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Our pre-school is registered with the local Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership and qualifies for local education grants for our children.

We are monitored by Ofsted and received a very positive report in April 2007. Should you wish to contact Ofsted the phone number is 01483 702656.  The full report can be viewed from the Ofsted website using our unique reference number 153061.

Our Ofsted report gave us the overall grade of GOOD for both the quality and standards of our care and the quality and standards of our nursery education. we are particularly proud of the grade of OUSTANDING which we received for our partnership with parents and carers. This is testament to the hard work our staff and committee put in to making Little Ducks a welcoming environment to all parents and children and involving the wider community in the preschool setting.

Ofsted were very complimentary and their comments included:

"Relationships are extremely good, with staff clearly enjoying the children's company and children approaching them readily"

"The favourable adult to child ratio supports all the children's developing conversation skills very well"

"All children receive a warm welcome in this small friendly pre-school"

"Staff treat children as individuals encouraging them to express themselves individually"

"Children evidently enjoy attending this pre-school. They enter eagerly looking for their friends"