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Oz Tots

Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(3 parent reviews) ·Moyses Barn West, Mayfield Road, Five Ashes, TN20 6HL · East Sussex
Number of places
65 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2026
Local authority
East Sussex

About this day nursery

Oz Tots, established in 2024, is a childcare setting for children aged 0-4 years located in Five Ashes, East Sussex. The nursery operates year-round, opening Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 18:00.

While the overall effectiveness is rated as Inadequate, the setting does meet safeguarding standards. Leaders have recently improved how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring staff are equipped to assess development, plan next steps, and monitor progress.

The nursery uses strategies such as Makaton and visual aids to help children achieve, with funding specifically used to promote individual children's development. Oz Tots follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, enhanced by a concept-led approach that allows staff to integrate various concepts based on children's interests.

Children benefit from regular access to a forest school area, which supports outdoor learning and engagement, and they make good progress from their starting points. The nursery has a total capacity of 65 children.

Our ethos

Oz Tots Nursery & Forest School's pedagogy is rooted in the EYFS framework and its Forest School programme. This approach encourages children's exploration, learning, and growth through nature connection, calculated risk-taking, and the development of social and personal skills. The nursery aims to foster curiosity and fun, supporting children's holistic development and preparing them for school.

What it's like

Children enjoy their time at the setting and settle in quickly, forming positive relationships with their key person. Their physical development is well supported through access to an indoor soft-play area and a forest school. Staff also prioritise children's communication development and social skills.

Concept-led curriculumSEND provision improvedForest school accessGood progressPhysical development supported

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 07:30 - 18:00

Age range

0-4 years

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2024

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Expected standard

Last inspected Feb 2026

Headline: Expected standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
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Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Oz Tots

Last inspected 18 February 2026

Safeguarding effective

What it's like to attend

Children enjoy their time at the setting and settle in quickly, forming positive relationships with their key person. Their physical development is well supported through access to an indoor soft-play area and a forest school. Staff also prioritise children's communication development and social skills.

Inspector highlights

  • Children make good progress from their starting points and achieve well.
  • Children have regular access to the forest school area, which helps those who prefer to learn outdoors stay engaged.
  • Children are well supported to make friends and work together in their play, demonstrating collaborative skills.
  • Leaders have reviewed and improved the curriculum, introducing a concept-led approach that allows staff to weave in different concepts based on children's interests.
  • Leaders have made improvements to how they support children who face barriers to their learning, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should strengthen staff understanding of when to adapt their practice in response to children's changing needs to support their achievements even further.
  • 2Leaders should ensure teaching is consistent so that children embed self-care practises across the setting.
  • 3Leaders should continue to support staff to implement the curriculum with a focus on providing children with high-quality interactions.
Inspection #10416904 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders have improved how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring staff know how to assess development, plan next steps, and monitor progress. Staff use strategies such as Makaton and visual aids to help children achieve, and funding is used to promote specific children's development.

Outdoor space

Children have regular access to the forest school area, which helps those who prefer to learn outdoors stay engaged. They demonstrate collaborative skills during forest school sessions, for instance, when moving long pipes. Staff also help children to risk assess and manage their own safety during outdoor play, encouraging them to decide if it feels safe to climb low-level trees. Children benefit from time in the forest school, searching for bugs and recalling past learning.

Parent Reviews of Oz Tots

5.0
(3)
Bex Spiller
8 months ago

I was so worried about moving my daughter to a new nursery when we moved towns, but I’m blown away by just how incredible Oz Tots is that I needn’t have worried at all. Evelyn is SO excited to go in and super chatty all the way home, toddler babbling about what she has been doing and all her friends and the staff names. She’s become obsessed with nature thanks to forest school and her love of arts and crafts is well catered for (as is evidenced by the tons of paintings we now have around the house). It’s clear the team really care for the children here and I’m so glad we made the move. Thank you all!

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Chloé
12 months ago

I would highly recommend Oz Tots to any parent looking for a nurturing environment for their child to grow and thrive in. Their staff are all incredibly caring and child focused. Kitty, my daughter's key worker is compassionate, approachable, and well liked by the children. Hollie, the manager, is professional and supportive. My daughter is always happy to come to nursery and is always chatting about how much fun she's had, especially at forest school.

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Katie Aldam
2 years ago

Our son has been at Oz Tots for almost a year now and we couldn’t be happier with the set up, communication and enrichment it provides. The staff are second to none and really care. I would recommend Oz Tots to everyone.

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