Girls & Boys Nursery Dunsbury Way

In April 2025, picture cards, home-language words and playful conversations gave Dunsbury Way a recognisable emphasis on communication. Based at Leigh Park Community Centre in Havant, Girls & Boys Nursery Dunsbury Way combines named age groups with learning through play. Language support is a useful thread for families to follow through its care and activities.

At its April 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good and found safeguarding effective, while identifying improvements needed in support for hygiene routines and consistency in managing behaviour. Those practical concerns deserve attention alongside the positive judgement. They concern everyday interactions, rather than an abstract measure of quality.

The nursery has capacity for 60 children within an age range from birth to five, and welcomes children from three months upwards. Its current opening window is 8am to 4pm, with term-time attendance.

Rooms and Ages

Snails, Grasshopper and Ladybird are the named groups for two-year-olds; Butterfly, Caterpillar and Bees are for children aged three to four. These names give families a clear starting point for understanding the organisation of the older children's day. The offer also extends to younger babies.

The Early Years Foundation Stage provides the framework for learning through play, with experiences shaped around children's interests and development. Here, the stated approach includes giving children time to practise, reflect and learn from each other. The practical value is room to try again, rather than treating the first attempt as the finished result.

Learning and Activities

In April 2025, activities helped children practise listening and sustain their attention. One painting activity paired choosing colours with repeating an action word. This connected language to something children were doing, giving them a concrete reason to listen and respond.

Water play also began with children's choices. In April 2025, children selected the activity, poured water into pretend sea animals and helped clear it away afterwards. Their involvement extended beyond choosing a resource: the activity included shared play and responsibility for tidying up.

Conversation ran alongside play in April 2025. Staff described what children were doing, repeated vocabulary clearly and allowed time for answers. Picture cards gave children another way to request help. These were practical routes into communication, rather than an expectation that every child could explain a need aloud.

Relationships and Communication

In April 2025, children sought comfort from staff and brought them questions about activities. Staff responded warmly and listened to what children wanted to say. These small exchanges matter because they give children opportunities to seek reassurance as well as information.

Communication with families also supported the children's day in April 2025. Staff gathered words used at home by children learning English as an additional language, then brought those words into nursery conversations. Parents received updates about development and advice for supporting learning at home, connecting nursery experiences with family life.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At the April 2025 inspection, Ofsted found that children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, received the support they needed and made good progress, with additional funding and outside agencies helping staff plan individual targets. The useful detail is the mechanism: support was organised around a child's next steps rather than a general promise of inclusion.

Speech & Language is a group-wide service promoted here, offering help from an in-house speech and language therapist. In April 2025, staff also used basic signing following training. Together with the picture-card example, this gives families several concrete communication methods to discuss in relation to their child.

The April 2025 hygiene concern related to how staff were deployed during routine tasks. Behaviour support also needed greater consistency: intervention sometimes stopped an action without helping children understand its effect on someone else. These are separate issues, and both belong in a conversation about daily care.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is Leigh Park Community Centre, Dunsbury Way, Havant, PO9 5BG. Opening hours are 8am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, during term time; the nursery closes for school holidays. This makes the annual attendance calendar as relevant as the daily finishing time when arranging family care.

Dunsbury Way has its own enquiry route, and the branch telephone number is 02392 643282. Families can use that route to begin an enquiry directly with this setting.

Funding and Paid Extras

In April 2025, the nursery provided funded early education for eligible children. Eligibility remains part of that statement: it is not a promise that every family qualifies. Current prices should come in the nursery's written quotation.

• Everyday hygiene. April 2025 brought a specific concern about staff deployment during routine hygiene tasks. Ask how these tasks are now organised and supervised.
• Helping children understand behaviour. In April 2025, staff did not consistently explain the consequences of unwanted behaviour. Ask how practitioners now help children understand their effect on others.
• Care for younger babies. Children from three months upwards are welcomed alongside named groups for two-year-olds and children aged three to four. At a visit, ask how the youngest children's care and room arrangements work.

Dunsbury Way suits families seeking term-time care with a clear emphasis on play and communication. Named age groups help explain its organisation, while the April 2025 examples show how talking, pictures and home-language words supported participation. The inspection judgement was positive, but the hygiene and behaviour findings give parents two concrete matters to explore. The fit depends on both the term-time calendar and confidence in those everyday care arrangements.