Opening hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 07:30 - 06:00
Hidden Garden Day Nursery at Paper Lane
Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(1 Google review)
·Early Years Nursery, Purnell House, Bristol, BS39 7AA · Bath and North East Somerset
Number of places
61 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2026
Local authority
Bath and North East Somerset
About this day nursery
Hidden Garden Day Nursery at Paper Lane, located in Paulton, Bristol, is a childcare on non-domestic premises setting that focuses on fostering children's independence and preparing them for school. The nursery promotes a warm and positive environment where staff use "golden rules" and positive behaviour management techniques to support children's emotional wellbeing and social development.
Children benefit from daily access to the outdoor environment, engaging in physical play, sand, and water activities. The curriculum is designed to build knowledge and skills, with a strong emphasis on communication and language development, including the use of Makaton signs.
The nursery also offers enriching activities such as forest school sessions, where children learn about nature through hands-on experiences like making bee baths and collecting nectar. Leaders are committed to inclusion, providing support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those facing barriers to learning, ensuring all children can participate and progress effectively.
The nursery values strong partnerships with families, providing resources like behaviour policy keyrings and library books to support children's understanding of emotions.
What it's like
Children are happy and settled in this calm and nurturing environment, where they feel safe, welcomed and valued. A secure key-person and buddy system helps children to settle quickly, building warm, trusting relationships with staff. Children receive support in a language-rich environment, benefiting from spacious learning areas, daily free-flow access to outdoor garden areas, dance, and forest school sessions.
Fosters independenceSchool readiness focusPositive environmentOutdoor learningMakaton useForest school activities
Key facts
Registered with Ofsted
2024
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Expected standard
Last inspected Jul 2026
Grade summary
Exceptional
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Strong standard
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Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.
Category grades
AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
1 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted report for Hidden Garden Day Nursery at Paper Lane
Last inspected 6 July 2026
What it's like to attend
Children are happy and settled in this calm and nurturing environment, where they feel safe, welcomed and valued. A secure key-person and buddy system helps children to settle quickly, building warm, trusting relationships with staff. Children receive support in a language-rich environment, benefiting from spacious learning areas, daily free-flow access to outdoor garden areas, dance, and forest school sessions.
Inspector highlights
- Children are given many opportunities to develop their independence throughout the day.
- Children typically benefit from a well-planned school readiness programme.
- Leaders have established a warm and positive environment where staff generally promote high expectations for behaviour.
- Children are happy, settled and engaged in their learning, benefiting from daily access to the outdoor environment.
- Leaders have designed a curriculum that covers all areas of learning, sequenced to help children build knowledge and skills.
- There is a clear focus on children's communication and language, with staff introducing new vocabulary and using Makaton signs.
- Leaders are committed to providing an inclusive environment where all children, including those with SEND, receive support to achieve well.
- Parents and carers report that staff are available to talk and will telephone if needed, helping to remove barriers to communication.
Areas to develop
- 1Leaders should extend children's thinking, encourage deeper conversations and provide children with time to think and respond, such as by ensuring that staff consistently use open-ended questions.
- 2Leaders should ensure staff maximise opportunities to embed children's mathematical learning throughout daily practice.
Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Leaders are committed to providing an inclusive environment where all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those facing barriers to learning, receive support to achieve well. Staff make appropriate adaptations so that children with SEND can participate fully alongside their peers, and leaders use early years pupil premium funding to provide targeted support for disadvantaged children.
Outdoor space
Children benefit from daily access to the outdoor environment, where they develop physical skills through physical play, as well as wider learning experiences such as sand and water play. The nursery further enriches children's learning through forest school sessions, where children learn about bees, the environment and the natural world through carefully sequenced activities.
Google Reviews of Hidden Garden Day Nursery at Paper Lane
5.0
(1 Google review)
charmaine hall
a year ago
Paperlane has put my mind at ease as I was a very anxious parent. My son has been cared for with passion and love from his practitioners. The setting is very clean and well kept I would highly recommend.
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Inspection history
Most recent inspection
6 July 2026
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
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