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Orchard Lea Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2025)
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4.6(11 parent reviews) ·Orchard Lea Day Nursery, 156a Burchells Green Road, BRISTOL, BS15 1DX · Bristol
Number of places
78 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
Bristol

About this day nursery

Orchard Lea Nursery Limited, registered in 2008 and located in Kingswood, Bristol (BS15 1DX), provides full-day care for children aged 0 to 4 years. The nursery operates year-round, opening weekdays from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm, and has a capacity of 78 children with 120 on roll.

With 46 childcare staff, the majority holding Level 3 qualifications or higher, the setting ensures a stable and experienced team. The nursery creates a friendly and supportive environment where staff build strong bonds with each child and their family, using home visits to understand individual interests and routines.

Children benefit from a broad and sequenced curriculum, enjoying activities such as ‘dinosaur museums’, outdoor play, minibus trips to a forest school, and dance sessions. Staff prioritise secure attachments for babies and emerging independence for toddlers, while older children develop strong foundational skills for school readiness.

What it's like

Children enjoy their time at this friendly and supportive setting. Staff take the time to get to know each child and their family. Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour, and children listen to staff and follow clear and consistent routines. Children build strong bonds with their key person and feel safe and settled as they freely explore their environment.

Friendly environmentGood behaviourStrong parent partnershipEngaging activitiesEffective safeguarding

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

Tax-Free Childcare

Key facts

Opening hours

flexi_time_7_30am_6pm_all_year

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2008

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Orchard Lea Nursery

Last inspected 29 September 2025

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children enjoy their time at this friendly and supportive setting. Staff take the time to get to know each child and their family. Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour, and children listen to staff and follow clear and consistent routines. Children build strong bonds with their key person and feel safe and settled as they freely explore their environment.

Inspector highlights

  • Children enjoy their time at this friendly and supportive setting.
  • Staff take the time to get to know each child and their family, using home visits to gather key information.
  • Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour and children follow clear and consistent routines.
  • Leaders have developed a broad and sequenced curriculum with a strong focus on supporting babies and toddlers, and preparing older children for school.
  • Staff deliver the curriculum well, offering a wide range of motivating and exciting opportunities.
  • Children build strong bonds with their key person.
  • Staff use effective monitoring and assessment processes to ensure continuous progress and swiftly identify any gaps.
  • Staff work with parents and professionals to put strategies and support in place to help children achieve their next steps, fostering an inclusive approach.
  • The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with an open and positive culture.
  • Leaders are reflective, passionate, and committed to continuously improving what they offer children and their families.

Areas to develop

  • 1Ensure staff working with babies and young children have a secure understanding of how to fully develop their emerging language and communication skills.
  • 2Support staff to use effective questioning and detailed explanations to extend older children's learning.
  • 3Strengthen supervision processes to identify staff development areas and provide targeted training.
Inspection #10417437 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

Children benefit from a wide range of motivating and exciting opportunities both indoors and outdoors. They use rakes and spades to pretend to dig for dinosaur bones in the garden. They also go on walks around the local area to learn about road safety.

Parent Reviews of Orchard Lea Nursery

4.6
(11)
Ali Cat Olaru
a year ago

Our daughter attended this nursery for almost 2 years now. She absolutely loves it here, and it's wonderful to see how happy and settled she is every day. The staff are incredibly kind, caring, and attentive, always going the extra mile to ensure the children feel safe and supported. Communication with the nursery has always been excellent, and they keep us well informed about our daughter's progress and any updates. We feel confident knowing she's in such good hands. Highly recommend!

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Teodora Aldridge
a year ago

I would thoroughly recommend Orchard Lea. Our son had a fantastic time there, they helped him build his confidence, social skills, and so much more. The nursery has a big garden with a lot on offer, they also have a very bright and welcoming inside space. There are plenty of resources, and the staff are setting up wonderful and varuious activities every day- lots of nature, sensory, role play activities. They have yoga lessons and go to forest school trips out of nursery. The staff decorates the nursery for every festival really nicely, and they really go for the celebrations, costumes and all. It is really sweet :) We are very grateful for all Orchard lea have done for our son.

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Dave Bain
2 years ago

We deeply appreciate the kind and caring work that Orchard Lea Nursery provided and continue to provide for our children. They are attentive and caring. From the moment our first child started there, we felt they were in safe hands. The detailed updates, both in-person and via the phone app are reassuring and insightful. The staff note down development and regularly update us on how our children are getting on. Highly recommend.

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Joana Abreu Jackson
4 years ago

Our daughter attended for 2 years and had a wonderful time. The outdoor space is great, the communication with us as parents was good, the meals were really varied and nutritious (it's been disappointing seeing school menus now!) but what made the experience so good for our daughter (and gave us peace of mind) were the key workers. There is a good number per group of children and they went above and beyond to make it a fun and warm experience for the kids - every day. They were so friendly. It's clear there's a really good culture there. Thanks all.

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Ashley
3 years ago

My 2 children attended Orchard Lea. It was a fabulous nursery that enabled them to thrive and develop. In addition to the nursery site, the children would attend forest school and go on trips to other places such as the library. The staff were great. They took such an interest in all the children and parents/carers could get detailed feedback of their child's day at collection time. The nursery also use an online journal for tracking children's development and detailing activities and events, which is very helpful. Overall, the children loved their time there and I highly recommend it.

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Inspection history

Date: April 2009

  • September 2025Good
  • August 2021Good
  • February 2015Outstanding
  • September 2013Good
  • April 2009Good

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