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Happy Hours @ Penkhull

Ofsted: Expected standard·The Willows Primary School, Greatbatch Avenue, Stoke-on-trent, ST4 7JY · Stoke-on-Trent
Number of places
70 places
Age range
3–5 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2026
Local authority
Stoke-on-Trent

About this day nursery

Happy Hours @ Penkhull, located in Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7JY, operates as a childcare setting on non-domestic premises, registered with Ofsted on 13/03/2025. The day nursery fosters a calm and respectful environment where children understand behavioural expectations and are supported in regulating their emotions.

Staff demonstrate a clear understanding of each child's individual interests, personalities, and needs, adapting their approach to ensure all children feel welcome and valued. Leaders effectively monitor attendance, communicate proactively with parents via an online app, and collaborate with The Willows Primary School to provide consistent care.

The setting ensures children's health and safety with robust procedures for accident recording, medication administration, and first aid. Children enjoy a wide range of activities, both indoors and outdoors, encouraging social interaction and creative play.

The provision strongly supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) through staff training and dedicated action plans, ensuring an inclusive experience for all. Positive relationships between children and staff contribute to a secure and confident atmosphere, where children freely engage in play and seek reassurance.

What it's like

Children arrive happily and quickly settle into the club, where they are warmly welcomed by staff who know them well. They confidently choose from the different indoor spaces and later enjoy being outdoors. They spend enjoyable time with their friends playing board games, exploring sand and water, drawing with chalk and taking part in energetic play. Outdoors, children engage well as they scoop, pour and experiment with sand and water alongside their friends.

Calm, respectful environmentIndividualised supportEffective parent communicationSEND inclusive practicePositive relationships

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 07:30 - 09:00, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 15:00 - 18:00, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 07:30 - 18:00

Registered with Ofsted

13/03/2025

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Expected standard

Last inspected Jul 2026

Headline: Expected standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
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Expected standard
Needs attention
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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

Achievement—
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingExpected standard
Curriculum and teaching—
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
3 to 12
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted report

Last inspected 28 July 2026

What it's like to attend

Children arrive happily and quickly settle into the club, where they are warmly welcomed by staff who know them well. They confidently choose from the different indoor spaces and later enjoy being outdoors. They spend enjoyable time with their friends playing board games, exploring sand and water, drawing with chalk and taking part in energetic play. Outdoors, children engage well as they scoop, pour and experiment with sand and water alongside their friends.

Inspector highlights

  • The safeguarding standards are met. Leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
  • Leaders have established a calm and respectful culture, where children understand the club's expectations for behaviour.
  • Leaders have established generally effective procedures to promote children's health and safety.
  • Leaders have established generally inclusive practice that helps children feel welcome and valued.
  • Staff use their clear knowledge of children's interests and personalities to help them settle quickly and participate fully in club life.
  • Leaders have established effective partnerships with parents and carers. They share information about weekly themes and activities in advance, so parents can plan ahead.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should strengthen the monitoring of staff practice to identify where staff interactions can be enhanced further to help enhance children's involvement in activities.
  • 2Leaders should explore how available funding can be accessed and used to make a demonstrable difference to the experiences and opportunities available for all children.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders' action plan includes a continued focus on developing staff's specialist skills to extend their knowledge in supporting children with SEND. Children that need additional support benefit from the identified strategies that staff have put in place in line with their unique needs.

Inspection history

Most recent inspection

28 July 2026

Expected standard

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

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