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Childerwood Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Oct 2024)
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5.0(2 parent reviews) ·School Road, Drayton, NR8 6EP · Norfolk
Number of places
42 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Oct 2024
Local authority
Norfolk

About this day nursery

Childerwood Nursery, situated in Drayton, offers a nurturing and stimulating environment for babies, toddlers, and children under five. With over a decade of experience, their team of Early Years Professionals focuses on fostering inquisitive minds and building strong, healthy relationships with both children and their families.

The nursery promotes a free-flowing indoor and outdoor play setting, emphasising flexible and high-quality childcare. They are dedicated to supporting children's development through the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, utilising a 'teaching in the moment' approach and a key person system to ensure each child feels happy, safe, unique, and valued.

Childerwood also values parents as partners in their child's learning journey and is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion within its culture of excellence. The nursery aims to provide a secure and educational space, encouraging emotional well-being and healthy eating habits.

Our ethos

Childerwood Nursery follows the EYFS framework and employs a 'teaching in the moment' approach, alongside a key person system, to foster children's development. They value parents as partners and are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, aiming to create a secure and educational space where children feel happy, safe, unique, and valued.

What it's like

Children are warmly greeted on arrival at nursery by caring and sensitive staff. They offer reassurance and cater to individual needs, including following babies' and toddlers' routines from home. The staff plan and deliver a broad range of challenging and engaging learning experiences, both outdoors and indoors, with a focus on communication, language, and social skills.

Over 10 years experienceIndoor/Outdoor free-flow environmentEYFS curriculumKey person approachOfsted "Good" rating (2024)

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

Opening hours

Mon - Fri: 7:30AM - 5:30PM

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Childerwood Nursery

Last inspected 31 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 are warmly greeted on arrival at nursery by caring and sensitive staff. They offer reassurance and cater to individual needs, including following babies' and toddlers' routines from home. The staff plan and deliver a broad range of challenging and engaging learning experiences, both outdoors and indoors, with a focus on communication, language, and social skills.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff are caring and sensitive, offering reassurance to children.
  • Children experience equally rich learning opportunities outdoors as well as indoors.
  • All staff place priority on supporting children's communication, language and social skills.
  • Children are encouraged to try to do things for themselves and are supported in becoming independent.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are appropriately supported.

Areas to develop

  • 1support all staff to use their knowledge of what children already know and can do in order to sequence learning and help children to make as much progress as possible
  • 2provide further professional development opportunities in order to enhance staff skills so that all children have high-quality learning experiences.
Inspection #10324360 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are appropriately supported. Staff use observation and assessment to track children's progress. Where further or external support is needed, the staff are swift to work in partnership with parents and other professionals.

Outdoor space

Children experience equally rich learning opportunities outdoors as well as indoors. Following an incident where a child was left unsupervised in the outdoor play area, the provider carried out an investigation, took appropriate action, and reviewed their outdoor play procedures, sharing these with staff to minimise risk.

Parent Reviews of Childerwood Nursery

5.0
(2)
Julia Neville
a year ago

'Lovely nursery. The children get lots of indoor and outdoor activities to do and they serve hot meals.'

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Inspection history
Improved from Requires improvement → Good in 2024

Date: September 2016

  • October 2024Good
  • November 2023Requires improvement
  • July 2023Inadequate
  • October 2021Good
  • March 2020Requires improvement
  • September 2016Good

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