Opening hours
Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm.
Rainbows Day Nursery in Doncaster
Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(2 parent reviews)
·13 Grosvenor Road, Bircotes, DONCASTER, DN11 8EY · Nottinghamshire
Number of places
50 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Apr 2026
Local authority
Nottinghamshire
About this day nursery
Rainbows Day Nursery in Bircotes, Doncaster, established in 2010, provides childcare for children from 0-4 years. Open Monday to Friday, all year round from 7:30 am to 6 pm, the nursery focuses on fostering close relationships between children and staff, with children openly seeking comfort and cuddles.
The setting incorporates the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, emphasising individual learning and development. Children are encouraged to develop physical skills through activities such as riding balance bicycles and tricycles outdoors.
The nursery effectively uses additional funding to enhance the children's experience, providing enriching resources like a new outdoor kitchen area for imaginative play and cushions for outdoor story time to support communication and literacy skills. The dedicated staff also provide healthy meals, encouraging children to try new foods and understand healthy eating habits.
Rainbows Day Nursery aims to support children's journey from early walking skills to independence, such as helping older children put on their own coats, ensuring a nurturing and stimulating environment for all.
What it's like
Children at Rainbows Day Nursery show close relationships with staff, seeking comfort and openly going for cuddles. They receive support to develop their physical skills through activities like riding balance bicycles and tricycles. Additional funding is used effectively to support development, such as a new outdoor kitchen area for imaginative play and outdoor cushions for reading stories.
Close relationshipsPhysical developmentImaginative playHealthy eatingIndependenceLiteracy skills
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)
Key facts
Term time / All Year
All_year
Established
2010
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Expected standard
Last inspected Apr 2026
Grade summary
Exceptional
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Strong standard
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Expected standard
Needs attention
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 wellbeingNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Rainbows Day Nursery
Last inspected 29 April 2026
Actions the provider must take
- Provide effective ongoing coaching and support for staff to continually develop their skills and knowledge of all aspects of children's care and learning by 30/09/2025.
- Ensure required documentation is held and made available to parents, with regard to the Ofsted registration certificate by 06/06/2025.
What it's like to attend
Children at Rainbows Day Nursery show close relationships with staff, seeking comfort and openly going for cuddles. They receive support to develop their physical skills through activities like riding balance bicycles and tricycles. Additional funding is used effectively to support development, such as a new outdoor kitchen area for imaginative play and outdoor cushions for reading stories.
Inspector highlights
- Children show close relationships with staff, openly going for cuddles and receiving comfort to help them wake gradually.
- Very young children learn how to share, passing objects to staff and receiving them back, and are praised for sharing with peers.
- Staff support children to develop their physical skills through activities like riding balance bicycles and tricycles.
- Additional funding is used effectively to support children's development, including a new outdoor kitchen area for imaginative play.
- Children are provided with cushions to sit on outdoors, encouraging them to listen to staff read them stories, which supports communication and literacy skills.
- Staff offer children healthy meals and encourage them to try new foods, with children knowing about healthy food.
- Staff plan a curriculum that focuses on what individual children need to learn next, including supporting very young children to develop their early walking skills.
- Children are supported to be independent, with staff asking older children to put on their coats and encouraging them to scrape unwanted food into a bin.
- Staff support children to develop a love of books and to develop their focus and attention.
- The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
Areas to develop
- 1Managers do not provide consistent coaching and support for all staff.
- 2Managers do not ensure information is available for parents, such as their Ofsted registration certificate.
Inspection #10392429 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
Outdoor space
Outdoors, older children ride balance bicycles and younger children ride tricycles to develop their physical and coordination skills. A new kitchen area outside enables children to develop their imagination through role play. Children are provided with cushions to sit on outdoors, encouraging them to listen to staff read them stories.
Parent Reviews of Rainbows Day Nursery
5.0
(2)
jane stanfield
7 years ago
Fantastic caring staff, happy & friendly environment. 100% recommend
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Jan Hill
9 years ago
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Inspection history
Date: March 2014
The most recent inspection point has been hidden because the parsed entry didn't match the headline Ofsted rating (Requires improvement). We're re-checking it against the original report.
- July 2025Requires improvement
- May 2025Requires improvement
- September 2019Good
- August 2019Good
- August 2015Good
- July 2015Good
- August 2014Requires improvement
- July 2014Requires improvement
- April 2014Requires improvement
- March 2014Requires improvement
Frequently asked about Rainbows Day Nursery
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