Puddle Jumpers Nursery - Wapping

About this day nursery

Puddle Jumpers Nursery - Wapping, located in St. Peters Centre, Reardon Street, London, E1W 2QH, is a childcare setting on non-domestic premises that registered with Ofsted on 11/01/2024. The nursery is caring and nurturing, with staff prioritising children's emotional wellbeing and supporting their independence skills.

Children at Puddle Jumpers Nursery are happy and settled, benefiting from secure attachments with staff and effective settling-in procedures, including home visits. The nursery actively supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), working with external agencies and using additional funding to ensure children make appropriate progress.

While the nursery provides a stimulating environment with a range of resources and activities, including outdoor play and a mud kitchen, there are areas for development in consistently extending children's learning and ensuring staff have a clear understanding of curriculum intent.

Our ethos

At Puddle Jumpers we believe nursery is more than just childcare – it is the start of your child’s education, preparation for school and most importantly the foundation for a happy, healthy and successful life. We take inspiration from what we believe are the most relevant approaches to understanding how children think and learn, guided by Reggio Emilia we have created a neutral calm environment, filled with natural objects as a way to inspire the children’s fascination and wonder, providing time and space for them to revisit their interests until they are intrigued by something new. Inspired by the principles of Waldorf Steiner we encourage experiential learning, through the process of ‘making, doing, creating’.

What it's like

Children explore resources in the environment. However, staff do not consistently consider all opportunities to extend children's learning well across all areas of development. As a result, children do not build securely on what they already know and can do. This is because staff do not have a secure understanding of the curriculum intent. Staff interact positively with children, but they do not consistently support them to explain their ideas or widen their knowledge. Despite this, children generally show positive attitudes to their learning and engage well with the experiences available to them. Children are happy and settled, separating well from parents and carers due to a caring team of staff who embed professional relationships with children and families. Staff support children's wellbeing through effective settling-in procedures and robust key-person systems.

Pricing & funding