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Nursery Dartford
Rainbow Day Nursery in Dartford is a privately owned, home from home, Ofsted registered full day care nursery for children from 6 months of age, providing high quality care and early education since 1985.
We follow a child centred curriculum which links to the statutory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Rainbow has 5 spacious playrooms, providing a home from home approach, building on children’s individuality, learning and supports all areas of development.
Our practitioners strive to create a calm and welcoming environment where children can feel safe, secure, loved and have a sense of belonging.
Our practitioners provide resources and nurturing environments that support children’s natural curiosity, inquisitiveness and imagination.
Each playroom has direct access to it own bespoke outdoor garden area, providing the opportunity for free flow opportunities.
At Rainbow we recognise the importance of daily outdoor play and physical development. Therefore, we are committed to ensuring all children have daily access regardless of their age and stage of development. This includes the children having free flow access to the outdoors allowing them the freedom to play indoors or out. We provide an inclusive outdoor play environment with areas for non-mobile children to freely explore. We go out to play in all weathers (unless it is deemed unsafe).
We understand the vital role that learning outdoors has on children’s learning and development, as well as the importance of regular access to outdoor play to keep fit and healthy, develop children’s large and fine motor skills, experience learning in a natural environment and access sunlight to absorb vitamin D more effectively. The outdoor areas help children to learn and develop in a variety of ways, including independence, exploration and investigative skills, risk taking and self-esteem, all which support children to develop skills now and for the future.
We take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of children through risk assessments, whilst balancing the benefits to learning by means of providing an element of ‘risky play’. This type of play allows children to explore and find their own boundaries in a safe environment with supportive practitioners. Staff are informed of the importance of safety procedures and are trained appropriately to ensure these procedures are followed effectively.
In addition we have a very large, secure garden that is utilised throughout the seasons. It has been designed to offer a variety of interesting and challenging opportunities to enhance play experiences and learning. Areas include our ever popular mud kitchen, climbing & cycling areas, construction, loose parts and much more.
Caring & Qualified Staff
Rainbow is proud of our friendly, home from home atmosphere, which many visitors comment on.
We strive to develop warm and caring relationships between our practitioners and their key children and families. We believe our staff are the foundation of our setting and are extremely proud of our low turnover of staff and longstanding team members, who, together, present a collective number of years’ service and experience.
We are proud to announce that in 2025 ,three of our loyal, valued team members will be celebrating 25 years at Rainbow!
We have a robust, safer recruitment process and select staff not just for their qualifications, but also their experience, and their caring, nurturing nature towards children.
We actively promote continuous professional development to ensure our practitioners have up to date knowledge within early years practice. Our enthusiastic and committed team, enable us to provide a fully inclusive setting where every child’s well-being, learning and development are paramount. Our practitioners act as positive role models and actively promote common courtesy, mutual respect and patience at all times.
At Rainbow we are dedicated to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of all children and individuals associated with the setting. We have robust safeguarding policies and procedures in place that support our safeguarding responsibilities.
Our staff team all hold an enhanced DBS check and take part in regular safeguarding training to ensure their knowledge is kept up to date. Our staff team are trained on key safeguarding areas, such as the signs and symptoms of abuse, Prevent and radicalisation, Child sexual exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation, as well as how to share a concern with our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL’s) and with the most appropriate external agencies.
At Rainbow we have 3 team members trained as ‘Designated Safeguarding Leads’ (DSL) who are there to support staff and parents with any safeguarding concerns.
At Rainbow we develop and maintain a core team of staff who are experienced in the care of children with additional needs and have 2 Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCO) who are experienced in the care and assessment of children with additional needs. Staff will be provided with specific training relating to SEND and the SEND Code of Practice
'Both of my children have felt loved, safe and have always had a smile going in and coming out.'
'The children make bonds, not just their key worker, but all the staff in nursery, it really is a family friendly environment.'
