Age range
0-5 years
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.
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Request pricing →Age range
0-5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 14 December 2023 · Victoria Nicolson
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.
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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
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.
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.
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!
Read on GoogleThe 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!
Read on GoogleMy 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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Date: December 2008
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.
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