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Little Explorers Nursery and Pre-school

Ofsted: Good
(Mar 2022)
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3.3(9 parent reviews) ·Unit F1 Heritage Business Park, Heritage Way, Gosport, PO12 4BG · Hampshire
Number of places
145 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2022
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

Little Explorers Nursery and Pre-school, located in Gosport, provides a welcoming and stimulating environment for young children. With management boasting extensive experience in childcare since 1998, the nursery focuses on creating a safe and nurturing space where children can thrive.

The facility is purpose-built with bright and spacious rooms, thoughtfully designed and equipped to ensure children feel happy, confident, and secure. Emphasising individual development, a dedicated team of staff works to support each child's unique journey.

The nursery is easily accessible and offers convenient parking, with a video intercom security system at the entrance for added peace of mind. Little Explorers aims to be a place where imagination flourishes and children are encouraged to explore and grow.

What it's like

Children happily move around the newly designed environment and demonstrate that they feel happy and safe. They are eager to get stuck into their chosen activities and show a good understanding of problem-solving skills and imaginative play.

Purpose-built environmentExperienced managementDedicated teamSecure entranceConvenient parking

Pricing & funding

This nursery offers full day, morning, afternoon, extended morning, and school day sessions, alongside a breakfast club. Standard fees include nappies, lunch, high tea, and snacks. For funded children, hourly rates apply for remaining hours, alongside an hourly consumable charge depending on the child's age.

Good to know

  • Standard fees include nappies, lunch, high tea, and morning and afternoon snacks.
  • Hourly rates for remaining hours apply to children in receipt of funded hours.
  • An hourly consumable charge applies to children in receipt of funded hours.
  • Additional meals (Lunch/Tea) can be purchased separately.

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday from 7am to 6.30pm

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2012

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Explorers Nursery and Pre-school

Last inspected 3 March 2022

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 happily move around the newly designed environment and demonstrate that they feel happy and safe. They are eager to get stuck into their chosen activities and show a good understanding of problem-solving skills and imaginative play.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders have high expectations and have updated their knowledge of child development.
  • Staff are positive about the changes and the additional support they receive, leading to a conducive learning environment.
  • Children show good concentration skills and staff enhance learning through listening and expanding conversations.
  • A new method of planning incorporates children's interests and next steps, reducing paperwork and promoting quality time with children.
  • Children build secure attachments with staff, especially those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Areas to develop

  • 1Continue to support staff to enhance the purposeful planning for the older children to embed what children already know and to offer challenge.
  • 2Enhance systems for key people to fully understand all relevant information about their key children.
Inspection #10213344 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Their children are excited to talk to them about the fun activities they have been taking part in.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children build secure attachments with staff, particularly those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff understand and value children's unique ways of learning and adapt their teaching to support individuals. Staff use assessments to review any gaps in children's learning and work closely with outside agencies.

Outdoor space

There are now effective risk assessments in place to ensure that children are safe in the outdoor area. Changes to the layout of the garden have been made to facilitate effective supervision of children.

Parent Reviews of Little Explorers Nursery and Pre-school

3.3
(9)
Jenny Daly
2 years ago

My little boy has been attending here for 2 years since 2021 in the summer pandemic it’s now a home from home. They are all amazing! My boy has learnt great skills to equip him further and the team are so kind and supportive 🤍

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Samantha Webster
3 weeks ago

If I could give -5 star I would - absolutely disgusting setting since been took over by Toots, kicked my girls and 42 other children out because they couldn't treat their staff with respect they deserve, address issues as they came about. To top off left us with nowhere to go and only 48hrs notice, deleted my girls 4year learning journey so I will never see what was happy memories again. I echo this is not the girls in the rooms (they're wonderful amazing people) and original LE manager(A & L) it's toots, all they're bothered about is a pay check. They don't care for your children at all and kicked us to the kerb without a blink. When new Nurserys tried calling for handover of children- refused to do so- absolutely disgraceful holding back on a child's development!! SHOCKING!! SHOULD BE ASHAMED

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alicia ellis
4 weeks ago

All the staff are amazing and trying so hard at their work. They derserve it

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Becca Lane
4 weeks ago

If I could give 0 stars, I would. My son has attended this setting since he was one year old, and now he — along with 42 other children — has been forced to leave. This appears to be due to staffing shortages, which, from what parents have been told, stem from the way new management has treated staff. My son is a preschool leaver but the nursery has chosen to terminate places early for all children who were set to leave. This follows a recent Ofsted welfare report highlighting safeguarding concerns, This has been in the news also. Since the change in management, the quality of the setting has declined significantly. Emails often go unanswered, and the office staff come across as rude and unhelpful. Stay well clear of this setting!!

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Sam Weller
a month ago

I am reposting this as Little Explorers Deleted my review on their Facebook. Everything I have stated in this review is true! If I could give 0 stars I would. This is currently in the news, news papers and our local MP is getting involved….. My daughter went to this setting since she was 9 months old and always looked forward to going to nursery / preschool. We even kept her at this setting when we moved from around the corner from the setting to Stubbington as she only had a year left before going to school. Near the end of 2025 the setting got new management but key members of staff all of a sudden started leaving telling us they don't support the new manager and their decision. We werent getting regular updates due to the amount of new staff coming into the setting and we couldn't believe how far it went down hill but it got worse over the period of the new management coming in, parent reported the setting to OFSTED due to welfare issue and other reasons. 42 children in preschool in which all children are going to school in September were given 48 hour notice at the end of half term that there children's places were being terminated due to lack of staff and too many children they brought into the setting... since after Christmas we were told the staff to children ratio was safe so nothing to worry about. Also they have terminated the older siblings and kept and younger siblings.... As any parent we went to the setting to see what will happen now, we were told we will get support from local authorities to find another setting but hours later on the family app were told it's up to us now...... Do not recommend little explorers anymore!

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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Good in 2022

Date: November 2012

  • March 2022Good
  • October 2021Inadequate
  • February 2017Good
  • August 2016Inadequate
  • November 2012Good

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