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Wallys Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
·60 Shails Lane, Trowbridge, BA14 8LN · Wiltshire
Number of places
67 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
Wiltshire

About this day nursery

Wally's Day Nursery & Pre-School, a family-run establishment, is dedicated to providing exceptional care and education within a supportive environment. The nursery prides itself on fostering lasting relationships with both children and their families, ensuring a nurturing and stimulating space for all.

Their philosophy integrates various educational approaches, always prioritising the child's best interests and promoting hands-on learning experiences. They aim to equip children with the essential tools for happiness and success, while offering families flexible solutions and excellent value.

The dedicated and experienced staff play a crucial role in creating an environment where children can thrive, developing language, literacy, social skills, and creative expression. Children are encouraged to explore their autonomy and make their own choices, fostering independence from the beginning of their nursery journey.

The nursery offers diverse learning opportunities, including engaging outdoor play, woodland learning, and dedicated rooms for babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers.

Our ethos

At Wally's, we’re proud to provide a caring and safe environment for your children. By following our mission, vision and values, we create a nurturing, stimulating and welcoming learning environment for all children and their families. ​ In our family run nursery, we aim to provide our children with the tools they need for happiness and success, whilst providing our families with the flexibility and value for money they deserve. Our ethos incorporates a variety of educational theories, while always keeping the child’s best interest in mind and allowing for hands-on, experiential learning.

What it's like

Children arrive happy and keen to learn, displaying positive attitudes and making choices from a wide range of inclusive activities. Staff know children well, ensuring offerings meet varied needs and ages, with gradual settling-in processes that build secure relationships. Children learn to do things for themselves, such as dressing and undressing, and demonstrate good manners and positive interactions, preparing them with valuable social skills.

Family-run settingChild-centred approachOutdoor learningDedicated staff

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 5pm

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2024

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Wallys Day Nursery

Last inspected 22 January 2025 · Dominique Allotey, Mary Daniel

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

Actions the provider must take

  • enhance the nursery outdoor area to provide all children, particularly those who prefer to learn outdoors, with more varied and stimulating outdoor learning experiences
  • support staff further in allowing opportunities for children to think critically and find solutions to problems for themselves.

What it's like to attend

Children arrive happy and keen to learn, displaying positive attitudes and making choices from a wide range of inclusive activities. Staff know children well, ensuring offerings meet varied needs and ages, with gradual settling-in processes that build secure relationships. Children learn to do things for themselves, such as dressing and undressing, and demonstrate good manners and positive interactions, preparing them with valuable social skills.

Inspector highlights

  • The provider has worked hard to address actions raised at the previous inspections, and standards have improved.
  • Leaders have promoted further professional development opportunities for staff, resulting in higher staff to child ratios and more effective support for children's learning.
  • The curriculum is well understood by staff, who plan activities based on children's current development and next steps, leading to good progress.
  • Parents are kept well informed about their children's activities and progress, and are provided with home-learning activity packs to extend learning at home.
  • Children enjoy listening to stories and singing rhymes, which staff use to embed and extend communication and language skills, and they also enjoy varied outings to explore the natural environment.
  • Mathematics is incorporated well into children's play, helping to develop counting and number recognition skills.

Areas to develop

  • 1enhance the nursery outdoor area to provide all children, particularly those who prefer to learn outdoors, with more varied and stimulating outdoor learning experiences
  • 2support staff further in allowing opportunities for children to think critically and find solutions to problems for themselves.
Inspection #10373907 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

Children show enjoyment playing outdoors and excitedly jump in puddles with their friends. Toddlers begin to develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills by pouring water and squeezing pipettes. However, staff do not consistently plan opportunities for all areas of children's learning outdoors.

Inspection history

Most recent inspection

22 January 2025

Good

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

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