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Honey Pot Nursery (Garston)

Ofsted: Strong standard·
4.7(25 parent reviews) ·St Francis Club, Earp Street, Liverpool, L19 1RT · Liverpool
Number of places
79 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2025
Local authority
Liverpool

About this day nursery

Honey Pot Nursery (Garston), established in 2017, is a childcare setting for children aged 0-4 years, located in Liverpool. The nursery prides itself on an outstanding Ofsted rating from its latest inspection on 10th December 2025.

The dedicated staff ensure a secure, inclusive, and nurturing environment where children thrive and benefit from individual attention. Leaders and staff maintain extremely high expectations for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and work effectively with early years professionals to provide comprehensive support.

Honey Pot Nursery (Garston) operates all year round from 8:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday. The setting has a strong focus on outdoor learning, offering daily opportunities for babies, toddlers, and older children to develop balance, core strength, and gross motor skills.

Furthermore, the nursery provides tailored support to reduce barriers to learning, ensuring that children with SEND and those facing disadvantage can access the same learning experiences as their peers and participate with confidence.

Our ethos

The nursery is committed to supporting learning through a "bespoke and ambitious curriculum" and places a strong emphasis on staff wellbeing, believing it directly contributes to the high-quality care children receive. They encourage exploration beyond the nursery grounds with regular visits to local parks and outings.

What it's like

The dedicated, passionate staff team successfully creates a secure, inclusive and nurturing nursery where children thrive. Children greatly enjoy attending the nursery and benefit greatly from the individual attention they receive. Leaders and staff have extremely high expectations of what children can achieve, and all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, benefit from effective partnership working with a wide range of early years professionals.

Outstanding ratingNurturing environmentStrong SEND supportOutdoor playHigh expectations

Pricing & funding

Charges for funded hours are supplemented by an optional Enhanced Provision package. This fee covers food, activities, and non-food consumables, though parents can discuss an opting-out policy with the nursery manager.

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-oldsTax-Free Childcare

Good to know

  • The Enhanced Provision package is non-mandatory and an opt-out policy is available.
  • Charges are rounded to the nearest 5 hours of funding.
  • Standard policy automatically includes this charge when allocating funding to invoices.

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday – Friday 8am – 6pm (Excluding bank holidays)

Age range

9 months to 4 years old

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2017

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Dec 2025

Headline: Strong standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
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

AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesStrong standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Honey Pot Nursery (Garston)

Last inspected 10 December 2025 · Sandra aamilton

Safeguarding effective

What it's like to attend

The dedicated, passionate staff team successfully creates a secure, inclusive and nurturing nursery where children thrive. Children greatly enjoy attending the nursery and benefit greatly from the individual attention they receive. Leaders and staff have extremely high expectations of what children can achieve, and all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, benefit from effective partnership working with a wide range of early years professionals.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff establish calm, consistent routines that support children.
  • Children form strong friendships and their behaviour is exemplary.
  • Staff prioritise children's welfare and wellbeing, ensuring that they form secure relationships from the start.
  • Leaders create a deeply inclusive culture where every child is valued and understood as a unique individual.
  • Leaders and governors share a vision of providing high-quality, nurturing, inclusive education for the community they serve.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should continue to support staff to embed high-quality interactions that fully extend children's learning.
Inspection #10108315 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders consistently ensure that any barriers children face are quickly and effectively addressed, so that any gaps in learning or development are swiftly identified. Leaders reduce barriers effectively using tailored support for all children. This ensures that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who face disadvantage can access the same learning as their peers and take part with confidence.

Outdoor space

Babies, toddlers and older children have daily opportunities in the outdoor space to develop balance, core strength and gross motor skills. Staff are supporting children to strengthen their bodies and promote their physical wellbeing.

Parent Reviews of Honey Pot Nursery (Garston)

4.7
(25)
Jon Mott
a year ago

Our child has been attending Honey Pot for 4 months now, and absolutely loves it. As parents we can't be any happier either. The nursery itself, and every staff member has a caring, loving and development attitude. Communication on all levels is fantastic, helping children develop both at nursery and at home too. Being at Honey Pot has really helped our child's personal, social and emotional development, as well as communication skills. We love the outdoor space for the kids to explore and events like Catapillar Music look really fun. A special big shout out to Rhea, Paige and Sophie who are all really creative and brilliant carers and teachers.

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Paige Wayland
a year ago

My son has been going for 4 months now and loves it! He is so excited to go and is upset when he doesn't. He's built a lovely relationship with all the girls in his room and made lots of friends. Everyone at honey pot has made him so welcoming. Everyone at honey pot has been amazing with him. He's becoming more and more confident by the day and I can't thank the girls enough. Big thank you too Maisie, Shannon, Dan, Rach & Nic.

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Jen Entwistle
a year ago

Could not be happier with Honey Pot Nursery in Garston! My daughter has attended since January and she loves it! The staff are absolutely lovely and always keep me updated. My little girl loves them all and now blows kisses to them on arrival instead of crying. She is so well fed and is always doing something fun!! Would deffo recommend this nursery to anyone x

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Harriet Dunsby
a year ago

My son attends Honey Pots Nursery and he absolutely loves it. He’s really grown in to his own little personality in the 6 months he has been going. The staff are lovely and my son has a lovely bond with them already. I’d highly recommend Honey Pots Nursery!

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Sylvia Assumpcao
a year ago

Our son has been attending honeypot since September last year and he loves it. We love to see his photos through the day and how much he enjoys spending time there. Staff is so nice and attentive, his key worker is amazing.

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