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Safari Childcare Hutton

Ofsted: Good
(Jul 2022)
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4.3(6 parent reviews) ·664 Rayleigh Road, Hutton, Brentwood, CM13 1SJ · Essex
Number of places
48 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2022
Local authority
Essex

About this day nursery

Safari Childcare Hutton offers a stimulating and nurturing environment for children aged 3 months to 5 years in Brentwood, Essex. Situated on Rayleigh Road, the nursery boasts bright, open spaces and overlooks scenic playing fields, providing an ideal setting for exploration and learning.

The curriculum is based on the Early Years Foundation Stage framework, tailored to each child's individual interests and developmental stage. With age-appropriate rooms, including a Forest School approach in their large garden, children are encouraged to build confidence, independence, and new skills through play.

The nursery provides flexible childcare packages from 7 AM to 6 PM, Monday to Friday, aiming to offer affordable solutions while maintaining a high standard of care and education. Safari Childcare Hutton prides itself on its "Good" Ofsted rating, nutritionist-approved home-cooked meals, and secure facilities, ensuring a safe and supportive "home from home" experience for all children.

Our ethos

We strive to make our children have a home from home experience at Safari Childcare Hutton by providing lots of stimulating and fun activities throughout the day, hence our ethos "their home from home". At our Hutton nursery, we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage framework while shaping learning around each child’s interests and stage of development, giving them the best possible start.

What it's like

All children, including babies, are happy, confident and make good levels of progress in relation to their starting points. Children enjoy playing in the extensive nursery garden and confidently lead their own play, delighting as staff join in. All children behave really well; they share, take turns and respect the environment and resources.

Forest School approachEYFS-led curriculumNutritionist-approved menuFlexible childcare

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

07:00-18:00, Monday to Friday

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Food

Home-cooked, nutritionist approved menu

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Safari Childcare Hutton

Last inspected 7 July 2022

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

All children, including babies, are happy, confident and make good levels of progress in relation to their starting points. Children enjoy playing in the extensive nursery garden and confidently lead their own play, delighting as staff join in. All children behave really well; they share, take turns and respect the environment and resources.

Inspector highlights

  • Children enjoy activities and experiences that are consistently challenging and exciting.
  • The staff team and management have pulled together to raise the quality of education and ensure that legal requirements are met.
  • Staff place a high priority on supporting children's personal, social and emotional development.
  • Staff work well with school teachers to help to support continuity in children's care and learning as they move on to the next stage of their education.
  • All children, including babies, make consistently good levels of progress.

Areas to develop

  • 1develop further the existing partnerships with other settings that children attend, to help to support greater continuity in their care and learning
  • 2review and develop the range of opportunities for children to engage further in imaginative play that reflects their home lives more accurately.
Inspection #10226709 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff quickly identify any gaps in children's development and plan activities to help children to catch up. Staff make good use of additional funding to provide activities that help and support children's individual needs. For example, a continually developing range of sensory resources provides children with opportunities to explore lights, sounds and find calmness when they need it.

Outdoor space

Children enjoy playing in the extensive nursery garden. Pre-school children eagerly go on a mathematical hunt to find paper plates with numbers written on them. Children say that they have looked up in the trees, behind play equipment and under bushes.

Parent Reviews of Safari Childcare Hutton

4.3
(6)
Leanne Green
3 months ago

We couldn’t be happier with the care our twins have received at this nursery. They’ve been attending since they were just 9 months old, and from day one the staff have been incredibly caring, patient, and attentive. It’s clear how much they genuinely care about the children as individuals, and the nurturing environment has really helped our twins grow in confidence, independence, and happiness. Communication with parents is excellent, and we always feel informed and reassured. Seeing how excited our twins are to go in each day says it all. We’re so grateful for the support and love they’ve been given and would highly recommend this nursery to any parent.

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Danielle Crook
8 months ago

My little boy has just left Safari Hutton to start school. I don’t usually write reviews but I had too as the staff have been amazing. Katie and Layla are fantastic at what they do. They have such passion! My little boy would come home every day telling me all the amazing and creative things he has been doing. The children spend lots of time outside in the large garden and are introduced to all things forest school! They have prepared him so well for school- with phonics and numbers. He has come on so much in the last 6 months. His confidence is beaming. The daily updates via the app were prompt and detailed. He made such a bond with the staff and they truly care about the children in their care. I could not recommend this nursery enough! They could not do enough for me and my little boy. Thank you so much to Katie, Layla and all the team. We will miss you.

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Anj
4 years ago

I would never recommend this nursery. As Ofsted have reported in February 2022, this nursery is inadequate and needs to be shut down.

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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Good in 2022

Date: October 2015

  • July 2022Good
  • February 2022Inadequate
  • August 2016Good
  • October 2015Good

Frequently asked about Safari Childcare Hutton

About the setting

Little Legs Nursery registered in 2014. The nursery employs 13 members of childcare staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 or above. The nursery is open from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7am to 6.30pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

URN
EY482576
Registered person
Little Legs Limited
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises
Previous rating
Inadequate

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