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Scribbles Day Nursery (Gorleston) in Great Yarmouth (NR31 6NE)

Ofsted: Strong standard·
4.6(9 Google reviews) ·45 Longs Industrial Estate, Englands Lane, GREAT YARMOUTH, NR31 6NE · Norfolk
Number of places
129 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2026
Local authority
Norfolk

About this day nursery

Scribbles Day Nursery Group offers childcare across multiple settings, providing a nurturing and stimulating environment for young children. Their approach to early years education focuses on supporting families through various government funding schemes, recognising that childcare is a necessity for many working parents.

The day nursery group actively guides parents through the complexities of funding options, including explaining eligibility criteria, application processes, and how funding can be stretched across the year. They prioritise clear communication regarding invoices and any extra charges, ensuring transparency for families.

With a strong emphasis on flexibility, they work to accommodate funded hours to best suit individual family needs, helping children transition smoothly into their educational journeys while alleviating financial burdens for parents.

What it's like

Children enter the setting with genuine enthusiasm and an excitement to learn, quickly immersing themselves in activities. Staff respond excellently to all children's individual needs, interests and changing circumstances, especially disadvantaged children, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those known or previously known to children's social care. Children quickly form secure attachments with staff, settle swiftly into the setting's routines and demonstrate confidence. They show that they feel safe, valued and supported. Children demonstrate excellent behaviour and develop a broad range of skills across all areas of the curriculum.

Government funding specialistsMultiple Norfolk & Suffolk locationsTransparent invoicing

Pricing & funding

The nursery accepts various government funding schemes, including 15 and 30 hours for working parents and universal 15 hours for 3-4 year olds. Funding can be stretched across the year. Additional costs apply for meals, nappies, extra hours, and trips.

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare

Good to know

  • Meals, nappies, extra hours, and trips are not included in funded hours and are optional extra charges.
  • Invoices are provided with a clear breakdown of charges, booking patterns, and extra charges.
  • Working Parent Funding must be renewed every 90 days to ensure continued eligibility.
  • The nursery accepts all kinds of childcare vouchers.
  • Funding eligibility becomes available the school-term after a child meets the age criteria (9 months, 2 years, or 3 years).

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 07:30 - 18:00

Registered with Ofsted

2024

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Jun 2026

Headline: Strong standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
Strong standard
Expected standard
—
Needs attention
—
Urgent improvement
—

Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementStrong standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesStrong standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionExceptional
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
1 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted report for Scribbles Day Nursery (Gorleston)

Last inspected 17 June 2026

What it's like to attend

Children enter the setting with genuine enthusiasm and an excitement to learn, quickly immersing themselves in activities. Staff respond excellently to all children's individual needs, interests and changing circumstances, especially disadvantaged children, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those known or previously known to children's social care. Children quickly form secure attachments with staff, settle swiftly into the setting's routines and demonstrate confidence. They show that they feel safe, valued and supported. Children demonstrate excellent behaviour and develop a broad range of skills across all areas of the curriculum.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders and staff are unflinching in their aim to provide all children with the best start in life, identifying where children and their families need extra support from the start.
  • Children receive highly personalised levels of support that are precisely tailored to their individual needs.
  • Staff are skilfully trained and implement well-planned interventions and enrichment sessions that help children to overcome barriers to their learning and development.
  • Leaders use and evaluate funding exceptionally well to enhance provision and meet children's individual needs.
  • The setting established a SEND café to provide targeted support and foster a sense of community.
  • All children, including disadvantaged children, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those known or previously known to children's social care make excellent progress from their starting points.
  • Children develop a wide range of knowledge and skills across all 7 areas of learning, which supports them to become increasingly confident and independent learners.
  • Staff deliver a highly ambitious curriculum that is firmly rooted in their excellent understanding of child development and ensure that learning experiences build progressively.
  • Children develop excellent behaviour and a clear understanding of expectations, showing kindness and consideration towards their peers.
  • Staff place a high priority on supporting children's physical development and personal, social and emotional development.
  • Partnerships with parents and carers are a key strength, with leaders ensuring trusting relationships and comprehensive support for families.
  • Children are provided with a wide range of opportunities to develop their physical skills, including regular outings to places such as a local care home and a beach.
  • They have access to a sensory room within the setting, which enables them to explore different textures, lights and sounds.
  • All children show consistently positive attitudes towards learning and make excellent progress across all areas of development.
  • Children are very well prepared for the next stage in their education and demonstrate a keen enthusiasm for learning.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should ensure continued improvement in the setting's successful work to remove barriers for children who need extra help to realise a transformational impact on all children's achievement and wellbeing.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders recognise the complex circumstances faced by some families, particularly those with children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and have established a SEND café to provide targeted support and foster a sense of community. This makes a difference to children's experiences as it helps to enhance their home life. Staff respond excellently to children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and ensure they quickly form secure attachments with staff, settle swiftly into routines, and demonstrate confidence.

Outdoor space

After identifying that many children lacked access to green spaces, leaders recruited a gardener to ignite children's passion in designing and creating a vegetable garden. Children go on regular outings in the local community and help to plant their own vegetable garden. Older children are provided with opportunities to refine their fine motor skills, for example as they use pipettes to mix colours and discuss their predictions about what might happen.

EAL / language support

Staff use the setting's wellbeing boards effectively to encourage children, particularly those with limited language and those who speak English as an additional language, to communicate how they are feeling.

Google Reviews of Scribbles Day Nursery (Gorleston)

4.6
(9 Google reviews)
Sophie
3 months ago

Absolutely love Scribbles Nursery on Englands Lane. It’s such a safe, well-organised, and nurturing environment, and the staff are truly amazing. They are caring, attentive, and make you feel completely at ease knowing your child is in great hands. My daughter absolutely loves going there and has formed lovely friendships with her little friends, which makes it even more special. You can really see how happy and confident she is since starting. Without a doubt, the best nursery around — I couldn’t recommend it highly enough!

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Clare Mccarthy
5 months ago

My toddler ha been going for over a year now, great nursery. Staff are very friendly and my daughter always comes out happy.

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Camilla Logan
5 years ago

My daughter joined the nursery not long before starting school. I couldn't praise them any higher. The staff are amazing & my Daughter has made some lovely friends in such a short amount of time. She always very keen to go in, always Smiling & happy when she comes out. She loves telling me about the great activities she's done during her section times. Thank you Scribbles Gorleston!!

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clary Rose
a year ago

Terrible my child has special needs I signed her up 8 months ago everything seemed fine then they finally phoned to say oh we can't take her as she has special needs and don't have the room even though I've been advised by docters and health visitor and now it's too late for my daughter to go anywhere they should have informed me from the start so I can at least try somewhere else I'm heart broken and been crying thanks to them so if child has special needs don't got here

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Vicki Hurrell
6 years ago

Best nursery in Great Yarmouth by a mile! Staff are amazing and so friendly

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

17 June 2026

Strong standard

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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