Kids Planet Clevedon

Songs, storytelling and small experiments give Kids Planet Clevedon its clearest character: babies joining in actions, younger children retelling The Gruffalo and older children investigating water with pipettes. These were features of daily life in July 2025, when language ran through practical play rather than sitting apart from it.

At its July 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, judged safeguarding effective and found that the curriculum supported communication, independence and preparation for future learning. That judgement needs to be read alongside the February 2026 compliance action concerning staff training, discussed below.

Formerly Little Clowns Nursery, this Queens Road setting accepts children from 3 months to 5 years and has 54 places in total. Full-day, morning and afternoon bookings give families different ways to use it.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage sets the requirements for children's learning, development and care: here, its everyday meaning is learning through play, conversation and practical experiences. In July 2025, staff used their observations of children to decide what to introduce next, linking activities to what children already understood.

Sleeping Bunnies was an action song for babies, combining listening with movement. Old Macdonald accompanied play with farm animals, connecting objects with their names and sounds. For younger children, The Gruffalo became a story they could retell and question, bringing their existing knowledge into the conversation. These examples show how books and songs can give children something to say, rather than simply something to hear.

Older children explored quantities using containers and pipettes in July 2025. Staff added pictures and vocabulary to help them describe how much water a container held, while changes in colour prompted further discussion. The tools made the ideas tangible. Taking turns with them also brought cooperation into the activity.

Creative play had a practical edge. In July 2025, children shaped rockets from dough and worked out how to cut smaller pieces for their designs. Adults allowed time for an independent attempt before offering a demonstration. Babies explored changing textures with gloop and wheat flakes; brushes and toy vehicles gave less confident children another way to participate.

Outdoor and Community Life

Alongside those inspection-time examples, the group-wide outdoor approach described for Clevedon includes wildlife discovery, vegetable growing and active play. Its value is the connection between movement and things children can investigate directly. These are group-wide elements of the offer, rather than a named Clevedon outdoor programme.

Sports activities are also included in the fee offer described for this branch. Together with outdoor play, they give physical activity a place alongside stories and sensory exploration.

Relationships and Communication

In July 2025, babies explored with familiar adults nearby, and staff used conversation during play to connect sensations with new words. Independence also appeared in ordinary routines: babies returned their cups to a tray, while younger children chose snack food and attempted to pour drinks. Care and learning met in small, repeatable tasks.

Communication with families worked through settling visits, daily handovers and an online application in July 2025, but it was uneven. Some parents did not consistently receive information about nursery procedures or ways to support learning at home. This matters because an update about an activity and an explanation of a child's next steps serve different purposes.

Famly, the parent app, is part of the group-wide offer described for Clevedon and provides updates during the day. An app supplies another channel for contact; the July 2025 concern about consistency makes the quality of exchanges with staff important too.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

In July 2025, photograph and name cards helped children recognise when to wash their hands and prepare for meals. However, newer routines for changing activities were still taking hold, and some younger children lost engagement during those changes. Predictable transitions matter as much as the activities themselves for a child who finds stopping and starting difficult.

On 18 February 2026, Ofsted issued a compliance action following provider notifications on 18 November 2025 and 5 January 2026 about concerns relating to children's safety and welfare. Regulatory calls established that some requirements were not being met, and leaders were required to provide timely training targeted to staff responsibilities by 4 March 2026. The published outcome records the action and its deadline; it does not establish whether the action was subsequently completed.

Fresh meals and snacks form part of the group-wide offer described for Clevedon, with provision for dietary needs. For families using funded hours, food charges need to be considered separately from the childcare entitlement.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is 10 Queens Road, Clevedon, BS21 7TH. Opening hours are 8am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, across 51 weeks; closures include bank holidays and a week at Christmas.

The Full Day booking runs from 8.30am to 4.30pm. Morning runs from 8.30am to noon, and Afternoon from 1pm to 4.30pm. Full Time means five Full Days. These booking times are narrower than the opening window, an important distinction for arranging work and collection.

Early Bird covers 8am to 8.30am. Late Bird is offered in separate slots from 4.30pm to 5pm and from 5pm to 5.30pm, while Lunch Hour covers noon to 1pm. Ad hoc hourly care is another paid option. The choice is therefore between specific bookings and additions, rather than assuming that every day booking includes the entire opening window.

Telephone and email contact are available, and a tour can be booked. Families can obtain current prices in the nursery's written quotation.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare and private paid hours are both offered. The fee package includes wipes, nappies, sun cream and formula, as well as meals and snacks; these are group-wide inclusions described for Clevedon.

Days using early years funding have a different charge structure: meals, non-food consumables and activities are charged separately. The charge category depends on the funded hours applied that day, with half-day, short-day and full-day categories. A funded entitlement therefore needs to be considered alongside the costs attached to the family's actual booking.

The distinction also matters for mixed bookings that combine funding with paid care. A quotation should separate childcare hours from food, consumables and activity charges so that families can assess the whole arrangement rather than the session label alone.

• Staff training action. The 18 February 2026 action required targeted staff training by 4 March 2026. Staff understanding of their responsibilities and the follow-through on training are material considerations for families.
• Changes of activity and parent communication. In July 2025, both transition routines and information-sharing with families needed further work. These points matter for children who find changes of activity difficult and for parents supporting learning at home.
• Booking boundaries. Full Day ends at 4.30pm, although the nursery closes at 5.30pm. Families needing the later finish should include the relevant Late Bird slots when discussing their booking.
• Funding and additional charges. Food, consumables and activities carry separate charges on funded days. Ask which entitlement and delivery pattern apply to your proposed sessions, and request a quotation that identifies each category.

Kids Planet Clevedon suits families seeking morning or afternoon sessions as well as full-day attendance, with separately timed additions for earlier starts and later finishes. The July 2025 account of songs, stories, sensory play and practical experiments gives substance to its learning offer.

The decision needs equal attention to care routines and leadership. Parent communication and activity transitions needed further work in July 2025, and the February 2026 training action is material to a family's choice. How leaders have addressed those specific points matters alongside the choice of sessions.