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'Little Thinkers' at New Horizons Portsmouth

Ofsted: Requires improvement
(Jul 2025)
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3.8(5 parent reviews) ·Wymering Road, North End, Portsmouth, PO2 7HX · Portsmouth
Number of places
84 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2025
Local authority
Portsmouth

About this day nursery

Little Thinkers Nurseries, a registered charity, provides a nurturing and stimulating environment for young children. ' The nursery aims to guide children's learning adventures by fostering their natural inquisitiveness and supporting them in imagining, predicting, and understanding the world around them.

With locations in Kent, Portsmouth, and Paignton, Little Thinkers focuses on providing quality childcare and early years education.

Our ethos

Little Thinkers employs a 'thinking nursery' approach, centred on developing children's curiosity, confidence, and resilience. It aims to foster children's natural inquisitiveness, encouraging them to imagine, predict, and understand the world through guided learning adventures.

What it's like

Children are happy and content and receive warm welcomes from staff who support them to settle. However, key-person arrangements are not effective, meaning some children, including the youngest and those with SEND, do not consistently have their learning and development needs met.

Charity-runThinking Schools Academy Trust

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Open from 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, all year round.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2004

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for 'Little Thinkers' at New Horizons Portsmouth

Last inspected 31 July 2025 · Natalie Moir, Kelley Ellis

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement

What it's like to attend

Children are happy and content and receive warm welcomes from staff who support them to settle. However, key-person arrangements are not effective, meaning some children, including the youngest and those with SEND, do not consistently have their learning and development needs met.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are happy and content and receive warm welcomes from staff
  • Staff provide a range of activities that include children's interests
  • Children have good opportunities to develop communication and language
  • Children have lots of opportunities to build on their physical skills outdoors

Areas to develop

  • 1improve the key-person arrangements to 29/08/2025 ensure continuity of care, in particular to ensure all staff are aware of the personal learning and development needs for all children, including those with SEND
  • 2ensure fresh drinking water is available 07/08/2025 and accessible to all children, at all times.
  • 3support staff to provide consistent messages to children as they learn right from wrong and develop their growing understanding of rules and boundaries.
Inspection #10397374 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The arrangements for children with SEND are generally effective; staff work with parents and other professionals, make referrals in a timely manner, and have individual plans with targets and strategies. However, weaknesses in the key-person approach mean children's learning experiences are impacted and some children with SEND do not consistently have their learning and development needs met.

Outdoor space

Children have lots of opportunities to build on their physical skills; babies are supported to develop core muscles and take early steps, and older children enjoy using trikes and bikes as they access the outdoors. Older children independently access drinks from accessible water stations outdoors, though babies do not have fresh drinking water available at all times.

Parent Reviews of 'Little Thinkers' at New Horizons Portsmouth

3.8
(5)
Ornela Tsanai
a year ago

It is one of the best Nurseries in Portsmouth .After trying a few more before Little Thinkers. Our child was quite happy with this Nursery. We were happy with the staff ,meals etc...

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Charlotte Brown
a year ago

Little Thinkers are absolutely fantastic! All the staff are brilliant and always so friendly. I know that my daughter is in the best hands there. The 3 meals a day and 2 snacks are great and means I don't have to send my daughter in with anything (except breastmilk). The app is great as it lists everything you need to know on there about their day. Highly recommend!

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lisa pan
2 months ago

Pick up is a big problem, long time waiting only for the staff to chat with the parent for nonsense and without acknowledgment. Speak rude and not supportive.

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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Requires improvement in 2025

Date: November 2008

  • July 2025Requires improvement
  • March 2025Inadequate
  • January 2020Good
  • July 2019Inadequate
  • February 2016Good
  • April 2015Good
  • January 2010Good
  • November 2008Good

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