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Little Pearls Nursery and Preschool

Ofsted: Strong standard·
5.0(7 Google reviews) ·29 Mansfield Road, Ilford, IG1 3BA · Redbridge
Number of places
64 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2026
Local authority
Redbridge

About this early years setting

Little Pearls Nursery & Preschool in Ilford caters to children aged 3 months to 5 years, providing an international preschool experience as an initiative of Global Educational Solutions. The nursery embraces a philosophy of seeing the world through the eyes of children, fostering natural curiosity and using the environment as a classroom for rich learning experiences.

They celebrate diversity, acknowledging each child as unique and special. The setting offers a daylong programme carefully designed to meet the individual needs of every child, with a strong belief in the importance of high-quality early learning to lay foundations for a lifelong love of learning.

Facilities include educational, safe, and caring indoor and outdoor spaces, with soft play equipment, water play, and role-play areas, all under 24/7 CCTV surveillance to ensure child safety. The nursery is staffed by dedicated and experienced EYFS professionals.

They offer various session timings to accommodate families, including regular, extended, and afternoon club options.

Our ethos

At Little Pearls, we see the world through the eyes of children—where their natural curiosity meets our commitment to using the world as our classroom, creating rich and meaningful learning experiences. We celebrate diversity and realise that every child is unique, every child is different, and a miracle. We believe that high quality early learning experiences for our two to four year olds are vital as they lay the foundations for a lifetime’s love of learning.

What it's like

Children arrive at this welcoming nursery happy, confident and ready to engage in the day ahead. They are warmly greeted by highly skilled, attentive staff who know them well, offer reassurance where needed and support smooth separations from carers. The thoughtfully designed indoor and outdoor spaces spark children's curiosity, imagination and a love for learning. Children confidently choose from rich, stimulating activities that promote their independence and build important lifelong skills.

International PreschoolEYFS ProfessionalsCCTV Surveillance

Pricing & funding

Little Pearls Nursery provides government-funded places for children aged 9 months to 5 years. There are specific timings for morning, afternoon, regular, extended, and afternoon club sessions. No specific fee amounts are published on the website; parents are advised to fill out an online admission form for further details.

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)

Good to know

  • Government funding is available for children aged 9 months to 5 years, with eligibility beginning the term after the child becomes eligible.
  • Start dates for funded places vary depending on the child's birthday.

Key facts

Session types

AM session, PM session, Regular Session, Extended Session, Afternoon club

Opening hours

08:00 - 18:00

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Registered with Ofsted

2025

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Mar 2026

Headline: Strong standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
—
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementStrong standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesStrong standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
1 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted report for Little Pearls Nursery and Preschool

Last inspected 30 March 2026

What it's like to attend

Children arrive at this welcoming nursery happy, confident and ready to engage in the day ahead. They are warmly greeted by highly skilled, attentive staff who know them well, offer reassurance where needed and support smooth separations from carers. The thoughtfully designed indoor and outdoor spaces spark children's curiosity, imagination and a love for learning. Children confidently choose from rich, stimulating activities that promote their independence and build important lifelong skills.

Inspector highlights

  • Children make excellent progress from their individual starting points across all areas of learning.
  • Physical development is prioritised well, with abundant opportunities for strengthening physical skills through carefully planned activities and outdoor play.
  • Disadvantaged children, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and children facing other barriers to learning make similarly sustained progress due to highly effective targeted support.
  • Positive relationships between staff and children are a significant strength of the setting.
  • The curriculum is ambitious, thoughtfully designed, fully embedded and highly effective.
  • Children with additional needs take part in 'bucket time' sessions that provide motivating and visually engaging experiences.
  • Leaders have a comprehensive understanding of their local community and provide targeted support for children and families, such as food and clothes bank initiatives.
  • Parents value the support they experience from leaders and staff alike, commenting, 'We couldn't ask for a better nursery.'

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders and those responsible for governance should sustain their work to ensure continued improvement and high standards.
  • 2They should focus on creating a transformational impact on the outcomes and experiences of disadvantaged children, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, those who are known (or previously known) to children's social care, and those who may face other barriers to their learning and/or wellbeing.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are fully included and achieve well when staff regularly review and adapt their provision.

Outdoor space

The thoughtfully designed indoor and outdoor spaces spark children's curiosity, imagination and a love for learning. The outdoor play space has been identified as an area to enhance further, providing even more opportunities for children's learning and development.

Google Reviews of Little Pearls Nursery and Preschool

5.0
(7 Google reviews)
LittlePaperMoon
6 months ago

Having completed my 13 month old’s first official week in addition to the 2 weeks of settling in phase, I can say Little Pearls has been an amazing place for my little one. I’m so impressed by everything; the environment is warm, colourful and welcoming all because of every staff members hard work and effort there! It’s so nice to come everyday and see something new and exciting happening whether it’s an event or welcoming the Autumn season. Most of all, a huge thank you to Miss Jasmine and Miss Sima in the baby room for taking care of Mikaeel like their own, for giving me the upmost reassurance and support too each day. I never thought I could do this separation after leaving NICU with Mikaeel but you’ve all made it possible so gracefully, Thank you xx Blossom app is such a great tool used by the nursery staff share live updates of activities, feeds etc.. and the photos are just the cherry on top! Management team Joanne & Saeeda, are always there part of the team, helping out throughout the day and it’s just fantastic to see too!! Warm regards, Halima (Mikaeel’s Mum)

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Rusheena Alibhai
8 months ago

My son has been attending Little pearls preschool nursery for quite some time now and he has had the best time. The team are very accommodating and friendly, always keen to understand your child’s needs which reassures parents. A lovely nursery overall and definitely recommend to any parent.

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Sadia Khan
10 months ago

This Nursery is amazing. All the teachers are so kind. The teachers lots of care about children.

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Fahim Khair
9 months ago

Great staff and new management seem to be really investing into the nursery.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

30 March 2026

Strong standard

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

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