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Spring - Layfield

Ofsted: Good
(May 2024)
·Layfield Primary School, Everingham Road, Yarm, TS15 9TF · Stockton-on-Tees
Number of places
48 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
May 2024
Local authority
Stockton-on-Tees

About this day nursery

Spring - Layfield, registered in 2016, operates within Layfield Primary School in Yarm and provides full-day care for up to 48 children aged 0 to 10 years, with 144 children currently on roll. The setting is open year-round from Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 6:00 pm, and offers various session times.

With 15 dedicated childcare staff, including those with childcare degrees and early years professional status, the nursery provides a warm and welcoming environment where children are happy and settled. The effective key-person system ensures staff know children well, enabling them to plan a challenging curriculum and cater to individual needs, including babies' eating and sleeping patterns.

The setting also offers funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

What it's like

Staff provide a very warm and welcoming setting where all children are happy and settled and form good relationships with staff and their peers. The key-person system is very effective, enabling staff to plan an ambitious curriculum indoors and outdoors, and address individual eating and sleeping patterns for babies. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive good support from staff working with other professionals.

Warm environmentEffective key-person systemAmbitious curriculumWell-supported SENDGood role models

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday 7:30am until 6pm

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2016

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Spring - Layfield

Last inspected 23 May 2024

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Staff provide a very warm and welcoming setting where all children are happy and settled and form good relationships with staff and their peers. The key-person system is very effective, enabling staff to plan an ambitious curriculum indoors and outdoors, and address individual eating and sleeping patterns for babies. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive good support from staff working with other professionals.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff provide a very warm and welcoming setting where all children are happy and settled.
  • The key-person system is very effective, and staff know the children in their care very well.
  • Staff plan an ambitious curriculum indoors and outdoors for each child.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well supported.
  • Staff are very skilled at including many different areas of learning into each activity to accelerate children's learning.
  • Staff ensure children have regular opportunities to learn about and understand the world around them through visitors and visits.
  • Children have a very good attitude to their learning and persevere well with tasks.
  • Staff work well in partnership with parents and carers, other professionals, and the on-site school.

Areas to develop

  • 1Enhance information sharing with parents in progress checks (2-3 years) to include activities and strategies for addressing learning gaps.
  • 2Review daily routine and staff breaks to ensure adequate staffing for children's self-care and independence.
Inspection #10346901 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well supported, with staff working with other professionals like speech and language therapists and physiotherapists to provide additional help.

Outdoor space

When outdoors, staff use children's interest in collecting leaves to help them identify similarities and differences and discuss size, shape, colour and shade.

EAL / language support

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are well supported, with staff working with other professionals like speech and language therapists and physiotherapists to provide additional help.

Inspection history

Most recent inspection

23 May 2024

Good

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

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