Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 9am until 3pm
Le Prairie Childcare, established in 2021, provides a nurturing childcare setting in Essex for children aged 1 to 4 years. Open Monday to Friday, from 9am until 3pm during term-time, the nursery focuses on creating an environment where children arrive eager to learn and explore.
The dedicated staff team, knowing each child well, implements a sequenced curriculum that builds on individual interests, challenging them with new concepts through engaging themes. Children benefit from a rich variety of indoor and outdoor activities, developing physical skills through imaginative play, such as using shaving foam to build towers or painting fences with water.
The learning environment fosters independence, evident as children self-register upon arrival, choose their own fruit at snack time, and pour their own drinks. Communication and language development are strongly supported, with staff carefully repeating sentences and reinforcing correct pronunciation.
The nursery places a strong emphasis on good hygiene and respectful behaviour, teaching children key self-care skills. Le Prairie Childcare effectively uses additional funding, including early years pupil premium, to enhance children's development and experiences.
Parents consistently report feeling well-informed and involved in their child's learning journey, highlighting the strong partnership between home and nursery. The management team has a clear vision, promoting independence, resilience, and physical activity, ensuring children make good progress from their individual starting points.
What it's like
Children arrive eager and ready to start their day, self-registering and choosing from a range of indoor and outdoor activities. They develop physical skills through play, such as building with shaving foam and painting fences with water. Children have secure relationships with staff, are confident and independent, and learn good hygiene and respectful behaviour.
Funding accepted
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 9am until 3pm
Term time / All Year
Term Time
Established
2021
Last inspected 16 May 2023
What it's like to attend
Children arrive eager and ready to start their day, self-registering and choosing from a range of indoor and outdoor activities. They develop physical skills through play, such as building with shaving foam and painting fences with water. Children have secure relationships with staff, are confident and independent, and learn good hygiene and respectful behaviour.
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Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents state that they feel that staff communicate well, and they feel included in their child's learning journey.
Inclusion & environment
Additional funding, such as early years pupil premium, is used effectively to support children's development and experiences.
Children have a range of resources and activities to choose, both inside and outside. For example, children use shaving foam as 'cement'. They skilfully spread the foam over the bricks and build a tower. They describe that they are building a 'massive tower'. Children are developing their physical skills. For example, they use water, large brushes, and rollers to paint the fence. They roll the roller up and down, covering the panels. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.
Last year, my son attended this preschool during the summer term. The teachers are excellent, and their communication with parents is very good. My child was very happy here. Despite it being his first time attending preschool, he really loved this school. We definitely recommend it. Due to the distance from our home, we were on the waiting list for another preschool, and we received an offer from there. Unfortunately, we couldn’t continue here this year. However, if you are considering sending your child to this preschool, I highly recommend it.
Read on GoogleGood teachers but bad management. My son went here for just under a year and because of constant issues with the nursery we moved our child for his safety. The biggest issue was that we received a phone call to say our son chocked on some apple. They didn’t look into his mouth and when they put him over their leg and smacked him to get it out nothing came out. When asked what happened at nursery today he said he was told off. Nothing about choking. We did say to him else were told he choked on apple and they smacked him on the back to get it out. He said it didn’t happen. My son speaks very well and very clearly. There was also a lot of accident forms and too many times he had wet and soiled clothes where they said he didn’t make it to the toilet, at home and at our friends house(who also looked after my son2days a week) he didn’t have a single accident which makes me think they just weren’t paying attention. He didn’t want to go to nursery and was always very sad and didn’t want to talk when he was picked up. Since being with his new nursery he has not had anything. Not one accident, not one accident form and is always happy. There was one member of the management team in particular that my son really didn’t like and I believe she is a big issue with this nursery. She was not warm or comforting at all when interacting with the children. We asked for a meeting with her to discuss our concerns and during this she was very dismissive and had a lot of excuses. That my son was pretty much the issue. My son has now been with the new nursery for almost a year and we have no issues at all. It’s taken me a good while to write this but I have the new nursery a good amount of time to see if my son was in fact troubled but I can categorically say that after speaking with the members of staff at the new Nursery about some of the things that happened at the old nursery that my son is absolutely not the blame and that it is their practices And the lack of care for my child that failed him. I felt incredibly unsafe sending my child here and would absolutely not recommend it
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Date: May 2023
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