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Little Oaks Children's Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Mar 2023)
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4.6(8 parent reviews)
·Upper Fairfield Road, LEATHERHEAD, KT22 7HH · Surrey
Number of places
83 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2023
Local authority
Surrey

About this day nursery

Little Oaks Children's Nursery, established in 2015, offers high-quality early years care in Leatherhead. This family-run nursery provides a nurturing "home from home" setting, focusing on traditional standards within its purpose-built facility.

Catering to children aged 3 months to 5 years, it operates 51 weeks a year, excluding bank holidays. The nursery boasts three spacious classrooms, a dedicated role-play "Supermarket" room, and a well-equipped garden, fostering a stimulating environment for learning and development.

Little Oaks emphasises creativity and individuality, encouraging kindness and respect among children to build strong social foundations. They use the 'Famly' online learning journey platform to record children's progress, enabling parents to stay connected with their child's daily activities and milestones.

The curriculum is based on the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and the nursery's own values, with tailored learning experiences to support each child's unique pace of development. Extra-curricular activities, such as sports, music, and forest school, further enrich the children's learning experiences.

Each child is assigned a key person to ensure their pastoral welfare and monitor their development against the EYFS framework.

Our ethos

Little Oaks Children's Nursery's philosophy is rooted in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, complemented by the nursery's own values. They emphasise creativity, individuality, kindness, and respect, aiming to foster strong social foundations. The nursery also incorporates forest school as part of its enriched learning experiences.

What it's like

Children at Little Oaks Children's Nursery are confident, happy, and emotionally secure, developing good skills for their future. They behave extremely well, are highly motivated, and eagerly participate in activities. The caring, family atmosphere created by staff ensures children feel very safe and secure, fostering strong attachments with their key person.

Family-run nurseryIndividualised learningEYFS-based curriculumOnline learning journey (Famly)Extra-curricular activities

Pricing & funding

Fees are billed monthly, though specific tuition rates must be requested directly from the nursery. To secure a place, families must pay a registration fee and a deposit, with the first month's fees due upfront for early registrations.

Good to know

  • A non-refundable joining fee is required per family to apply.
  • A refundable deposit is required to reserve a child's place.
  • First month's fees are required upfront if registering more than 2 months before the start date.
  • The deposit is refunded upon departure, subject to fees being paid in full and on time.

Key facts

Opening hours

Full Day: 8am – 6pm; Morning session: 8am – 1pm; Afternoon session: 1pm – 6pm. Early start extra: 7:30am-8am; Late finish extra: 6pm-6:30pm

Session types

Full Day, Morning session, Afternoon session

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Oaks Children's Nursery

Last inspected 14 March 2023

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 at Little Oaks Children's Nursery are confident, happy, and emotionally secure, developing good skills for their future. They behave extremely well, are highly motivated, and eagerly participate in activities. The caring, family atmosphere created by staff ensures children feel very safe and secure, fostering strong attachments with their key person.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are confident, happy, emotionally secure and enjoying their learning.
  • Children make independent choices, explore their environment and are inquisitive.
  • Children's physical development is well supported.
  • The manager is dedicated, ambitious and passionate, maintaining keen oversight of the setting, staff, children and families.
  • Staff encourage children to celebrate differences and varying ways of life.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff to help them understand when to give older children freedom to make choices and decisions for themselves in their learning
  • 2enhance current monitoring and staff observations so that these focus more specifically on raising the quality of teaching to a consistently high level.
Inspection #10264914 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff support the development of children's communication and language skills well, for example, by using Makaton signing. Staff also speak key words in both English and children's home languages, which benefits children who speak English as an additional language.

Outdoor space

Children's physical development is well supported. They run, balance, jump and climb while outside. The inspector observed the quality of education indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact this was having on children's learning.

Parent Reviews of Little Oaks Children's Nursery

4.6
(8)
Natalie Madison
2 years ago

Both of my sons went to Little Oaks and we couldn’t be happier with the care and safety they were provided with. They formed amazing bonds with the brilliant staff in both the toddler and pre school rooms (I can’t speak for the baby room as mine were older but I’m sure it’s fantastic too!). The managers organise great trips for the children, dress up days, sports day a fantastic graduation ceremony and so much more. I can’t recommend them enough. It’s a very warm and happy place.

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Heather Dyson
2 years ago

My child has been at Little Oaks for the past four years. I cannot recommend this nursery enough. They truly recognise each child's strengths and challenges and support them on an individual basis. They shower the children with love and continually come up with new and innovative ways to promote inclusion and diversity. 10/10

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Natalie Clinnick
3 years ago

During the time my child was at this nursery, I thought I was reasonably happy with them. It was only when we came to move our child to different mainstream setting (for financial reasons) that I realised that Little Oaks could have been a lot better. My child has learning disabilities and in hindsight she wasn't given the right level of support. My child has developed so much more in a short space of time since attending a new setting. She now receives personalised, focused support each day. I am now kept very well informed on her progress and I'm provided with evidence of how the new setting are working with her and how they are spending her funding. I would say Little Oaks is fine for a typical child but if your child has SEN I would advise not to choose this nursery.

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Raksha
6 years ago

My son transferred to the nursery from one he absolutely adored and we were concerned that he might not take well to it. However, he has settled in really well with the help of the lovely team there. The staff offer useful feedback, the reports are well structured, comprehensive and clearly suggest actions that will better develop your toddler/child. The food seems good although the caterers have changed recently and I've not seen many menus however if I am not mistaken, I recall reading that the meals throughout the entire day provide the required 5 a day. -Food was very important to us as his old nursery had a very limited menu with processed foods that we did not like. Parking in the car park is free for under 30 minutes which is useful and the road is very quiet. If you have any concerns, the staff always take this on board and work with you to provide consistency in your child's understanding of the issue/how to react. Overall we couldn't be happier with Little Oaks and would recommend it to a friend.

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Katie Wharton
7 years ago

My son goes to this nursery. It’s great! Amazing people, location, facilities and curriculum.

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Inspection history

Date: June 2017

  • March 2023Good
  • June 2017Good

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