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Little Buddies Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2022)
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5.0(7 parent reviews) ·2 Hamilton Road, High Wycombe, HP13 5BW · Buckinghamshire
Number of places
64 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2022
Local authority
Buckinghamshire

About this day nursery

Little Buddies Day Nursery, established in 2014 by Mrs. Farzana Khan, offers a distinctive early years experience across its branches in Flackwell Heath and High Wycombe. With over 30 years of expertise in Early Years, Farzana focuses on delivering superior care and education within a secure and welcoming home-like environment, ensuring every child feels valued and respected.

The nursery operates with a family-centred ethos, fostering strong partnerships with parents. They adopt a child-centric approach, crafting personalised learning opportunities that are both stimulating and supportive, in alignment with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.

The nursery highlights its commitment to fostering an atmosphere where children can learn, grow, and truly flourish.

Our ethos

Our philosophy at Little Buddies is to create and maintain safe, fun and loving learning enriched environments for all children to learn, grown and flourish in.We recognise that every child is unique, therefore provide personalised learning opportunities that are supportive and stimulating for all individuals, in line with the EYFS.

What it's like

Children are happy and settled at the nursery. All children take part and get involved in activities. Staff have high ambition for all children and actively adapt activities to ensure all children are included, especially children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Family-run nurseryChild-centric approachEYFS-aligned curriculumPersonalised learning opportunities

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Mon-Fri: 07:30am to 06:00pm

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Buddies Day Nursery

Last inspected 6 January 2022 · Hayley Marshall-Gowen

Safeguarding effective
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 happy and settled at the nursery. All children take part and get involved in activities. Staff have high ambition for all children and actively adapt activities to ensure all children are included, especially children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Inspector highlights

  • Staff foster children's enjoyment of looking at books and listening to stories.
  • Children enjoy activities that help them to learn about colours and numbers.
  • Staff who work in the baby room understand about how young babies develop and how to support babies to communicate.
  • Children show an awareness of each other and themselves. Staff know about children's home lives and cultures and celebrate their uniqueness.
  • Children display confidence and high self-esteem. All children, including babies, move around the nursery with a sense of purpose and make choices about what they play with and how they learn.

Areas to develop

  • 1simplify the curriculum intent; making sure to embed this securely across the nursery so all staff can confidently deliver the good-quality curriculum for children
  • 2arrange personal care routines, such as nappy changing times, so they do not disrupt children's obvious enjoyment and engagement in learning activities.
Inspection #10217291 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents say they feel that the nursery staff care and nurture the whole family. They feel confident in the progress children make and know how to support their learning at home.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make especially good progress in their learning. This is because staff have high ambition for all children and actively adapt activities to ensure all children are included. Children with SEND enjoy experiences that stimulate their senses. Children with visual impairment explore through touching and feeling objects with the close support and encouragement of staff.

Outdoor space

Children enjoy playing outdoors and having opportunities to be physically active and energetic. This helps to promote their good health.

EAL / language support

The nursery supports a number of children who speak English as an additional language

Parent Reviews of Little Buddies Day Nursery

5.0
(7)
Shazad Khan
a year ago

Great nursery. Started sending my son here a few months after his second birthday. He settled in very quickly and now looks forward to going in. The place is clean and the staff are friendly.

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Vicky Prince
a year ago

My grandson has been going to this nursery since he was 9 months old. He loves it!

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

6 January 2022

Good

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

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