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Happy Hours @ Picknalls

Ofsted: Expected standard·
4.3(7 Google reviews) ·Picknalls First School, Oldfields Road, Uttoxeter, ST14 7QL · Staffordshire
Number of places
40 places
Age range
3–5 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2026
Local authority
Staffordshire

About this day nursery

Happy Hours @ Picknalls is a childcare setting located at Picknalls First School, Uttoxeter, serving children aged 3 to 12 years. Registered with Ofsted in 2025 and registered with Ofsted in March 2025, it offers a mixed term-time status, including a holiday club, before-school, and after-school care.

The setting operates Monday to Friday, with holiday club hours from 07:00 to 18:00, before-school from 07:00 to 09:00, and after-school from 15:00 to 18:00. The curriculum follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.

The setting prides itself on an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, ensuring children feel safe and secure. Leaders ensure generally positive expectations for children's behaviour and routines, with staff building warm, respectful relationships.

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well-supported, benefitting from staff who understand their individual needs, helping them to feel included and confident. The outdoor environment is a key feature, allowing children to move freely between indoor and outdoor spaces to explore, create, and engage in imaginative and physical activities, such as inventing potions and playing team games with hoops and balls.

What it's like

Children arrive happily and settle quickly into the welcoming holiday club. Staff take time to get to know them before they start, and new children are introduced to their peers. Children attending from different schools, including those who only attend during the holidays, confidently join in with activities and build positive relationships with staff and their peers. Children move freely between the indoor and outdoor environments, where a wide range of experiences encourages them to explore, create and be active, engaging in imaginative play and physical activities.

Safeguarding standards metPositive relationshipsInclusive practiceOutdoor explorationEffective leadership

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 07:00 - 18:00 (holiday club); Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 07:00 - 09:00 (before school); Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 15:00 - 18:00 (after school)

Term time / All Year

Mixed

Registered with Ofsted

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 settle quickly into the welcoming holiday club. Staff take time to get to know them before they start, and new children are introduced to their peers. Children attending from different schools, including those who only attend during the holidays, confidently join in with activities and build positive relationships with staff and their peers. Children move freely between the indoor and outdoor environments, where a wide range of experiences encourages them to explore, create and be active, engaging in imaginative play and physical activities.

Inspector highlights

  • The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
  • Leaders have established generally positive expectations for children's behaviour and routines, with staff building warm, respectful relationships.
  • Staff create opportunities for children to take part in team games that promote friendly competition, helping them learn rules and develop positive social relationships.
  • Leaders have established typically effective arrangements to promote children's welfare and wellbeing, with staff interacting in warm and caring ways.
  • Leaders have developed systems to promote children's health and safety, ensuring staff understand and implement procedures consistently.
  • Leaders have established generally inclusive practice that helps children feel welcome and valued, gathering detailed information about children's needs.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should extend professional development so that training is planned more precisely to reflect identified priorities and further enhances the quality of children's experiences.
  • 2Leaders should strengthen partnership working with schools to promote greater continuity in supporting children's individual needs.
  • 3Leaders should enhance the consistency of staff practice, so children who benefit from additional guidance receive timely support during daily routines.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities generally benefit from staff, who understand their individual needs well. This helps them to feel included, build positive relationships and take part confidently in the experiences on offer alongside their peers. Leaders understand that local authority funding is available to support children with additional needs.

Outdoor space

Children move freely between the indoor and outdoor environments, where a wide range of experiences encourages them to explore, create and be active. Outdoors, children work together to invent potions, discussing the ingredients they add and the magical effects their creations will have. They organise their own team games using hoops and balls, encouraging one another as they play. Children also enjoy opportunities to challenge themselves physically, including practising their balance on stilts and developing their coordination through bat and ball games.

Google Reviews

4.3
(7 Google reviews)
James Russell
8 years ago

A lovely school with a great ethos achieving fantastic results

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M Smith
7 years ago

Great teachers sadly let down by poor school leadership

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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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