Childcare, Broadway

Vegetable growing, experiments with ice and greetings in different languages give Childcare, Broadway a recognisable character. In November 2025, these everyday experiences connected practical tasks with conversation, curiosity and independence. The setting is based at St George's Community Centre in Wakefield, with capacity for 70 children aged 3 to 60 months.

At its November 2025 inspection, Ofsted judged curriculum and teaching, inclusion, and children's welfare and wellbeing to be at Strong standard, and safeguarding standards were met. Those judgements give parents a useful starting point, but the detail of the children's day is more revealing: babies explored animal sounds, while older children discussed how ice changes and how different experiences make them feel.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage is the framework for children's learning, development and care, bringing these together through everyday play and routines. In November 2025, songs, stories and practical exploration gave that framework concrete expression at Broadway. Familiar action songs helped babies listen and join in; older children played with rhymes and the initial sounds of words. Language learning ran through songs, stories, games and practical exploration.

Farm-animal role play gave babies opportunities to name animals and try their sounds. For older children, fruit and flowers frozen in ice became material for investigation: they considered the effects of freezing and what happened when they held ice in warm hands. Colour mixing offered another starting point for conversation. These examples matter because children had something tangible to describe, question and explain.

Mathematical activities in November 2025 included matching numbers to objects, counting and beginning addition. Children also counted and exchanged greetings in different languages. Books prompted discussion about relationships and feelings, linking vocabulary with experiences children could recognise in their own lives.

Outdoor and Community Life

An allotment brought food growing into the nursery day in November 2025. Children grew vegetables and helped prepare potatoes and carrots for meals, connecting what they cultivated with what they ate. Healthy eating therefore had a practical dimension, alongside opportunities to handle food and take responsibility for small tasks.

Movement also had a clear place. Activity songs, dance and yoga formed part of the November 2025 day, and older children discussed exercise and cooling down afterwards. Physical activity was accompanied by conversation about caring for their bodies.

Relationships and Communication

In November 2025, key persons built relationships with children and their families, and staff worked with parents to reflect familiar home routines, including sleep times. For babies, reflecting familiar sleep times helped connect home routines with nursery life. Parents also received guidance about sleep, toilet training and managing behaviour.

Welcome games gave children practice in taking turns and acknowledging other people. Older children helped organise activities and prepare tables for meals. These were small responsibilities with a clear purpose: children could contribute to the group while practising patience and independence.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At the November 2025 inspection, Ofsted found that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities progressed through carefully paced communication support, including Makaton and other communication strategies, while staff worked with families and other professionals on emotional and behavioural needs. This points to support organised around the child's next achievable step.

During November 2025, staff used books to help children recognise feelings and examined behaviour patterns when children struggled to manage emotions. Additional funding supported resources and staff training for personal and social learning. The next steps set that month asked leaders to pursue a greater impact for disadvantaged children, children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and those facing other barriers to learning or wellbeing.

Children helped peel vegetables for their daily meals in November 2025. Table-setting gave them another practical role in the shared meal routine.

Sessions and Attendance

Opening hours are 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. The nursery operates throughout the year and closes on bank holidays, a useful distinction for families organising childcare around work rather than school terms.

Broadway's nursery contact number is 01924 330260. Email enquiries go to childcare@stgeorgeslupset.org.uk.

Getting There

The address is St George's Community Centre, Broadway, Wakefield, WF2 8AA. The community centre has free parking, with disabled spaces beside the entrance, plus accessible toilets and baby-changing facilities.

• Settling a baby. Home sleep routines shaped care in November 2025. On a visit, ask how your baby's feeding and sleeping habits would be incorporated into the settling plan.
• Attendance and costs. The opening window runs from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, across the year apart from bank holidays. Which booking pattern and funded-hours arrangement would fit your family, and what would the written quotation include for meals, consumables and additional hours?
• Targeted support. The November 2025 next steps called for greater impact for children facing disadvantage or other barriers. Families needing additional support should discuss the individual goals that would guide their child's care and how progress would be shared.

Childcare, Broadway suits families looking for a nursery where conversation, practical play and growing independence have a clear place in the day. The November 2025 examples are concrete: animal sounds for babies, ice investigations for older children, and vegetables grown and prepared for meals. The year-round weekday opening window is useful for working families, while the next steps on targeted support deserve attention when deciding whether the setting fits an individual child's needs.