Little Pippins Preschool

About this day nursery

Little Pippins Preschool offers a stimulating and inclusive environment for children aged 3 months to 5 years, operating 48 weeks a year. They also provide after-school care for children aged 4-11 and a holiday club for 2-9 year olds.

The facility prioritises a happy and friendly atmosphere where children can learn and thrive through play, offering a variety of activities and experiences. The preschool acknowledges parents as their child's first educators, fostering open communication to enhance learning.

They focus on building secure relationships, allowing children to confidently explore and try new things, and value incorporating all aspects of a child's life, including strong partnerships with the community and future schools. The curriculum is tailored to individual abilities, enriching personal, social, emotional, physical, intellectual, cognitive, and creative development, all aligned with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.

Little Pippins is dedicated to providing positive role models and promoting a sense of belonging, self-esteem, fun, love, respect, teamwork, and equality. They are committed to accessibility for all families, treating every child equally regardless of background or ability, and constantly strive for improvement, having received "Good" Ofsted ratings in 2015, 2017, and 2023, and an award for Most Inclusive Team in 2022.

Our ethos

Our ethos and vision in the setting is for Little Pippins Preschool is to strive to provide children and their families with a happy, friendly , inclusiveand stimulating environment for the children to learn and flourish and to feel welcomed. We believe that : - Children are active learners; children learn best through play and through providing the children with a wide range of activities and experiences at preschool children begin to experience and learn about the world around them and how to cope with life’s many excitements and challenges. - We recognise that parents are their child’s first educators and as such children have already learned a huge variety of skills at home which we then further build upon within the social environment here at preschool.Open and honest communications between staff and the child’s parents/carers are crucial to help to enhance a child’s education - When children feel happy and secure they are confident to explore and to try out new things.Secure relationships away from parents/carers are crucial to a child’s wellbeing, each child is nurtured as an individual here at preschool and we value and incorporate all aspects of children’s lives, building a strong partnership with community and future schools. - We offer a wide range of educational opportunities tailored to each child’s abilities and provide experiences that enrich each child’s personal, social, emotional, physical, intellectual, cognitive and creative abilities, all underpinned by the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning through play. - We are committed to providing positive role models for the children in our care. We advocate a sense of belonging and strive to develop self esteem through; fun, love, respect, teamwork and equality. We celebrate our success with a great pride and we constantly strive for improvement. - It is our intention to make our preschool accessible to children and families from all sectors of the community. All children within the preschool are treated equally regardless of race, religion, culture, language, gender, ability or disability.

What it's like

The setting is clean, tidy and well resourced. Children form warm relationships with the caring staff team. However, the implementation of the curriculum is not consistent across all rooms, and at times, some children's individual needs are not met.