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The Grange Nursery in Castleford

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2024)
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5.0(2 parent reviews) ·The Grange, Doctors Lane, Castleford, WF10 2HJ · Leeds
Number of places
24 places
Age range
1–5 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2024
Local authority
Leeds

About this day nursery

The Grange Nursery, part of Grange Education, provides full-day childcare in a nurturing environment, ensuring children are safe and happy while promoting their development through engaging activities. They emphasise healthy eating with nutritious weekly menus.

The nursery aims to create a welcoming atmosphere where children can thrive, supported by a dedicated team of professionals. They also offer a parent area for resources and updates, an events calendar to keep families engaged, and showcase vibrant daily activities in their gallery.

The Grange Nursery is committed to giving children a positive start to their learning journey.

What it's like

Children are generally very happy and settled, entering excitedly and eager to play and learn. Staff show warmth and affection, offering friendly greetings and reassurance to newer children. The programmes help children make good progress and prepare them for school, with staff building on early speech and encouraging independence.

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.45am to 6pm.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2006

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for The Grange Nursery

Last inspected 18 June 2024

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Children are generally very happy and settled, entering excitedly and eager to play and learn. Staff show warmth and affection, offering friendly greetings and reassurance to newer children. The programmes help children make good progress and prepare them for school, with staff building on early speech and encouraging independence.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are generally very happy and settled, and eager to start playing and learning.
  • Staff show warmth and affection towards the children, many of whom have been attending since they were babies.
  • Children develop their physical skills in many ways, with toddlers clambering over soft blocks and older children using monkey bars and balance bikes.
  • Staff promote children's good health and understanding of healthy lifestyles exceptionally well.
  • Staff foster children's self-esteem and confidence effectively, praising children for their singing and manners.

Areas to develop

  • 1strengthen the settling-in process to support new children's transition to the nursery to the highest level
  • 2build on the systems for monitoring staff's practice, in order to strengthen staff's teaching strategies
  • 3extend the information that is shared with parents to help children to make even better progress.
Inspection #10339378 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff have high aspirations for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and integrate them superbly into nursery life. They work tirelessly to support children with SEND in excellent partnership with parents and other professionals.

Outdoor space

Older children show great confidence while using the monkey bar, wooden climbing pyramid and balance bike. They also embark on an intriguing outdoor bug hunt, armed with a magnifying glass and laminated checklist. Staff share children's excitement at finding different creatures, such as a tiny ladybird in a tyre.

Parent Reviews of The Grange Nursery

5.0
(2)
Jamie Stead
4 years ago

Brilliant nursery with such due diligent staff, especially Annette. Annette works her guts off to make sure all the kids are safe and well, also have lots of fun. My son Hudson has come on so much since been here, we even moved 7 miles away and still make the rush hour hustle and bustle to drop him off there,as we couldn't ask for anything more in terms of a nursery/preschool.. couldnt ask for more really couldnt. We will miss it in a few months when my Don goes to big school

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Siobhan Charnick
6 years ago

Fully recommend! Our son has attended this nursery full time since he was 1 years old until now as he starts school in the new term. The staff have been fantastic towards us and our son during his time there. His development has been excellent and we attribute a lot of this towards the care he receives whilst at nursery. I would recommend this nursery to anybody considering it!

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Inspection history

Date: March 2010

  • June 2024Good
  • July 2018Good
  • February 2018Inadequate
  • December 2014Good
  • June 2014Inadequate
  • March 2010Inadequate

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