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Splat Day Nursery & Forest School

Ofsted: Strong standard·
4.5(8 parent reviews) ·Bridge End Road, Henlow, SG16 6DD · Central Bedfordshire
Number of places
35 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2025
Local authority
Central Bedfordshire

About this day nursery

Splat Day Nursery & Forest School in Henlow, established in 2018, offers a nurturing "home-from-home" environment for children aged 1-4 years. Operating as a childcare on non-domestic premises, the nursery provides all-year-round care from Monday to Friday, 06:45 to 19:15.

This setting prides itself on its robust, play-based curriculum, which is deeply rooted in nature and outdoor learning, including a strong forest school focus. Children benefit from a curriculum designed to foster confidence, independence, resilience, and kindness, with a significant emphasis on physical development through challenging outdoor activities like building dens and balancing.

The nursery excels in supporting children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND), ensuring they make rapid progress through clear targets, ongoing assessment, individual adaptations, and dedicated one-to-one support. Parents consistently express satisfaction with the high level of care and progress their children achieve, highlighting the passionate and caring staff who go above and beyond to meet individual needs.

What it's like

Children flourish and thrive in this incredibly warm and nurturing nursery. They build positive and trusting relationships with their key worker and other staff, feeling a solid sense of security and belonging, which gives them high levels of confidence to try new activities and to persevere at more challenging tasks. Children behave exceptionally well, are kind and helpful, and are explicitly taught how to manage their emotions using stories and familiar routines. They thoroughly enjoy the forest school sessions, showing independence and resilience while developing their physical skills.

Nurturing environmentStrong SEND supportNature-focused curriculumForest schoolExceptional behaviourSeamless transitions

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 06:45 - 19:15

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2018

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Nov 2025

Headline: Strong standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
—
Needs attention
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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

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

Ofsted rating for Splat Day Nursery & Forest School

Last inspected 21 November 2025

What it's like to attend

Children flourish and thrive in this incredibly warm and nurturing nursery. They build positive and trusting relationships with their key worker and other staff, feeling a solid sense of security and belonging, which gives them high levels of confidence to try new activities and to persevere at more challenging tasks. Children behave exceptionally well, are kind and helpful, and are explicitly taught how to manage their emotions using stories and familiar routines. They thoroughly enjoy the forest school sessions, showing independence and resilience while developing their physical skills.

Inspector highlights

  • Children develop a strong sense of belonging and security, allowing them to be open to learning and achieve well.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make rapid progress from their starting point due to clear targets and ongoing assessment.
  • Transitions across rooms are seamless, and toddlers are extremely confident to join older children in forest school experiences.
  • Staff have created a positive and calm environment where children feel safe to try new things and play with others.
  • Children are extremely well behaved because they fully know and understand the rules of the nursery.
  • The curriculum is play-based, focusing on nature and the outdoors, aiming for children to become confident, independent, resilient, and kind.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders and those responsible for governance should sustain their work to ensure continued improvement and high standards. They should focus on creating a transformational impact on the outcomes and experiences of disadvantaged children and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Inspection #10145221 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make rapid progress from their starting point due to clear targets, ongoing assessment, and individualised adaptations. The nursery uses extra funding to provide one-to-one support, ensuring children with SEND fully access the curriculum.

Outdoor space

Children thoroughly enjoy the forest school sessions and the outdoor curriculum is integrated into daily learning. The forest school experience is evident even in indoor sessions, and children take risks and explore with gentle guidance, strengthening both their large- and small-muscle skills.

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