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Footsteps Binley Day Nursery and Pre-School

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2024)
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3.7(12 parent reviews) ·Binley Business Park, off, Coventry, CV3 2SN · Coventry
Number of places
69 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2024
Local authority
Coventry

About this day nursery

Footsteps Binley Day Nursery & Pre-School, part of the wider Footsteps Nurseries group, is dedicated to providing a nurturing and stimulating environment for young children. Their philosophy centres on fostering independence from a child's very first steps into nursery life.

The nursery prides itself on its experienced and highly trained team of practitioners, who are committed to nurturing, caring for, and inspiring each child to reach their full potential. The curriculum is built upon the Early Years Foundation Stage principles, promoting learning through engaging, play-based activities.

Footsteps Binley also places a strong emphasis on health and nutrition, offering a varied and balanced menu prepared with fresh, high-quality ingredients, and they actively maintain a sugar-free environment to support children's well-being. Furthermore, the nursery believes in strong parent partnerships, working closely with families to ensure a secure and supportive bond between children and the nursery team.

They also prioritise the safety and health of everyone within the nursery, implementing rigorous safety policies and procedures.

Our ethos

The nursery's philosophy centres on fostering independence from a child's very first steps into nursery life. Their curriculum is built upon the Early Years Foundation Stage principles, promoting learning through engaging, play-based activities. They believe in strong parent partnerships, working closely with families to ensure a secure and supportive bond.

What it's like

Staff develop strong bonds with children at this nursery, which helps them to feel safe and secure. Children's communication and language are well supported, and they enjoy activities that promote cooperative play and good behaviour. Children are motivated to engage in learning and make good progress.

Play-based learningExperienced practitionersNutritionally balanced mealsStrong parent partnershipsSugar-free environment

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
Pricing on request

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Key facts

Food

Nutritionally balanced hot meals and snacks are provided, with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and a sugar-free policy.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Footsteps Binley Day Nursery and Pre-School

Last inspected 20 June 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

Staff develop strong bonds with children at this nursery, which helps them to feel safe and secure. Children's communication and language are well supported, and they enjoy activities that promote cooperative play and good behaviour. Children are motivated to engage in learning and make good progress.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders have created a well-designed curriculum that builds on what children need to learn as they progress through the nursery.
  • Older children are well prepared for their move to school, encouraged to be independent and considerate of others.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well through close collaboration with parents and external agencies.
  • Leaders are reflective of practice and identify areas of weakness, creating plans for improvement and supporting staff development.
  • Parents are complimentary about the care and education children receive, noting good progress and happiness at nursery.

Areas to develop

  • 1develop the organisation of routines, so that all children's needs are met consistently across the nursery
  • 2build links with other settings that children also attend, to help promote continuity in their learning.
Inspection #10353696 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents are complimentary about the care and education children receive. They say their children make good progress and are happy to attend nursery.

They are happy with the information they receive about their children's experiences at nursery and are provided with ideas of how to support their children's learning at home.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well. Staff work closely with parents and external agencies to make sure that all children can access the curriculum. The special educational needs coordinator models strategies to staff that help children to make further progress in their learning.

Outdoor space

The report does not provide specific details about how children use outdoor space or for physical play apart from the general observation that the inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors.

Parent Reviews of Footsteps Binley Day Nursery and Pre-School

3.7
(12)
Becky
4 months ago

Lovely nursery, you can tell the staff care about the children. Its useful that they use an app and daily handover so I know how my child day has been. They feed the kids a good variety of food and do lots of different activities. Car park can be busy, but managable.

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Lyn Godfrey
2 years ago

What a wonderful, nurturing and fun place Bambino’s is. My granddaughter has been attending for over 2 years and she has loved it. The staff are caring, kind and supportive, Bambino’s has given Eliza a really good start to her early years. She has made lots of friends and I will miss taking her. Tomorrow is her last day but I will be back with her baby sister next year. I would definitely recommend Bambino’s to anyone looking for a nursery. Thank you to everyone at Bambino’s. Lyn (Eliza’s nanny)

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Alin I
11 months ago

Unfortunately nursery doesn’t take the necessary measures for children’s when it comes to health and safety otherwise aggressive behavior of the same child should not be reoccurring affecting the other children. Measures put in place are in vain and not followed accordingly. The situations seem to overwhelm the management and do prove favoritism.

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Vinod Warrier
4 years ago

Phoned the place to check for availability and the lady on the phone wasn’t pleasant to talk to at all. She kept cutting me, saying we are full and didn’t even check on when the next availability was. Instead she asked me to kee phoning every now and then to check for availability! I called them as people said they have good ratings but it felt that over booking has gone to their head ! Over hyped, no phone sense, didn’t feel welcoming at all !

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John Smith
3 years ago

Brought my child here and she attended for 1 week and she will never go here again. She blurted out the C word and when asked where she heard it she told me the girl with the pink hair from this nursery said it to her. Absolutely Outrageous

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

20 June 2024

Good

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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