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Little Hubbers by the sea

Ofsted: Good
(May 2025)
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5.0(3 parent reviews) ·2 South beach retail centre, Links Road, Blyth, NE24 3FE · Northumberland
Number of places
80 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
May 2025
Local authority
Northumberland

About this day nursery

Little Hubbers by the Sea in Blyth offers a nurturing and stimulating environment for young children, conveniently situated within the South Beach Retail Centre, directly on Blyth Beach seafront. This prime location allows for enriching outdoor exploration.

The nursery is designed with an open-plan layout across a single floor, thoughtfully sectioned by low partition walls to create dedicated areas for babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. It boasts a state-of-the-art sensory room, a specialist UV den, and an interactive OMNI Vista ceiling-mounted floor projector, which provides engaging experiences for the children.

The nursery prides itself on its homely atmosphere and extensive range of resources, aiming to provide a welcoming and enriching experience for every child. Operating 50 weeks a year, the nursery offers both full and half-day sessions, with closures during public bank holidays, one week in the summer holidays, and one week at Christmas.

What it's like

Children are happy and settled in this welcoming nursery. The nursery is safe and secure, and staff use good settling-in procedures. There is a wide range of resources that meet children's needs and interests, and staff carry out baseline assessments to plan next steps for children's development.

Seaside locationSensory roomUV denInteractive projectorOpen plan layout

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday 7.30am to 6pm, open 50 weeks of the year

Term time / All Year

All Year

Session types

Full day, Half day (am & pm)

Established

2024

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Hubbers by the sea

Last inspected 20 May 2025

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 in this welcoming nursery. The nursery is safe and secure, and staff use good settling-in procedures. There is a wide range of resources that meet children's needs and interests, and staff carry out baseline assessments to plan next steps for children's development.

Inspector highlights

  • Management has a good understanding of the curriculum and what they want children to learn, helping all children, including those with SEND, to make good progress.
  • Management effectively assesses staff performance by observing interactions and providing one-to-one support and supervisions.
  • Funding is used effectively, including professional advice for resources and developing book bags for early literacy skills.
  • Management constantly evaluates and makes improvements, such as dividing the baby area for non-mobile children.
  • Staff plan exciting activities, engaging well with children, such as providing coloured spaghetti for babies and an interactive board for pre-schoolers.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff to understand when it is not appropriate to use a dummy for children, so that they do not inhibit children's speech and language development
  • 2strengthen staff's skills in recognising when children need more time to process information and work things out for themselves.
Inspection #10403905 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents report that they are happy with the care that their children receive.

They say they particularly like the outings that the children go on every day.

They like how staff have helped them or given them support, where needed.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Management has a good understanding of the curriculum and what managers want children to learn. This helps all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, to make good progress from their starting points.

Outdoor space

Children have daily access to fresh air. The provider is keen for children to learn about the local environment and plans many exciting outings to the beach, open-green areas, and places like the local lighthouse, which help develop children's physical abilities.

Parent Reviews of Little Hubbers by the sea

5.0
(3)
Leanne Alexander
10 months ago

My little boy has just started after a bad experience with another nursery. He has really bad anxiety and is currently being assessed for additional needs, which makes a nursery even more important to me. The space is open, bright with plenty to keep them entertained. The staff are all brilliant, a special mention to Steph, Amanda, Claire and Cam who have made this journey so much easier for me. Tonight when I picked my son up he was full of beans, he said good bye everyone had lots of fun on the way out and this makes my heart melt, he is never normally like this with a new environment and can take forever to adjust. It’s such a daunting experience for the child, but also the parents and after one bad experience it’s terrifying, but I can honestly say it’s been a great experience and as the days pass my little boy comes out happy, which is all any parent wants. Lovely setting next to the beach, Amanda is so quick and efficient with sorting out all the horrible paperwork and admissions etc, but she’s been a star how quick she managed to get things sorted. A great bunch of people, lovely ethics and a nice atmosphere. The only downside for me is the nursery is based on the top floor (a lot of stairs) there is a lift, but can be difficult to navigate the stairs if you have more than one child. Everything else is perfect 👌🏻

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holly nichol
a year ago

All the staff work tirelessly to make my (very fussy) baby settled and happy! Extra settling sessions, very quick contact with pics when he’s settled and always positive on drop off and pick up. Can’t thank the staff enough! Specially Stephanie who seems to work every hour of the day!

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Aimee Westerby
8 months ago

My son started 3 weeks ago after a bad experience at another nursery and ever since starting the staff have been amazing and helpful. Made us feel at ease highly recommend this nursery they are amazing

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

20 May 2025

Good

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

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