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Kingsmead Day Nursery

Ofsted: GoodNursery

120 Kingsway, Eastleigh, SO53 5DW

Provider type

Nursery

Capacity

41 children

Key details

Capacity

41 places

Ofsted Inspection Summary

Kingsmead Day Nursery was inspected by Ofsted on 15 March 2022 and received an overall rating of Good. In their report, inspectors noted: "Children love coming to this inviting and stimulating nursery. Staff ensure that children enjoy and experience an exciting range of activities, indoors and outdoors. Children build on their physical skills as they climb, balance and jump."

Key strengths

  • Staff plan activities based on children's interests and needs.
  • Children choose to work collaboratively and readily share made-up stories in their play.
  • Children show high levels of curiosity and test out their ideas as they make up their own games.
  • Overall, staff make use of opportunities to develop and extend children's communication and language skills.
  • Leaders ensure that staff keep up to date with mandatory training.

Areas for improvement

  • focus more sharply on the quality of staff's interactions to make the most of opportunities to extend children's learning further
  • strengthen the support for staff's professional development, to build on their teaching skills and raise the quality of practice to the highest level.
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Location

120 Kingsway, Eastleigh, SO53 5DW

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