Opening hours
Monday - Friday: 07:30 - 18:00
Great Expectations Day Nursery Limited, located in Bristol, is an Ofsted-rated "Outstanding" nursery that focuses on providing a stimulating environment for children. The nursery offers a wide range of facilities including baby provisions, outdoor play areas, and engaging activities such as water play, sand, and even cooking.
They also incorporate educational aspects with books and computers, alongside creative outlets like arts and crafts and dressing up. The nursery emphasises healthy eating by providing snacks.
The staff are dedicated to ensuring a nurturing and inclusive atmosphere, with provisions for children with special educational needs. Although there is no wheelchair access, the nursery strives to cater to diverse requirements.
Great Expectations Day Nursery aims to foster a holistic development in children through a blend of play-based learning and structured activities, supporting their growth and well-being.
What it's like
Children are very happy and have strong attachments to key staff. They turn to the highly nurturing staff for emotional comfort and reassurance, showing that they feel safe and secure. Highly motivated leaders and managers provide a broad and extremely ambitious curriculum. They support staff to excel in meticulous observation, planning and assessment processes.
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Monday - Friday: 07:30 - 18:00
Term time / All Year
All Year
Food
Snacks Provided
Last inspected 28 April 2023
What it's like to attend
Children are very happy and have strong attachments to key staff. They turn to the highly nurturing staff for emotional comfort and reassurance, showing that they feel safe and secure. Highly motivated leaders and managers provide a broad and extremely ambitious curriculum. They support staff to excel in meticulous observation, planning and assessment processes.
Inspector highlights
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
the friendly and kind staff show genuine care for their children. They have complete trust that staff keep their children safe and support their well- being.
They are pleased with the excellent communication channels and opportunities to become involved in their children's experiences.
Parents highly value the varied and nutritious meals prepared by the chef.
Inclusion & environment
Highly motivated leaders and managers provide a broad and extremely ambitious curriculum. They support staff to excel in meticulous observation, planning and assessment processes, which ensure that any gaps in children's learning or concerns about development are quickly identified and action taken. All children make excellent progress and are well prepared for their transition to the pre- school.
Children eagerly play outside and learn to take risks and solve problems, such as when they move large tyres around. Toddlers have forest school sessions, where they explore the natural environment, make collections, learn new skills and play in mud. Babies visit a local orchard, where they can lie in the grass and look at trees or crawl about in the long grass.
my son attended this nursery from the age of 9 months to 4 years old....... Great expectations has been such an important part in not only his life but mine too and i can honeslty say i made the best choice with this nursery. The staff and management team knew my son inside out and the opportunities they had on offer covered all aspects whether it was within the nursery setting or going out into the local area inc the nursing home plus an added bonus of going on the bus! there was always a story to tell about his day! would highly recommend Great expectations
Read on GoogleA fantastic nursery. We changed nurseries after covid and had a great experience with GEDN. The staff really go above and beyond. The creativity and messy play ideas they have is very impressive. We got loads of feedback and pictures and all the meals look healthy and delicious. Can’t recommend it enough.
Read on GoogleOur son really enjoys going to GE. The staff are all friendly, caring and are always very welcoming each morning. We valued the settling in period and home visit which helped our son get to know the staff better. The nursery have organised lots of events for parents like stay and play for Mother's day and Father's day, family picnic in the park and also a summer fair. The children in the pre school get the opportunity for forest school and visits to a local care home to have fun and gain experiences from playing along side the older generation. The children are encouraged to explore a wide range of messy play activities, using all their senses. The meals that are provided by the onsite chef always sound delicious and offer a well balanced diet, extra care is given to meet dietary requirements, which we really appreciate. It's lovely to see our son so happy when we pick him up.
Read on GoogleI have been completely disappointed with Great Expectations Nursery. We have received poor communication with the nursery regarding EYFS documentation and simple things like events. As a teacher, they have demobstrated they do not meet EYFS requirements in forming partnerships with parents in the important stage in a child's learning. Safe guarding policy has often not been consistently followed, and communication with management has been negative and often condescending. My child has also repeated at home unprofessional talk heard at the nursery.
Read on GoogleGreat nursery and I highly recommend. My daughter has been going for the past 3 years and has loved it. Now ready for the next step and starting school which she is so excited for. I have enjoyed reading what she has been up to in her learning journals and encouraging her in her development along the way. Thank you so much for everything you have done.
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Date: September 2017
Great Expectations Day Nursery registered in 2015. The nursery is open from 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, all year round, except for one week at Christmas and on public holidays. The setting employs 17 staff, including the managers and a chef. Five of the management and senior staff team have early years degrees, including two with early years teacher qualifications. Five other staff have early years qualifications at level 3, two staff have level 2 and four staff are working towards appropriate qualifications.
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