Little Aisha Nursery Neasden

Little Aisha Nursery Neasden is marked closed by Ofsted. The closed record is for the setting at St. Patricks RC Church, Hardie Close, London NW10 0UH, so families should not treat this profile as a current childcare option.

Its final published full inspection took place in October 2023. The provision was judged Good and safeguarding was found effective. That report is useful as a record of the former setting, not evidence of care now being delivered. The judgement followed a Requires Improvement outcome in 2022, making the documented improvement meaningful within the history of this particular provider.

In October 2023, practical learning gave children several concrete ways to investigate ideas. Younger children explored textured sensory books and listened to songs with puppets. Older children examined twigs, leaves and conkers with magnifying glasses, while another activity used gloop to explore volcanoes, lava and dinosaurs.

Communication ran through planned activities and spontaneous moments. Children practised brushing pretend teeth with real toothbrushes and helped peel and chop healthy snacks. Outdoors, they used bikes, climbing apparatus and balancing equipment. These activities combined language, coordination and self-care in ways children could act out for themselves. Kind behaviour was made equally tangible: younger children used hand puppets and practised gentle handling by stroking them. This connected an abstract expectation about respect to an action a young child could understand and repeat.

The provision worked within the Early Years Foundation Stage, the English framework that develops communication, physical skills, relationships and early knowledge through play and guided learning. The inspection also identified a clear limitation: staff did not always leave enough time for children to answer questions, consolidate learning or continue an interest before moving on.

Children settled quickly and formed secure attachments with their key persons in October 2023. Families contributed key words from children's home languages, and children's photographs supported a sense of belonging. Parents also reported good communication and progress at that time. The key-person detail matters because it shows how continuity was organised around a familiar adult, while the home-language words gave staff a practical bridge between family life and the former nursery day.

Management had prioritised training, staff support and supervision following the 2022 inspection. By the 2023 visit, managers monitored practice and worked with parents and outside professionals so children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities, received support. Ofsted found safeguarding effective, with regular staff training, understood responsibilities and continual environmental risk assessment.

Ofsted's closed record identifies this former provision at St. Patricks RC Church, Hardie Close, London NW10 0UH. Historical profile data described an age range of three months to five years and capacity for 70 children. It also classified the former service as full-day care. Closure means there is no current booking model to describe: full days, shorter sessions and flexible arrangements must not be inferred from that historic service label. Those figures describe the recorded former provision and must not be read as a current offer, booking pattern or availability statement.

• Closed provider record. Ofsted marks this exact setting and address closed. Families seeking care need a currently operating provider rather than relying on the former provision described here.
• Historical quality evidence. The Good judgement and safeguarding finding date from October 2023. They record practice before closure and cannot establish the quality of any different or successor provision.
• Teaching pace. The final inspection asked staff to give children more time to answer, consolidate learning and follow their interests. This remains part of the historical account, not a current improvement claim.

The final inspection documented practical learning, purposeful communication work and secure key-person relationships, alongside a development point about allowing children time to sustain their thinking. It also recorded improvement in training, supervision and curriculum oversight after the earlier inspection.

Closure is decisive, overriding every historic strength recorded in the final inspection and every stale operational field in the earlier profile data. It suits no family seeking a current nursery booking because Ofsted marks Little Aisha Nursery Neasden at this address closed. The educational and care detail above should be read only as a record of the setting inspected in October 2023.