Food
Meals are prepared on-site using locally sourced ingredients, with vegetarian options available. Emphasis is on healthy choices, limiting added fats, sugars, and sodium. Milk and water are provided throughout the day.
Tiny Toez @ East Staffs
Ofsted: Good
(Mar 2025)
Number of places
72 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2025
Local authority
Staffordshire
About this day nursery
Tiny Toez @ East Staffs is a nurturing haven for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years, located within the East Staffordshire Family Hub in Burton On Trent. The nursery champions the Curiosity Approach, fostering a love for learning through stimulating activities and open-ended resources in age-specialised rooms like Little Ferns (0-2), Acorns (2-3), and Oaks (3-5).
They prioritise safety with meticulously reviewed procedures and encourage healthy habits by serving nutritious, locally sourced meals with vegetarian options. The dedicated and qualified staff, led by manager Christine Leeman, strive to create a safe, happy, and caring environment, focusing on personal, social, emotional development, communication, and language.
The nursery promotes British values and cultural capital, celebrating diversity through craft-making days and special events. They maintain close links with local schools to ensure children are well-prepared for their next educational step.
Parents are kept updated through an online portal (Famly) and social media, and are encouraged to participate in their child's learning journey. The facility operates 51 weeks a year, from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm, Monday to Friday.
Our ethos
At Tiny Toez @ East Staffs, every child is seen as an individual. We actively promote British values and cultural capital in our daily activities, nurturing strong, independent learners within a caring environment, supported by dedicated practitioners. Your child’s journey begins here, at Tiny Toez @ East Staffs, where we encourage curiosity and inspire a love for learning.
What it's like
Leaders have made significant improvements since their last inspection, ensuring a clean and safe environment for children. Children play happily and feel secure, engaging in fun activities that develop physical skills and promote healthy lifestyles. They learn respectful behaviours, independence, and how to care for others and the environment.
Curiosity ApproachAge-specialised roomsNutritious mealsSchool readiness programmeFamily Hub location
Pricing & funding
Fees are flat-rate across all child age groups, with charges applied per half-day or full-day session. Full-week rates are also available, and the nursery offers funded hours for eligible children alongside holiday care for children up to five years old.
Funding accepted
15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
Good to know
- Flat-rate fees apply across all child age groups.
- Full-week rates are available.
- Government funded hours are accepted for eligible children.
- Holiday care is provided for children up to five years old.
Key facts
Opening hours
7.30am until 6.00pm, Monday to Friday (51 weeks a year, except Bank Holidays)
Session types
Half Day, Full Day, Full Week, Funded Hours, Holiday Care
Age range
6 weeks to 5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Established
2013
Waitlist
Unknown
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating
Last inspected 19 March 2025 · Sue Bradford
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
Leaders have made significant improvements since their last inspection, ensuring a clean and safe environment for children. Children play happily and feel secure, engaging in fun activities that develop physical skills and promote healthy lifestyles. They learn respectful behaviours, independence, and how to care for others and the environment.
Inspector highlights
- Leaders have made significant improvements since their last inspection.
- Children play happily alongside friendly staff, feeling safe and secure.
- Children happily engage in a range of fun and exciting activities.
- Staff teach children to develop an understanding of healthy lifestyles and promote growing independence.
- Leaders have developed a curriculum that reflects children's interests and developmental needs.
Areas to develop
- 1support staff to build on what children already know and can do to fully support their next steps in learning
- 2embed how staff consistently support communication and language for older children to help them make even better progress in this area.
Inspection #10373509 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents speak favourably about the nursery and the staff who care for their children.
They report how their children enjoy their time at the nursery and feel safe and secure.
They appreciate the information they receive about their children's daily activities and the progress they are making.
Parents comment that they receive helpful information from staff about how they can continue to support their children's learning at home.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Leaders have worked hard to develop how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). They use observation and assessment to identify and plan appropriate support, provide ongoing training and coaching for staff, and partner with external agencies for specialist advice to further support children with SEND.
Outdoor space
Children run around excitedly in an enabling outdoor area, developing important physical skills as staff guide them along balance beams and model throwing balls through basketball hoops. They also learn new vocabulary, such as the names of unfamiliar vegetables like cabbage and peppers, as they prepare meals for staff in their outdoor café.
Parent Reviews
3.5
(16)
Laura
3 months ago
I moved my little girl here from another nursery and I couldn't be happier with the difference in care. The children are always busy playing with lots of difference things when I pick up. She is always smiling and telling me about her day and can't wait for her next session. Would recommend to anyone
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Madalina Tanasuc
3 months ago
Our child is always happy to go in and comes home smiling, which gives us real peace of mind. The environment is warm and engaging, and communication with parents is excellent.
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nicole bailey
5 months ago
I was sitting in with my little boy on his induction day and the dinner lady came in and my boy started rambling at her and she said “what’s up with this kid!, is he autistic or something?!” Not realising I was his mother. So rude and unprofessional.
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Masood P
2 years ago
My 3 year old loves it here. Fantastic outdoors playing areas, staff are so caring and professional
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Jazzmin Stupple
2 years ago
Highly recommend this nursery, my daughter has been going for about 2 and a half years and has an amazing bond with the staff and other children. Due to her being a covid baby she was a little bit slower with speech and being nervous around other children but seeing her now you would never think that child existed and is going beyond her early years goals. The staff are wonderful and really good with all the children. I can't thank them enough for everything they have done and will continue to do with my little girl.
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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Good in 2025
Date: November 2013
- March 2025Good
- October 2024Inadequate
- February 2019Good
- July 2015Good
- November 2013Good
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