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Acorn Childcare Nursery | Ofsted Reports, Reviews (2025)
Acorn Childcare Nursery
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Acorn Childcare Nursery
- Nursery
- Hartford CW8 1JJ
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| The quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Inadequate |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children of all ages quickly develop a love of books.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: In the extensive outdoor areas, children learn to take managed risks in their play as they climb and jump with confidence.
Philosophy: Staff teach children about the natural world and give them first-hand experience of growing a variety of crops.
Activities: Toddlers practise dancing in time to music, developing their balance, coordination and rhythm.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children receive tailored learning experiences which grab their interest and embed new knowledge.
Communication: Parents talk positively about the strong communication with nursery.
Community Building: Strategies shared with parents to better support children at home.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents express that the nursery team 'make children feel valued'.
Safeguarding Training: Leaders have ensured that staff now know how to apply their safeguarding knowledge effectively.
Play and Learning Integration: Babies smile at the encouragement they receive from attentive staff as they learn to crawl, stand and take their first steps.
Transition to Primary School: Children enjoy the familiar routines that will be expected of them at school.
Child Safety Management: Risk assessment procedures have been improved since the previous inspection.
Children's Safety and Security: Children are happy in this safe nursery.
Happiness and Settling: Babies develop close bonds with key staff who know them well.
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Acorn Childcare Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Cheshire, North West.
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We pride ourselves on our outstanding outdoor area with an orchard, climbing frame, outdoor classroom and large garden and encourage outdoor play every day in all weathers.
We encourage learning through play with an emphasis on the benefits of outdoor play, and all of our settings have a safe outdoor play area for children to explore all year round.
All of our rooms have set staff that work in the room each day to ensure consistency for the children.
We allocate every child a key worker, who is a named practitioner whose role it is to help your child settle into nursery, make them feel safe and secure, monitor their development and be the main point of contact for you.
Your childs key worker will plan activities that follow your childs unique needs and interests, but also follow the seven areas of development.
Before your child starts at nursery we have a settling in period to allow them to visit the nursery and get to know the members of staff and nursery routines.
This also allows us to get to know your family and home routines, and you to get to know your keyworker.
The aim is that on your childs first day at nursery, they and yourself will feel familiar with the setting and feel settled and confident.
We usually offer three free settling in sessions of increasing length and this is usually enough for the child to feel settled at nursery, however we recognise that every child is different and always offer more settling in sessions if they are needed.
Likewise when your child is ready to move up to the next room, we follow a similar process.
We offer settling in sessions in the next room during your childs usual nursery sessions and always go at the childs pace, keeping parents informed at all times.
Now you have found out a bit about us then please come and visit the nursery.
You can do this by simply coming to the nursery during opening hours or if you prefer phone or email to make an appointment to look around.
We offer a 10% sibling discount which is applied to the sibling with the lower fees cost.
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We encourage learning through play with an emphasis on the benefits of outdoor play, and all of our settings have a safe outdoor play area for children to explore all year round.
All of our rooms have set staff that work in the room each day to ensure consistency for the children.
We allocate every child a key worker, who is a named practitioner whose role it is to help your child settle into nursery, make them feel safe and secure, monitor their development and be the main point of contact for you.
Your childs key worker will plan activities that follow your childs unique needs and interests, but also follow the seven areas of development.
Before your child starts at nursery we have a settling in period to allow them to visit the nursery and get to know the members of staff and nursery routines.
This also allows us to get to know your family and home routines, and you to get to know your keyworker.
The aim is that on your childs first day at nursery, they and yourself will feel familiar with the setting and feel settled and confident.
We usually offer three free settling in sessions of increasing length and this is usually enough for the child to feel settled at nursery, however we recognise that every child is different and always offer more settling in sessions if they are needed.
Likewise when your child is ready to move up to the next room, we follow a similar process.
We offer settling in sessions in the next room during your childs usual nursery sessions and always go at the childs pace, keeping parents informed at all times.
Now you have found out a bit about us then please come and visit the nursery.
You can do this by simply coming to the nursery during opening hours or if you prefer phone or email to make an appointment to look around.
We offer a 10% sibling discount which is applied to the sibling with the lower fees cost.
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Holidays 2024/25
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 28th Oct 2024 - 1st Nov 2024 |
| Winter Holidays | 23rd Dec 2024 - 3rd Jan 2025 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 17th Feb 2025 - 21st Feb 2025 |
| Spring Holidays | 7th Apr 2025 - 22nd Apr 2025 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 26th May 2025 - 30th May 2025 |
| Summer Holidays | 24th Jul 2025 - 2nd Sep 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 2nd Sep 2024 - 27th Oct 2024 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 2nd Nov 2024 - 22nd Dec 2024 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2025 - 16th Feb 2025 |
| Spring Term-2 | 22nd Feb 2025 - 6th Apr 2025 |
| Summer Term | 23rd Apr 2025 - 25th May 2025 |
| Summer Term-2 | 31st May 2025 - 23rd Jul 2025 |
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