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Queen Elizabeth's Nursery School

Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2024)
·Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, West Park Road, BLACKBURN, BB2 6DF · Blackburn with Darwen
Number of places
95 places
Age range
0–3 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2024
Local authority
Blackburn with Darwen

About this day nursery

Queen Elizabeth's Nursery School, part of the wider QEGS Blackburn establishment, offers a 50-week childcare service, closing only for two weeks during Christmas and on bank holidays. The nursery caters to working parents by offering a "stretched offer" to spread the cost of childcare, particularly for those claiming the 30 hours funding and also for those receiving 15 hours funding.

This helps to provide continuous care throughout the year, beyond the standard 38-week academic term. The fee structure allows for various attendance patterns, including full-time and preschool-only options, with all-inclusive monthly costs covering meals.

Parents also have the flexibility to pay for additional hours on a pay-as-you-go basis. Located in Blackburn, the nursery is committed to supporting families with their childcare needs while providing a structured and inclusive environment for the children under its care.

They encourage parents to explore government resources like the "Best Start in Life" website for information on funding and support.

What it's like

Children arriving at the setting are met by cheerful, welcoming staff. In the 'Fledgling' room, babies crawl and toddle to find things that they want to investigate. In the 'Cygnet' room, staff plan a variety of role-play areas and join in with toddlers' play and conversation.

50-week service30 hours funding stretched offerTax-Free Childcare accepted

Pricing & funding

Fees are based on standard hourly, half-day, and full-day rates, which include meals and snacks. Funding can be stretched over 50 weeks. Parents using 30 hours funding must book a minimum of two days during school holidays, charged either weekly during holidays or as a stretched monthly payment.

Funding accepted

30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare

Good to know

  • Minimum booking of 2 days during half terms and school holidays required for 30 hours funding.
  • Funding can be stretched over 50 weeks of the year for working parents.
  • Standard rates are inclusive of meals and snacks.
  • Additional holiday hours can be paid weekly or stretched into 12 equal monthly instalments.

Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am until 6pm, Monday to Friday

Term time / All Year

All Year

Food

Meals and snacks included in fees

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Queen Elizabeth's Nursery School

Last inspected 11 September 2024 · Susan King

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children arriving at the setting are met by cheerful, welcoming staff. In the 'Fledgling' room, babies crawl and toddle to find things that they want to investigate. In the 'Cygnet' room, staff plan a variety of role-play areas and join in with toddlers' play and conversation.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff worked hard to address the quality of the provision after the last inspection, thoroughly revising arrangements for supervising sleeping children.
  • The setting is ambitious for staff's well-being and achievement, with a strong focus on enabling staff to try out their own ideas and develop leadership skills.
  • Staff use a range of methods to assess and plan for children's learning, from recording babies' development with photos to tracking pre-schoolers' representational skills.
  • The setting's support for children with emerging and diagnosed special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is effective, with regular communication checks and partnership with specialist professionals.
  • Staff promote children's early literacy through a 'book of the week' and encourage them to become readers.

Areas to develop

  • 1help staff to focus even more closely on the detail of their interactions with children, especially with regard to the questions that staff ask children and why they ask them.
Inspection #10319521 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents say that the two-way communication helps everyone to follow a consistent approach when children are toilet training.

Parents say that staff spend time getting to know children who are new to the setting.

They say that staff provide sensitive encouragement when children transfer to a new room.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The setting's support for children with emerging and diagnosed special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is effective. Every child's communication development is checked regularly, helping to alert staff to early signs of delay. The setting works in partnership with specialist professionals and staff share children's learning plans with colleagues to support and measure progress.

Outdoor space

Staff arrange the indoor and outdoor spaces in ways that offer children familiar and new things to do.

Inspection history
Improved from Requires improvement → Good in 2024
  • September 2024Good
  • October 2023Requires improvement
  • February 2013Requires improvement

Frequently asked about Queen Elizabeth's Nursery School

About the setting

Queen Elizabeth's Nursery School registered in 2012. The setting employs 20 members of childcare staff, with various qualifications ranging from level 2 to level 5. The setting opens from 7.30am until 6pm, Monday to Friday, all year round and provides funded early years education.

URN
EY452784
Registered person
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Blackburn Limited
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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