Our Little Angelz Nursery Acocks Green

Flour for making patterns, stones for exploring shapes, and bikes for tackling outdoor obstacles: hands-on learning gives Our Little Angelz Nursery Acocks Green its character. This Clay Lane setting has 36 places in total and accepts children aged 0 to 96 months. Its branch rooms are Baby Room, Tweenies and Preschool.

Ofsted rated the nursery Good at its February 2025 inspection. The practical strengths of that visit were easy to picture: babies experimenting with animal sounds, children discussing pretend ice cream, and everyday routines that encouraged independence. There were also clear teaching and settling improvements to make. Those matter alongside the grade.

The nursery opens Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6pm, across the year, excluding bank holidays. Funded childcare and privately paid care are offered.

Rooms and Ages

Baby Room, Tweenies and Preschool provide the branch's stage-based room structure. For families, the useful distinction is between the whole nursery's capacity and the room a child will actually join: 36 places is a whole-setting figure, rather than a measure of the size of any individual room.

In February 2025, babies explored musical instruments and played peekaboo with staff. Books supplied another starting point for interaction, with adults repeating animal noises and encouraging babies to try them. These were small, concrete opportunities to practise listening and responding, rather than relying on spoken instructions alone.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage is the framework for children's learning, development and care. In everyday parent language, that brings together communication, physical development and relationships with learning through play and increasing independence.

In February 2025, flour-based mark-making gave children practice controlling their movements, while building bricks and comparing stones brought shape and size into their play. Pretend ice-cream making prompted conversations about flavours and toppings. The value lay in linking language and mathematical ideas to something children were already doing.

Songs and familiar stories also fed into imaginative activities. Children took toy animals on pretend bear hunts through different weather and conditions. Sensory exploration included soil and cereals, giving children materials to investigate and describe.

The teaching needed greater precision, however. In February 2025, adult-directed activities did not consistently target the next learning step for the children taking part. Staff also sometimes moved to another question before a child had time to answer. An engaging activity and a well-timed conversation are different things; both need attention if children are to practise new ideas rather than simply take part.

Outdoor and Community Life

In February 2025, the outdoor area supported active play with bikes and scooters, including negotiating obstacles. That offered a physical counterpoint to the smaller movements involved in mark-making and construction. The outdoor space was part of the children's day, rather than merely a backdrop to the indoor activities.

At the February 2025 inspection, Ofsted found safeguarding effective and children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, making good progress. Staff used observations and assessments to identify subsequent learning steps, giving their planning an individual basis.

In February 2025, practical independence was woven into care routines: babies practised using spoons, younger children worked on putting on coats, and children learned to manage handwashing and toileting. These ordinary tasks have a clear purpose. They let children practise doing things for themselves throughout the day, rather than treating independence as a separate activity.

Communication with families was another useful part of the February 2025 picture. Daily feedback covered children's activities and development, helping parents continue learning at home. Staff had also received training in assessing language development, a relevant skill alongside the book-sharing and conversation seen during play.

Cross-site settling needed more care. In February 2025, an online portal held medical and dietary information for children coming from other nurseries in the group, but staff did not consistently consult it before those children attended. They consequently lacked enough knowledge of individual preferences to support settling and early relationships. This was a specific weakness in the transfer process, not a reason to overlook the positive interactions elsewhere.

During that month, meals and snacks included fruit and vegetables, with water and milk to drink. Staff used conversations about food to introduce healthy choices.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is 394 - 396 Clay Lane, Acocks Green, Birmingham B26 1EU. Opening hours are 7.30am to 6pm on weekdays, with year-round operation and bank-holiday closures. That opening window gives families a useful boundary for planning their working day.

Enquiries can be made directly to the Acocks Green branch on 0121 764 5169 or at acocksgreen@ourlittleangelz.co.uk.

Funding and Paid Extras

The branch offers funded childcare as well as private childcare. Current prices should come in a written quotation from the nursery, so families can assess the arrangement against the care they intend to book.

• Teaching precision. February 2025 improvement points concerned matching adult-directed activities to children's next learning steps and allowing longer for answers. During a visit, ask how staff now plan these activities and pace their questions.
• Moving between branches. The February 2025 transfer process did not consistently make use of information already held about incoming children. Families transferring within the group should ask how medical needs, dietary requirements and personal preferences reach the receiving staff before attendance.
• The funded-care arrangement. Funded and private childcare are both offered. Ask for one written breakdown covering the entitlement and attendance pattern proposed, together with the treatment of meals and non-food consumables.

Our Little Angelz Nursery Acocks Green suits families seeking year-round weekday care and a nursery day built around practical play. The February 2025 examples give that character substance: physical activity outdoors, early conversation through books and imaginative play, and independence through everyday care tasks.

The Good judgement is balanced by specific work on teaching and cross-site settling. Families choosing this branch should give those points real weight, especially if their child will move between nurseries in the group.