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Deerlands Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Mar 2025)
·Ferry Road, North Fambridge, Chelmsford, CM3 6LS · Essex
Number of places
50 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2025
Local authority
Essex

About this day nursery

Deerlands Day Nursery, established in 2001, provides a nurturing and stimulating environment for children aged 3 months to 5 years. Located in a unique rural setting in North Fambridge, the nursery boasts spacious grounds for children to play safely outdoors.

The curriculum is varied, offering both structured and free play activities tailored to individual needs, fostering development and self-expression. The nursery emphasises a warm, safe, and secure atmosphere, supported by a team of experienced and qualified staff who regularly undergo professional development to stay current with best practices and legislation.

Deerlands offers flexible attendance options, from sessions to full days, to accommodate diverse parental requirements. Delicious and nutritious food is freshly prepared on-site.

The facility is purpose-built, featuring indoor and outdoor play areas. A notable offering is their Forest School area, providing children with opportunities for nature-based learning and exploration.

The nursery also provides ample off-road parking for safe drop-offs and collections, alongside a controlled entry system to ensure security.

Our ethos

Deerlands Day Nursery's philosophy integrates a Forest School approach, valuing nature-based learning and exploration alongside providing a nurturing, stimulating environment. Their curriculum balances structured and free play, tailored to individual needs to foster development and self-expression, all within a warm, safe, and secure atmosphere.

What it's like

Children feel safe and secure, as they skip confidently into the nursery that they are incredibly proud of attending. Children's well-being is promoted with tailored settling-in processes. A robust key-person system is in place, ensuring children build strong and nurturing attachments with staff from the start. Because staff know them so well, they ensure children have access to their favourite resources to help them settle seamlessly as they transition through the nursery.

Purpose-built facilityRural settingExperienced and qualified staffForest SchoolFreshly prepared nutritious food

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

Tax-Free Childcare
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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday for 51 weeks a year. Sessions are from 7am until 6pm.

Food

Nutritious food freshly prepared on our premises

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Session types

sessions, full days

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Deerlands Day Nursery

Last inspected 7 March 2025 · Louisa Taylor

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 feel safe and secure, as they skip confidently into the nursery that they are incredibly proud of attending. Children's well-being is promoted with tailored settling-in processes. A robust key-person system is in place, ensuring children build strong and nurturing attachments with staff from the start. Because staff know them so well, they ensure children have access to their favourite resources to help them settle seamlessly as they transition through the nursery.

Inspector highlights

  • Children feel safe and secure.
  • Staff create environments that are inviting and stimulating and support all areas of learning.
  • Staff are excellent role models and speak to children with genuine kindness and respect.
  • Children learn the necessary skills they need to be ready for school.
  • Children's artwork and pictures of themselves are beautifully displayed giving them an enormous sense of belonging.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff to develop their already good teaching and interactions so that children consistently receive higher levels of challenge in their learning
  • 2help staff develop the use of questioning to support children's thinking skills and help them to recall and use new vocabulary meaningfully.
Inspection #10372415 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents applaud the professionalism and support given by the management team and staff.

Parents express high levels of trust that their children are continuously well cared for and happy.

parents say helps extend their children's learning at home.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Appropriate support is provided so all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), continually make good progress. The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND.

Outdoor space

Children enjoy trips in the local community and forest school that is on site, as well as daily play outside in the nursery garden. The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact that this had on children's learning.

Inspection history

Date: October 2004

  • March 2025Good
  • April 2019Good
  • August 2015Good
  • September 2011Good
  • October 2004Outstanding

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