Rainbow Day Nursery Bromley

Ofsted rating for Rainbow Day Nursery Bromley

Last inspected 3 April 2024

What it's like to attend

• Staff teach children about diversity in inspirational ways, and children are deeply curious about other people, asking questions about jobs, languages, and religions, feeling valued and celebrating their uniqueness.
• Staff have extremely high expectations and meticulously develop the environment to create opportunities for all children to excel, leading to excellent outcomes.
• Babies practice increasingly complex physical skills, learn to crawl and walk rapidly, and are extremely confident as they take risks and build resilience.
• Children are highly motivated learners, keen to achieve their best, with exemplary behaviour and high levels of emotional maturity.
• Managers create a highly ambitious curriculum with rich experiences, consistently promoting staff understanding of child development and adapting the curriculum to individual needs.
• Staff robustly identify what children know and can do, planning ambitious experiences to support them in exceeding milestones, with a sequenced curriculum that allows children to extend their skills at the highest levels.
• Staff engage children by introducing new vocabulary in exciting ways, and children use their imagination as they talk to each other and staff.
• Managers and staff support children in forming strong attachments, with babies settling quickly and all children developing high levels of emotional resilience and expressing their needs confidently.
• Parents report that their children love nursery, noting exceptional care, significant progress in learning, and a marked impact on confidence and self-esteem from regular feedback.
• Managers work with external providers to create bespoke training for staff, focusing on individual child needs, ensuring teaching of exceptional quality across the nursery. Managers support staff to feel highly valued, appreciated, and that their well-being is a high priority.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with an open and positive culture that prioritises children's interests.
• An open and positive culture around safeguarding puts children's interests first.
• Children learn and use ambitious new words and are excited to arrive at nursery.
• Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour and teach them to do things for themselves, knowing that it is okay to make mistakes.
• Toddlers show high levels of perseverance as they learn practical skills like pouring water for themselves or doing up buttons.