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First Friends Day Nursery | Ofsted Reports, Fees, Reviews (2025)
First Friends Day Nursery
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First Friends Day Nursery
- Nursery
- Barford St. Martin SP3 4AH
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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 | Good |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children develop a love of books from an early age. Babies babble when they turn the pages and point to the pictures.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: The leadership team provides a learning environment that promotes children's curiosity and exploration in readiness for school.
Philosophy: The leadership team has high expectations of children and provides a learning environment that promotes children's curiosity and exploration in readiness for school.
Forest School Sessions: Pre-school children thoroughly enjoy a forest school activity in the local environment to learn about worms.
Activities: Children benefit from regular songs and rhymes. Staff introduce action songs and props, such as hand puppets, to extend children's engagement.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children are motivated to learn and make good progress from their starting points. Staff teach children about the characteristics of worms and introduce new words, such as 'saddle' and 'wormcast'.
Communication: Staff share information with parents regularly about what their child has done during the day and about their care routines.
Community Building: Parents speak glowingly about the nursery and staff, and report that they feel involved in their children's learning and development.
Programs and Resources: Staff support children to respect each other and play well together. For instance, they encourage babies to share large plastic coins and to take turns posting them into a money box.
Staff Training: Staff receive regular training and supervision meetings to help develop their skills and knowledge.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children form strong bonds with friendly and caring staff who get to know children well.
Safeguarding Training: The designated safeguarding lead and staff have a good understanding of child protection and wider safeguarding matters to help protect children from harm.
Play and Learning Integration: Children experiment with media and materials and show pride in their creative achievements.
Transition to Primary School: The leadership team promotes children's curiosity and exploration in readiness for school.
Diversity Management: Staff provide a narrative for babies' play to support their language skills and practise new words.
Child Safety Management: Staff implement risk assessments to help keep children safe. For example, they sit with children during mealtimes, and check on sleeping children regularly.
Children's Safety and Security: The designated safeguarding lead and staff have a good understanding of child protection and wider safeguarding matters to help protect children from harm.
Teaching Personal Safety: Staff teach children how to keep themselves safe. For example, children know to clean their hands after forest school activities.
Happiness and Settling: Children are happy and enjoy their time at the nursery.
Nutritional Menu: Children enjoy freshly prepared nutritious food.
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First Friends Day Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Wiltshire 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 | 24th 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 | 25th Jul 2025 - 29th Aug 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 2nd Sep 2024 - 23rd 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 - 24th Jul 2025 |
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