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Early Miles Nursery

Ofsted: Requires improvement
(Sept 2025)
·Ragworth Neighbourhood Centre, St. Johns Way, Ragworth, Stockton-on-tees, TS19 0FB · Stockton-on-Tees
Number of places
28 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
Stockton-on-Tees

About this day nursery

Early Miles Nursery, situated in Ragworth, Stockton-on-Tees, provides a nurturing and engaging environment for children aged 0 to 5 years. The nursery focuses on fostering kindness, curiosity, confidence, and independence through a holistic curriculum.

Their teaching approach is designed to cultivate a love for learning and to prepare children for future challenges, emphasising self-worth and positive affirmations. The nursery aims for a collaborative relationship between staff and parents to create a unique learning journey for each child, striving for them to achieve every milestone with distinction.

They offer both private and government-funded childcare spaces.

Our ethos

Early Miles Nursery's ethos focuses on fostering kindness, curiosity, confidence, and independence through a holistic curriculum. They aim to cultivate a love for learning and prepare children for future challenges, emphasising self-worth and positive affirmations, in collaboration with parents.

What it's like

Early Miles Nursery has a warm and welcoming atmosphere where children settle quickly and choose where to play, promoting independence. Staff are nurturing, supporting children to feel safe and happy. However, the curriculum and staff support need review to ensure consistency with developmental needs and sequenced learning, especially for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Holistic ApproachAges 0-5 YearsFunded Spaces Available

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)
Pricing on request

This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.

Key facts

Opening hours

Core opening hours: 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. Morning Session: 7:00/8:00 am - 12:00/1:00 pm. Afternoon Session: 12:00/1:00 pm - 5:00/6:00 pm.

Session types

Full Day (7:30 am - 5:30 pm), Morning Session, Afternoon Session, FFE Funded (15 hours: 9:00 am-12:00 pm or 1:00 pm-4:00 pm), 2 year Funded (15 hours: 9:00 am-12:00 pm or 1:00 pm-4:00 pm)

Age range

0 years - 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Early Miles Nursery

Last inspected 8 September 2025

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement

What it's like to attend

Early Miles Nursery has a warm and welcoming atmosphere where children settle quickly and choose where to play, promoting independence. Staff are nurturing, supporting children to feel safe and happy. However, the curriculum and staff support need review to ensure consistency with developmental needs and sequenced learning, especially for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Inspector highlights

  • Staff are attentive and nurturing in their manner towards children.
  • Children quickly settle in and choose where they would like to play, which promotes independence.
  • Leaders and staff are clear regarding the key areas of learning.
  • Staff position themselves at child height and show a genuine interest in their play, listening to children's ideas and offering warm praise.
  • Children happily explore the nursery provision and practise a range of skills.

Areas to develop

  • 1review the curriculum to ensure it is clearly sequenced and fully meets the developmental needs of all learners
  • 2ensure that all members of staff are supported to deliver quality learning and development experiences, which support the intended curriculum and are appropriate to children's developmental stages.
  • 3review and further improve the support in place for children with SEND to ensure that there is consistent support in place which ensures they are robustly supported in accessing their intended learning outcomes
  • 4improve daily routines and transitional times further to better support children to understand what they need to do during different parts of the day
  • 5improve procedures for verifying and recording staff qualifications further to ensure that leaders can make informed decisions regarding the deployment of staff.
Inspection #10419377 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The curriculum requires further review to ensure that the aims for differently aged children and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are carefully sequenced and well planned. Staff are attentive in their interactions with children with SEND, who are warmly welcomed into the nursery. Staff understand the challenges that children with SEND face and leaders ensure there is ongoing contact with parents and outside services, meaning the progress of SEND children is regularly reviewed.

Inspection history

Most recent inspection

8 September 2025

Requires improvement

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

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