Moorevilla Nursery

Moorevilla Nursery's Vegetable Garden connects outdoor learning with food children grow, harvest and taste. Its Vegetable Garden lets children grow food, harvest it and taste the result, while a landscaped garden provides space for movement and exploration. These are useful ingredients for families who want everyday learning to extend beyond indoor activities.

At its March 2023 inspection, Ofsted rated Moorevilla Good overall and identified a teaching improvement: staff needed to give children more consistent opportunities to think through problems. That distinction matters. The judgement was positive, but the next step was about the depth of adult interaction, rather than simply adding more activities.

Moorevilla has capacity for 125 children and accepts children aged 3 to 60 months. Its address is 245 Midgeland Road, Blackpool, FY4 5HJ.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage (EYFS) provides the framework for children's learning and care: play supports communication, physical development and the skills children build towards school. It is the common foundation for early years provision. Moorevilla's day gives that foundation concrete expression through growing food and exploring its outdoor space.

In March 2023, babies handled natural materials outdoors and used them in pretend cooking, toddlers constructed with wooden blocks, and preschool children drew views of the surrounding fields from a viewing station. Each example involved a different kind of physical practice: handling small objects, assembling structures or controlling a pencil. The activities connected movement with something children wanted to do.

Books also linked nursery and home in March 2023. Children joined shared stories, younger children looked at books alongside staff in comfortable spaces, and families could borrow books from a lending library. Borrowing extended the activity beyond the nursery day, giving parents something concrete to share with their child.

Everyday routines carried mathematical content at that time. Children counted others in a line, talked about the position of utensils during meals and made number impressions in play dough. These examples made numbers and spatial language part of ordinary experience, rather than a separate worksheet exercise.

Outdoor and Community Life

The Vegetable Garden gives children a sequence they can follow from growing to eating. The landscaped garden adds room for active play, and dedicated outdoor space supports children moving between indoor and outdoor experiences. For parents, the attraction is the combination of physical activity and direct contact with growing things.

Moorevilla also holds the Green Flag Award, an environmental recognition connected with sustainability and its outdoor environment. The garden supplies a tangible example of that theme: children can take part in producing food rather than encountering it only at mealtimes.

At the March 2023 inspection, Ofsted found safeguarding effective and described assessment-led learning and work with families and outside agencies that supported good progress, including for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). These are dated findings, with individual needs central to the support described.

In March 2023, staff and parents worked together when children changed rooms. Regular stay-and-play sessions also gave families opportunities to share activities with their children. These arrangements connected conversations about development with a chance to see the experiences children were having.

Self-care had a practical place in the day at that time: children managed coats, poured drinks and helped themselves to food. Staff also used emotion jars containing children's photographs to prompt conversations about feelings, including how those feelings changed during the day. Independence and emotional language were practised through actions children could understand.

An on-site chef prepares fresh meals each day and caters for children's dietary needs. This puts food preparation within the nursery rather than relying on meals brought in from elsewhere.

Sessions and Attendance

Moorevilla opens Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6pm, and is closed at weekends. It operates across the year, with a week-long Christmas closure. The weekday opening window gives families scope to fit nursery around work, while the Christmas break needs a separate care arrangement.

The nursery's enquiry form takes a child's date of birth and preferred starting date alongside the family's message. Enquiries can also go through the team on 0800 307 0155 or enquiries@michild.group.

Getting There

On-site parking provides a place to leave the car for collection and drop-off, while a sheltered buggy park accommodates prams during the day. The Midgeland Road setting also has motorway access, a useful consideration for families whose work journey involves driving.

Funding and Paid Extras

In March 2023, the nursery provided funded early education for children aged two, three and four. Families should obtain current prices in the nursery's written quotation.

• Depth of teaching. The March 2023 improvement concerned inconsistent opportunities for children to reason and solve problems. During a visit, ask how practitioners extend an activity when a child has mastered its first step.
• Baby care and settling. Moorevilla accepts babies from three months within a setting with 125 places in total. Ask to see how your baby's settling arrangements and daily care would work in their room; the whole-setting capacity is not a room size.
• Attendance and total cost. The nursery operates through the year and closes for a week at Christmas. Request a written proposal covering your attendance pattern, any funded entitlement, meals and non-food consumables so the arrangement can be assessed against your working week and budget.

Moorevilla suits families who value outdoor activity, growing food and practical independence, alongside a weekday opening window that starts at 7.30am. Its garden provision gives the current offer substance, while the March 2023 examples show how books, mathematics and emotional expression featured in children's experiences at that time.

The teaching improvement deserves attention alongside the Good judgement. For a parent, the useful test is how adults build on a child's curiosity: the resources matter, but so does the conversation that takes learning further.