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Woodside Barn Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Feb 2022)
·Woodside Barn, Manchester Road, Warrington, WA3 6EA · Warrington
Number of places
40 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2022
Local authority
Warrington

About this day nursery

Woodside Barn Day Nursery, located in Warrington, WA3 6EA, offers childcare on non-domestic premises for children aged 1 to 4 years. Open all year round, Monday to Friday, from 7:30 am to 6 pm, the nursery provides a warm and welcoming environment where children continuously demonstrate they feel happy, confident, safe, and secure.

Established in 2017, the nursery was rated as Good by Ofsted at its latest inspection on 7 February 2022. Staff gather detailed information from parents upon enrolment to ensure children settle quickly and their individual needs are well met, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The curriculum challenges and motivates children, fostering an impressive enthusiasm for learning where they can lead their own activities and make decisions about their play. Children develop impressive communication skills, eagerly engaging in conversations and using complex vocabulary.

The nursery focuses on supporting children's personal, social, and emotional development, ensuring they are kind, considerate, and exceptionally well-behaved. The manager has a clear vision to offer high-quality early years experiences, and parents often describe the nursery as a "home from home" due to the high levels of care received.

What it's like

Children continuously demonstrate that they feel happy, confident, safe and secure. They enjoy the time that they spend in this warm and welcoming nursery. Staff gather a wide range of information from parents about their child when they first start to attend. This helps to ensure that children settle quickly into nursery life and their individual needs are well met.

Happy, confident, safeEnthusiastic learnersImpressive communicationHome from homeStrong leadership

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 7.30am until 6pm, all year round.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Woodside Barn Day Nursery

Last inspected 7 February 2022

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 continuously demonstrate that they feel happy, confident, safe and secure. They enjoy the time that they spend in this warm and welcoming nursery. Staff gather a wide range of information from parents about their child when they first start to attend. This helps to ensure that children settle quickly into nursery life and their individual needs are well met.

Inspector highlights

  • Children continuously demonstrate that they feel happy, confident, safe and secure.
  • Children demonstrate an impressive enthusiasm for learning, leading their own learning and making decisions about what to play with.
  • Children develop impressive communication skills, eagerly entering into conversations with staff, each other and visitors.
  • Parents speak very highly of the levels of care their child receives, referring to the nursery as a home from home.
  • The manager has a clear vision for the nursery and is determined to offer early years experiences of the highest quality.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff to consistently identify and use all opportunities for children to extend their independence even further through their routines and activities
  • 2strengthen the arrangements for staff supervision and provide more targeted and precise support to each member of staff, that helps to build on their good teaching skills even further.
Inspection #10219621 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

This ensures children's individual needs are well met.

Outdoor space

No specific mention beyond children recognising that they learn best when they are physically active, leading to plans to explore differences in size and encouraging children to draw around each other's bodies and compare who is the tallest and shortest.

Inspection history

Date: March 2019

  • February 2022Good
  • March 2019Good

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