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Canoe Lake Nursery

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Aug 2023)
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4.0(8 parent reviews) ·Nothern Pavilion And Bowling Green, Adjacent To Eastern Parade, Southsea, PO4 9RF · Portsmouth
Number of places
56 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Aug 2023
Local authority
Portsmouth

About this day nursery

Canoe Lake Nursery provides a progressive and holistic early childhood education, focusing on the unique needs and interests of each child. The nursery aims to create an environment where children can thrive, exploring their self-awareness and understanding of the world through diverse environments and learning experiences.

The curriculum is designed to prepare children for their future educational stages. The nursery's mission is to offer a warm, nurturing, and safe space, featuring various activities that encourage growth through cooperative play and creative endeavours.

This approach helps children naturally achieve social, emotional, and physical milestones.

Our ethos

Canoe Lake Nursery provides a progressive and holistic early childhood education, focusing on the unique needs and interests of each child. Their mission is to offer a warm, nurturing, and safe space where children can thrive through diverse environments and learning experiences. The curriculum encourages growth through cooperative play and creative endeavours, helping children naturally achieve social, emotional, and physical milestones.

What it's like

Children thrive at this inviting and idyllic nursery. They arrive with excitement, happily waving goodbye to their parents and involving themselves in the many interesting activities set up for them. Children feel safe and secure. Superbly attentive staff welcome babies and young children into their rooms with big smiles and reassuring cuddles. They ask children what they would like for breakfast and support them closely as they settle in for the day. This fully supports children's emotional well-being.

Holistic Education PhilosophyFocus on Outdoor PlayCreative Activities

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pm

Established

2015

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Canoe Lake Nursery

Last inspected 7 August 2023

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

What it's like to attend

Children thrive at this inviting and idyllic nursery. They arrive with excitement, happily waving goodbye to their parents and involving themselves in the many interesting activities set up for them. Children feel safe and secure. Superbly attentive staff welcome babies and young children into their rooms with big smiles and reassuring cuddles. They ask children what they would like for breakfast and support them closely as they settle in for the day. This fully supports children's emotional well-being.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders create a highly ambitious curriculum, and staff planning builds on what children know and can do.
  • Dedicated staff use every opportunity to engage in conversations with children, promoting healthy lifestyles.
  • Babies and young children have plenty of opportunities to gain language skills through exciting and engaging experiences.
  • Children develop exceptional independence skills, self-serving food and preparing meals.
  • Leaders have high expectations for staff, providing extensive training opportunities and support for professional development.
Inspection #10288858 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

"Parents speak very highly of the leaders and staff at the nursery."

"They are full of praise for the rich set of experiences arranged for children, such as frequent visits to the library bus and trips into the local community."

"They feel particularly well informed about their children's learning."

"Parents explain that they are often provided with information about how to support them further at home."

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff demonstrate their extensive knowledge of how to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They have effective plans in place to work collaboratively with parents and professionals. Leaders strive to ensure that all children have access to their full early years education entitlement.

Outdoor space

Children play together in the garden, talking about the different vegetables they have grown this year. They dig in the soil and carefully examine the roots of potato plants. Staff extend children's knowledge and discuss how roots absorb nutrients from the soil.

Parent Reviews of Canoe Lake Nursery

4.0
(8)
Amy McLoughlin
9 months ago

My son attended for just over four months. During that time, he was repeatedly exposed to harm from other children, including being scratched and bitten on multiple occasions, many of which were not recorded. The concern is not that children sometimes behave this way, but that these incidents were never seen or prevented in the moment. Staff would only become aware afterwards by reviewing CCTV footage. This is especially worrying given that certain children were already known to be boisterous, yet there appeared to be no direct supervision to safeguard all children. We were given repeated explanations such as being understaffed or having too many children in one small room. Even after more staff joined, and despite the summer months when children could be outside more, these incidents continued. I am not the only parent to remove my child or raise concerns, not only about the physical harm, but also about the smell and general environment inside the small rooms.

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Jodie Hollinshead MUA
a year ago

My daughter has recently started going here and it truly is amazing. The staff are all absolutely amazing and so friendly. The facilities are perfect and the garden is idyllic! We feel so lucky to have managed to get a place here.

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Inspection history
Improved from Good → Outstanding in 2023

Date: November 2017

  • August 2023Outstanding
  • November 2017Good

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