Little Plums Nursery Long Eaton

Expected standard

Last inspected Apr 2026

Ofsted rating for Little Plums Nursery Long Eaton

Last inspected 9 April 2026

What it's like to attend

• Children make steady progress across the curriculum from their individual starting points and develop the knowledge and skills needed for later learning.
• Babies make progress in their physical development as they learn to pull themselves up, cruise around furniture and explore their environment with increasing confidence.
• Toddlers build their independence and problem-solving skills as they explore activities, such as filling, pouring, transporting and engaging in sensory play.
• Pre-school children develop increasing confidence in expressing their ideas, managing routines and engaging in imaginative play.
• Leaders have established a calm and nurturing environment, where expectations for behaviour are clear and appropriate for children's ages and stages of development.
• Children are supported to begin to recognise and express their emotions, with practitioners providing calm and reassuring interactions that help them regulate feelings and build confidence.
• Leaders have established clear intentions of what they would like each age group to achieve as they move through the nursery.
• Children enjoy positive relationships with staff and show they are happy and feel secure within the environment.

• 1Leaders should support staff so that their interactions with children consistently support and extend children's language development even further.
• 2Leaders should strengthen staff practice through coaching, mentoring and support arrangements so that high-quality teaching is consistently embedded across the nursery.
• 3Leaders should place a sharper focus on using books and stories more systematically to develop children's knowledge, broaden vocabulary and support imagination, enabling children to build on and deepen what they already know and can do.