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Bright Start Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(May 2022)
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5.0(3 Google reviews) ·Mortimer House, 24 Hartsdown Road, Margate, CT9 5QT · Kent
Number of places
78 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
May 2022
Local authority
Kent

About this day nursery

Bright Start Nursery, established in 2012, operates as a family-owned group of three nurseries located in Margate and Ramsgate. Their philosophy is rooted in providing high-quality, flexible, and affordable childcare, recognising and addressing common barriers parents face such as registration fees, deposits, and rigid session schedules.

The day nursery aims to create a cosy, home-like environment, especially for babies, with a limited number of infants at any given time to ensure individual attention. They pride themselves on offering flexible arrangements to accommodate diverse parental schedules.

The day nursery is committed to creating a supportive community where both children and families feel valued, adapting to children's routines, and individual dietary needs. With multiple locations, Bright Start Nurseries continues to grow, extending its services to include afterschool and holiday clubs.

Our ethos

Bright Start Nursery's philosophy is centred on providing high-quality, flexible, and affordable childcare. They strive to create a cosy, home-like environment that offers individual attention and adapts to children's routines and families' needs, fostering a supportive community where everyone feels valued.

What it's like

Children happily enter the nursery and instantly engage with staff in conversations about exciting activities. They settle quickly into this family-orientated, homely nursery, freely selecting toys and confidently exploring their surroundings. Children show exemplary behaviour, being caring, sensitive, and kind towards their friends.

Family-runFlexible childcareNo registration feesNo depositsHome-like environment

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday – Friday 7:45am – 6pm

Waitlist

Accepting Applications for Next Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Bright Start Nursery

Last inspected 12 May 2022 · Nina Harvey

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 happily enter the nursery and instantly engage with staff in conversations about exciting activities. They settle quickly into this family-orientated, homely nursery, freely selecting toys and confidently exploring their surroundings. Children show exemplary behaviour, being caring, sensitive, and kind towards their friends.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff provide a range of interesting activities, including those for children with special educational needs/and or disabilities (SEND), and skilfully plan the curriculum to build on children's existing knowledge and interests.
  • Leaders and staff provide an ambitious curriculum for all children, including those with SEND, and use additional funding to support all children with SEND to access learning.
  • Staff are skilful at linking learning across activities, for example, using mint leaves grown from forest school to create a sensory ice tray and minty play dough activity.
  • Staff support children's speech development well by asking questions to help children express themselves and modelling language.
  • Children are taught to be kind, listen, and share, demonstrating positive attitudes towards learning with high levels of curiosity and concentration.

Areas to develop

  • 1strengthen practice to ensure that all staff make the most of all opportunities to extend children's communication and language.
Inspection #10228730 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

the needs of the children are at the heart of everything

couldn't ask for more from a nursery setting

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff have high expectations for all children and ensure all children can benefit from the activities on offer, including those with special educational needs/and or disabilities (SEND). Leaders and staff provide an ambitious curriculum for all children, including those with SEND, and additional funding is used to support all children with SEND to access the learning.

Outdoor space

Children bring back mint leaves that they have grown from forest school. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.

Google Reviews of Bright Start Nursery

5.0
(3 Google reviews)
Joshua Thomson
10 months ago

We can say nothing but good things about this nursery. They’re really educational. They go above and beyond and care for the children.

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Drew Kilburn-Long
8 years ago

Brightstart is a very good nursery. Very nice staff. Its a bright and colourful nursery and the children come on leaps and bounds with their learning. I would definatley recomend.

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Inspection history

Date: June 2013

  • May 2022Good
  • January 2017Good
  • June 2013Good

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