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Peter Pan Pre-school Playgroup

Ofsted: Inadequate
(Sept 2025)
·Village Hall, Fleckney, LEICESTER, LE8 8AY · Leicestershire
Number of places
26 places
Age range
2–3 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
Leicestershire

About this day nursery

Peter Pan Nursery and Forest School, located in Leicester, offers a stimulating and caring environment where children learn through play. This family-run nursery, set within a magical woodland, focuses on an engaging and creative curriculum that inspires independence and fosters natural curiosity.

They encourage children to embrace challenges and take managed risks, with staff skillfully supporting each child's unique learning journey. The nursery has a strong outdoor ethos, with much of the learning taking place in their well-equipped woodland garden and through forest school activities.

This allows children to explore the natural world and utilise open-ended resources to discover and imagine. The inclusive setting prides itself on a small, well-trained team that flexibly delivers the curriculum to meet individual needs, promoting a sense of awe and wonder in the world around them.

Our ethos

Our aim at Peter Pan Nursery is to provide learning through play in a caring and stimulating environment. We aim to provide equal opportunities for all, adults and children alike, not discriminating against gender, race or ability; to allow each individual to develop at their own pace with kindness, encouragement and praise. At Peter Pan we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum alongside our own specialised curriculum providing core experiences and opportunities for all children as well as enhanced and extra excitements. Children are encouraged to become independent both in self-care and their choice of activities and staff are skilled at assessing where the children are in their learning and development and supporting their next steps on their learning journey.

What it's like

The provision is inadequate. The provider has not been sufficiently thorough in checking the suitability of staff and committee members that have direct contact with children. They have also not ensured that all staff receive induction training to help them understand their roles and responsibilities, particularly regarding safeguarding concerns, meaning children's welfare is not assured. Children are not receiving consistently good levels of teaching and support, as the curriculum is not ambitious or challenging. Despite these weaknesses, staff are warm and welcoming, helping children to feel secure and build positive relationships. Children settle well, are confident in their play, ask for support, and behave well.

Forest SchoolOutdoor EthosPlay-based LearningFamily-run Nursery

Pricing & funding

Fees are invoiced monthly based on hourly, morning, extended, or extended with bolt-on sessions. For funded places, parental contributions apply per session type to cover refreshments, consumables, forest school, and the extended curriculum.

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-oldsTax-Free Childcare

Good to know

  • Invoices are issued monthly.
  • Overdue payments are subject to a late fee of £25.
  • Accepts childcare vouchers.
  • Parental contributions for funded places cover refreshments, consumables, forest school, and extended curriculum.

Key facts

Session types

morning session, extended session, extended with bolt on session

Term time / All Year

Term Time

Established

2007

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Peter Pan Pre-school Playgroup

Last inspected 2 September 2025

Overall effectiveness
Inadequate

Actions the provider must take

  • ensure that thorough recruitment processes are followed and that there are appropriate arrangements to check the suitability of staff and any person who has unsupervised contact with children
  • ensure staff have secure knowledge of how to make safeguarding referrals
  • improve oversight to ensure that managers and staff receive the support they need to understand and carry out their roles
  • implement a curriculum that is ambitious, challenging and stimulating, to effectively engage children in their learning and help them to build on what they already know and can do.

What it's like to attend

The provision is inadequate. The provider has not been sufficiently thorough in checking the suitability of staff and committee members that have direct contact with children. They have also not ensured that all staff receive induction training to help them understand their roles and responsibilities, particularly regarding safeguarding concerns, meaning children's welfare is not assured. Children are not receiving consistently good levels of teaching and support, as the curriculum is not ambitious or challenging. Despite these weaknesses, staff are warm and welcoming, helping children to feel secure and build positive relationships. Children settle well, are confident in their play, ask for support, and behave well.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff are warm and welcoming, helping children to feel secure and build positive relationships.
  • Children settle well and are confident to lead their own play and ask for support.
  • Staff support children to form good relationships and are positive role models, promoting manners and independence.
  • Overall, children behave well, listen to staff and respond to instruction.
  • Staff provide opportunities for children to play outside daily, benefiting their physical development and hand-eye coordination.

Areas to develop

  • 1The provider has not notified Ofsted of changes to individuals associated with the setting who have access to children. They have not provided the relevant information in order that Ofsted can carry out checks to ensure the suitability of committee members. In addition, the provider has not carried out the relevant employment checks on current staff to ensure their ongoing suitability. Therefore, the safety and welfare of children are not assured.
  • 2The provider has not ensured that staff are provided with a full induction and ongoing training. This includes ensuring staff have a secure understanding of how to report safeguarding concerns to the relevant agencies. Although most staff have a basic understanding of how to recognise a safeguarding concern, they are not confident in who to report concerns to, particularly the process for reporting concerns about another adult in the setting. This does not support staff to understand what is required of them to fulfil their roles, including promoting the safety of children.
  • 3Children occupy themselves with the activities on offer and staff join them as they play. However, any learning children engage in is too incidental. Although staff have some idea of what they would like children to learn, they do not plan effective learning opportunities that meet children's individual learning needs. Although children make some progress in their development, they do not benefit from focused planning and teaching to help them make the progress they are capable of.
Inspection #10407409 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents say their children are settled and happy to attend.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

Staff provide opportunities for children to play outside daily. Children benefit from the fresh air and the freedom to practise their physical skills, developing hand-eye coordination using spades and building sandcastles, and kicking balls, bouncing on space hoppers, and balancing on crates to support physical skills.

Inspection history

Ofsted records show this provider has closed and was never graded. There's no inspection history to display.

Frequently asked about Peter Pan Pre-school Playgroup

About the setting

Peter Pan Pre-school Playgroup registered in 2007. The pre-school is in Fleckney, Leicester. It opens Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, term time only, with sessions from 8.30am until 2.45pm. The pre-school employs four members of childcare staff, three of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

URN
EY358316
Registered person
Peter Pan Pre-School Fleckney Committee
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Registers, Voluntary Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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