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The Little Den Day Nursery - Basford

Ofsted: Good
(Oct 2022)
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5.0(1 parent reviews)
·Oakley House, 544 Etruria Road, Newcastle, ST5 0SX · Staffordshire
Number of places
36 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Oct 2022
Local authority
Staffordshire

About this day nursery

The Little Den Day Nursery - Basford provides a warm, stimulating, and educational environment for children aged 0-5 years. The nursery focuses on creating a secure and loving atmosphere where children can learn and grow with confidence, fostering strong attachments with their educators.

Emphasising quality over quantity, they aim to capture every learning opportunity through engaging activities. Owner Kathy Harrison brings extensive experience in early years education, holding a First Class BA Honours Degree in Early Childhood Studies.

Her passion lies in supporting families and ensuring every child has access to outstanding care and education. The nursery prides itself on its dedicated team, who are supported to maintain high standards and a positive work-life balance, contributing to the "Little Den family" ethos.

The Little Den Day Nurseries are an integral part of the local community, collaborating with parents, schools, and other organisations to meet the specific needs of the area, earning them an outstanding reputation.

Our ethos

The Little Den Day Nursery focuses on creating a secure, loving, and stimulating environment where children learn and grow with confidence, guided by educators with whom they foster strong attachments. They emphasise capturing learning opportunities through engaging activities and operate with a "Little Den family" ethos, prioritising staff well-being to maintain high standards.

What it's like

Staff have a clear understanding of their key children and respond well to their individual needs, ensuring children build and maintain positive relationships. Children thoroughly enjoy sensory activities, such as sand play, and staff extend their learning by adding water and discussing textures. Children carefully follow instructions and behave well.

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Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

7:30am – 6:00pm

Age range

0-5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2020

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for The Little Den Day Nursery - Basford

Last inspected 17 October 2022 · Louise Chinyuku

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

What it's like to attend

Staff have a clear understanding of their key children and respond well to their individual needs, ensuring children build and maintain positive relationships. Children thoroughly enjoy sensory activities, such as sand play, and staff extend their learning by adding water and discussing textures. Children carefully follow instructions and behave well.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders are passionate and ambitious, driven to ensure children receive the right level of support and continuously reflect to raise outcomes.
  • Staff comment highly about the support they receive from leaders, who use supervisions to monitor practice, coach staff, and identify training needs.
  • The curriculum covers all areas of learning, with a focus on supporting children's language development, and staff skilfully remodel children's language.
  • Staff find out children's starting points from parents and complete their own observations and assessments to identify what children know and can do.
  • Children are provided with a range of healthy meals, and staff use this to discuss healthy lifestyles and provide opportunities for physical activity.

Areas to develop

  • 1adapt the organisation of routines, particularly during mealtimes, to minimise waiting times for children
  • 2provide rich and stimulating activities as children free play, to ensure they remain engaged and highly motivated to learn.
Inspection #10258897 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents comment positively about the support that leaders provide for their children.

They state that staff are friendly and always take action on any concerns they raise.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The support in place for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is good. Staff carefully observe and monitor the children to set further targets that enable them to continue to thrive in their development.

Outdoor space

Children comment that they like 'kicking balls' while they play outdoors. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

17 October 2022

Good

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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