Session types
Full Days, AM half day, PM half day, Early Start
Little Adventures Nursery
Ofsted: Good
(Aug 2025)
Number of places
61 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Aug 2025
Local authority
Somerset
About this day nursery
Little Adventures Nursery in Cheddar provides a nurturing and stimulating environment for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years. Located within the award-winning Ocean Adventurers facility, the nursery boasts expansive spaces and state-of-the-art resources designed to foster development and growth.
The dedicated team, which includes highly qualified staff and managers with Early Years degrees, focuses on a child-centred approach, tailoring routines to individual needs and interests. The curriculum, inspired by the "Future Ready Curriculum and Thrive Goals," encourages confidence, curiosity, and independence through a blend of play, exploration, and learning.
The nursery strongly values parent partnerships, utilising the Famly app for regular communication and updates. They offer flexible settling-in sessions to ensure a smooth transition for each child and emphasise mirroring home routines to provide a sense of security.
Little Adventures Nursery in Cheddar is committed to delivering high-quality care, as evidenced by its "Good" Ofsted rating, and strives to create a "home from home" experience for its youngest adventurers, particularly in the Little Explorers room for babies from 6 weeks to 2 years old.
Our ethos
Little Adventures Nursery champions a child-centred approach, drawing inspiration from the "Future Ready Curriculum and Thrive Goals" to foster confidence, curiosity, and independence. They are committed to strong parent partnerships and creating a supportive, "home from home" environment.
What it's like
Children are confident in this nurturing and engaging setting. Staff know children well and create a warm, welcoming environment where they feel safe and ready to learn. Babies enjoy sensory experiences, and young children take part in exciting activities like potion making.
"Good" Ofsted ratingLocated within Ocean AdventurersChild-centred approachFuture Ready CurriculumStrong parent partnership
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
Pricing on request
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Key facts
Opening hours
Monday – Friday 7:30am – 6pm
Age range
6 weeks to 5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Little Adventures Nursery
Last inspected 7 August 2025
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
Children are confident in this nurturing and engaging setting. Staff know children well and create a warm, welcoming environment where they feel safe and ready to learn. Babies enjoy sensory experiences, and young children take part in exciting activities like potion making.
Inspector highlights
- Children benefit from a curriculum that is ambitious, well structured and clearly aligned with the provider's vision to nurture confident, capable learners of the future.
- The provider leads with their core values, accountability, reliability, care and honesty, which shapes a warm and supportive environment where children develop independence and self-belief.
- Staff use assessments accurately to identify children's starting points and plan for their progress during term time.
- The provider has high expectations for children's behaviour, and children show a positive attitude to learning.
- Children form secure attachments with staff who know them well and respond sensitively to them.
Areas to develop
- 1strengthen staff's delivery of the curriculum so that children's individual needs and next steps are consistently supported, including during holiday periods, to ensure that all children continue to make good progress
- 2enhance staff teaching strategies to consistently support children in understanding how their behaviour affects others, ensuring that high expectations are reinforced in all situations.
Inspection #10415667 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
Outdoor space
Older children enjoy using their skills to draw treasure maps and seek out hidden letters in the outdoor space.
Parent Reviews of Little Adventures Nursery
5.0
(3)
Jason Legg
a year ago
Echoing what others have said, the staff at Little Adventures in Cheddar are exceptional. Leaving our first child with anyone is tough, but it is comforting to know how well looked after she is. The events, the updates on the app, the information at handovers and communication generally is excellent. I cannot express how pleased my wife and I are with the level of service.
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Bromley Jones
5 years ago
Simply outstanding. Our 16 month old daughter goes to this nursery and there's nothing but praise I can give to the team and the setting. The staff are a delight who are all positive, communicative and professional, Our daughters activities are varied and interesting (indoors, outdoors and softplay!), she is nurtured and we know what educational fun she is having with regular intra day updates via the app. The positives just go on and on :-) When your little one literally walks in through the door and doesn't look back you know they're having a great time and are happy while at nursery.
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Katy Bird
2 years ago
Cannot recommend highly enough, the staff are caring and considerate to both children and their families. Always up to amazing activities and I truly feel my child is supported and encouraged in all aspects of her development.
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Inspection history
Date: November 2021
- September 2025Good
- August 2025Good
- December 2021Good
- November 2021Good
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