Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol

British Empire Museum, Clocktower Yard, Bristol Temple Meads, Bristol BS1 6QH
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  • Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol, Bristol
Ofsted rating for Co-op Childcare's Bristol Nursery is Good (April 2023)

Located next door to Bristol Temple Meads train station, Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School Bristol boasts tons of character! They partner up with parents by regularly asking for their feedback through questionnaires and parent meetings as you’re the most important person in your child’s life.

They know that little things can make a big difference, so they make sure to give children lots of hands-on experiences. They have areas for growing food (and eating it), make regular visits to local care homes and focus on doing their bit for the environment.

Your child will learn all about the environment and the community through a global eco-schools programme which will make them become a real environmental champion!

The nursery goes above and beyond for safety which is why ALL staff are paediatric first-aid trained. They have 5 Little Pioneers who help share their core values with the children and encourage them to make their own choices, express their feelings and make a difference in the world.

They have a Parent-Zone app which keeps you informed about what your child has been up to all day including observations, assessments, meals, and even toilet training progress!

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Care Provided by Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Privately Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Sophie Connor (Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 25
  • Total Places for Children
  • 92
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:30-18:30
    Tuesday 07:30-18:30
    Wednesday 07:30-18:30
    Thursday 07:30-18:30
    Friday 07:30-18:30
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays

Funding & Fees Guide for Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol

  • (0-2) Full Day £87.50 / Half Day £55.50
    (2-3) Full day £83.50 / Half Day £53.00
    (3-5) Full day £74.50 / Half Day £46.50

  • 2 Year funding accepted. 15 and 30 hours funding available for all 3 and 4 year olds.
    Short days (8am-6pm) and School days (9am-3pm) offered.
  • Parking

  • Parking Available


Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol Reviews (70)

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Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol has a Review Score of 9.5 (9.547) out of 10, based on 12 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol has 70 reviews.

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Review from G L (Father of Child) published on 23 September 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Excellent staff, fun, safe, great location. My child loves it here and our second will hopefully be attending too.

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Review from Jessica S (Mother of Child) published on 23 September 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My two and four year old have been at The Co-op since they were five and a half months and nine months old. They both absolutely love it and have great relationships with their key workers. My son took some time to settle in and the staff were kind and patient with him. They love the outdoor area, the
adventure playground and gardening. The activities in both of the rooms are fun and engaging and I love seeing photos on the ParentZone app. All staff are highly professional and first aid trained and the management team is efficient and approachable. It is such a bonus that meals, nappies and suncream are provided and the staff are very diligent about hats and sun cream (very blonde children).

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Review from Ffion K (Mother of Child) published on 21 June 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My son is very happy here! He has formed a really lovely bond with the staff and enjoys the range of activities in the room and the garden. It was my worry when going back to work that he would find it hard to adjust to a new setting but although he took some time, the staff were very good at settling
him in and welcoming him. It's like he's always been there now and he's come on leaps and bounds!

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Review from Katie B (Mother of Child) published on 29 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My daughter loves this nursery. She comes home every time and has learnt something new. She can’t wait to get in the door. Staff are amazing and she talks about them all the time. Can’t fault it so glad we chose this nursery.

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Review from S W (Mother of Child) published on 15 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

The staff in the rooms are great although it would be good to be introduced in the morning to any agency staff looking after the children.


Management could be more visible and errors in spelling and grammar on communications such as newsletters needs to be improved.


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Review from Sammy (Mother of Child) published on 8 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

The staff here are fantastic, very friendly and confident with the little ones. They have helped my daughter become more confident and shown us that she can do more things than we thought she could at her age, which has helped us to not underestimate her abilities.

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Review from Gill H (Mother of Child) published on 4 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

All staff are very attentive, friendly and professional. Great location, food made on the premises is varied and balanced. They provide all wipes and nappies if necessary. Great nursery.

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Review from S S (Mother of Child) published on 4 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Staff are very caring, approachable and have excellent relationships with my child.
Improvements could be made in communciating who is working in each room and parents could be informed when this changes.

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Review from Jane N (Mother of Child) published on 4 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Excellent nursery. My daughter has been going there since she was a year old and is now in the pre-school room. She has been happy there from the beginning. Co-op’s attention to her care has been consistent and steady all the way through. I have no hesitation in recommending them.

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Review from Rachel (Mother of Child) published on 4 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Excellent nursery, staff are friendly and very focused on the personal development of the children. Variety of toys to play with, and extra activities such a painting.
Food is varied and nutritious.


Only improvements would be to let the younger children have access to the garden all the time, and

have more day trips out.

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Review from Caroline N (Mother of Child) published on 31 December 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I have now sent both of my children to this nursery and have nothing but praise. The staff are really friendly and put the children first at every point. They always try to think of new and exciting activities and I find it really easy to drop my child off as he loves going. It's great how they supply
all the nappies, creams and food. On another positive is the food is really varied and healthy. They supply Calpol when required which is great for working parents and their opening times work really well. I also find they are great at listening to feedback. Such a fantastic place and both my children have developed with confidence in their care.

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Review from Pippa W (Mother of Child) published on 31 December 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My little boy started here just before he turned 1 and he's just about to turn 2. The staff here have been brilliant with him. We have a little biter on our hands and they've been brilliant working with me to try and help him pass through this stage. The environment is lovely and the food is great too.
I am really happy that we have this nursery available and would happily recommend it.

