What Is Blossoms Like For Your Child?
Parents often ask what makes our nursery setting special. The answer lies in our foundation stage curriculum, our caring approach, and our strong partnership with families.
Ofsted Feedback & Praise
According to Ofsted, our provision is Outstanding. They wrote in June 2025:
Nurturing Environment
"Children thrive in this nurturing and welcoming environment. Parents announce their child's arrival at the setting using the bespoke Blossoms app. This enables staff to greet their individual key children personally. Staff get to know children exceptionally well and create strong attachments with them. Children settle with ease. They develop close, trusting relationships with their key person. Staff place a strong emphasis on teaching values such as respect and responsibility. Children's behaviour is impeccable. They consistently use good manners, share, take turns and tidy away their toys without support. At lunchtime, children are allocated jobs such as fetching plates and cutlery for their friends."
Developing Independence
"Staff are deeply attentive to developing children's independence. Even toddlers chop their own fruits for snack using safety knives and chopping boards. Staff take time to teach toddlers how to wash their hands after they have had their nappies changed. There is a calm and purposeful atmosphere of learning throughout the setting. All children get thoroughly immersed in their play. Staff meticulously plan a wide range of engaging activities. Children confidently join in small group activities. Staff adapt their interactions to meet individual children's needs. All children, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, make excellent progress with their learning and development."
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Read Ofsted ReportRead Our Ofsted Outstanding ReportKeeping Your Child Safe & Secure
Your children's security and safety is at the forefront of everything we do at Blossoms. We take every conceivable step to ensure children are safeguarded at all times. Entrusting us with the care and learning of your child is a responsibility we take with the utmost importance throughout your time with us at Blossoms.
Our Premises
Our garden is surrounded by an 8ft fence affording privacy and security while the children enjoy the outdoors, and our building is secured with locks on the external doors and windows, plus the internal partition doors. We also use a Digital Q-Bell door system for added security during drop-off and collection times.
The nursery has strict policies and procedures in place for the daily running of the setting to ensure children's safety is paramount to everything we do. We undertake regular reviews of all security. This includes:
Parents & Carers
All parents will be asked to provide us with contact details and emergency contacts upon registration. On entering the building this will be checked to verify identity. We also have a password system in place for when you need a member of your family to collect on your behalf.
You are required to let us know if anyone other than those stated on registration forms wishes to collect your child so appropriate arrangements can be made. Failure to do so will mean we will not release your child until consent is received.
Parents and carers are not allowed to have a mobile phone or digital camera in the nursery at any time.
Visitors
All visitors to the nursery will be accompanied by a member of our team whilst on site.
We have robust systems in place to ensure identification is checked and all team members understand the procedure for accepting visitors. Those without identification will be refused entry to the setting.
Visitors will be asked to sign in and out of the visitors log; visitors are required to wear a visitor's lanyard whilst in the setting as clear identification to staff, children and families of an authorised visitor.
All visitors are required to leave their mobile phones in the nursery office within a locked box.
Staff
All staff at Blossoms undergo a rigorous recruitment procedure when they start with us. All staff (including any volunteers) undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check regardless of their position within the setting. This highlights any cautions, reprimands, final warnings or convictions they have on record, plus any additional information on their Police record considered relevant to their post.
We check applicants' right to work in the UK, and they undertake a six month induction with us, where we work alongside them to ensure they fully adopt our ethos, policies and procedures. All staff undertake Paediatric First Aid, Food Safety and Safeguarding Training.
Outings
During outings we maintain adult:child ratios above the recommendation to ensure children's safety and well-being.
We ensure there is a First Aider present on every outing and emergency contacts, mobile phone and an Outings Bag is taken. Children wear wristbands and high visibility vests at all times.
Taking Care of Health & Well-being
At Blossoms Childcare, we provide fresh, nutritional, home-cooked meals within our fees. Children are encouraged to eat vegetables and fresh fruit every day which are locally sourced where possible. Our mealtimes are a social and interactive time of the day, where our team sits-down with the children to provide support, encouragement and role-model healthy eating
Children help to cook and prepare meals and snacks where possible, and older children help to set the table, serve themselves, and help tidy-away - all valuable life lessons which encourage independence and promote our values
Our included varied snacks offer each child a healthy choice of food option and drink during the nursery day which they prepare at the table guided by a member of our team. This encourages every child to speak with confidence and choose for themselves, promoting independence. All children have unlimited access to water throughout the day.
We cater for all special dietary requirements and this is discussed with each individual family during our registration process.
