Banana Moon Day Nursery Moseley

A natural adventure area, a dedicated sleep room and an in-house kitchen give Banana Moon Day Nursery Moseley a practical identity beyond its moon-themed rooms. This is a substantial setting on Wake Green Road, with capacity for 90 children and an age range running from three months to five years. Outdoor play takes place throughout the year, while separate arrangements for babies recognise that their routines differ from those of preschool children.

At its 19 October 2023 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, found safeguarding effective and judged support for children with special educational needs and disabilities positively. That judgement needs to be read alongside later supervision concerns, including a July 2026 regulatory outcome concerning sleeping children. The facilities are useful; how consistently staff use them matters more.

Full-day and half-day attendance are both offered. The Parent App, which shares routines and learning with families, gives parents a means of following nursery life between conversations with staff.

Rooms and Ages

The group-wide room model uses mobility as well as age to organise children's progression. Baby Moons starts at three months and continues until babies move confidently, with sensory exploration involving textures, colour and shapes. The group-wide Baby Moons model specifies a maximum of three children per adult. Teenie Moons takes mobile children up to two years, with painting, songs and messy activities providing opportunities to explore and express themselves.

Mini Moons covers the two-to-three stage, emphasising choosing activities, growing independence and support with toilet training. Full Moons serves children from three to five, combining child-chosen play with individual learning recorded by a key person and opportunities for outdoor activity and social interaction. These are different stages of nursery life, rather than a promise that every child moves rooms on a birthday.

For babies, the dedicated sleep room has wooden cots and subdued lighting, with individual bed linen washed on site. It separates rest from the busier play spaces. Its equipment and layout should be considered alongside the July 2026 supervision findings discussed below.

Learning and Activities

The EYFS provides the statutory foundation for children's learning and care: in everyday terms, play supports language, movement, relationships and increasing independence. Alongside it, the group-wide Banana Moon Early Learning & Development Programme uses children's interests to plan playful experiences and resources that can be used in different ways. It shapes how activities are organised and complements the EYFS statutory requirements.

Child development, wellbeing, supporting parents, early childhood pedagogy and the learning environment are the programme's guiding principles. The practical thread is observation: practitioners watch what a child can already do, exchange information with families and plan what comes next. A child's fascination can therefore become the starting point for an activity, rather than every child following an identical task.

In October 2023, stories prompted children to question pictures and compare their ideas with others. Threading was used to practise small hand movements, while older children tried yoga, balancing and breathing exercises. Babies crawled towards activities and joined games with wooden rings. These examples show learning through ordinary play, rather than a timetable built around formal lessons.

Interactive screens add short opportunities to explore technology. They sit alongside physical resources and outdoor activity, rather than defining the nursery day.

Outdoor and Community Life

A secure playground and natural adventure area provide different outdoor spaces, and children go outside daily across the seasons. That gives physical activity a regular place in the routine rather than reserving it for fine weather.

A visit from local firefighters brought a fire engine to the nursery. Children climbed aboard and learned about fire safety and the firefighters' work, connecting nursery learning with a recognisable community service. Full Moons Graduation 2026 also brought families together to mark the preschool children's move towards school. These were individual events, not a promise of a recurring visiting programme.

Relationships and Communication

Settling sessions include parents, and the settling policy allows arrangements to reflect each child's needs. For babies, staff work with families to follow familiar home routines. This gives the handover from home a practical starting point: sleep, feeding and comfort can be discussed together rather than treated as separate issues.

The group-wide Parent App records sleep, snacks and learning, shares photographs and maintains individual learning journals. Families can add comments from home and give named relatives access. Its value lies in connecting the daily routine with the child's development, so a photograph can sit alongside information about what the child is practising.

Communication was an improvement priority in October 2023. Some parents were unsure which practitioner was their child's key person, and some received too little information about learning; the difficulty was greater for families using English as an additional language. An app is a useful channel, but parents also need a clear relationship with the person responsible for their child's care.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

In October 2023, staff used observations to identify developmental gaps, worked with parents on support plans and sought advice from other professionals. Deployment was considered so practitioners could work closely with children needing additional help. These are concrete mechanisms for support, rather than a general promise that every need will be met in the same way.

Consistency across practitioners was another October 2023 improvement priority. Children sometimes received different messages about behaviour, and opportunities to pour their own drinks depended on the adult supporting them. For families, the issue is whether the same expectations and opportunities carry across the team.

Ofsted's 21 July 2026 compliance outcome recorded that some requirements were not met at the 17 July 2026 regulatory visit and that remedial action had been taken. Managers had investigated, contacted relevant agencies, reinforced expectations about supervising sleeping children and introduced routine spot checks of sleep arrangements. The additional training was still described as planned in that outcome.

Supervision had also required attention in July 2024, after a child was briefly unattended in a corridor. Changes then included garden-to-room transition procedures, further staff training and an outdoor risk-assessment process. The repeated supervision theme makes day-to-day implementation an important consideration.

A CardiAid defibrillator is installed in reception through the group-wide Little hearts, bright futures initiative, which places emergency equipment within reach of the community. The group-wide Big moments, bright futures initiative has also brought a LifeVac anti-choking device to reception. These are equipment arrangements, not evidence that the later supervision concerns have been resolved.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is 8a Wake Green Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 9EZ. Opening hours are 7.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, with year-round operation except bank holidays and a week at Christmas.

Full days and half days are offered. The recommended attendance is either one full day or two half-day sessions each week; this is a recommendation, rather than a compulsory minimum. Fees are payable across 51 weeks, including bank holidays, and remain payable during a child's sickness or holiday absence. Those terms matter when comparing the annual cost with the days a family expects to use.

Enquiries can be made by telephone, message or callback request. Personal tours can also be arranged.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare includes 15 and 30 hours, the Working Parent Entitlement and funded places for eligible two-year-olds. Eligibility conditions still apply. Private childcare is also offered, and families should obtain current prices in the nursery's written quotation; the fees page provides the enquiry route.

The in-house kitchen prepares fresh food, with two hot meals daily, snacks, rotating menus and a separate weaning menu for younger babies. The nursery's dietary policy provides for allergies and other dietary needs, with families involved in discussing individual requirements.

• Sleep supervision. The 21 July 2026 outcome described spot checks and further safe-sleep training planned following supervision concerns. During a tour, ask how training has been implemented and how responsibility for sleeping children is maintained throughout the day.
• A clear key-person relationship. October 2023 communication weaknesses affected parents' understanding of learning and, in some cases, who their child's key person was. Ask how personal conversations and Parent App updates work together, including support for families using another language at home.
• The complete childcare quotation. Funded entitlement and private attendance sit alongside year-round payment terms. Ask for one written breakdown covering funded delivery, additional hours, meals and non-food consumables, and confirm current allergy practice where relevant.

Banana Moon Day Nursery Moseley suits families considering either full-day care or half-day attendance, with staged rooms, daily outdoor play and food prepared on site. The Parent App and flexible settling arrangements offer practical ways to connect home and nursery.

The October 2023 Good judgement provides a positive inspection starting point, but the later supervision concerns deserve substantial weight, especially for parents of sleeping babies. The strongest decision will rest on how the team explains and demonstrates its current sleep supervision, communication and consistency of practice.