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Cygnet Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2025)
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4.5(2 parent reviews)
·44/45 Evenlode Crescent, Kidlington, OX5 1RF · Oxfordshire
Number of places
48 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Oxfordshire

About this day nursery

Cygnet Nursery, situated in Kidlington near Oxford Airport and The Spires Business Park, is an Ofsted-registered day nursery providing care for children up to five years of age. The nursery is dedicated to fostering a secure, nurturing, and stimulating environment where young children can develop confidence and self-esteem.

It achieves this by offering a friendly and adaptable childcare service tailored to parents' needs. The facility boasts extensive indoor and outdoor play areas spread across one large site, featuring four distinct rooms designed to cater to various age groups within two separate buildings.

Cygnet Nursery guides children through a comprehensive curriculum, aligning with the Foundation Stage of the National Curriculum, to encourage their social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth. The nursery received a 'Good' rating in its latest Ofsted inspection.

Our ethos

Cygnet Nursery is committed to fostering a secure, nurturing, and stimulating environment to develop children's confidence and self-esteem. They guide children through a comprehensive curriculum aligned with the Foundation Stage of the National Curriculum, aiming to encourage social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth.

What it's like

Children arrive happy and ready to start their day at this welcoming, homely nursery. The key-person system is highly effective, and staff show genuine care and affection, helping all children to have a sense of belonging and develop good friendships. Staff expertly support children's communication and language development, providing focused activities to assess and promote progress, resulting in children developing a broad and varied vocabulary.

Ofsted rated GoodExtensive Indoor & Outdoor Play AreasCurriculum Aligned with EYFS

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Cygnet Nursery

Last inspected 5 June 2025

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 arrive happy and ready to start their day at this welcoming, homely nursery. The key-person system is highly effective, and staff show genuine care and affection, helping all children to have a sense of belonging and develop good friendships. Staff expertly support children's communication and language development, providing focused activities to assess and promote progress, resulting in children developing a broad and varied vocabulary.

Inspector highlights

  • Children arrive happy and ready to start their day.
  • Staff expertly support children's communication and language development.
  • Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour.
  • Leaders and staff use additional funding effectively to ensure that disadvantaged children receive the support they need.
  • Leaders and staff have strong partnerships with parents.

Areas to develop

  • 1strengthen teaching practice even further to help staff to have a clear understanding of the sequencing and priorities for learning for younger children
  • 2review routines and organisation of activities to support children and consistently display positive attitudes to play and learning.
Inspection #10394810 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents praise the staff highly for having close bonds with their children, which has helped them to settle quickly at nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders and staff use additional funding effectively to ensure that disadvantaged children receive the support they need. Through regular observations, staff identify areas where some children require additional support, such as emotional development. Staff skilfully implement strategies to help these children understand and express their feelings.

Outdoor space

Staff recognise the importance of offering all children a wide variety of activities to practise their physical skills. For instance, children enjoy riding trikes, balancing on beams and climbing on slides. They confidently navigate these tasks with little support.

Parent Reviews of Cygnet Nursery

4.5
(2)
Dan Q
8 years ago

Loving, friendly staff provide a great environment for fun and development for babies through preschoolers. Failed an Ofsted inspection in 2016 but were swiftly able to act upon the report and make the necessary changes and have since gone from strength to strength (once this is out of recent memory, I'd upgrade my review to 5 stars). Of particular credit to them is the diversity of play and learning activities they provide and their thorough feedback to parents on their children's development.

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Lucian Groza
6 years ago

Both my kids attend this nursery and I can say is the best nursery you can send your kids to. The staff are very warm, welcoming and genuinely care for each and every child. The facilities are great, they do a lot of indoor and outdoor activities, learning is part of the day to day. Could not recommend them enough.

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Inspection history

Date: September 2019

  • May 2025Good
  • September 2019Good

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