead learning by using continuous play, provocations, and small group activities.
What it's like
All children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, are happy to arrive and quickly engage themselves in the range of inviting activities that staff offer them. Children are supported to develop their speaking skills, and their knowledge of how objects attach together. They are also helped to understand how to take turns and keep themselves safe.
EYFS-based curriculumChild-led learningPlay-based learningStrong parent collaboration
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
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Term Time
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Bluebells of Ratby
Last inspected 9 May 2024
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
All children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, are happy to arrive and quickly engage themselves in the range of inviting activities that staff offer them. Children are supported to develop their speaking skills, and their knowledge of how objects attach together. They are also helped to understand how to take turns and keep themselves safe.
Inspector highlights
- The manager and staff implement a curriculum that enables children to build on their learning.
- The manager and staff invite parents into the nursery to share their own cultures and traditions with the children.
- Staff are supported by the manager to extend their professional development.
- Staff provide activities that help children to develop the muscles in their arms through making large movements.
- The manager and staff support children to be emotionally ready for their move on to school.
Areas to develop
- 1strengthen staff's interactions with children to help children to recognise numbers and letters correctly when they take an interest in doing this
- 2support staff to consistently help older children to learn to take turns to answer staff's questions and to listen to the views of others during group times.
Inspection #10319786 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
All children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, are happy to arrive and quickly engage themselves in the range of inviting activities that staff offer them. The manager speaks to children's key person and parents to help identify how to spend additional funding that some children receive, which is spent effectively to support children's development.
Outdoor space
Outdoors, staff help younger children to learn about shadows. When children play with large magnetic shapes in the garden, staff help them to understand that the edges of the shapes are magnetic. Older children use paintbrushes with water to make marks on the wall outdoors.
Inspection history
Most recent inspection
9 May 2024
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
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About the setting
Bluebells of Ratby Limited registered in 2021 and is situated in Ratby, Leicester. The nursery employs nine members of childcare staff, with six holding appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 and the manager holding a qualification at level 4. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, during term time, with sessions from 8.30am until 3.30pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.
- URN
- 2649491
- Registered person
- Bluebells of Ratby Limited
- Day care type
- Full day care
- Register
- Early Years Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
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