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Giggles Nursery in Spring Field Park

Ofsted: Good
(Dec 2023)
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5.0(3 parent reviews)
·Springbank Community Resource Centre, Springbank Way, Spring Field Park, GL51 0LG · Gloucestershire
Number of places
38 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2023
Local authority
Gloucestershire

About this day nursery

Giggles Nursery is conveniently located near Springbank Academy Primary School and GCHQ in Cheltenham, offering easy access to the M5. The nursery aims to provide a comforting and secure environment that feels like an extension of home, encouraging children to play and develop.

They focus on innovative and fun teaching methods, ensuring a stimulating space where children engage with staff and develop new skills daily. Learning through play is a core principle, particularly evident in their refurbished outdoor play area designed to help babies, toddlers, and pre-school children flourish.

The nursery is committed to high-quality care, employing experienced and qualified practitioners who are passionate about childcare. Continuous internal and external staff training ensures that the services are constantly improving.

Giggles Nursery also prioritises strong partnerships with parents, providing daily feedback through written observations and reports, and utilising an online learning journal called Tapestry to log children's activities and learning journeys. They offer open mornings for parents to participate in activities and individual key person meetings to discuss developmental progress.

Each child is assigned a key person to provide tailored care, fostering confidence and social interaction in a safe and trusting environment.

Our ethos

Here at Giggles, we believe that your child’s nursery should feel like an extension of their home. With this in mind, one of our aims is to provide a comforting, secure environment that will make every child feel happy to play and develop in. We aim to introduce children to learning in an innovative, fun way and we continuously look for new teaching methods. Our focus is on learning through play and this can be seen through our heavy focus on our outside play area.

What it's like

Children's care and emotional needs are given high priority by the leaders and staff, who know the children well and help them to form strong and secure attachments. This helps children to feel safe and secure, settle quickly, and demonstrate confidence in choosing what to play with. Leaders and staff organise the environment to allow children to make their own choices about resources and toys, with a clear vision to support children's health and well-being, such as carefully devised menus to limit processed foods and sugar.

Learning through playRefurbished outdoor areaExperienced and qualified staffKey person approachOnline learning journal (Tapestry)

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Age range

0-5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Giggles Nursery

Last inspected 14 December 2023 · Victoria Nicolson

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children's care and emotional needs are given high priority by the leaders and staff, who know the children well and help them to form strong and secure attachments. This helps children to feel safe and secure, settle quickly, and demonstrate confidence in choosing what to play with. Leaders and staff organise the environment to allow children to make their own choices about resources and toys, with a clear vision to support children's health and well-being, such as carefully devised menus to limit processed foods and sugar.

Inspector highlights

  • Children’s care and emotional needs are given high priority by the leaders and staff.
  • Partnerships with parents are strong and well established.
  • There is good support in place for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
  • Staff recognise that some children need to have space to run, climb and to take risks in their play.
  • Leaders and staff are aware of children’s different backgrounds and cultures and they consider children’s past experiences.

Areas to develop

  • 1provide older children with more opportunities to learn to do things for themselves, to support them with developing their independence further
  • 2continue to support staff with developing their skills so that the curriculum is implemented consistently throughout the nursery.
Inspection #10284864 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents say that staff and leaders are friendly and welcoming, they regularly share information with parents about their children’s day and what they are learning.

parents report that their children are happy and well supported with their care and emotional needs.

Parents of children who speak English as an additional language say that they feel that diversity is promoted and celebrated in the nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

There is good support in place for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Staff have a good understanding of children's needs; they work closely with children's parents and the special educational needs coordinator to understand the specific targets that children have.

Outdoor space

Staff recognise that some children need to have space to run, climb and to take risks in their play; they help children to learn how to keep themselves safe while playing. Younger children enjoy climbing and jumping with close staff supervision. Children are also reminded to wash their hands after getting dirty in the garden.

Parent Reviews of Giggles Nursery

5.0
(3)
Sophia Rhodes
7 years ago

My daughter has been attending Giggles 2 days a week since she was only 5 months old. The staff were fantastic at settling her in and she has come on leaps and bounds. They were supportive through my choice of baby led weaning and at the end of a long day at work, they are so positive about her, always commenting on what a dream she is, which makes me feel so much better about leaving her all day!

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Kira Kerr
3 years ago

The staff here are fantastic, it’s very child led and we get so much information and feedback on what our daughter has done with her time there. Every member of staff is so friendly and welcoming, that any anxiety I had putting my daughter in a nursery has completely eased- so much so, my youngest is starting there in November. Truly never recommended a childcare setting as much as I recommend Giggles!

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Laura Cooper
2 years ago

My child has been at giggles nursery since he was 8 months old and has always been happy and well looked after. He is starting school in a few weeks and is ready and confident for his next learning adventure. The staff have been very helpful and listened to any concerns and it is a lovely bright place for children. I’m sure he will be back for some half term clubs to see the ladies that have watched him grow up.

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Inspection history
Improved from Requires improvement → Good in 2023

Date: December 2008

  • December 2023Good
  • March 2023Requires improvement
  • August 2017Good
  • September 2014Good
  • December 2008Good

Frequently asked about Giggles Nursery

About the setting

Giggles Nursery registered in September 2008. It operates within the Springbank Community Resource Centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The nursery is open each weekday from 8am to 6pm, for 51 weeks of the year. The setting receives funding to provide early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. The nursery employs 15 members of staff.

URN
EY376436
Registered person
Desirable Childcare Limited
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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