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Shaftesbury Children Centre Nursery | Ofsted Reports, Reviews (2025)
Shaftesbury Children Centre Nursery
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Shaftesbury Children Centre Nursery
- Nursery
- Shaftesbury SP7 8PZ
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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 | Not Applicable |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children enjoy playing with toy dinosaurs and plants in the compost.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Each age group has its own outdoor area where children relish having space to play freely and find out about nature.
Activities: Children use scavenger hunt sheets to tick off the bugs that they have spotted.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children learn about their emotions, how to regulate them and listen carefully to staff's instructions.
Communication: Staff kept in touch with the families of those children who did not attend, sending home ideas to support the children's learning and checking on the family's welfare.
Community Building: Partnerships with parents are extremely strong. Staff know parents well and provide support for them as well as their children to ensure the best outcomes for the whole family.
Programs and Resources: The special needs coordinator works very closely with staff to provide prompt, tailored support for children.
Staff Training: Staff are supported well to develop their skills and improve the provision for children. They promptly implement and share what they learn at training to ensure that the rest of the team also benefits from new knowledge and skills.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children have excellent relationships with staff, which helps them to feel safe and secure at the nursery.
Safeguarding Training: Staff refresh their training annually and discuss safeguarding matters at regular staff meetings, which keeps their knowledge up to date.
Play and Learning Integration: Older children help to cut up oranges and lemons to go in the water tray.
Transition to Primary School: Staff know children exceptionally well and provide excellent levels of support for them to move on to the next steps in their individual learning.
Child Safety Management: Staff use imaginative ways to help children learn about safety, like painting wooden spoons red to remind children not to touch certain plants.
Children's Safety and Security: Children have excellent relationships with staff, which helps them to feel safe and secure at the nursery.
Teaching Personal Safety: Children enjoy listening to a story about an alligator cleaning their teeth and talk knowledgeably about brushing their own teeth twice a day.
Happiness and Settling: Children arrive happily and thoroughly enjoy learning with support from the skilled and enthusiastic staff team.
Nutritional Menu: Staff have been working with parents to ensure that children have healthy lunch boxes.
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About Us
Shaftesbury Children Centre Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Dorset County, South West.
This nursery accepts children from 0.3-5 years old.
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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 | 24th Jul 2025 - 29th Aug 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 3rd 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 - 23rd Jul 2025 |
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