Broadway Day Care and Pre School

Conversation drives the nursery day at Broadway: stories, songs and play give children opportunities to put their ideas into words. The purpose-built setting combines a large shared main room with an area for its youngest children, where play, resting and sleeping have separate spaces. That separation matters for babies whose routines differ from those of older children.

Broadway Day Care and Pre School has 47 places in total for children aged 5 to 60 months, on Broadway in Grimsby. Ofsted rated it Good on 17 May 2024. Language development and practical play give the setting its character, while helping older children manage everyday tasks independently was the improvement priority.

Learning and Activities

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the learning and care framework: children develop through play, exploration and interaction with adults. Broadway gives language and communication a clear emphasis within that framework. Singing, storytelling and conversation are woven into play, with the aim of helping children express what they need and what interests them.

In May 2024, dinosaur play in water became an opportunity to explore vocabulary. Staff discussed the animals’ food, sounds and size, and used gestures and movement that children copied. This was learning through a shared interest: words were connected to something children were already doing, rather than introduced as a separate exercise.

Mathematical experiences at that visit also used tangible objects. Babies explored shape sorters; children counted cubes while threading them onto pipe cleaners; older children measured their height. These activities connected number, shape and comparison with handling materials and noticing differences. Pots and pans became instruments, with adults asking children to think about the sounds they could make.

Outdoor and Community Life

Physical play in May 2024 included balancing on ride-on toys, practising bicycle pedals and aiming bean bags towards a bucket. Scooping foam into containers gave smaller movements a place alongside the larger ones. Children could practise coordination in different ways, rather than through a single type of activity.

A wooden climbing structure added a more demanding challenge. Children used large tyres to make steps and helped one another climb. The activity brought movement and cooperation together: reaching the top involved working out how to get there and helping a friend do the same.

At its May 2024 inspection, Ofsted found effective safeguarding and a successful key-person approach, alongside timely identification of additional needs, individual weekly targets and targeted support using signs and props. These findings give parents concrete examples of how care and inclusion worked at that visit.

Quieter children received encouragement to join activities in May 2024, and staff made space for children to talk about feelings with an adult. Children also fetched resources for friends and helped tidy before changing activities. Everyday interactions gave them opportunities to practise sharing and consideration for others.

Communication with families at that time combined conversations at collection and drop-off with an online app and newsletter. Updates covered children’s experiences and learning, and staff offered ideas for continuing activities at home. Links with schools and other professionals supported continuity of care, without implying an admissions advantage.

The current layout gives the youngest children separate places to play, rest and sleep alongside the main room. Broadway is also graduate-led. For families comparing settings, the useful combination is the physical provision for younger children and the detailed care practices documented in May 2024, rather than a general promise about individual attention.

Sessions and Attendance

Opening hours are 7:45am to 5:45pm, Monday to Friday, across 51 weeks of the year. Booking choices include full days of 10 hours, half days of 5 hours and hourly childcare, as well as a weekly 50-hour pattern. The shorter options make Broadway relevant to families arranging part-time care as well as those booking full days.

Admissions follow an ordered set of priorities: looked-after children first, then children known to the local authority to have SEND whose needs can best be met here, followed by vulnerable children receiving specified support, siblings and families living locally. A full-time booking may receive preference over a part-time one, depending on work commitments, occupancy and room availability. Broadway operates a waiting list.

Before attendance starts, parents complete a contract and registration form covering matters such as collection arrangements, emergency contacts, dietary needs and allergies. This makes the joining process a practical exchange of information about the child, as well as an agreement about care.

Getting There

The address is Broadway, Grimsby, DN34 5RS. Enquiries can be made on 01472 488260 or by emailing broadway@forunderfives.co.uk.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare is offered for eligible 9-month-olds and 2-year-olds, all 3 and 4-year-olds, and families eligible for 30 hours. Families can use funding during term time over 38 weeks or spread it across the year. Funded admissions have a termly intake; bookings can be made a term ahead, and the nursery reserves the right to specify or limit funded sessions according to its business requirements.

Breakfast, lunch and tea are included for weekly 50-hour bookings and full-day 10-hour bookings only; for other booking patterns, those meals are charged separately. Booked meals remain payable if the child is absent.

Current prices come in the nursery’s written quotation. The choice of attendance pattern therefore affects both the time booked and the meal arrangements attached to it.

• Independence before school. In May 2024, drinks were not consistently accessible to older children, pouring jugs were too heavy for independent use, and support with cutlery was inconsistent. On a visit, ask how children now practise these everyday skills.
• Part-time admission. Full-time bookings may take preference depending on work commitments, occupancy and room availability. Discuss how this rule applies to the half-day or hourly pattern you want.
• Funding and extras. Broadway offers both term-time and stretched funding, while meal inclusion depends on the booking pattern. Ask for a written breakdown of meals and non-food consumables for your proposed funded arrangement.

Broadway suits families seeking full-day, half-day or hourly care, with a choice between term-time and stretched funded attendance. Its language emphasis and separate spaces for the youngest children give parents useful reasons to consider it. The Good judgement from May 2024 provides a dated assessment of quality; the practical reservation is older children’s independence, which deserves attention during a visit.