Enchanted Day Nursery & Holiday Club

A Growing Patch, a low plastic toy policy and language learning through music give Enchanted a clear character. Wooden and natural play materials, food-growing and a separate baby sleep room shape its everyday offer.

At its 25 February 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, judged safeguarding effective and found that staff worked closely with families and professionals to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Two improvements mattered: keeping room noise low enough for children to listen, and refreshing play resources throughout the day. Those points deserve attention alongside the positive judgement.

Enchanted has capacity for 65 children, with an overall age range of 2 to 60 months. Its nursery rooms organise care from the under-twos through to preschool, and a separate holiday-club offer serves older children. Full-day, morning and afternoon bookings give families different attendance options.

Rooms and Ages

Incy Wincy serves the under-twos, with a large play space and a connected, separate sleep room allowing supervision during naps.

Two-year-olds in the Ladybird room choose between two play spaces, using natural materials and interest-led activities to practise social skills and independence.

The Caterpillar room, for ages two to three, combines interest-led learning with a large play area, low toilets, handwashing basins and changing facilities that support everyday care.

Butterflies serves ages three to four, combining play and planned teaching with a kitchen area for meals and toilet facilities.

Learning and Activities

The Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS) sets the learning and care requirements, including language, physical development and early writing. In February 2025, these took practical form in conversations during sensory play, outdoor obstacle courses and mark-making. Enchanted uses Birth to Five Matters to guide that development alongside the framework, rather than treating it as a replacement.

Its In the Moment approach turns emerging interests in play into teaching opportunities, alongside experiences planned around individual developmental needs.

BilinguaSing introduces French and Spanish in Butterflies through songs, rhymes and music. Weekly Drama Tots uses imaginative adventures, movement, puppets and instruments; weekly Super Star Sports brings coached physical activity. Caterpillar also receives weekly Drama Tots and Superstar sports visits, adding drama and sport to room-based play.

In February 2025, babies explored sensory materials with adults prompting them to notice and describe what they experienced. Toddlers experimented with paint using fingers and vehicles, while preschool children used mud and sponges attached to sticks for mark-making. The progression was tangible: exploration led into the movements and control needed for early writing.

Outdoor and Community Life

Within perimeter fencing, the Enchanted garden combines a homemade mud kitchen, wooden balancing beams and upcycled crates and tyres with balance bikes, scooters and climbing bridges. These provide physical challenges and materials for imaginative play.

Daily outdoor play includes the Growing Patch, where children help cultivate vegetables, fruit, herbs, flowers and salad plants. In February 2025, children were helping grow peas, beans and carrots, linking garden work with learning about food and the natural world.

Past outings include Belgrade Theatre and Hatton Farm, with Incy Wincy visiting Herbert Art Gallery creative workshops and the Community Library. Parents consent before outings; children wear high-visibility vests carrying nursery contact details.

Relationships and Communication

Settling In Sessions cover care requirements and parental preferences, including babies' naps, weaning and dietary needs. Parents supply familiar comfort items to connect nursery care with home routines.

Incy Wincy supplies bedding, stores it in individual sleep bags and washes it on rotation. Its open-door arrangement gives parents access to their child's key person or other staff.

Famly App shares development records and accepts achievements from home. Daily updates include Ladybird photographs and care routines, keeping parents involved in care and learning.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

A deputy manager holds the SEND coordinator role, supported by additional SEND resources and partnerships with Health Visitors, SEND teachers and portage workers.

Management includes a designated safeguarding lead. Staff development covers paediatric first aid, safeguarding, food hygiene and allergy awareness.

In February 2025, bilingual staff used children's home languages to help them settle and understand English words. Children also practised everyday independence, including managing coats and wellington boots and clearing their plates. That preparation for school centred on practical abilities children could use themselves.

Meals are cooked in the onsite Enchanted kitchen, with four weekly menus and organic ingredients used where possible. Dietary preferences and allergies are gathered at registration and shared with staff, with menus adapted for individual requirements.

Sessions and Attendance

The nursery opens Monday to Friday, 7.30am to 6pm, across 51 weeks of the year. It closes for bank holidays and over Christmas and New Year. A full-day booking runs from 7.30am to 6pm; mornings are 8am to 1pm, and afternoons 1.30pm to 6pm. The minimum attendance requirement is two full days or two sessions each week.

Funded attendance can be term-time only across 38 weeks or stretched across 51 weeks. For 15-hour term-time attendance, patterns include five mornings from 8.30am to 11.30am or three mornings from 8am to 1pm. The 30-hour term-time patterns include five days from 7.30am to 1.30pm, or three days from either 7.30am to 5.30pm or 8am to 6pm.

Stretched 30-hour funding has further choices: two days from 7.30am to 5.30pm or 8am to 6pm, five afternoons from 1.30pm to 5.30pm, or three days from 8.30am to 4pm or 9am to 4.30pm. Funded sessions depend on availability and agreed arrangements; hours beyond the entitlement are charged privately.

Getting There

Enchanted occupies The Rocklands Centre, 138 Foleshill Road, Coventry, CV1 4JJ. Pushchair and car-seat storage is provided. Enquiries can be made by telephone on 02477 672550, by email to info@enchanteddaynursery.com or through the contact form. Viewing appointments can be booked by contacting the nursery.

Funding and Paid Extras

Eligible children can use 15 or 30 hours of funded childcare, with term-time and stretched delivery options. Private childcare fees include snacks and meals, alongside nappies, wipes, creams, sun hats and waterproof overalls. This bundles food and everyday care supplies into private attendance.

Funded attendance has a different structure. Families can choose charged packages covering food and non-food consumables, with options including or excluding nappies, or opt out and supply essentials from home for a fully funded place with no additional charges. The opt-out arrangement includes supplying meals, care items and suitable outdoor clothing, and families must follow the nursery's food policy and restrictions.

A voluntary Additional Services option allows parents to supply meals, nappies and wipes while contributing towards activities, events and outings. The fees and funding page explains the alternatives; current prices come in the nursery's written quotation. The registration charge is non-refundable, includes Settling In Sessions and does not apply to funded-only places. Fees remain payable for bank holidays, children's holidays and absence days, while the Christmas closure week is excluded from charging.

• Noise and sustained play. The February 2025 improvement points concerned listening conditions and keeping resources inviting throughout the day. During a viewing, ask how quieter activities are protected and how play materials are refreshed as the day progresses.
• Your funded attendance pattern. Term-time and stretched options use different combinations of days and hours, and funded sessions depend on availability. Discuss the relevant pattern alongside the choice between paid packages and supplying essentials from home.
• Baby sleep and individual care. Incy Wincy has a separate sleep room and settling conversations cover naps and weaning. Use the viewing to discuss how your baby's routines would work within that arrangement and how individual support would be organised.
• Dietary requirements. Allergy information is gathered at registration and menus can be adapted. Families affected by allergies should confirm current food-handling practice, including the restrictions applying to meals brought from home.

Enchanted suits families who value natural play materials, food-growing and named activities, with a choice between full days, morning sessions and afternoon sessions. Incy Wincy's separate sleep space gives babies a clear practical provision, while Butterflies adds language learning, drama and coached sport to preschool life.

The February 2025 Good judgement comes with improvements around noise and replenishing play resources. Families also need to weigh inclusive private fees against funded packages or supplying essentials themselves.