Little Imp Pre-School Ltd
Good★ 2.9 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Sheffield for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2023. Open since 2022, with 80 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Sheffield
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Sheffield from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
S6 2BGWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 9 January 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children return from the Christmas break eager to see their friends and members of staff. Some children need a little bit of support to help settle back into their routine. Staff quickly reassure and comfort children until they are confident to join in with their friends. This helps children to feel safe and secure.
Children of all ages make independent choices in their play. They have a wide variety of resources and activities to choose from. These are carefully planned to meet the needs of the children attending. For example, in the baby room, they explore their senses as they paint. Babies feel the variety of textures in the books and listen to the different sounds of the instruments. They are beginning to concentrate on chosen activities. Children develop their hand-to-eye coordination as they separate the shredded paper.
Older children are immersed in imaginative play. Children pretend to be the teacher, reading a story and showing the children the pages in the book. 'Are you listening?', says a child, 'What colour are his eyes?' Children use ice-cream cones and foam to run an ice-cream van. They ask children what flavour they would like and tell them how much it costs. Children learn to understand the world around them.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- ensure staff in each room understand what they want children to learn and how they will do this, to make sure children are ready for the next step of their learning n develop storytelling to enable children to make even better progress in their speech and language development n strengthen arrangements when children first start attending, to support their emotional well-being even further.
- 9 January 2023Good
Still missing for Little Imp Pre-School Ltd
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
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