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Kingsmead Day Nursery in Eastleigh

Ofsted: Good
(Mar 2022)
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5.0(8 parent reviews) ·120 Kingsway, Eastleigh, SO53 5DW · Hampshire
Number of places
41 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2022
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

Kingsmead Day Nursery, located in Chandler's Ford near Eastleigh, Hampshire, has been a family-run establishment since 1995. The nursery is set in a peaceful residential area with convenient parking and easy access to the M3 and M27 motorways.

It boasts a large, secure garden with diverse play areas, including grass, rubber-surfaced, hard-surfaced for wheeled toys, a covered area, a woodland section, and separate outdoor spaces for babies. The nursery offers continuous outdoor provision, encouraging children to play in all weathers with appropriate gear.

Kingsmead caters to children aged three months to five years, offering 42 places across age-divided units for a comforting, family-like atmosphere. The nursery focuses on high-quality childcare and education, aiming to foster young minds, celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and respect, and encourage well-being and healthy lifestyles.

They follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, emphasising a unique child, positive relationships, enabling environments, and comprehensive learning and development across communication, physical, personal, social, emotional, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world, and expressive arts and design. Kingsmead prioritises strong partnerships with parents and a dedicated, qualified staff who engage in continuous professional development.

Our ethos

Kingsmead Day Nursery follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, emphasising a unique child, positive relationships, enabling environments, and comprehensive learning and development. They aim to foster young minds, celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and respect, and encourage well-being and healthy lifestyles. Kingsmead also prioritises continuous outdoor provision, encouraging children to play in all weathers.

What it's like

Children love coming to this inviting and stimulating nursery. Staff ensure that children enjoy and experience an exciting range of activities, indoors and outdoors. Children build on their physical skills and develop a love for books and behave well, showing positive attitudes to learning.

Family-run since 1995Extensive outdoor play areasFocus on EYFS frameworkSmall and personal (42 places)

Pricing & funding

Fees are charged for full days or sessions and are invoiced at the start of each term. No fees apply during the Christmas closure or the eight annual bank holidays. Funded days do not include meals, which are billed as optional extras.

Funding accepted

Tax-Free Childcare15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds

Good to know

  • Fees are invoiced at the start of each term.
  • No charges apply for Christmas closure or the eight regular annual Bank Holidays.
  • Funded days are subject to additional meal charges.

Key facts

Opening hours

Full day: 8:00am to 6:00pm; Half day: 8:30am to 1:00pm or 1:30pm to 6:00pm

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Session types

Full Day, AM Session, PM Session

Established

2014

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Kingsmead Day Nursery

Last inspected 15 March 2022 · Sonia Panchal

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

Children love coming to this inviting and stimulating nursery. Staff ensure that children enjoy and experience an exciting range of activities, indoors and outdoors. Children build on their physical skills and develop a love for books and behave well, showing positive attitudes to learning.

Inspector highlights

  • Children choose to work collaboratively and readily share made-up stories in their play.
  • Children show high levels of curiosity and test out their ideas as they make up their own games.
  • Staff promote respect for different cultures, and children learn about different festivals.
  • Children learn about healthy eating as they enjoy freshly cooked, balanced and nutritious meals and learn to plant seeds.
  • Children are encouraged to take risks safely when outdoors, promoting their willingness to have a go and test out their abilities.

Areas to develop

  • 1focus more sharply on the quality of staff's interactions to make the most of opportunities to extend children's learning further
  • 2strengthen the support for staff's professional development, to build on their teaching skills and raise the quality of practice to the highest level.
Inspection #10228867 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders maintain strong links with local schools, and information is exchanged about children's progress and any specific needs they may have, which eases children's transition to their new school.

Outdoor space

Staff ensure that children enjoy and experience an exciting range of activities, indoors and outdoors. Children build on their physical skills as they climb, balance and jump. Children also are encouraged to take risks safely when outdoors, for instance, carefully stepping on a tree trunk to balance.

Parent Reviews of Kingsmead Day Nursery

5.0
(8)
Dori Jeffery
a year ago

The staff go above and beyond to ensure kiddos feel safe and included. Really friendly approachable and communicative key workers who are understanding of requests for helping your kids settle or learnbif struggling in any way. Mine has been all the way through to preschool here and always talks about the staff with such joy. Very quick to respond to emails too. They include a bunch of really fun stuff through the year like sports day, outsourced sports coaches and outdoor teaching. On a couple of occasions mines been on outings. The grounds are really good for outdoor play. Feel lucky to have found this nursery and honestly can't recommend it enough.

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Frances Holley
5 years ago

My three children have all attended Kingsmead and I have been absolutely thrilled with the nursery. It's efficient and well run, the staff are so dedicated and caring, the indoor and outdoor facilities are superb, the food is nutritious and my children have been so happy there. Kingsmead has prepared them incredibly well for school. I cannot recommend the nursery highly enough. I do have experience of other nurseries as my children went to 2 other nursery settings but Kingsmead was definitely the best.

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Luke Weston
6 years ago

My son has been going to Kingsmead from just before 18 months old. As is expected it took a while for him to get used to being left there, however the staff have always been fantastic. He's moved from the baby to toddler room with minimal fuss after a transition period and is always happy to go in when we drop him off. The facilities are just excellent, particularly the back garden which, when it's dry, the kids can explore (it's big and exciting enough to say explore!). As this is our first experience with a nursery it's hard to compare, but we get a daily update on how he's done, including the food he's had which is all cooked in the nursery. I think the prices are fairly comparable to others as we looked at another before we went with Kingsmead. My wife and I have been really happy with everything the staff have done, they really are a lovely group!

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Marivett Bundik
a year ago

We are very satisfied with the nursery. Everyone is so kind, attentive, and always up to date with our little boy. He always eats everything and happily walks through the door .Thank you so much to the staff for their caring work.

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Dan Fox
2 years ago

My daughter has had a fantastic experience from under a year through to the move to pre-school. Lovely facilities and, most importantly, patient and caring staff. Thanks Kingsmead.

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Inspection history

Date: September 2016

  • March 2022Good
  • September 2016Good

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