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Mells Nursery
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Mells Nursery
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- Mells BA11 3QE
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| 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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Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children relish the outdoor opportunities available to them. They show perseverance and determination as they dig up weeds to create areas for new plants and vegetables to grow.
Philosophy: Staff develop incredibly positive and nurturing relationships with children.
Forest School Sessions: They engage in forest school activities that support their understanding of risk in an outdoor environment. This includes foraging for plants in the woodlands to cook food on the fire.
Activities: Children are excited to come to nursery. They quickly become immersed in the activities and opportunities available to them.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children develop an excellent understanding of their emotions, which strongly supports them to express their feelings and regulate these successfully.
Communication: Staff work closely with families to ensure children feel safe and secure and settle quickly into the nursery; home visits by the manager and key person before children start help form the foundations for exceptional partnerships with parents.
Community Building: Parents are extremely complimentary about the staff and the nursery. They comment on the fantastic experiences and opportunities on offer to children and feel that the staff provide 'the best possible start to their child's life'.
Programs and Resources: Children with SEND receive exceptionally high levels of support to help them to meet their full potential.
Staff Training: Staff show excellent dedication in working with other professionals and completing relevant training to ensure they can meet children's individual needs precisely.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff are extremely motivated in ensuring high outcomes for every child.
Safeguarding Training: All staff attend regular safeguarding training to ensure their knowledge and understanding of child protection concerns, including wider safeguarding issues, remains up to date.
Play and Learning Integration: The staff carefully organise the environment to enrich children's love of learning and inspire their curiosity and creativity. For example, children show high levels of interest as they explore real-life objects within their play, such as typewriters, rotary telephones and antique cameras.
Transition to Primary School: Staff promote children's social skills and emotional well-being extremely well. Children develop an excellent understanding of their emotions, which strongly supports them to express their feelings and regulate these successfully.
Child Safety Management: Staff use detailed risk assessments to make sure the indoor and outdoor environment is safe for children to learn.
Children's Safety and Security: Children thrive as they attend this wonderfully charming nursery. Staff develop incredibly positive and nurturing relationships with children.
Teaching Personal Safety: Childrens' understanding of risk in an outdoor environment is supported through various activities including foraging for plants in the woodlands to cook food on the fire.
Happiness and Settling: Children are incredibly confident, independent and happy. They stretch out their arms as wide as they can and say that they love the nursery 'this much'.
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Mells Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Somerset, South West.
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In all areas, Mells Nursery received a "Outstanding" rating from Ofsted in March 2020.
We are a registered charity that runs a private, community, term-time pre-school for kids from 2 years old to school age. Only during the academic year does our setting operate. About three miles outside of Frome, in the charming Somerset village of Mells, we provide service.
Children are encouraged to be independent, interested, and inquisitive in our nurturing, secure environment. To assist every child achieve their potential, we work with the Early Years Foundation Stage as a long-term strategy. We are happy to have you and your kid visit our nursery, and we sincerely hope that they will enjoy their time here and acquire valuable life lessons via play.
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We are a registered charity that runs a private, community, term-time pre-school for kids from 2 years old to school age. Only during the academic year does our setting operate. About three miles outside of Frome, in the charming Somerset village of Mells, we provide service.
Children are encouraged to be independent, interested, and inquisitive in our nurturing, secure environment. To assist every child achieve their potential, we work with the Early Years Foundation Stage as a long-term strategy. We are happy to have you and your kid visit our nursery, and we sincerely hope that they will enjoy their time here and acquire valuable life lessons via play.
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Holidays 2023/24
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 23rd Oct 2023 - 27th Oct 2023 |
| Winter Holidays | 18th Dec 2023 - 1st Jan 2024 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 12th Feb 2024 - 16th Feb 2024 |
| Spring Holidays | 29th Mar 2024 - 12th Apr 2024 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 27th May 2024 - 31st May 2024 |
| Summer Holidays | 25th Jul 2024 - 2nd Sep 2024 |
Terms Dates 2023/24
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 4th Sep 2023 - 22nd Oct 2023 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 28th Oct 2023 - 17th Dec 2023 |
| Spring Term | 2nd Jan 2024 - 11th Feb 2024 |
| Spring Term-2 | 17th Feb 2024 - 28th Mar 2024 |
| Summer Term | 13th Apr 2024 - 26th May 2024 |
| Summer Term-2 | 1st Jun 2024 - 24th Jul 2024 |
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