Klever Kids Day Nursery

A climbing wall, water play and a separate baby play area give Klever Kids Day Nursery a clear outdoor character. This Aspley setting has capacity for 122 children aged two months to five years, with rooms organised around successive stages of early childhood. The youngest children have their own outdoor space, while older children can climb, dig, ride bikes and grow vegetables.

At its 7 November 2022 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, found safeguarding effective and reported good progress in children's learning, alongside improvements needed in preschool children's control of their learning and toddlers' transitions. That is a dated judgement. A later regulatory finding in July 2026 also matters to the decision, and is addressed below.

Care includes a key worker for each child, an open-door settling arrangement and baby feeding and sleep routines planned around home life. Flexible packages sit alongside weekday opening across 51 weeks of the year.

Rooms and Ages

The Baby & Toddler Room emphasises physical, sensory and social development, with nap and feeding arrangements adapted to routines at home. Its usual staffing is one adult for two children, better than the statutory minimum of one adult for three children under two. That gives this room a meaningful staffing difference; it does not establish how many children share the room.

From two to three years, the Tweenies Room uses play stations and activities to develop interaction and movement skills, with toilet training supported when the child is ready. Working with home routines matters at this stage: learning to manage the toilet and other everyday tasks becomes part of the child's growing independence.

The Pre School Room develops social skills and the beginnings of reading and writing through indoor and outdoor play. Preparation for school centres on practising these skills and extending children's interests, rather than treating readiness as a single task to complete before leaving nursery.

Learning and Activities

The EYFS shapes learning through play, relationships and exploration, with experiences spanning communication, physical development, personal and social development, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and creative expression. This is the shared early-years framework. Here, the practical approach includes resources children can choose and move, opportunities to work out their own solutions and time to pursue an idea.

The emphasis on children's choices has concrete consequences for the day. Open-ended materials can serve more than one purpose, and children can combine resources as their play develops. Adults observe interests and offer support to help children persist when something proves difficult. The aim is to leave room for experimentation rather than give every activity a predetermined result.

In November 2022, children made play dough and worked it with their hands while talking alongside friends; imaginary cooking in the mud kitchen included explaining how to make lentil soup. These examples connect physical activity with conversation and imaginative thinking. They also show how ordinary materials can give children something substantial to investigate.

The November 2022 improvement points qualify that picture. Adults sometimes redirected preschool children's ideas too quickly, reducing the opportunity to develop their own thinking. Some toddlers also lost engagement while waiting to get dressed for outdoor play. Both concerns were about how staff used time and interaction, rather than the amount of equipment on offer.

Outdoor and Community Life

Separate outdoor areas distinguish babies' play from the older children's activities. The Playground & Soft Play Area includes climbing frames, with water play, a climbing wall, bikes and digging space also outdoors. The gazebo and vegetable growing area provide alternatives to the more energetic equipment, so outdoor time has room for quieter interests too.

In November 2022, babies used brushes and water on a fence, while toddlers and preschool children rode wheeled trolleys down a slope. Outdoor play took place in different weather conditions. The combination gave children opportunities to practise movement and explore manageable physical challenges.

For older siblings, the Hi 5ive School Holiday Club serves children aged five to eleven during summer, Christmas, Easter and half term. Its past activities have included the Nottingham Riviera, bowling, cinema and ice skating; activities depend on the number of children taking part. This is separate holiday provision, so those outings should not be read as the nursery children's programme.

Relationships and Communication

Each child has a key worker who gathers information about their development, discusses learning with parents and shares next steps. That creates an identifiable person through whom home observations and nursery experiences can be brought together. Settling follows an open-door policy that allows parents to spend the time they need at nursery with their child.

Open evenings provide another opportunity to discuss progress with the key worker and give feedback. Newsletters and noticeboards carry nursery information, while questionnaires offer a further route for parental views. These arrangements give communication both an individual channel and opportunities for broader discussion.

In November 2022, staff comforted babies sensitively and encouraged practical independence: babies handled finger food, toddlers practised putting on coats and preschool children served their own lunch. Those examples show how care and learning can overlap in everyday routines, rather than sit in separate parts of the day.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

Home routines carry particular weight in the youngest room, where sleep and feeding times can be coordinated with family routines. In the Tweenies Room, toilet training is approached in partnership with parents when the child is ready. These are specific mechanisms for continuity between home and nursery.

In November 2022, additional funding had supported a cosy room where children could share books and games with parents, carers and siblings. Children speaking more than one language at home took part in conversations about their experiences and places they had visited. This is a dated picture of the nursery's language work, rather than a claim about its present staffing or support resources.

Food is freshly cooked on the premises. That places meal preparation within the nursery's daily operation.

On 13 July 2026, a regulatory telephone call established that the nursery had not reported two significant events to Ofsted as required; it remained registered. The finding concerns a legal notification duty and needs to be weighed separately from the earlier Good inspection judgement.

Sessions and Attendance

Opening hours are 7.30am to 6pm on weekdays, for 51 weeks each year, with a week-long Christmas closure. Bank holidays are also closure days. The nursery offers flexible packages, which makes the attendance arrangement a practical part of choosing it alongside the opening window.

The address is 511 Aspley Lane, Nottingham NG8 5RW. Enquiries can be made through the contact form or by telephone on 0115 929 3300. Nursery care spans babies through preschool children, while the separate holiday club caters for older children.

Funding and Paid Extras

In November 2022, funded early education was provided for two-, three- and four-year-olds. This establishes the nursery's participation at that time, rather than promising a current entitlement or a particular funded attendance arrangement.

• July 2026 notification finding. The 13 July regulatory call established a failure to notify two significant events. Ask what procedures now ensure that significant events are reported correctly and promptly.
• Child-led learning and waiting time. November 2022 improvement points concerned adults moving preschool children's ideas on too quickly and toddlers losing engagement during transitions. During a visit, ask how staff now support children's own ideas and keep dressing-for-outdoors periods purposeful.
• Youngest-room routines. The Baby & Toddler Room combines one adult for two children with feeding and sleep arrangements adapted to home. Discuss how your child's routine would work within the shared room and its daily activities.
• Flexible attendance and the written quotation. Flexible packages and 51-week opening make the booking arrangement central to family planning. Ask for a written quotation covering the chosen pattern, funded hours, meals, consumables and any additional charges.

Klever Kids suits families who value substantial outdoor play, a stronger-than-minimum baby staffing ratio and care organised around home routines. Its climbing equipment, separate baby outdoor area and vegetable growing space give the offer useful physical substance, while key-worker communication connects parents with their child's learning.

Flexible attendance packages and separate school-holiday care also make it relevant to families with different childcare needs across siblings. The dated assessment from November 2022 must be weighed alongside the July 2026 notification failure, which warrants a direct discussion of current reporting procedures before choosing the nursery.