The Early Years Foundation Stage
Our early years childcare follows the statutory EYFS framework, ensuring a comprehensive developmental journey from birth to school.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is how the Government and Early Years describe the time in your child's life between birth and the age of 5 years. This is a crucial time in your child's life as it starts to sow the seeds for later learning, providing foundations for building future skills and learning. This stage also begins to get your child ready for school.
We believe this stage of learning should be happy, child-led, fun, stimulating and rich in varied activities to help children develop their own sense-of-self and gain confidence to try and experience new things.
What does the EYFS set out?
Statutory Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements
The Statutory Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements set out the legal framework which everyone registered to look after children must follow in order to keep your child safe and promote their welfare:
Our Nursery Policies set out how we exceed all of the legal requirements, and detail the procedures that our team follows throughout their practice. A copy of our Nursery Policies can be sent to you by request, and are available during your registration process.
What does the EYFS cover?
7 Areas of Learning and Development
The 7 Areas of Learning and Development guide us as professionals in our engagement with your child's play, and guides how they learn new skills and knowledge.
The Three Prime Areas
Essential foundations first
Children should mostly develop the 3 Prime Areas first:
These 3 Prime Areas are those most essential for your child's healthy development and future learning, laying the foundations for everything else they'll ever learn. Without a mastery of these 3 Prime Areas children will struggle to develop academically and socially as they grow-up.
The Four Specific Areas
Building on prime foundations
As children grow, the Prime Areas will help them to develop skills in 4 Specific Areas:
These 4 Specific Areas are crucial building blocks for your child's progress along their more formal learning journey through school and further education as they grow-up. What they pick up learning through play at this stage will set them up to become inquisitive thinkers with a thirst for knowledge - both practical and academic - regardless of genetic abilities, giving them the best possible start in life.
Your Child's Early Years Development
Progress tracking and school readiness
Regular Updates
Ongoing communication
Your child's Key Person will update you about their learning on a regular basis, providing feedback on your child's learning and development. We hold regular meetings and provide written updates on their progress throughout each term, with daily information, "wow moments" and developmental progress shared with you via our online learning journey software.
Progress Check at Age 2
Developmental milestone
After your child turns 2, we will provide a written summary of how your child is progressing against the 3 Prime Areas of learning: communication and language; physical development; and personal, social and emotional development. This is called the Progress Check at age 2. This check will highlight areas where your child is progressing well and anywhere they might need some extra help or support – plus how we can support family members or carers to work with the Key Person to help with a joined-up approach between nursery and home. You might find it useful to share the information from the check with other professionals, such as health visitors who can use it as part of their health and development review.
School Readiness
Preparing for the next step
We carry out ongoing assessments that will tell you about your child's progress through the EYFS, while we help your child to reach certain expected levels by 5 years old, or the end of the Reception Year; these expectations are called the Early Learning Goals (ELGs). It is our job to get your child ready for school.
Keeping You Informed
Working in Partnership with Parents
At Blossoms Childcare we strongly believe that working in partnership with our parents and families is the best way to help children develop. We will work with you to ensure we keep you updated with your child's progress on every step of their journey with us, and ask that you would do the same.
You & Your Child's Key Person
On starting at Blossoms your child will be allocated a Key Person, this role is to help ensure that every child's care is tailored to their individual needs and interests, in order to help them develop the best that they can. It is their role to help your child become familiar with the nursery environment and routines, developing a settled relationship for your child and for you. Your Key Person will provide feedback to you each day and offer support in your child's development, while offering ideas for supporting their learning and development at home. Your Key Person will also have a Key Person Buddy who will deputise in their absence to maintain continuity of partnership and development.
The Online Learning Journey
At Blossoms Childcare we use an online Learning Journey system; this allows staff and parents to access the information from any computer via a personal, password-protected login. This can be downloaded as an app to use on your smartphone, and you will receive notifications when new observations, photographs and assessments are added - you can also add photos, videos and messages creating a two-way partnership with shared information, helping us to plan activities and learning based on your child's interests from home and what they have been up to.
Our Nursery Policies
We have a comprehensive and detailed set of Nursery Policies to cover every aspect of life at Blossoms Childcare. All of our Safeguarding & Welfare policies and our Learning & Development policies will be explained during the Registration Process, and will include:
Nursery Location
Visit Blossoms Childcare on the former RAF West Raynham airbase in Norfolk
Blossoms Childcare Nursery & Preschool
Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 7PA