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Kids In Motion in London (N1)

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Jan 2025)
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5.0(11 parent reviews) ·Barnsbury Community Centre, 12 Jays Street, London, N1 0FE · Islington
Number of places
25 places
Age range
1–3 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
Islington

About this day nursery

Kids In Motion is a nursery and early years academy located in Islington, London, providing expert care and education aligned with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) for children aged 3 months to 5 years. The nursery focuses on an active learning approach, integrating movement, sensory exploration, and play-based education into its curriculum.

They offer flexible hours and full-day nursery care, with operating hours from 08:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday. The Islington branch is conveniently located for commuting families, being just minutes from key transport links.

With 15 years of experience in early childhood care, Kids In Motion emphasises building foundational skills through physical literacy, creative lessons, and outdoor activities. They also collaborate with sports clubs and professionals to develop their sports and fundamental movement programmes, which are integrated into their extra-curricular offerings.

The nursery prides itself on high parent satisfaction and offers various enrichment programmes.

Our ethos

Kids In Motion follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and centres its approach on "active learning," integrating movement, sensory exploration, and play-based education. They focus on developing foundational skills through "physical literacy, creative lessons, and outdoor activities," and have developed specific sports and fundamental movement programmes in collaboration with sports professionals.

What it's like

Children arrive with enthusiasm and settle in quickly at this exceptionally welcoming and well-organised nursery. A fully established key-person system meets each child's individual needs very effectively. Children form strong relationships with staff and their peers, which helps them to feel safe and secure and develop confidence, good behaviour, resilience and self-regulation.

Active Learning FocusEYFS-aligned CurriculumMovement-Based EducationEnrichment ProgrammesFlexible Childcare Options

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday-Friday 08:00-18:00

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Session types

flexible sessions, full-day nursery care

Established

2022

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Kids In Motion

Last inspected 24 January 2025

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

What it's like to attend

Children arrive with enthusiasm and settle in quickly at this exceptionally welcoming and well-organised nursery. A fully established key-person system meets each child's individual needs very effectively. Children form strong relationships with staff and their peers, which helps them to feel safe and secure and develop confidence, good behaviour, resilience and self-regulation.

Inspector highlights

  • Managers and staff have a clear vision for what they want children to achieve and plan a well-structured and broad curriculum effectively.
  • Staff reinforce children's prior learning, such as how to use tools safely, helping children to develop a solid understanding of how to keep themselves safe.
  • The nursery provides resources that support children's language development, including tools and songs in their home languages and English, promoting bilingualism.
  • Highly effective systems are in place to monitor children's progress in their learning, allowing staff to quickly identify and address any gaps.
  • Children consistently show positive attitudes towards their learning, and benefit from specialist coaching for physical skills and baby yoga sessions.
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What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents highly commend staff for their support, noting significant improvements in their children's physical, social and communication skills since joining the nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Highly effective systems are in place to monitor children's progress in their learning. This allows staff to quickly identify and address any gaps in children's development. Staff collaborate closely with parents and carers and other agencies to support children to achieve positive outcomes.

Outdoor space

Staff plan outdoor learning experiences that encourage children to explore nature, such as planting herbs, which they later harvest for cooking activities. Children also explore different concepts, such as what happens when various materials are added to water. These experiences help children to engage in early scientific exploration.

Parent Reviews of Kids In Motion

5.0
(11)
Mark Thompson
9 months ago

The level of kindness, care and fun Helen and her team displayed with our 9 Month year old is truly incredible! Our daughter loved heading to daycare and was sad every time she left! They truly are a wonderful group of staff who I could not recommend more. The facilities are great, as is the daily reporting and activity planning. I Would give 10 stars if I could!

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Jennifer Odu
a year ago

This nursery is fantastic. I was nervous as a working parent having to send my daughter to nursery at 9-months old but the staff were absolutely wonderful, kind and supportive. You can tell they all love their jobs and love the children. They also have created a wonderful community for us parents as well.

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Poppy Bienias
a year ago

This outstanding nursery provides a nurturing and engaging environment where children thrive. What sets it apart is the team of caring and experienced staff, and a well-rounded curriculum through which every child is encouraged to explore, learn, and grow. The nursery offers a blend of structured activities and creative play, fostering both academic development and emotional growth. My son has loved this nursery since his first day at 10 months and I've never had an concerns since, as I know how loved and cared for he is by the team!

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Capucine de Dreuille
a year ago

What a gift to see our daughter happy to go to the nursery every morning! The team is great, very caring and attentive, I trust them ++. They organize lots of activities and the children can play outside when the weather is fine, a real luxury! Thank you Kid’s in Motion!

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Machi Kal
2 years ago

Our son had a fantastic 1st year at a nursery at Kids in Motion, where he learned a lot, he made friends and he got very close to the staff. We moved away from the area so we couldn’t really keep him there longer, but even though more than 2 months have passed, he still mentions Alice and the rest of the staff. The team is doing a great job with many fun, educational activities and celebrations planned. We loved receiving photos every week and getting a good amount of information on our baby’s development.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

24 January 2025

Outstanding

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

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