Rainbow Corner Loseley Fields

A dedicated baby garden, separate rooms for sleep and sensory play, and characters that make kindness and confidence tangible give Rainbow Corner Loseley Fields a clear personality. This Green Lane nursery in Binscombe combines child-led play with deliberate preparation for the next stage. Children can choose what interests them; practitioners use those choices as opportunities to extend learning.

At its September 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good and found safeguarding effective, with established key-person relationships and practical support for children's communication and inclusion. The judgement came with work to do: staff development needed sharper attention to matching teaching to children's development and planning learning in a clear sequence that extends each child's existing capabilities, and parents needed more consistent information about learning.

Babies, toddlers and preschool children have separate age groups, with different environments and expectations as they grow. Attendance options include full days and morning or afternoon half days across the year.

Rooms and Ages

Grasshoppers accommodates up to twenty-one babies from birth to two years, combining sensory exploration with a dedicated baby garden, its own kitchen and separate sleep and sensory rooms, while following routines agreed with parents.

Ladybirds serves children around their second to third birthdays, with a maximum of 25, and encourages choices between indoor and outdoor play alongside practical independence such as managing coats and toileting.

Butterflies takes children aged three and over, using its room and garden for independently chosen activities alongside two adult-led activities each day, helping children practise listening and following instructions before school.

Room leaders oversee each group, and every child has a key person responsible for their development.

Learning and Activities

EYFS provides the shared framework for children's learning and care: here, play develops communication, physical skills and relationships, with activities shaped around individual interests. Alongside it sits the group-wide Rainbow Corner Curriculum, which helps staff track learning and identify areas where a child needs further support. The branded curriculum complements EYFS, which remains the statutory framework against which Ofsted inspects the nursery.

In the Moment Planning (ITMP), also used across the group, means practitioners respond to children's interests as play develops, using both adult-led and child-initiated experiences. Children move between their designated rooms and gardens and choose resources or activities. The curriculum page explains this approach.

Group-wide value characters give the social side of learning recognisable names. Inclusive Indi introduces fairness, listening and working with others; Kind Kai represents consideration and helpful behaviour. Confident Connie encourages children to explore, try unfamiliar things and express their views. Stories and discussions involving these characters turn abstract ideas into situations children can talk about, while stickers recognise examples of the values in practice.

Outdoor and Community Life

In September 2025, each room had its own garden, with opportunities for climbing, balancing and moving across different surfaces on wheeled toys. Older babies experimented by sending toy cars down lengths of guttering. Growing tomatoes and pumpkins brought another kind of exploration outdoors, connecting play with how plants develop.

Sensory activity also crossed the indoor and outdoor spaces that September. Children investigated pumpkins and combined leaves and oats in pretend cooking.

Relationships and Communication

Settling starts with an All About Me record completed by a parent and the key person, covering the child's interests, development and routines. The usual suggestion is two to three settling sessions, adjusted to the child's response. Moves between groups involve visits before the transfer, so children can become familiar with a new room and key person rather than changing everything at once.

ParentAdmin provides a Care Diary and Learning Journal, plus accident and incident information. Food intake, sleep and nappy changes are recorded for each attended session, and photographs can be shared. Daily spoken feedback adds an account of what the child enjoyed and how the day went. Email newsletters arrive every two to three weeks with nursery news, forthcoming activities and ideas for learning at home.

Focus Week is the group's more structured development review: a child receives one to two weeks of concentrated observation every six to eight weeks, depending on attendance. Parents and the key person meet before and afterwards to discuss interests, changes at home, progress and next steps. Parents can comment on the resulting assessment.

In September 2025, communication with parents was generally working well, but learning updates were not consistent enough and families needed a clearer understanding of the curriculum.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

A SENCO works with practitioners to identify and support additional needs. The team also includes designated safeguarding lead roles, and bank staff cover absences, training and lunch breaks.

At the September 2025 inspection, Ofsted found that staff supported language development through conversation and books, used visual prompts for children with SEND, and worked with parents on books containing home-language words and cultural references.

Sessions and Attendance

The nursery opens on weekdays between 8am and 6pm throughout the year, closing for public bank holidays and three days between Christmas and New Year. Full days run from 8am to 6pm; half days run from 8am to 1pm or from 1pm to 6pm. The minimum weekly booking is either one full day or two half days.

Closures remain payable within the fee structure. Session changes or leaving require a whole month's notice, extending to a whole term for children receiving early education funding. Those differences matter when planning a change in work arrangements or the move to school. Enquiries can be made directly by telephone on 01483346116 or by email to loseleyfields@rainbowcorner.co.uk.

Getting There

The address is Loseley Fields Childrens Centre, Green Lane, Godalming, GU7 3TB, in Binscombe. Loseley Fields Primary School stands opposite and Farncombe Youth Football Club is next door, providing useful landmarks for locating the nursery.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded early education is offered for children aged nine months, two, three and four, subject to eligibility and a funded place. Funding is delivered through the stretched model: up to 11 hours a week over 52 weeks, or up to 22 hours where additional hours apply. Term-time-only funded attendance is not offered. Private childcare is also offered, and extra hours beyond a child's entitlement are paid for separately.

Healthy meals and snacks, nappies, wipes and creams are included in private fees; for funded attendance, meals during lunch or tea are paid for separately and a separate consumables charge applies. There is a non-refundable admission charge, and current prices come in the nursery's written quotation through its fees page.

• Teaching matched to development. In September 2025, some staff's expectations did not consistently fit children's developmental stages. During a visit, ask how training and supervision now help practitioners choose an appropriate next step for an individual child.
• Communication between reviews. September 2025 improvement work included more regular information about learning. Ask how everyday updates connect with Focus Week meetings, especially when a child attends only the minimum weekly pattern.
• Baby-room scale. Grasshoppers can accommodate twenty-one babies and has separate sleep and sensory rooms. A visit is a useful opportunity to discuss how care, rest and familiar routines work across those spaces for your child.
• Funding and schedule fit. Funding is stretched across the year, with separate funded-place charges and a longer notice period. Compare the written quotation with the full-day or half-day pattern your family intends to use, including payable closures.

Rainbow Corner Loseley Fields suits families seeking either full-day attendance or morning and afternoon half days, with care continuing across the year. Its strongest practical attractions are the baby's separate sleep and sensory spaces, a play-led approach with recognisable value characters, and communication tools that cover both everyday care and development reviews.

The September 2025 Good judgement gives this offer a clear inspection context. Consistency remains the point to test: teaching needs to match individual development, and parents need useful learning information between formal reviews. For families comfortable with stretched funding and the minimum booking pattern, the rooms and approach give a concrete basis for considering it.