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St Gregorys Child Care Trust

Ofsted: Strong standard·The Catholic School of St. Gregory the Great, St. James Square, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3QG · Gloucestershire
Number of places
50 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2026
Local authority
Gloucestershire

About this day nursery

St Gregorys Child Care Trust, established in 2003, is a childcare setting for children aged 2 to 4 years, operating from The Catholic School of St. Gregory the Great in Cheltenham. Open all year round from 8:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday, the nursery maintains a calm, positive, and highly engaging atmosphere.

The dedicated team focuses on providing an inclusive environment, ensuring that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make strong progress with sensitive adaptations like visual cues and signing. The curriculum, based on the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), is thoughtfully sequenced to promote communication and language development, mathematical understanding through engaging activities, and physical development with daily access to outdoor play.

Children are encouraged to take ownership of daily routines, fostering independence and confidence as they prepare for the next stage of their learning.

What it's like

Children arrive confidently and move straight into purposeful play across the nursery and pre-school rooms, with a calm, positive, and highly engaging atmosphere. Well-established routines shape the day, allowing children to feel settled, valued, and ready to learn. Children take ownership of daily routines, seamlessly weaving learning into moments like snack time where they practise communication and language skills. Learning is stimulating and thoughtfully sequenced, with activities like weekly music sessions where children explore instruments and develop new vocabulary.

Outstanding providerStrong progress in learningExcellent communication skillsInclusive SEND provisionEffective routinesOutdoor play

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,Friday : 08:00 - 18:00

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2003

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Feb 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
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
2 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for St Gregorys Child Care Trust

Last inspected 24 February 2026

What it's like to attend

Children arrive confidently and move straight into purposeful play across the nursery and pre-school rooms, with a calm, positive, and highly engaging atmosphere. Well-established routines shape the day, allowing children to feel settled, valued, and ready to learn. Children take ownership of daily routines, seamlessly weaving learning into moments like snack time where they practise communication and language skills. Learning is stimulating and thoughtfully sequenced, with activities like weekly music sessions where children explore instruments and develop new vocabulary.

Inspector highlights

  • Children make strong progress from their starting points and secure breadth and depth across all areas of learning.
  • Communication and language develop particularly well, with children listening attentively, using newly introduced vocabulary, and engaging in sustained conversations.
  • Children confidently count within 10, enthusiastically act out number songs, and recognise numerals in meaningful contexts.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress due to practitioners' secure understanding of their needs and adapted support.
  • Children sustain concentration during focused activities and move with increasing control and coordination during physical play.
  • Leaders have embedded highly effective and consistent routines that help children manage change confidently and remain focused during learning.

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 learners, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and children who may face other barriers to their learning and/or wellbeing.
Inspection #10124365 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress from their individual starting points because practitioners have a secure understanding of each child's needs and adapt support sensitively. Adaptations for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are embedded sensitively, ensuring inclusive participation. Visual cue cards, signing and sand timers support smooth transitions and turn-taking.

Outdoor space

Daily access to outdoor play supports coordination and positive attitudes towards physical activity. Outdoors, children construct collaboratively with large blocks to create enclosures and obstacle courses, ride bikes with control and determination and negotiate turns on the climbing frame.

Inspection history

Date: April 2010

The most recent inspection point has been hidden because the parsed entry didn't match the headline Ofsted rating (Outstanding). We're re-checking it against the original report.

  • May 2020Outstanding
  • October 2015Outstanding
  • April 2010Good

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