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Highfield Lane Nursery School

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Jun 2024)
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5.0(6 parent reviews) ·1 Puddingstone Drive, St. Albans, AL4 0GX · Hertfordshire
Number of places
70 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2024
Local authority
Hertfordshire

About this day nursery

Highfield Lane Nursery School is part of Seymour House, a group of nurseries dedicated to providing inspiring education and nurturing environments where children can thrive. The nursery focuses on supporting children's exploration and discovery while fostering their growth and development.

Seymour House emphasises creating a passionate and supportive team to deliver high-quality early years care. They encourage parents to make an enquiry about enrolment and utilise their fee calculator to determine costs.

What it's like

Children thrive in this exceptional learning environment, excited to arrive and absorbed in wonderful learning opportunities provided by energetic staff. Managers establish a highly effective key-person system, fostering close bonds and nurturing care, leading to children flourishing. The nursery promotes children's self-confidence in exceptional ways, celebrating achievements and encouraging age-appropriate responsibility.

Nurturing environmentInspirational education

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
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 to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7am until 6pm.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2016

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Highfield Lane Nursery School

Last inspected 20 June 2024 · Antonia Campbell

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 thrive in this exceptional learning environment, excited to arrive and absorbed in wonderful learning opportunities provided by energetic staff. Managers establish a highly effective key-person system, fostering close bonds and nurturing care, leading to children flourishing. The nursery promotes children's self-confidence in exceptional ways, celebrating achievements and encouraging age-appropriate responsibility.

Inspector highlights

  • Partnerships with parents are of an exceptionally high standard. Parents are encouraged to play an active role in children's learning.
  • Children's transitions through the nursery are exceptionally well managed.
  • Inspirational leaders and managers are passionate about their role in supporting staff development. Staff benefit from highly effective training programmes.
  • Highly effective strategies are in place to support children's behaviour.
  • The nursery supports children's communication and language development superbly. Staff in all rooms use sign language during interactions with children.
Inspection #10344390 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities benefit from highly experienced and knowledgeable one-to-one support. This enables them to settle well and make excellent progress from their starting points.

EAL / language support

Staff practice is particularly strong when supporting children who speak English as an additional language. Their outstanding relationships with families and innovative strategies support children to make excellent progress from their starting points.

Parent Reviews of Highfield Lane Nursery School

5.0
(6)
Amish Patel
5 months ago

My two boys attend Highfield Day Nursery full-time - our eldest is 4 and youngest nearly 2 and they absolutely love it! The staff are incredible, creating a warm, nurturing environment where our boys can learn, thrive, and most importantly, have fun. That means so much at this stage in their lives. A huge thank you to everyone for the care and dedication you show every day—we truly trust and appreciate all that you do. Amish and Nithya

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Charlotte Cooper
a year ago

Our son started this week and we couldn’t be happier! His settling in sessions were really well organised and all of the staff have been really friendly and welcoming and our son has been so happy since starting, special thanks to Lauren his key person! The facilities are great, with every room having access to the garden, lots of toys for them to play with and the staff come up with really creative activities for them to do. The food is also really nutritious, which was really important to us when looking for a nursery and something we had really struggled to find. Would highly recommend this nursery to anyone!

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Nadia Patel
3 years ago

This nursery is absolutely amazing! All the staff are incredibly dedicated, friendly and so helpful. My child loves attending this nursery and I feel so happy and relaxed when he is there. Thank you to all the staff for your hardwork and most of all for caring so much about all the children.

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Sinead Harrison
4 years ago

Wonderful new nursery with caring staff. Both my children have attended the nursery and have thrived there . The Space and the outdoor activities are great. The indoor activities are very interesting with lots of variety and stimulation. Overall , deserved of their outstanding ofsted award.

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Arthur Pugh
a year ago

We’ve experienced a few nurseries and this is far and away the best. Highly professional, friendly staff and our sons have been very happy here.

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Inspection history

Date: September 2018

  • June 2024Outstanding
  • September 2018Outstanding

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