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Happy Days Penair

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Jun 2025)
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5.0(8 parent reviews) ·Penair School, St. Clement, TRURO, TR1 1TN · Cornwall
Number of places
64 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Cornwall

About this day nursery

Happy Days Penair, situated on the Penair School campus in Truro, offers outstanding childcare with a special focus on outdoor learning. The nursery provides a rich natural environment, complete with its own woodland, dedicated gardening areas, and secure outdoor spaces accessible from all rooms.

This allows children to engage in daily nature-based adventures, fostering their resilience, creativity, and a lasting appreciation for the outdoors, regardless of the weather. The nursery is conveniently located just minutes from Truro town centre and provides ample free parking for parents.

Happy Days Penair has received recognition for its dedication to environmental education, including the RHS Level 5 School Gardening Award and the Platinum Woodland Trust Green Schools Award. The nursery also prioritises sustainability and recycling, which has earned them two National Awards.

This nurturing, nature-focused setting encourages exploration, independence, and a deep connection with the natural world.

Our ethos

Happy Days Penair's nurturing, nature-focused setting encourages exploration and independence through daily outdoor adventures in a rich natural environment, fostering resilience, creativity, and a connection with the natural world. They have a special focus on outdoor learning and environmental education.

What it's like

Children thoroughly enjoy their time at this exceptional nursery, thriving in the exciting woodland learning area where they develop superb physical skills and spatial awareness. Staff are patient, giving children the freedom to explore and develop their ideas, fostering effective problem-solving from a young age.

Outdoor learningPrivate woodland accessRHS-accredited gardeningPlatinum Woodland Trust Green Schools AwardEco-conscious approach

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday – Friday 7.30am to 6pm

Age range

3 months – 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Food

Meals & Snacks

Established

2005

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Happy Days Penair

Last inspected 5 June 2025 · Leanne Edge

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding

What it's like to attend

Children thoroughly enjoy their time at this exceptional nursery, thriving in the exciting woodland learning area where they develop superb physical skills and spatial awareness. Staff are patient, giving children the freedom to explore and develop their ideas, fostering effective problem-solving from a young age.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders strive for excellence and have consistently high expectations, meticulously supporting children at risk of falling behind.
  • Staff promote children's communication and language skills using stories and songs, and engage in frequent, high-quality discussions.
  • High-quality learning experiences build on children's cultural capital, fostering a sense of social responsibility through practices like litter picking and recycling.
  • Children learn about diverse communities and cultural events, such as the Bulgarian spring festival of Martenitsa, to appreciate diversity.
  • Embedded systems encourage children to take managed risks, teaching them to assess activities and the nursery environment visually for safety, such as identifying safe and unsafe plants.
  • Children's attitudes to learning are excellent; they are respectful and engage deeply, with staff skilfully extending their ideas.
  • Leaders are highly reflective and continuously assess the provision, developing effective supervision and training processes, including tailored peer observation.
  • Parents speak highly of the staff and the leadership, appreciating the bespoke settling-in process, frequent updates on their child's progress, and training workshops.
Inspection #10399270 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders meticulously put in place plans to support those children who are at risk of falling behind. Staff spoke to the inspector about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Outdoor space

Children thrive as they explore the exciting woodland learning area. For example, they show great confidence as they balance carefully on logs and then jump as high as they can while they pretend to be giraffes reaching the leaves on a tree. Staff have embedded systems that encourage children to take managed risks. Children learn the importance of risk assessing both their own activities and the nursery environment. For example, children learn to complete checks on the outdoor area, including learning about which plants are safe to touch and which are not.

Parent Reviews of Happy Days Penair

5.0
(8)
Luke Rowe
3 years ago

My daughter attended happy days penair and has loved it. Would highly recommend to all parents. Even through the pandemic they were amazing and always putting the children first. My daughter formed a special bond with her key worker and misses her a lot now she has finished and starting big school in September.

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Mya Webb
3 years ago

Couldn’t & wouldn’t wish for a better nursery for my daughter. She loves going to nursery every morning!

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LOUISE Matthews
8 years ago

A brilliant nursery..everyone is so watchful and the care the kids get is amazing.

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Naoko's Kitchen
8 years ago

Very supportive and friendly staffs. Highly recommend.

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Aaron Bennett
6 years ago

Excellent Nursery, my daughter loves it

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Inspection history
Improved from Good → Outstanding in 2025

Date: October 2009

  • June 2025Outstanding
  • November 2019Good
  • January 2016Outstanding
  • October 2009Outstanding

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