'The garden was a firm favourite place of both of my children, a huge outside area where they could run and burn energy.'
'The garden was a firm favourite place of both of my children, a huge outside area where they could run and burn energy.'
The activities and daily updates on the app keep us as parents reassured and provide us with photographs of the daily learning/activities. I would highly recommend this nursery.
My daughter had some complex health needs and needed a lot of supervision and support. The baby room staff made me feel comfortable leaving her in their care.
Staff are always available if I have any concerns or just needed a chat for support.
My daughter is now in Butterfly room (Toddlers) and the level of support has been astounding.
'That staff at Rainbow Day Nursery have been amazing from the moment my shy daughter joined them, they have coaxed her out of her shell, encouraged her chatty nature, learning and she absolutely loves going to nursery. If I had my time again I would reapply to this nursery without a shadow of a doubt.'
'That staff at Rainbow Day Nursery have been amazing from the moment my shy daughter joined them, they have coaxed her out of her shell, encouraged her chatty nature, learning and she absolutely loves going to nursery. If I had my time again I would reapply to this nursery without a shadow of a doubt.'
'All 3 of my children who have attended nursery since 2014, my youngest daughter has just graduated. I would highly recommend Rainbow for your little one having experienced the care given all the way through from 3 months old up to 11 years old. The facilities are great, with inside and outdoor playing and learning. All of the staff are very friendly and we'll miss seeing them all!'
'Both of our children have attended Rainbow Nursery. Our 4-year-old daughter left in the Summer of 2024 after being there for 3 years. She loved going to nursery every day and I believe that's because of the dedication of the lovely staff. The outside space they have is really rare in the local area and they use it multiple times in the day. The key workers update you regularly throughout the day on the app and you can call and speak to anyone at any time. They host lovely stay-and-play sessions throughout the year with different themes which as a family we all enjoy. They gave her a wonderful graduation. It really was so special and we will never forget it. Her time at Rainbow's has been wonderful, she has been safe, nurtured, and loved by you all (me included) and I can't quite believe it's over. Rainbow can be very proud of what a wonderful family nursery it is! They prepared her very well for school and we fully entrust them with the care of our youngest son now.'
'I truly believe there is no better place for my daughter than Rainbow Day Nursery. I feel that I leave S with family and I could not be more happy or impressed with every person there. I’m happy we found such a warm, loving and fun-filled nursery. A huge thank you for all your love, care, time and patience.'
‘Rainbow Day Nursery has tremendously helped with J’s development. The environment is child friendly and welcoming. The staff are exceptionally professional in their conduct and very caring towards J. The activities are adapted on an individual basis. Thank you for all your support.’
'My son has been at Rainbow from around 7 months until 4 years. Every room he has been in has been amazing. I can't fault the key people he has had or the entire team from reception to caretaker and cook. My son knows them all by name and has been so happy in their care.'
'I would highly recommend Rainbow Day Nursery. Not only am I happy with how they have looked after my son whilst I'm at work, but communication between the nursery and myself/husband has been brilliant. Daily messages as to what has been happening that day, what he has had to eat, photos and videos of fun activities he has done each day.
We make a point of sitting down each day with him and reading what he's done so he can tell us all about it and it's a highlight for him to be able to show us his friends and teachers.
It's such an exciting time for him to start school in September but we will miss everyone from Rainbow and I couldn't be more grateful to them for looking after our son. Highly recommend.'
'Our daughter has had a fantastic 3 years at Rainbow Day Nursery. She joined just after Covid and as all of the children born at this time, she had not been able to socialise much and experience much of the outside world so coming to nursery was a difficult challenge to face, but the whole team did such a brilliant job of helping these children settle in as quickly as possible and she has thrived ever since! She's really enjoyed going to nursery and always came out saying she had had a great day of fun! She's excited to start school in September and is more than ready to face the next challenge in her life thanks to the work and help from everyone at Rainbow Day Nursery. Thank you all and keep doing a great job!'
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