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Little Rainbow Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Feb 2025)
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4.3(10 parent reviews) ·142 Broadfield Road, London, SE6 1TH · Lewisham
Number of places
40 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2025
Local authority
Lewisham

About this day nursery

Little Rainbow Day Nursery Corbett is a privately owned and lively nursery nestled in the well-regarded Corbett Estate, dedicated to providing exceptional childcare for children aged 3 months to 5 years. The nursery focuses on creating a nurturing, family-oriented atmosphere where each child is valued as an individual.

Founded with a parent's perspective in mind, Little Rainbow is driven by a strong commitment to delivering high-quality care, affection, and engaging learning experiences. The environment is designed to foster a sense of home, allowing children to participate in familiar activities both within the nursery and in the wider local community.

The nursery's philosophy centres on developing confident, joyful, and collaborative learners, while also encouraging both children and staff to reach their full potential in all areas of their development. Prospective families are encouraged to visit the nursery to experience its unique approach firsthand.

Our ethos

Little Rainbow Day Nursery's philosophy centres on developing confident, joyful, and collaborative learners and believes in providing high-quality care, affection, and engaging learning experiences within a nurturing, family-oriented atmosphere that feels like home.

What it's like

Children arrive happy and excited to attend this friendly nursery, receiving a warm welcome from staff and confidently saying goodbye to their parents and carers. The nursery has an effective key-person system, helping children build strong attachments, settle quickly and feel safe and secure. Leaders and staff have high expectations, providing a sequenced curriculum that builds on children's skills and previous experiences.

Family EnvironmentIndividualised CareHigh-Quality Learning

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 7.45am to 6.15pm, for 51 weeks per year, except for one week at Christmas.

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2017

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Rainbow Day Nursery

Last inspected 26 February 2025 · Helen Craig

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children arrive happy and excited to attend this friendly nursery, receiving a warm welcome from staff and confidently saying goodbye to their parents and carers. The nursery has an effective key-person system, helping children build strong attachments, settle quickly and feel safe and secure. Leaders and staff have high expectations, providing a sequenced curriculum that builds on children's skills and previous experiences.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff gather detailed information from parents to build on children's interests and plan activities, leading to good progress for all children.
  • Staff prioritise children's communication and language, using various techniques to extend their skills across all age groups.
  • Leaders and staff embed a culture of diversity and inclusion through the nursery's ethos, staff team, parents, and curriculum.
  • Children benefit from a range of physical activities and learn about healthy eating and good hygiene routines.
  • Staff promote children's independence by encouraging them to take off coats, wash hands, and help with tasks like setting tables, building their confidence.

Areas to develop

  • 1extend partnerships with parents to ensure consistency in sharing ideas to continue children's learning at home and seek their views to help make further improvements
  • 2strengthen staff's interactions during activities to challenge children's thinking and problem-solving skills.
Inspection #10372355 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents state that their children are happy to attend and have settled well.

They acknowledge that their children have extended their language and social skills since attending the nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders and staff embed a culture of diversity and inclusion through the nursery's ethos, staff team, parents and the curriculum. They support children who speak English as an additional language, alongside learning English.

Outdoor space

Children benefit from a range of physical activities to develop their large muscles. Babies crawl in the ball pool and use the slide. Older children practise riding bicycles, jump in hoops and balance on tyres.

Parent Reviews of Little Rainbow Day Nursery

4.3
(10)
Jessica Dickinson
a year ago

Incredibly happy with Little Rainbows. After first looking around it was an easy decision to send our child there. The nursery is really well thought out, with a wide range of different spaces for children of different ages. Critically, the staff are all very warm and friendly, and there's a really good energy about the nursery. They do lots of events, teaching the children about different cultures and foods, as well as different languages, and they bring the parents into the nursery as much as they can at different times of year.  Our child has been really happy here.

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Vince Wakfer
a year ago

Little Rainbows is a fantastic nursery. Both our children went to Little Rainbows for their pre-school education, now completed; the older child has been doing great at primary school, thanks in part to the Little Rainbows preparation, and the younger is now ready for his school experience. There is not much staff turnover at Little Rainbows, which is great for the kids to develop real relationships with the staff. Thank you Little Rainbows for all the care and learning and fun our kids had with you - we will miss you.

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Lauren White
a year ago

Little rainbow day nursery is an amazing nursery. They pride themselves on being inclusive and like to get out into the local community often including visiting neighbouring elderly people care homes to share some fun and laughter including the local library. They often celebrate a range of different cultures such as where we are from in the world which range from India, Jamaica, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Africa and many more places. We also love to explore different cultures such as Diwali, Eid and celebrate black history month. They have an incredible team who are kind and very caring and provide essential and important care for children. An amazing setting :)

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Dionne Ashley
7 years ago

I don't know if Gareth is still working there but he is an excellent staff member, my child is now 13 and I am thankful that I chose this nursery. They teach much more than in the 1st year at school, numbers, alphabet, nature, how to write their name. Thanks Little Rainbow

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2 years ago

Simply fantastic, my child is leaving this year and I could not be happier with their progress as well as how quickly their social skills have progressed. Couldn’t recommend Little Rainbow enough!

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Inspection history

Date: April 2019

  • February 2025Good
  • April 2019Good

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