Opening hours
7:30am - 6:00pm
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.
Funding accepted
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Opening hours
7:30am - 6:00pm
Age range
0-5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 10 November 2021
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
Areas to develop
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
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.
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.
The nursery supports a number of children who speak English as an additional language.
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.
Read on GoogleMy 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.
Read on GoogleIt’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.
Read on GoogleLittle 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.
Read on GoogleLovely 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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Date: November 2021
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