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Jesters Childcare Beaulieu

Ofsted: Good
(Dec 2021)
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3.7(6 parent reviews) ·Armistice Avenue, Beaulieu, Chelmsford, CM1 6DT · Essex
Number of places
56 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2021
Local authority
Essex

About this day nursery

Jesters Nursery & Pre-School in Beaulieu, Chelmsford is a purpose-built facility that opened in September 2018. It is conveniently located next to The Beaulieu Park School, an all-through school in Essex, fostering strong partnerships with both the primary school and community professionals to support children's growth and development.

The nursery provides integrated childcare, aiming to help every child reach their full potential. The setting is divided into age-appropriate rooms, with the Fawns Room catering to babies in a nurturing and homely environment, while the Squirrel's Room encourages curiosity in toddlers.

Older children benefit from the Deer Pre-School Classroom, where a unique and successful School Readiness Programme, developed by qualified teaching leads, prepares them for a smooth transition to school. Jesters Beaulieu received a "GOOD" rating in its December 2021 Ofsted inspection, demonstrating its commitment to quality education and care.

The inspection highlighted the management team's ambition, the stimulating indoor and outdoor learning environments, the responsiveness of staff to babies' inquisitiveness, and the emphasis on promoting language skills and positive behaviour.

Our ethos

Jesters Nursery & Pre-School in Beaulieu is committed to helping every child reach their full potential through an integrated childcare approach. They offer a School Readiness Programme, developed by qualified teaching leads, to prepare older children for a smooth transition to school. The nursery's December 2021 Ofsted inspection highlighted their quality education and care, with a focus on stimulating learning environments, responsiveness to children's inquisitiveness, language development, and positive behaviour.

What it's like

Parents and children are warmly greeted by the friendly and professional staff. Children arrive happy and quickly engage in their chosen activity within the stimulating learning environment both indoors and outdoors. Babies are confident and curious, fascinated by coloured lights, with staff highly responsive to their interests, extending their inquisitiveness by changing the colour of the lights.

Purpose-built settingPartnership with local schoolSchool Readiness ProgrammeOfsted "Good" rating

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

Tax-Free Childcare30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am until 6.30pm all year round, with the exception of a week's closure during the Christmas period.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2018

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Jesters Childcare Beaulieu

Last inspected 2 December 2021 · Lorraine Pike

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

What it's like to attend

Parents and children are warmly greeted by the friendly and professional staff. Children arrive happy and quickly engage in their chosen activity within the stimulating learning environment both indoors and outdoors. Babies are confident and curious, fascinated by coloured lights, with staff highly responsive to their interests, extending their inquisitiveness by changing the colour of the lights.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff know the children that they care for well and provide a sequenced curriculum.
  • Staff place a strong emphasis on promoting children's language skills.
  • Children benefit from the priority staff place on meeting their emotional needs, with a flexible key-person system.
  • All children engage in a good range of activities to build on their physical skills and enjoy spending quality time outdoors.
  • Children behave well and understand the boundaries in place, with staff successfully supporting them to regulate their own behaviour.

Areas to develop

  • 1adapt teaching within group activities to consistently support children's listening and attention skills
  • 2strengthen the quality of supervisions to sharply focus on raising the quality of practice to the highest level.
Inspection #10079750 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents are complimentary of the service the setting provides; they describe the staff as 'fantastic'

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff work in partnership with parents to support children who speak English as an additional language and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. This helps to ensure that all children make good progress.

Outdoor space

Children arrive happy and quickly engage in their chosen activity within the stimulating learning environment both indoors and outdoors. All children engage in a good range of activities to build on their physical skills, they enjoy healthy foods and spend quality time outdoors in the fresh air.

Parent Reviews of Jesters Childcare Beaulieu

3.7
(6)
jordanne barnard
5 years ago

I’ve been sending my little man to Jesters since July 2020 He absolutely loves going and has become such a character! The girls are all amazing, he had a diary allergy, they have been very supportive with this. We have constant communication about everything that’s happening with the nursery and they update their tapestry throughout the day so I can see what he’s been eating and doing. They have been amazing through this pandemic, I couldn’t have asked for more. They have been very safe and I’ve had no worries with sending Toby into nursery. I highly recommend them, we attend Jesters in Beaulieu xx

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Olga Chamro
5 years ago

Our daughter is just loving going to Jesters! Such a great nursery,  at the very beginning they've done brilliantly to comfort her and help her to settle well. Our daughter is a fussy eater, at Jesters they have really helped improve her eating habits so we are very thankful for that! Overall, great staff, very friendly,  highly qualified and always ready to help. Thank you, Jesters!

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Melanie Houllier
5 years ago

My son loves the nursery. He wants to go every day. They do different activities every day and keep the parents up to date with pictures and videos. They helped him in his speech and potty training. The staff is friendly and the facilities are modern and purpose built.

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Ahmed Nasr mohammed abdo
2 years ago

My son being with them for 1 years , is good at the start but when Charlotte left everything is so bad 3 months ago they didn’t but my son medicine in his and i have to call 111 for emergency medicine , they put wet clothes in his school bag without putting first in a plastic bag, they call me to pick up my son because they say he getting over excited , is just disgusting, if u love ur child please don’t bring here Update in the end i have to take my son out of this place for his best

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Lisa Abdo
2 years ago

disappointed , my son will never go back to this Place again is absolutely disgusting

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

2 December 2021

Good

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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