Young Explorers Goring

Fruit-cutting, puppet stories and trips to the nearby beach give Young Explorers Goring its character in the February 2025 account of daily life. Independence starts with small tasks: children choosing resources, looking after belongings and preparing their own fruit.

At its 11 February 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, found safeguarding effective and reported significant progress for children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Based at St. Laurence Church Hall in Goring-by-Sea, the setting has capacity for 24 children aged two to five.

The early years foundation stage provides the framework for learning, development and care. In February 2025, children developed language through songs and stories, practised physical skills indoors and outside, and built independence by managing belongings and preparing fruit. In February 2025, activities drew on information from parents about children's interests and what they already knew. That gave staff a starting point for planning challenges with a personal connection.

Stories were participatory. During that month, children recalled earlier learning, contributed to discussions and joined songs; puppets also supported language activities. Children practised speaking in front of others through familiar rhymes and shared conversation.

Physical activity extended beyond the hall. In February 2025, children exercised indoors and outdoors, took community walks and visited the nearby beach. Visits from local teachers and a librarian brought other people from their community into nursery life.

In February 2025, staff gathered details of children's home routines as well as their interests. They responded to emotional needs and built close relationships with children, giving everyday care a personal basis. Encouragement centred on effort and trying tasks independently.

Links with early years advisers and therapists specialising in speech and language supported targeted help that month. Staff also had continuing professional development opportunities, while leaders paid attention to staff wellbeing.

Two weaknesses qualify this picture. In February 2025, routine tasks sometimes pulled children away from absorbing group activities, breaking their concentration. Information-sharing arrangements with other settings children attended had also yet to be established, weakening continuity between providers.

The address is St. Laurence Church Hall, Sea Place, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, BN12 4BY. Opening hours are 7.45am to 4.15pm, Monday to Friday, during term time; the nursery closes for school holidays. Families need to fit care around that calendar.

In February 2025, the nursery provided government-funded early education places for children aged two to four. This is a dated funding position rather than a promise of eligibility for an individual child.

• Protecting learning time. February 2025 routines sometimes interrupted group activities. Ask how handwashing and lunch transitions now preserve children's involvement.
• Care across settings. Information-sharing with other providers was an improvement point in February 2025. For a child attending elsewhere too, ask how staff now coordinate care and learning.
• Term-time planning. School-holiday closures make this a choice for families whose childcare arrangements can accommodate breaks in attendance.

Young Explorers Goring suits families seeking term-time care for children aged two to five. Its February 2025 strengths lay in practical independence, shared language activities and experiences beyond the hall. The Good judgement provides a positive assessment, tempered by specific work needed on transitions and coordination with other settings.