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Little Robins Day Nursery in Stoke-on-Trent (ST4)

Ofsted: Good
(Nov 2021)
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4.6(9 parent reviews)
·The Old Church, Shelton New Road, Stoke-On-Trent, ST4 6DP · Stoke-on-Trent
Number of places
70 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2021
Local authority
Stoke-on-Trent

About this day nursery

Little Robins Day Nursery provides high-quality childcare across two locations in Stoke-on-Trent: Hartshill and Dresden. The nursery aims to develop children's curiosity and inspire them to become confident individuals in beautiful, calm, and relaxing environments.

The dedicated team focuses on preparing children for their next educational steps, including school, through an engaging curriculum. The nursery offers care for children aged 0-5 years, with specific provisions for babies, toddlers, and a pre-school room.

Little Robins emphasises a supportive and engaging atmosphere, ensuring children thrive and enjoy their time at the nursery. The owner, with over 15 years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Studies, founded the nursery with a unique vision, bringing together extensive research and diverse teaching methodologies.

Our ethos

Little Robins Day Nursery aims to develop children's curiosity and inspire them to become confident individuals in beautiful, calm, and relaxing environments. They focus on preparing children for their next educational steps through an engaging curriculum, utilising a unique vision that brings together extensive research and diverse teaching methodologies.

What it's like

Children are highly engaged in a cosy, comfortable, home-from-home environment. They have many opportunities for exciting sensory play, such as exploring shiny metal items, filling and emptying containers, listening to stories, and making sounds with panpipes. Pre-school children engage in vigorous activities like chipping ice, exploring wet teabags, and making potions in the mud kitchen outdoors.

Two locationsCuriosity-led learningSchool readiness focusExperienced owner-led

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Pricing on request

This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.

Key facts

Opening hours

7:30am - 6:00pm

Age range

0-5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Robins Day Nursery

Last inspected 10 November 2021

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 are highly engaged in a cosy, comfortable, home-from-home environment. They have many opportunities for exciting sensory play, such as exploring shiny metal items, filling and emptying containers, listening to stories, and making sounds with panpipes. Pre-school children engage in vigorous activities like chipping ice, exploring wet teabags, and making potions in the mud kitchen outdoors.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff provide an environment that encourages curiosity, imagination, sensory exploration, and problem-solving through natural and recycled materials.
  • The outdoor play area offers inspiring activities that encourage manageable risks and challenge, such as climbing on logs and building with various materials.
  • Parents value the secure online learning journal, which helps them support their child's learning at home, and appreciate how well their children are looked after and nurtured.
  • The management team identifies and addresses gaps in children's learning, and the SENCo liaises with external agencies for additional support.
  • The management team provides regular individual support meetings for staff, monitors their practice, and plans for training needs to ensure happy staff and effective teaching.

Areas to develop

  • 1provide children with more opportunities to build on their respect for, and understanding of, the similarities and differences between themselves and others in the wider community
  • 2enrich opportunities that encourage older children to enhance their vocabulary and their understanding of the letters of the alphabet.
Inspection #10194533 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

"Parents comment on how much they value the secure online learning journal."

"Parents also comment on how their children are well looked after and nurtured by staff."

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The management team analyses the progress of individual and specific groups of children. They identify any gaps in children's learning and put plans in place to address these. The special educational needs coordinator liaises with external agencies to identify, monitor and secure any additional support that children need. The nursery supports a number of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Outdoor space

The outdoor play area offers children inspiring activities that encourage them to take manageable risks and experience challenge in their play. For example, children climb on the logs to get into the fixed life-size boat. They build and construct with the various sizes of empty wooden wire reels, tyres, planks of wood, crates and guttering. This allows them to manipulate their outdoor environment, creating opportunities for imaginative play and problem-solving. Staff use the six-seated pushcart to take children on walks around the local community, such as trips to the hospital to see the ambulances.

EAL / language support

The nursery supports a number of children who speak English as an additional language.

Parent Reviews of Little Robins Day Nursery

4.6
(9)
Sinead Ellams
4 years ago

Our daughter has been attending Little Robins for nearly 3 years and has had fantastic care. The staff are friendly, caring & fun and always create wonderful opportunities for our child to learn and develop. They have supported her through potty training, a house move and becoming a big sister and have treated her with dignity and love throughout. The facilities are great - the rooms are bright, airy and not cluttered with lots of plastic toys which is very different to other nurseries we viewed. Laura and her team have created a calm space for children to learn in and it has definitely benefitted our daughter. They are constantly adding to the nursery with a sensory room, soft play area and lots of toys in the outside spaces. I would definitely recommend this nursery - my daughter is very happy here & has thrived in their care.

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Yasmine Hughes
a year ago

My little boy started Little robins at the start of the year. This was his first time ever going to nursery. He started off nervous, and crying(as expected) and within a matter of a couple of weeks there, he now races into the doors as soon as we get there. The staff are incredibly friendly, and made me and dad feel at ease the whole time. My little boy is flourishing while attending here, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the ladies that make him feel so safe and comfortable.

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sharon cantelo
7 years ago

It’s not easy returning to work, especially when your little one seems so small. In her 2nd week of attending Little Robins my 7 month old bounced up and down and babbled away when approaching the nursery entrance. I felt absolute joy that I had chosen a nursery that she was so clearly happy to go to. What attracted me to the nursery was how beautifully the rooms were decorated and filled with a variety of play areas and unconventional toys that encourages children’s imaginations to explore and learn. The staff are wonderful and friendly, they inform you of all the different activities your child has done and food they have eaten. Little Robins is such a lovely warm, nurturing environment it gives me complete peace of mind going to work knowing that my child is having a lovely day at nursery.

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Natalie Forester
7 years ago

Little Robins meets all of my youngest sons needs and he will stay here until reception. He was unsettled at his last nursery so I was so happy when a friend recommended this setting. All the rooms area calm, fun, natural, learning environment from their baby, to toddler to pre school. The rooms are huge and the outside space is amazing! The learning is suited to each child/their interest. Staff are always pleasant and happy to answer any questions. The food is freshly cooked onsite and it’s always clean. They are very competitively priced with local providers, I travel from the other end of the city as nothing else compares.

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Venkat Sajja
7 years ago

Lovely nursery, great friendly staff. The rooms are very well planned and have a great array of toys, has a fantastic sensory area. They have some great activity areas both indoor and outdoor. Has there own car parking spaces so no need to park elsewhere and walk. The staff are very caring and we can see the excitement and happiness in our sons face while going to nursery every day which gives us such peace of mind knowing he is in good hands.

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Inspection history

Date: November 2021

  • December 2021Good
  • November 2021Good

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