Opening hours
Monday to Friday: 7.30am until 6pm
Cranleigh Lodge Day Nursery
Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2025)
Number of places
38 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole
About this day nursery
Cranleigh Lodge Day Nursery, situated in Bournemouth, offers a nurturing and stimulating environment for children, drawing on over 25 years of childcare experience. The nursery is dedicated to fostering happy, confident, and resilient children through individualised care and inspiring educational activities.
Their approach emphasises creating a home-like atmosphere where every child feels cherished, supported, and capable of reaching their full potential. They are particularly praised by parents for their warm, knowledgeable staff and excellent communication, including daily photo and video updates.
The nursery provides weekly music sessions and a free-flow environment to encourage learning through exploration. Outdoors, children enjoy a spacious garden area with a mud kitchen and sensory zones for babies and toddlers, in addition to a separate outdoor area for preschoolers.
Located conveniently between Christchurch and Bournemouth town centre, Cranleigh Lodge aims to be a “second home” for children.
Our ethos
Cranleigh Lodge Day Nursery is dedicated to fostering happy, confident, and resilient children by providing individualised care within a home-like atmosphere. They aim to help each child feel cherished, supported, and capable of reaching their full potential, encouraging learning through exploration and offering weekly music sessions.
What it's like
Children enter the nursery happily and quickly settle to play. They respond easily to the very caring and friendly staff and form warm bonds with them. Children make good progress and develop a keen curiosity, imagination and creativity in their play.
Over 25 years experienceNurturing environmentSpacious garden areaWeekly music sessions
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
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Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Cranleigh Lodge Day Nursery
Last inspected 20 June 2025 · Mary Daniel
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 enter the nursery happily and quickly settle to play. They respond easily to the very caring and friendly staff and form warm bonds with them. Children make good progress and develop a keen curiosity, imagination and creativity in their play.
Inspector highlights
- Children show pride when staff put their names on the 'nursery values tree' to reflect their positive actions.
- Leaders show a strong commitment to supporting staff and developing their professional skills.
- Children enjoy a range of activities that support their growing mobility effectively.
- Staff give a very calm, reassuring approach and keep clear daily routines to help children feel secure.
- Leaders and staff monitor children's progress effectively and identify what they need to achieve next.
Areas to develop
- 1strengthen the opportunities to build on children's early literacy skills, with particular regard to their understanding of linking sounds with letters
- 2make more use of ways to raise children's awareness of the benefits of foods that support their good health.
Inspection #10398173 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents speak highly of staff and say they are very supportive and caring of their children.
Parents say that staff involve them effectively in their children's activities and give them ideas to extend this learning at home.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
Outdoor space
The inspector observed children's interactions in play indoors and outdoors and had discussions with staff about children's progress and their next steps of development.
Parent Reviews of Cranleigh Lodge Day Nursery
5.0
(21)
David Pounds
4 months ago
We are really pleased with Cranleigh Lodge. Our son started back in September 2024 and absolutely loves it there. We get updates regularly, the staff are wonderful and the food is very varied which has helped our son hugely with his eating which was hard work before he started here. There's a lovely atmosphere and it's very clear how much the staff want all the children to be happy and thrive in the environment.
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Lisa Macklin
11 months ago
Amazing Nursery! My daughter has been going here for over 2 years now and I am so glad we made the decision to put her in Cranleigh Lodge Day Nursery. The staff are fantastic, very supportive, and you can see they really care for all the children. As a very nervous parent, I felt so at ease leaving my daughter in their care. My daughter always tells me about the lovely things they do at nursery and is always full of excitement to go back.
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Liam Jones
11 months ago
My son has attended nursery now a year and I am so impressed with his development. He is so excited every Wednesday and Thursday to come along, make friends and learn something new. The facilities are great with always new ideas and materials every week with no two days the same. Both my boys have attended nursery and the whole hummingbirds baby team especially Hannah and Amber have always been so welcoming, knowledgeable and just wonderful people. I highly recommend to all my friends.
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Faye Mitchener
a year ago
My son has been going to Cranleigh Lodge Day Nursery since he was 2½years old and now is leaving this year for school. The team at the Lodge have been amazing supporting my son with his delayed speech and giving me tools to help him at home. Each individual teacher and support worker gave him independence, confidence, patience and room to grow along with fun through learning. Best nursery around and should go visit to see for yourself.
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Emily
3 years ago
My son started with Cranleigh Lodge at the beginning of February and I have been so incredibly happy with the nursery as a whole. The staff have been welcoming, kind and reassuring. I was apprehensive about my son starting as he spent the first year of his life without spending much time away from me but the team made everything so easy. They came up with a settling plan to suit our individual needs and were fantastic at welcoming my son into the nursery as well as keeping me in the loop and reassuring me of how he was doing. I cannot thank them enough for making what was a difficult transition for us both, super positive!
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Inspection history
Date: November 2010
- June 2025Good
- October 2019Good
- June 2016Good
- August 2015Requires improvement
- November 2010Good
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