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Little Munchkins Nursery & Pre-School

Ofsted: Requires improvement
(May 2025)
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5.0(4 parent reviews) ·St Barnabas Church, Medway Road, Huntingdon, PE29 1SF · Cambridgeshire
Number of places
36 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
May 2025
Local authority
Cambridgeshire

About this day nursery

Little Munchkins Nursery & Pre-School, established in 2016, operates from St Barnabas Church in Huntingdon, PE29 1SF. This childcare setting caters to children aged 1 to 4 years and is open all year round, Monday to Friday, from 8am to 5pm, closing only for bank holidays and one week at Christmas.

The nursery aims to provide a welcoming environment where children arrive eager to start their day, forming strong bonds with kind and supportive staff. The latest Ofsted inspection, on 7th May 2025, rated the overall effectiveness as 'Requires Improvement'.

While babies are nurtured well by staff, the inspection highlighted that the curriculum needs to be more effectively implemented to build on children's existing knowledge and prepare them for future learning. Despite this, staff gather detailed information from parents to tailor the settling-in process for each child.

The nursery has provisions for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, with staff working closely with parents to determine appropriate support strategies, even when additional specific funding is not always available. Activities are offered both indoors and outdoors, and children are encouraged to manage their personal care and follow sensible hygiene routines.

Children enjoy story time, participating in familiar words, and older children have the opportunity to take books home to share with their families. Babies are encouraged to explore movement and develop their physical skills.

What it's like

Children arrive eager to start their day and have formed strong bonds with kind and supportive staff. However, staff do not effectively implement the curriculum to build on children's existing knowledge or prepare them for future learning. Nevertheless, babies are nurtured well by staff.

Eager childrenKind and supportive staffPersonal care encouragedEnjoy storiesDevelop physical skillsSEND provision

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday all year round, except for bank holidays and one week at Christmas. Sessions are from 8am until 5pm.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Munchkins Nursery & Pre-School

Last inspected 7 May 2025 · Emma Bright

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

What it's like to attend

Children arrive eager to start their day and have formed strong bonds with kind and supportive staff. However, staff do not effectively implement the curriculum to build on children's existing knowledge or prepare them for future learning. Nevertheless, babies are nurtured well by staff.

Inspector highlights

  • Children arrive eager to start their day in the care of kind and supportive staff.
  • Staff gather information from parents about their children when they first start at the nursery to tailor the settling-in process.
  • Staff encourage children to manage their personal care, and children follow sensible hygiene routines.
  • Children enjoy listening to stories and joining in, saying the familiar words.
  • Babies enjoy moving their bodies and exploring what they can do, which helps them to develop their growing physical skills.

Areas to develop

  • 1ensure staff implement a curriculum that clearly identifies what it is that all children need to learn, reflects their individual learning needs and offers appropriate challenge, building on what they already know and can do
  • 2improve the staffing arrangements and ensure that staff are deployed effectively, so that all children get the support they need to help them make good progress.
  • 3improve the monitoring of staff's practice to help them develop their knowledge and understanding of how children learn, so that all children benefit from goodquality learning experiences.
Inspection #10397580 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff identify children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and work with parents to decide how to support the children. This is despite additional funding not always being readily available to meet children's learning needs.

Outdoor space

The inspector observed activities indoors and outside and assessed the impact these have on children's learning.

Parent Reviews of Little Munchkins Nursery & Pre-School

5.0
(4)
Yasmin Duff
4 years ago

Great nursery little one loves coming staff are caring, very attentive, learning. Little one has accomplished a lot in the last few months learns new things every time he Attends. Nursery keeps us updated with the app very good nursery.

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Joanna Ciekot
8 months ago

Im so glad that my child can going there ! Really good nursery !!

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zara jolly
8 years ago

Amazing nursery. Staff are so welcoming. I can't say enough for this nursery. So happy with everything they do.

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Inspection history

Date: January 2020

  • May 2025Requires improvement
  • January 2020Good

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