Opening hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 08:00 - 18:00
The Jays Day Care Nursery, Pre-school and Outdoor Learning
Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(1 Google review)
·The Jays Day Care Nursery, The Pavilion, Ivybridge, PL21 0TZ · Devon
Number of places
61 places
Age range
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Last inspected
Apr 2026
Local authority
Devon
About this early years setting
The Jays Day Care Nursery, Pre-school and Outdoor Learning, located in Ivybridge, PL21 0TZ, was registered with Ofsted on 09/02/2024 as a childcare on non-domestic premises setting. The nursery places a strong emphasis on children's welfare and wellbeing, demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of all children and their families.
Secure and nurturing relationships are a clear strength, with a key-person system providing consistent reassurance. Children develop an excellent sense of emotional security and belonging, with staff expertly using an individual approach to meet differing needs.
The nursery actively promotes social skills, confidence, and independence, and embeds healthy messages about mealtimes, food choices, physical activity, and outdoor access into their routine. The setting has a capacity for 61 children and caters to an age range of 10 months to 5 years old.
Learning is supported by a clear settling-in process and a thoughtful curriculum that aligns with the Early Years Foundation Stage, with a core emphasis on personal, social, and emotional development. The nursery’s approach includes a strong focus on outdoor learning, with an embedded forest school curriculum that builds skills, confidence, and an awareness of nature.
Our ethos
The Jays Day Care Nursery follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. They also run a Term Time Forest School for Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers, integrating outdoor learning into their pedagogical approach.
What it's like
Children at this setting benefit from a robust key-person system that prioritises secure attachments and fosters warm and positive relationships with staff, peers, and families. They show enjoyment and confidence in their play, with an emphasis on social development and opportunities for sustained conversations. The setting uses a forest school approach to enrich learning with hands-on outdoor experiences, building confidence, communication skills, and resilience.
Strong welfare focusNurturing relationshipsOutdoor learning
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
Pricing on request
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Request pricing →Key facts
Age range
3 months to school age
Registered with Ofsted
2024
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Expected standard
Last inspected Apr 2026
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
AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
10 to 55
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted report for The Jays Day Care Nursery, Pre-school and Outdoor Learning
Last inspected 29 April 2026
What it's like to attend
Children at this setting benefit from a robust key-person system that prioritises secure attachments and fosters warm and positive relationships with staff, peers, and families. They show enjoyment and confidence in their play, with an emphasis on social development and opportunities for sustained conversations. The setting uses a forest school approach to enrich learning with hands-on outdoor experiences, building confidence, communication skills, and resilience.
Inspector highlights
- Leaders and the whole staff team place a strong emphasis on children's welfare and wellbeing.
- Secure and nurturing relationships are a clear strength in the setting, with a key-person system providing consistent reassurance, comfort and affection.
- Staff constantly include the language of emotions in play opportunities and encourage children to positively regulate their emotions.
- Healthy messages about mealtimes, food choices, physical activity, access to the outdoors, and emotional wellbeing are embedded in the nursery's well-structured routine.
- Children across all age groups make progress in their learning, with a particular focus on personal, social, and emotional skills.
- The setting leads an embedded forest school curriculum for children, building skills, confidence, and an awareness of keeping safe.
- Leaders prioritise close partnerships with parents and carers to discuss developmental concerns and support accessing external services.
- Leaders have established a clear and ambitious vision for the setting, providing nature-inspired opportunities for children and building effective partnerships with families and external professionals.
Areas to develop
- 1Leaders should ensure staff are suitably skilled to consistently support and implement strategies to best support the learning of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities or identified barriers to learning.
- 2Staff should ensure interactions with all children, especially those with emerging language skills, are consistently of high quality to best support their communication development, recognising that every interaction with a child is an opportunity for teaching and learning.
- 3Staff should adapt routines to help children to know and understand what comes next, such as by ensuring waiting times are kept minimal.
Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Children who are disadvantaged, children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and those who are known to children's social care or face other barriers to learning receive support to make progress through individualised approaches linked to their starting points. Leaders ensure staff have a clear understanding of the individual approach needed for children, such as to assess, plan, do and review. They confidently demonstrate and describe how strategies to support children's access to their learning are implemented. However, these are not yet consistently embedded in practice across the staff team, particularly in relation to the implementation of strategies to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Outdoor space
A hands-on approach to learning is encouraged with a focus on outdoor learning. The setting leads an embedded forest school curriculum for children. This builds their skills sequentially, develops their confidence in a natural environment and enables them to experience different weather conditions. Children develop an awareness of keeping safe and consistently develop positive attitudes to physical activity.
Google Reviews of The Jays Day Care Nursery, Pre-school and Outdoor Learning
5.0
(1 Google review)
Clare Reason
7 years ago
Such a lovely childcare provider! It has a real family feel. It's small and the staff are just lovely. My eldest has been attending for 18 months and will be off to school in September and my youngest has been attending since the beginning of the year. They are really happy there.
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Inspection history
Most recent inspection
29 April 2026
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
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