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Review from Milena W (Mother of Child) published on 28 December 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

We are really happy with the nursery. We can see how much he grows and how much he learns every day. He really likes it.

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Review from Ben M (Father of Child) published on 28 December 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Everyone is always really friendly and helpful. My child loves going to nursery and it’s often hard to get him to come home! He often lists all of the staff and his friend's names which shows how good the relationships are that he has.

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Review from A C (Mother of Child) published on 19 February 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 2.0 out of 5

Although the staff in the baby room were lovely I found the overall approach to communication disappointing. I logged a call with the main Co-operative Nursery switchboard about access to the online feedback and received no callback or resolution to the issues. I never saw the key worker who we were
assigned - who seemed to not work on the day my child was in the setting.


The setting wasn’t welcoming to parents entering the main door and it was frequently difficult to talk to staff in the office. Rooms were moved without any notice and left me searching for the group. I also was concerned about security on occasion when I could just walk in through the inner door with no one acknowledging or questioning me.


Generally, it felt like, as my child was only there one day a week, that we didn’t get the acknowledgement or attention which should be due to a parent with a baby in the setting.


Reply from Ramandeep Sandhu, Customer Service Advisor at Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol

Thank you for your review, I am pleased to hear you had a good partnership with the Baby room staff, however, apologise for your overall approach to communication. We try our best to address all concerns and compliments as quickly as we can while ensuring the daily running of the nurseries are to the highest standard for the children and staff. As we have rolled out the use of Tablets within the nursery setting, we have spent a lot of time learning our way around them to ensure we are using them to the fullest potential, I am sorry you were unable to access this.
Recently we have appointed a new Deputy Manager to the nursery setting who has worked within our other nurseries for a long time. We are aiming to develop a strong management team and develop the setting in lots of new and exciting ways. We also spend a lot of time supporting the rooms to create stimulating environments for all the children that are enriched with resources and learning opportunities. We want each child’s experience here to be special to them and we hope that in the future you will get to experience this.


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Review from Sophie A (Mother of Child) published on 16 February 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 3.0 out of 5

The individual staff in the rooms are great; they are always enthusiastic and talk fondly and knowledgeable of my daughter. She has bonded well with them and is clearly in a caring environment and receiving focused attention. She would benefit from more structured activities. When picking her up she
often seems left to her own devices a lot and sometimes the children have been watching TV, which I would much prefer not to be the case. They do spend a lot of time in the garden, which is great.


The nursery has suffered from management and staff turn over this year, resulting in poor communication (esp. about room allocations), not knowing who is who and slow responses to emails. I used to really appreciate their flexibility, but company policy is to cut this out with administration fees and no ability to swap days - even if there is spare capacity that day. Also, things like the boards with people's pictures, roles and names are out of date which seems poor.


Reply from Ramandeep Sandhu, Customer Service Advisor at Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol

It's great news to hear you are happy with the care our staff provide for the children, we do take a lot of pride in getting to know our parents and children and building strong partnerships with them. Each room spends a lot of time each day completing planned activities with each individual child, these are brought together by setting individual next steps by the key person and then with the interest of the child. These activities are prioritised to be completed around the normal drop off and pick up times. We ensure all staff have the time to give an effective and thorough feedback of each child’s day to the parents/carers dropping off and picking up so at these busier times of the day, we do a lot of free-flow play where the children can decide, based on their interest what they play with. We also do a rolling snack so this again is children choice, this is when they are ready to come away from their toys/activity and have some fruit of their choice and a drink.
Regards to the management team, we have recently recruited a new Deputy Manager who has transferred from another Co-operative Childcare, this has given us the chance to begin our new journey within the office and can help support the rooms.
We are spending a lot of our time updating and sprucing up the nursery with lots of exciting new changes and displays.


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Review from L B (Mother of Child) published on 13 February 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

The staff are lovey they show a genuine care for the children to nurture and bring out the best in them as individuals. Highly recommend.

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Review from Charlene (Mother of Child) published on 12 February 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Our son has been at pre-school here for only 4 months and he’s fitted in so well during this time, he loves that he can play outside when he wants and has made a lot of friends in the short time he’s been here.
He gets on very well with all the staff not just his key worker and his confidence continuously
grows. He loves it here and very excited his baby brother joins the baby room in a few weeks time.

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Review from Laura J (Mother of Child) published on 12 February 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

The Co-operative Childcare in Bristol is a fantastic nursery. It's very rare to find a nursery that will look after your children exactly as you would and who provide a really lovely experience for all the children in their care.
Both my children have been and still are at the nursery and in the five
years we have been there we have never had a single complaint.

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Review from Alex M (Mother of Child) published on 12 February 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

We are really pleased with the environment in both the preschool and baby rooms. All the staff are really lovely and caring and my children really like going.

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Current Review Score: 9.5 (9.547)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.5 (9.547) out of 10 for Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 12 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.7 out of 5 from 12 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.895 for Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol is calculated as follows: ( (128 Excellents x 5) + (15 Goods x 4) ) ÷ 143 Ratings = 4.895

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 4.652 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Bristol is based on 12 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 92 number of registered child places is 18.4. 12 Positive Reviews ÷ 18.4 = 0.652

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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