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Bright Stars Childcare in Frome

Ofsted: Needs attention·
4.0(6 Google reviews) ·Green Lane, Frome, BA11 4JW · Somerset
Number of places
86 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
May 2026
Local authority
Somerset

About this day nursery

Bright Stars Childcare, located in Frome, BA11 4JW, is a childcare on non-domestic premises setting registered with Ofsted on 29 May 2025. The day nursery is praised for its effective safeguarding practices, ensuring a culture where concerns are actively managed and children feel secure.

Children consistently demonstrate respect for others and differing views, often participating positively in group activities like voting for storybooks. Staff adeptly support children in understanding and managing their emotions, providing resources and individualised support, particularly for those with attendance challenges.

The day nursery focuses on developing children's independence and self-care skills, with staff encouraging self-management and providing healthy meals and regular exercise. However, the report highlights areas for development, noting that the curriculum is not yet consistently implemented, leading to variable teaching quality and uneven progress for some children.

Indoor learning environments can be loud and busy, sometimes hindering children's focus. Leaders are actively working to establish a secure and consistent leadership team following recent staffing changes, aiming to enhance staff morale, wellbeing, and the overall quality of care and education.

Our ethos

Bright Stars Childcare is committed to providing exceptional early years education by fostering confident, curious, and motivated learners through exploration and experimentation. They aim to create a "home from home" environment that empowers children's independence, critical thinking, and sense of belonging, working in partnership with families.

What it's like

The weaknesses in the implementation of the curriculum mean that some children do not consistently experience high-quality teaching across all areas of learning. Staff interactions are not always frequent enough, and children's play and learning are not extended securely. Children get on well with one another and behave well, arriving happy and settling quickly into familiar routines, with staff ensuring children feel safe and secure. Staff respond quickly and sensitively to children's emotional needs, offering additional comfort and reassurance when children are unsettled.

Effective safeguardingPromotes independenceRespectful childrenSupports emotional developmentDedicated to improvement

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

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

Opening hours

08:00 - 18:00 Monday to Friday, 51 weeks a year

Age range

3 months until school age

Registered with Ofsted

2025

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Needs attention

Last inspected May 2026

Headline: Needs attention

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
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Expected standard
Needs attention
Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementNeeds attention
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionNeeds attention
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted report for Bright Stars Childcare

Last inspected 20 May 2026

Actions the provider must take

  • improve the coaching, support and supervision of staff and implement a targeted programme for professional development that helps staff to improve their skills, knowledge and personal effectiveness
  • improve the quality of staff interactions to ensure that they are consistently high-quality and offer all children positive learning experiences and extend their learning
  • review the indoor learning environments, to reduce disruption and noise levels and minimise distractions and interruptions to children's learning.

What it's like to attend

The weaknesses in the implementation of the curriculum mean that some children do not consistently experience high-quality teaching across all areas of learning. Staff interactions are not always frequent enough, and children's play and learning are not extended securely. Children get on well with one another and behave well, arriving happy and settling quickly into familiar routines, with staff ensuring children feel safe and secure. Staff respond quickly and sensitively to children's emotional needs, offering additional comfort and reassurance when children are unsettled.

Inspector highlights

  • The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture.
  • Children are respectful of others and people's differing views and opinions, participating positively in group activities and building collaboration and negotiation skills.
  • Staff help children to understand and manage their feelings and emotions through everyday support, providing resources and books to talk about how they feel.
  • Staff work in partnership with parents and carers to agree strategies to use with children who face barriers in their learning and/or have additional needs in regard to managing their behaviour.
  • Care practices across the nursery are respectful, with staff asking children if they are ready for nappy changes or nose wiping before doing so.
  • Children build effective bonds with staff who know them and their families very well, with staff tailoring support to each individual child.
  • Children receive encouragement to be independent, building self-care and independence skills up over time, ensuring they can manage personal care by the time they transition to school.
  • Partnerships with parents and carers are effective, with parents commenting on effective communication and feeling well informed about their children's experiences and progress.

Areas to develop

  • 1Improve the coaching, support and supervision of staff and implement a targeted programme for professional development that helps staff to improve their skills, knowledge and personal effectiveness.
  • 2Improve the quality of staff interactions to ensure that they are consistently high-quality and offer all children positive learning experiences and extend their learning.
  • 3Review the indoor learning environments, to reduce disruption and noise levels and minimise distractions and interruptions to children's learning.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders swiftly identify children with emerging special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and put plans in place, offering personalised and targeted support. Staff work well with parents and carers of children with SEND, providing tools like 'now and next' boards to help children regulate emotions. Leaders also work with other professionals and effectively use additional funding to support these children.

Outdoor space

Children particularly enjoy playing outdoors.

Google Reviews of Bright Stars Childcare

4.0
(6 Google reviews)
Tom Hinkley
a year ago

Incredible Nursery. Our daughter has been in the baby room for 6 months and we have been blown away by what she gets out of it. Amazing key workers, feels very bespoke to each child. Location's lovely with lots of light, always very clean. And best of all our daughter loves it. Couldn't be happier.

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Millie Liveing
2 years ago

My daughter started with Bright Stars in September 2023 and I have nothing but positives to comment on. The baby room have been fantastic in settling her in and ensuring we are kept up to date with what she’s eating, drinking, nappies and naps, as well as how much she is enjoying her time there. Her key worker changed at Christmas and there was a really smooth transition with minimal disruption to her. Since Donna has joined the activities which she is doing while at nursery is having such a positive impact on her development and wellbeing. But additionally, the staff are brilliant, the way that they engage and communicate with my daughter and also myself is outstanding. We couldn’t be happier and love that she enjoys her time there so much. We have recommended to many other friends and would be happy to send any additional children to Bright Stars in the future.

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Владислава Шемуратова
a year ago

The price, rules, level of the education seems .... as we had been visiting the Ukraine and Spanish one. And rulles there seemed to be healthier and savior for childreen. Here are lots of teachers who are looking after children, can not handle them, as there is no structures in education, while in Ukraine or Spain one teacher could handle and educate children. Everything I saw was chaos. And we where told that take the phone out of the pocket is not safe, but sharp hooks of the level of the child head, or unprotected corners where children are running around and can kill them selfs seems to be more safe for structures.not recomended. Even in Ukraine during the war, everyday bombing, children were changing shoes and played in clean safe inviroment, while here, in Uk, they are worrying about the fire that MIGHT happen once in 1000 years and never done. So childrenshould be covers with dirt and stay on the flow and est of the floorlike dogs? Or my son had a fiever and teachers left him on the floor as a rubish?! And then teach that everyone is important, has value? ... Every day my son woke up he said "No school", came back with scretches... Now he is in Sunflowers montensorry. Which is, almost same UK system. But he is excited to go there. And say "new school!" Instead of crying and saying "No school!", when we went to Bright Stars

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Nicola Potter
2 years ago

Excellent nursery. Our little boy has attended since he was 1 and his development has been enabled by the outstanding care he has received by the team at Bright Stars. The key worker system is excellent. Would recommend this nursery.

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Vanna Chown
2 years ago

My daughter has been going to Brightstars for 2.5 years and has thrived in the care of all the staff couldn’t recommend them enough!

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

20 May 2026

Needs attention

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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