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Playbox Day Nursery | Ofsted Reports, Reviews (2025)
Playbox Day Nursery
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Playbox Day Nursery
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- Folkestone CT19 4NE
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Outstanding
| The quality of education | Outstanding |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Outstanding |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children are very quick to settle in the incredibly calm environment, which captivates their attention.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children's behaviour is exceptional; they are kind to friends and cooperate with others.
Philosophy: Staff are incredibly skilled at ensuring that the curriculum offers children a superb range of first-hand experiences linked to their emerging interests and next steps.
Activities: Staff intertwine mathematics into activities. For example, they use focused praise to encourage children to use scissors safely and cut the dough into different lengths and compare sizes.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff have consistently high expectations for children's learning. For instance, children become bakers as they measure out the ingredients to make bread dough. They learn how to knead the dough before shaping it into loaves.
Communication: Staff are incredibly focused on working with parents and other early years professionals to provide a fully inclusive environment for all children.
Community Building: Parents come into the nursery in traditional dress and read dual-language storybooks to the children. This helps to extend children's cultural knowledge and ensure all children and families feel valued within the nursery community.
Programs and Resources: The manager employs additional staff to support more vulnerable children to help ensure they reach their learning potential.
Staff Training: Staff attend a wealth of external training events, such as specialist language courses to support children's speech and language development.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: The manager and staff are extremely dedicated and passionate about providing high-quality care and learning for children.
Safeguarding Training: The manager carries out regular quizzes and uses different scenarios to constantly check and develop the staff's knowledge and confidence in relation to safeguarding.
Play and Learning Integration: Staff skilfully spark children's curiosity through a multitude of sensory and tactile experiences.
Transition to Primary School: They implement a highly impressive range of techniques to help children to develop excellent communication and language skills.
Diversity Management: Staff teach children words in Spanish and French, and show them how to flamenco dance.
Child Safety Management: Staff have an exceptional understanding of child protection and wider safeguarding issues, such as extreme or radical views, to ensure they are highly focused on maintaining children's welfare.
Children's Safety and Security: The manager has highly effective recruitment procedures to ensure staff are suitably checked before they work with children.
Teaching Personal Safety: Staff ensure they discuss online safety with older children to help them develop an excellent understanding about staying safe.
Happiness and Settling: Children are very quick to settle in the incredibly calm environment, which captivates their attention from the moment they arrive.
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Playbox Day Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Kent, South East.
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In Folkestone, Kent, Playbox Nursery is a nursery that has received both NDNA and Ofsted Outstanding ratings. During the school year, we provide free spots for kids between the ages of 2 and 5. In addition to two large indoor learning spaces, our purpose-built nursery provides children with approximately 2,000 square metres of safe outdoor space, which includes an astroturf garden, a grass garden, a woodland area, an outdoor reading retreat, and outdoor painting and music areas. Through a secure online portal, parents may monitor their children's progress and provide input. Playbox Nursery was founded in January 2010 and boasts a staff of skilled, seasoned, and committed people who are passionate about inspiring your kid to realise their unique potential.
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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 - 21st Apr 2025 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 26th May 2025 - 30th May 2025 |
| Summer Holidays | 23rd Jul 2025 - 29th Aug 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 | 22nd Apr 2025 - 25th May 2025 |
| Summer Term-2 | 31st May 2025 - 22nd Jul 2025 |
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