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Sawston Nursery
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Sawston Nursery
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- Sawston CB22 3UW
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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 | Good |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children play with dolls, make them a bed and imitate rocking and feeding. They race cars along a track, lining them up and counting how many.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children have the freedom of indoor and outdoor spaces that include snug areas with plentiful books and cushions for rest. The resources outside encourage lots of opportunities for children to climb, balance and take risks.
Philosophy: The ambitious curriculum is clearly embedded. Children make significant progress in all areas of learning.
Activities: Children explore making gingerbread men using play dough. They talk about a snake and make patterns with marbles. Mealtimes are an excellent social learning occasion.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children's independence is evident in all the age groups, with toileting, handwashing, feeding themselves and helping to clean the tables after mealtimes.
Communication: The nursery communicates regularly with parents via feedback received from both parents and other settings.
Community Building: Parents provided the inspector with oral and written feedback.
Programs and Resources: The special educational needs coordinator provides highly supportive care to both children and families.
Staff Training: Staff liaises with a diverse range of outside professionals, who provide focused help and support.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Practitioners are enthusiastic, positive, and valued. They are excellent role models, giving children the best possible environment to learn and develop in.
Safeguarding Training: They attend regular training to ensure safeguarding, first aid, food hygiene and manual handling knowledge is up to date.
Play and Learning Integration: Children explore and endeavour to find out about the world. Practitioners use mathematical and scientific language to enhance learning in play.
Transition to Primary School: Children are very well prepared for their next steps in education, and this is evident in the feedback received from both parents and other settings.
Child Safety Management: Practitioners ensure the safety of the environment with robust risk assessments and reflection.
Children's Safety and Security: There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.
Happiness and Settling: Children excitedly come into nursery and are greeted by smiling practitioners. They settle quickly.
Nutritional Menu: The nursery offers a well-balanced menu of home-cooked healthy food by their own chef, using locally sourced produce.
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Sawston Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Cambridgeshire, East of England.
This nursery accepts children from 0.3-5 years old.
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At Sawston Nursery, we endeavour to provide all children with high-quality childcare and education in a safe, engaging, and secure environment.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer your child a place at Sawston Nursery at this time owing to recruitment issues.
We need to make sure that the workforce complies with the Statutory Welfare Requirements for Early Years in order for the nursery to run safely and effectively. Sawston Nursery takes pleasure in the high standard of instruction and care we give the kids, and we'll keep working to meet the needs of the community.
Before calling the Nursery going ahead, we would advice that you keep checking our website to see whether the waiting list has been reopened.
Working together with parents/caregivers, we hope to meet each child's unique requirements in the best way possible.
The Early Years Foundation Stage aims to promote inclusivity and fair opportunity. At Sawston Nursery, we make sure each child is supported and included.
The Head of Sawston Nursery, Tina, collaborates closely with her devoted, knowledgeable staff to keep the child at the centre of planning throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are currently unable to provide a tour of the nursery. Please view our virtual tour, nevertheless, on the website.
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Unfortunately, we are unable to offer your child a place at Sawston Nursery at this time owing to recruitment issues.
We need to make sure that the workforce complies with the Statutory Welfare Requirements for Early Years in order for the nursery to run safely and effectively. Sawston Nursery takes pleasure in the high standard of instruction and care we give the kids, and we'll keep working to meet the needs of the community.
Before calling the Nursery going ahead, we would advice that you keep checking our website to see whether the waiting list has been reopened.
Working together with parents/caregivers, we hope to meet each child's unique requirements in the best way possible.
The Early Years Foundation Stage aims to promote inclusivity and fair opportunity. At Sawston Nursery, we make sure each child is supported and included.
The Head of Sawston Nursery, Tina, collaborates closely with her devoted, knowledgeable staff to keep the child at the centre of planning throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are currently unable to provide a tour of the nursery. Please view our virtual tour, nevertheless, on the website.
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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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