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The Homestead Childcare

Ofsted: Good
(Nov 2023)
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5.0(3 parent reviews) ·The Homestead, Fine Bush Lane, Uxbridge, UB9 6LY · Hillingdon
Number of places
36 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2023
Local authority
Hillingdon

About this day nursery

The Homestead Childcare, located in Ruislip, offers a nurturing and homely environment for children aged 9 months to 5 years. Situated amidst beautiful rural surroundings, close to Ruislip Woods and Ruislip Lido, the nursery boasts a spacious outdoor area with trees, shrubbery, and a patio, encouraging exploration and active learning.

The setting promotes a free-flowing, open-plan atmosphere, allowing children of different ages, including siblings, to interact and learn from one another, fostering kindness, patience, and a sense of family. The owner, Sarah, brings extensive experience from home-based childcare, integrating this ethos into the nursery.

The Homestead Childcare values warmth, love, and laughter, with a dedicated team creating a stimulating and fun environment where children thrive through play.

Our ethos

The Homestead Childcare's ethos is centred on providing a warm, loving, and laughter-filled environment that encourages exploration and active learning. They integrate principles from Hygge and The Curiosity Approach, fostering kindness, patience, and a sense of family through a free-flowing, open-plan atmosphere and ample outdoor play.

What it's like

Children happily arrive to a warm welcome from staff who greet them with a smile. Staff have good attachments to children and help them to feel safe and secure, ready to begin their learning. Children happily engage in activities which provide opportunities for curiosity and problem-solving, displaying confidence in their play.

Homely SettingRural LocationMixed-Age PlayOutdoor FocusedHygge and Curiosity Approach

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am to 6pm, 51 weeks a year

Age range

9 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2017

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for The Homestead Childcare

Last inspected 21 November 2023

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 happily arrive to a warm welcome from staff who greet them with a smile. Staff have good attachments to children and help them to feel safe and secure, ready to begin their learning. Children happily engage in activities which provide opportunities for curiosity and problem-solving, displaying confidence in their play.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders have high expectations for every child and maintain high teaching standards through regular training and supervision.
  • Children develop good communication and language skills through skilled staff interactions, nursery rhymes, and challenging story times.
  • Children enjoy sensory play, exploring various textures and engaging in messy activities to build exploratory and creative thinking.
  • Children build their physical development through a range of activities both indoors and outdoors, developing gross and fine motor skills.
  • Children enjoy learning about nature and the environment, exploring natural elements and observing changes in light and darkness.

Areas to develop

  • 1improve the organisation of mealtimes so young children are not spending unnecessary periods of time waiting and becoming restless.
Inspection #10318105 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders are ambitious for every child to make good progress, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. The curriculum builds on what children know and is designed through discussions with parents and staff's observations of children.

Outdoor space

Children build their physical development in a range of activities. They use the large field outside to run, jump, hop and climb on equipment. In the playground, children use tricycles and cars to develop their gross motor skills. Outside, art helps children to learn how to hold paintbrushes.

Parent Reviews of The Homestead Childcare

5.0
(3)
May Alana Owen
8 months ago

My son has been at The Homestead Nursery for two years and has enjoyed every day spent there, he has now left to join primary school. The entire team are so professional and attentive and their communications are first class. Thank you so much to you all for your kindness to my son and the great care you took of him. I highly recommend this excellent nursery.

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William Jones
3 years ago

Good Childcare Nursery in a cozy home setting. Son recently started attending. Good emphasis on play with large indoor space and outdoor garden spaces. Nursery fosters curiousity, expression and independence. A lovely friendly and cozy home away from home nursery setting. My partner and I were looking for setting that embodies the Danish Hyyge principles. The nursery appears to embrace this in the nursery environment but also in how staff look after the children. Amazing!!!!! Have a look for yourself. You will not be disappointed. Only thing is that it would reassure me as a parent if the nursery had camera's in the spaces where my child spent their time in. .

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Inspection history

Date: May 2019

  • November 2023Good
  • May 2019Good

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