Windsor House Day Nursery

At Windsor House Day Nursery's November 2025 inspection, language connected stories acted out with puppets, fruit named in Gujarati and English, and counting woven into songs. This Leicester setting has capacity for 35 children, with an accepted age range of 3 to 60 months.

At its November 2025 inspection, Ofsted judged all six areas Strong standard, found safeguarding standards met, and reported substantial progress for children with SEND and those beginning to learn English. The detail gives parents something more useful than a headline: teaching, care and communication were closely connected.

The early years foundation stage sets the requirements for children's learning, development and care, bringing language, social skills and practical learning into the nursery day. In November 2025, activities linked those strands through stories, songs and sensory exploration.

We're going on a Bear Hunt became an activity involving puppets and props, giving children a way to take part in the story and practise its vocabulary. Counting toys during singing brought mathematics into play; staff responded to mistakes by demonstrating ways to work out the answer. For babies, sensory activities were adjusted around their interests to help them sustain attention.

In November 2025, staff used their knowledge of children's development to choose subsequent activities. Learning was therefore connected to what individual children could already do, rather than simply moving everyone through the same task.

Before children started, staff discussed eating and sleeping with parents and adapted nursery routines around individual needs in November 2025. That makes the home routine a practical part of settling, rather than background information.

Visual emotion cards helped children express feelings, including those beginning to learn English. Staff also used Gujarati and English when naming fruit and discussing health. Daily home-cooked meals formed part of the care described that month.

For children with SEND, parents contributed to planning initial sessions, staff adjusted activities and shared information with other professionals involved in the child's care. Additional funding was used to support development, with its impact monitored. These are concrete mechanisms for tailoring support.

The address is 75 Windsor Avenue, Leicester, LE4 5DU. Opening hours are 7.45am to 5.45pm, Monday to Friday. The nursery operates across the year, closing for bank holidays and one week at Christmas.

For families arranging regular childcare, that opening window and the Christmas closure are useful anchors for work and holiday planning. The whole-setting capacity of 35 places describes the nursery's size; it is not a measure of the number of children in an individual activity.

• Support that lasts. The November 2025 next steps called for sustained high standards and greater impact for disadvantaged children, children with SEND, children with current or past involvement from social care, and children facing additional obstacles in learning or wellbeing. Families needing additional support should make this a central consideration.
• Settling around home routines. In November 2025, eating and sleeping information shaped children's care. At a visit, how would your child's routines shape their initial sessions?
• Christmas planning. The nursery closes for one week at Christmas as well as bank holidays. Families relying on year-round childcare need to account for those breaks.

Windsor House suits families looking for weekday childcare across the year, especially those who value language-rich activities and care shaped around home routines. Its November 2025 examples connect learning with ordinary moments: sharing a story, naming fruit and talking about feelings. The next-step priority is to sustain that work and deepen its impact for children facing barriers.