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Footsteps Day Nursery in London (E11)

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2023)
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5.0(17 parent reviews)
·2 Preston Road, London, E11 1NN · Waltham Forest
Number of places
35 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2023
Local authority
Waltham Forest

About this day nursery

Footsteps Day Nursery is dedicated to cultivating a nurturing and stimulating setting where children can flourish, feel secure, and embrace their childhood. The nursery prioritises the health, safety, and safeguarding of every child.

They are committed to fostering lifelong learning and ensuring children are well-prepared for school. The nursery emphasises open communication and responsiveness to the needs of families, children, staff, regulatory bodies, and the wider community, consistently striving for enhancements.

Their philosophy centres on creating joyful environments where children thrive through play and laughter, recognising that people are fundamental to their organisation. They aim to provide enriching spaces that support each child's development and contentment.

Our ethos

Health, safety and safeguarding are priorities in everything that we do. We will listen and respond to our families, our children, our staff, regulatory bodies and the wider community making changed where necessary and continually striving for improvement. People are at the heart of our organisation. Environments that allow children to thrive and feel content. We allow children to be children. We support children to become lifelong learners (and to be school ready). Fun happy places filled with joy and laughter

What it's like

Children enjoy their time at this welcoming, safe nursery, happily leaving their parents at the door and quickly settling. They are making friends and developing social skills, while staff encourage their learning and praise kind behaviour. Children are confident, articulate, and show good critical-thinking skills.

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 8am to 6pm, for 51 weeks of the year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Footsteps Day Nursery

Last inspected 24 January 2023

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

What it's like to attend

Children enjoy their time at this welcoming, safe nursery, happily leaving their parents at the door and quickly settling. They are making friends and developing social skills, while staff encourage their learning and praise kind behaviour. Children are confident, articulate, and show good critical-thinking skills.

Inspector highlights

  • Children enjoy their time and quickly settle, supported by caring staff.
  • Staff have high expectations and encourage children's learning and kind behaviour.
  • Children develop a love of books across all age groups.
  • Staff prioritise children's emotional security and provide effective support during transitions.
  • Older children develop muscle strength and agility through physical play.

Areas to develop

  • 1improve staff deployment to provide children with consistently high-quality interactions without disruption, particularly in the toddler room
  • 2enhance arrangements for the monitoring and supervision of staff, to provide staff with precise feedback and targets that will help them develop their childcare knowledge and teaching practice.
Inspection #10236363 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents praise the staff team and feel well informed.

They welcome the detailed information they receive, online and in person, about their children's learning and development.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

Older children develop their muscle strength as they pull themselves up a climbing slope and laugh with their friends as they take turns to slide down the slide. Toddlers show agility as they carefully crouch down to pick up colourful balls and excitedly play a game with staff, racing balls down a pipe, which helps develop their hand-eye coordination.

Parent Reviews of Footsteps Day Nursery

5.0
(17)
Kat Hickson
7 months ago

We couldn’t be happier with our experience at Footsteps!! The staff truly go above and beyond every single day, not only for the children but also for the families. You can feel how much they genuinely care, and that creates such a safe, nurturing environment. Our older daughter has made friends for life here, and still talks fondly about the staff!! The team are so knowledgeable and supportive, and there’s a real sense of community that makes you feel part of something special. We’ve loved our time here so much that we’re sending our youngest in just a week (we were lucky enough to get a spot) and we know she’ll thrive just like her sister did. We honestly couldn’t recommend this nursery more!

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Grant Sutton
8 months ago

Our daughter loved attending Footsteps nursery. The staff were warm, caring and friendly throughout the 4 years she attended. They provided a good mix of play and constructive learning, when she left she was school ready. With regular parent events, an app for tracking day to day activities, photos, meals etc. as a parent you feel you get to see what your child has been doing each day even when they are too exhausted to remember at the end of the day. Highly recommend if places are available.

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Jenny Roberts
2 years ago

Footsteps Leytonstone is a truly special place. Our two children (4 and 2) attended this setting from around 13 months and have only left because we have moved away from the area. We all loved Footsteps and our children would, quite literally, skip in through the door each morning. The staff have created an incredibly nurturing, warm and safe environment for the children in their care, and we could not be more grateful. The ethos of the nursery is caring, respectful, joyful and fun. We have been so impressed with the mental, emotional and physical development of our kids under their care and are so sad to leave. They made wonderful friendships and formed very strong bonds with staff and their peers. When looking for a nursery, we wanted somewhere where our children were safe, happy and loved. We found it here in abundance. Thank you all! X

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jl Cross
3 years ago

Sending our son to Footsteps Day Nursery has been one of the best decisions we have made for him. The staff are unbelievably kind and caring as well as accommodating. They truly enjoyed supporting him during this part of his journey. The community at Footsteps is also very strong, ensuring he made great friends and has had the best start to pre-school as possible.

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Terence Sands
3 years ago

Excellent nursery. Both our children have been going since they were 1yrs old and our daughter has just 'graduated' and is now going to school. The staff are exceptional, standards are the highest when it comes to safe guarding, quality of education and support and feedback is frequent and detailed. We love the fact that the price is pretty much all inclusive, so no extra nappy costs, suncream, packed lunch or food costs. This compares very well to some of our friend's nurseries where the parents have to supply everything. Highly recommend.

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Inspection history

Date: April 2016

  • January 2023Good
  • March 2017Good
  • April 2016Good

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