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Summertime Nursery & Preschool

Ofsted: GoodNursery

Thomas Hardye School, Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2ET

Provider type

Nursery

Capacity

35 children

Key details

Capacity

35 places

Ofsted Inspection Summary

Summertime Nursery & Preschool was inspected by Ofsted on 2 August 2023 and received an overall rating of Good. In their report, inspectors noted: "Children enjoy their time at this welcoming, friendly nursery and play happily with their friends. Staff are caring and help children to feel safe and gain a good sense of emotional well-being. Children go happily to staff for a spontaneous hug."

Key strengths

  • Children behave very well.
  • Leaders and staff continue to develop the provision they offer.
  • Parents speak very highly of staff.
  • Staff monitor children's learning from their observations and plan activities to support children's interests and enjoyment through their play.
  • Staff support children's early independence and social skills effectively.

Areas for improvement

  • strengthen systems for sharing information with other providers children attend to provide a more consistent approach for their care and learning needs
  • support staff further to make more use of opportunities to extend children's knowledge and understanding of vocabulary.
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Location

Thomas Hardye School, Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2ET

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