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Footsteps Day Nursery in London (E17)

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
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4.8(22 parent reviews)
·215 Queens Road, LONDON, E17 8PJ · Waltham Forest
Number of places
58 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
Waltham Forest

About this day nursery

Footsteps Day Nursery is dedicated to creating an environment where children can flourish, feel secure, and enjoy their early years. The nursery prioritises the health, safety, and safeguarding of all children in its care.

They actively seek feedback and respond to the needs of families, children, staff, regulatory bodies, and the wider community, consistently striving for improvement in their services. The ethos revolves around placing people at the core of their operations, fostering a setting where children are encouraged to be themselves, engage in playful learning, and develop into lifelong learners.

The nursery aims to prepare children for school by providing a joyful and stimulating atmosphere filled with happiness and laughter.

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

Staff know children in the nursery very well, learning about their interests, home lives, and developmental stages to help them settle comfortably. A strong key-person system focuses on children's well-being and personal growth, fostering good bonds with staff through warm, caring, and thoughtful interactions. Children are happy, demonstrating good behaviour by sharing, taking turns, listening, and using good manners in a calm and focused atmosphere.

Child-centred ApproachFocus on Health & SafetyContinuous ImprovementSchool Readiness

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6pm, for 51 weeks of the year.

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Footsteps Day Nursery

Last inspected 21 January 2025

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

Staff know children in the nursery very well, learning about their interests, home lives, and developmental stages to help them settle comfortably. A strong key-person system focuses on children's well-being and personal growth, fostering good bonds with staff through warm, caring, and thoughtful interactions. Children are happy, demonstrating good behaviour by sharing, taking turns, listening, and using good manners in a calm and focused atmosphere.

Inspector highlights

  • Managers offer plenty of support to staff, who highly value and appreciate this guidance.
  • Parents and carers value the information that staff share to help support their children's development at home.
  • Children have many chances to develop their independence, such as using the toilet, washing hands, and putting on coats.
  • Children play outdoors and practise their physical skills, eagerly trying new things with encouraging praise from staff.
  • Staff recognise and celebrate the diversity of children and families, incorporating learning experiences that teach about different religions, traditions, and events.

Areas to develop

  • 1review group activities to maximise all children's learning.
Inspection #10372154 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Managers and staff are committed to helping all children to make the best progress possible. Staff prioritise supporting children's communication, language, social skills and independence development. They adjust their support to help children with their language development, using tools such as visual aids and signs.

Outdoor space

Children play outdoors and practise their physical skills. For example, they learn to pedal bicycles and climb. Children persist as they use a custom-designed climbing frame that suits their different developmental stages.

Parent Reviews of Footsteps Day Nursery

4.8
(22)
Jennifer Irvine-Cadman
4 months ago

We are so happy our children go to Footsteps (and one graduated now up to school)!. For us it feels like a part of our family in London, when the rest live so far away. Over the years we have appreciated the fantastic care every day, we can see they are so happy, and also some additional things e.g. - everyone helping our son along with his speech after his hearing problems and operation - meetings and updates on their progress (including lots of daily photos and descriptions of their day) - Lovely varied and nutritious menu cooked by chef Diana - many fantastic events for kids and all the family all year round - lovely graduation celebration and supporting well with the transition to school. We'd highly recommend Footsteps to anyone looking for a nursery - it's brilliant and it really puts us at ease to see our children excited to go every morning! Thanks so much! Jen and Beth

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Thomas Loizeau
7 months ago

Our daughter Sophia spent 3 wonderful years at Footsteps under the care of Hannah and the team. She has been incredibly happy at the nursery, it was like her home from home. There has not been a day where Sophia wasn’t happy to go to Nursery with a big smile, which is the best feedback we could give. The Footsteps team has always been very caring, friendly, and full of attention to help the little one to develop into a confident toddler. We couldn’t say anything else but recommend Footsteps Walthamstow. Sarah & Thomas

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Poppy Spencer
9 months ago

We have been parents at Footsteps Walthamstow since 2020 - our eldest is now at school having had 4 incredibly happy years at Footsteps and our youngest is now in the Pre School room there. We couldn't recommend the nursery more highly. The nursery is really well managed by Hannah and the staff, without exception, are friendly, caring and provide such an amazing range of activities for the kids. There is a brilliant sense of community and on special occasions (Mother's Day, Father's Day etc) they lay on little parties and the parents are invited in which means you get to know the other families which is lovely. They prepare the children really well for school - I put a huge part of our son's smooth transition into reception down to Footsteps.

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watersj
8 months ago

Our daughter went to Footsteps Walthamstow for over a year and was in the babies and toddler rooms. We absolutely loved it here and so did our daughter as well. They do a large number of theme days for the kids and activities based around them which is fun for the kids and cute to see. They really helped us to feel at ease with our first child going into nursery and we were sad when we had to take her out. Would recommend to anyone.

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Helen Taylor
9 months ago

The staff at Footsteps are amazing! They really care about the children and make a huge effort to implement a range of fun, educational activities to keep the children engaged and excited to be there. There is a lot of outdoor space and indoor play areas meaning busy children who need to stretch their legs have plenty of areas to run around in. Overall it has been such a brilliant experience sending our two children here and I would recommend Footsteps Walthamstow without hesitation!

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Inspection history

Date: November 2018

  • January 2025Good
  • April 2019Good
  • November 2018Inadequate

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