Age range
Babies and young children
Polly's Day Nursery, part of the Dean Close Little Trees family, is dedicated to providing a nurturing and safe environment where children can develop strong roots and foundations for their future. The nursery focuses on supporting each child's healthy and happy growth, preparing them for the next stages of childhood with warmth, love, and dedicated support.
As a branch of the Dean Close Foundation, Polly's Day Nursery benefits from robust and regular high-quality training for its staff. This training encompasses all essential areas of early years education, including childcare expertise, nutrition, and current research-based pedagogical approaches.
The nursery emphasises a child-led approach to learning, with activities designed to foster confidence, curiosity, and happiness. They engage children in diverse educational experiences, such as exploring geography through pen pal projects between Stroud and Australia, which helps children learn about different cultures, time zones, and travel.
The staff are committed to creating an environment where families feel truly part of the community, regularly celebrating milestones and fostering a supportive atmosphere for both children and parents. Polly's Day Nursery aims to provide a comprehensive and enriching early education experience, ensuring every child thrives.
Our ethos
At Little Trees we aim to give all our children the strongest roots and foundations so that every child in our care may grow and develop healthily and happily. Within a nurturing and safe environment filled with warmth, love and support, we dedicate ourselves to helping every child develop and prepare for the next stage in their childhood.
What it's like
Children thrive and thoroughly enjoy their time at this nurturing nursery. Staff offer an inspiring range of activities that capture children's interests and help them develop a positive attitude to learning.
Funding accepted
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Request pricing →Age range
Babies and young children
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 5 December 2019
What it's like to attend
Children thrive and thoroughly enjoy their time at this nurturing nursery. Staff offer an inspiring range of activities that capture children's interests and help them develop a positive attitude to learning.
Inspector highlights
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents are highly complimentary about the care provided and the progress their children make in the nursery.
Inclusion & environment
During thorough settling-in processes, staff find out as much as possible about each child's needs and what they can already do before they start in the nursery. Staff make highly effective use of this knowledge and use precise and accurate planning to support individual children's needs and interests exceptionally well.
Children enjoy the outdoor area, which is stimulating and exciting for them to explore. The area is organised well so all ages of children can move around freely. Children flourish as they enjoy developing their imagination in the outdoor kitchen, planting areas and playhouse.
Ofsted records show this provider has closed and was never graded. There's no inspection history to display.
Polly's Day Nursery registered in 1990 and is based in Brownshill, Gloucestershire. It is open weekdays from 8am to 6pm, all year round. There is a team of 14 staff, including the owner. Of these, 11 are qualified to level 3 and two are qualified to level 2. The nursery receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years.
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