Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 8.50am until 2.50pm, with before- and after-school care from 8am until 8.50am and 3pm until 6pm, and a holiday club.
Gatten & Lake Childcare
Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2024)
Number of places
38 places
Age range
2–5 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2024
Local authority
Isle of Wight
About this day nursery
GattenandLake Childcare, located in Shanklin, provides a warm, welcoming, and safe environment for children aged 2 to 11 years. 50am and 3pm to 6pm, as well as a holiday club.
Children form close relationships with staff and peers, developing good behaviours, kindness, and consideration. Staff are adept at incorporating mathematical language into play, igniting children's curiosity and laying strong foundations for future learning.
The day nursery effectively supports all children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), ensuring they make good progress from their starting points. Staff utilise additional funding effectively, providing one-to-one care where needed, and use picture references to help children communicate their needs and wishes.
Parents speak positively about the pre-school, highlighting that staff take the time to get to know each child and their family.
What it's like
Staff provide children with a warm, welcoming and safe environment. Children form close relationships and develop good behaviours, showing kindness and consideration. Staff skilfully incorporate mathematical language into play and ignite children's curiosity, laying foundations for future learning.
Warm, welcoming, and safeGood progress for all childrenSkilful mathematical languageStrong communication supportPositive parent feedback
Key facts
Term time / All Year
Term Time
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Gatten & Lake Childcare
Last inspected 18 June 2024 · Tara Naylor
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 provide children with a warm, welcoming and safe environment. Children form close relationships and develop good behaviours, showing kindness and consideration. Staff skilfully incorporate mathematical language into play and ignite children's curiosity, laying foundations for future learning.
Inspector highlights
- Managers and staff have worked hard to successfully address weakness from the last inspection.
- Managers implement safe recruitment and vetting processes.
- Staff say they feel valued and benefit from regular supervisions.
- Staff place a strong focus on children's personal, social and emotional development.
- Staff support all children's communication and language skills well.
Areas to develop
- 1embed staff's understanding of curriculum intentions to enable them to focus specifically on what children need to learn next
- 2consider ways of providing further challenge for older and the most-able children, to extend their learning.
Inspection #10334330 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents speak positively about the pre-school.
They say that staff take the time to get to know children and their families.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
All children, including those in receipt of additional funding and those with special educational needs and or disabilities (SEND), make good progress from their starting points. Staff use additional funding well, including for one-to-one care, where children need extra support. Where children, including those with SEND, need help with communicating their needs, staff offer picture references, so that all children can share their wants, needs and wishes.
Outdoor space
The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.
Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Good in 2024
Date: April 2014
- June 2024Good
- February 2024Inadequate
- March 2018Outstanding
- April 2014Good
Frequently asked about Gatten & Lake Childcare
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