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Dean Close Little Trees Ashchurch, Tewkesbury

Ofsted: Needs attention·
1.0(2 Google reviews) ·7 Ashchurch Road, Tewkesbury, GL20 8DS · Gloucestershire
Number of places
56 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2026
Local authority
Gloucestershire

About this day nursery

Dean Close Little Trees Ashchurch in Tewkesbury is a childcare setting for children aged 0 to 4, registered with Ofsted on 3 February 2025. Although safeguarding standards are met, the day nursery is currently working to address several areas that "Needs attention" to ensure all children consistently receive high-quality care and education.

Leaders have established clear expectations for behaviour and attendance, and staff are developing positive relationships with children and their families, with parents speaking positively about the care their children receive. The day nursery focuses on supporting children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) through partnerships with parents and external professionals, using support plans and targeted interventions.

However, the report highlights inconsistencies in staff practice and curriculum implementation that the leadership team is actively working to improve, including enhancing staff understanding of child development and ensuring more consistent, engaging interactions across all areas of learning. The nursery also aims to ensure that routines and transitions are organised more effectively, allowing children to be active participants rather than passive observers.

Leaders are committed to staff wellbeing and professional development, providing supervision and guidance to strengthen teaching quality and engagement.

What it's like

Children do not consistently benefit from learning experiences that build on what they need to learn next, and staff do not always adapt activities and interactions to meet individual needs. Nevertheless, children develop some knowledge and skills and are beginning to build confidence and independence, enjoying stories, songs, and sensory experiences. Children generally feel welcomed and valued, developing positive relationships with staff who know them and their families well, and enjoy familiar routines while developing independence skills.

Developing relationshipsAddressing inconsistenciesSafeguarding metTargeted interventions

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 07:30 - 18:00

Term time / All Year

All_year

Registered with Ofsted

2025

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Needs attention

Last inspected Jun 2026

Headline: Needs attention

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
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Expected standard
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Needs attention
Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementNeeds attention
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesNeeds attention
Children's welfare and wellbeingNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionNeeds attention
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted report for Dean Close Little Trees Ashchurch, Tewkesbury

Last inspected 17 June 2026

Actions the provider must take

  • Improve procedures to ensure that adaptations are consistently applied for all children who may have barriers to their learning by 29/07/2026.
  • Deliver targeted coaching to staff to strengthen the quality of interactions and ensure children remain engaged, involved and supported throughout the day by 29/07/2026.
  • Implement an ambitious and sequential curriculum that builds consistently on what children need to learn next, ensuring staff understand child development and how learning progresses across the areas of learning by 12/08/2026.

What it's like to attend

Children do not consistently benefit from learning experiences that build on what they need to learn next, and staff do not always adapt activities and interactions to meet individual needs. Nevertheless, children develop some knowledge and skills and are beginning to build confidence and independence, enjoying stories, songs, and sensory experiences. Children generally feel welcomed and valued, developing positive relationships with staff who know them and their families well, and enjoy familiar routines while developing independence skills.

Inspector highlights

  • The safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
  • Children demonstrate recall of previous learning and can apply what they know during play and activities.
  • Most children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make progress over time.
  • Leaders have established clear expectations for behaviour and attendance and work positively with parents to support children's behaviour.
  • Children develop positive relationships with staff and their peers and generally behave well.
  • Parents speak positively about the nursery and the support they receive, with children developing trusting relationships with staff.
  • Leaders have established systems to support staff wellbeing and professional development.
  • Leaders place a strong emphasis on working in partnership with families through regular communication, parent meetings, and targeted family support.

Areas to develop

  • 1Children do not consistently achieve as well as they could across all areas of learning.
  • 2Variability in the quality of teaching and learning means that some children have fewer opportunities to build securely on their existing knowledge and skills.
  • 3Routines and transitions are not consistently organised effectively across the nursery.
  • 4Staff do not consistently provide the high-quality interactions children need to support their wellbeing.
  • 5Staff do not consistently demonstrate a secure understanding of child development.
  • 6Leaders have not yet secured consistently effective practice across the nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders work with parents and external professionals to support children with SEND and other identified needs, using support plans and targeted interventions. However, staff do not consistently translate this information into practice, leading to variability in how support is understood and implemented.

Google Reviews of Dean Close Little Trees Ashchurch, Tewkesbury

1.0
(2 Google reviews)
lilytownsendx
3 months ago

Staff here are very unprofessional! Makes group chats, ganging up against other staff members like they’re in secondary school, making fun of her weight, mental health etc. absolutely appalling! and confidentiality clearly being broken on many occasions. A bunch of bullies, I would NOT send your children here, definitely not the type of people you want your children to be looking up to, never mind in their care for the day🥴 do better!

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

17 June 2026

Needs attention

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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