Jack in the Box Nursery, Nuneaton

A garden for exploration, books shared with babies and a toddler space arranged across two open-plan rooms give Jack in the Box Nursery, Nuneaton a recognisable character. At its April 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good and found safeguarding effective. The practical appeal lies in the different spaces for different stages, with feeding and sleeping facilities for babies and a snug where toddlers can pause or rest.

At 119 Manor Court Road, Nuneaton, CV11 5HQ, the nursery accepts children from three months to five years and has 75 places in total across Baby Room, Toddler Room and Pre-school Room.

Funded morning, afternoon and daytime patterns run during term time, alongside paid additional hours; the nursery opens across 51 weeks.

Rooms and Ages

Baby Room covers birth to 18 months and combines spaces for play, feeding and sleep with sensory equipment, soft play and messy exploration inside and outside. Flexible routines accommodate sleeping and feeding, so care can follow a baby's needs. The nursery's overall starting age remains three months.

For children aged 18 months to two and a half years, Toddler Room combines two open-plan spaces with a slide and hide, a homecorner, water and sand activities, a creative table and a snug for sleep or quiet time. Children can move between the rooms and choose activities, making the physical layout part of their growing independence.

Pre-school Room serves children from two and a half to four years, within the nursery's overall accepted age range of three months to five years.

Learning and Activities

The Early Years Foundation Stage connects learning with the nursery day: in Toddler Room, children choose activities, explore textures and listen to music, rhymes and stories, while staff use observations to plan for individual needs. These are concrete ways that learning and care fit together. The framework itself is the baseline for provision.

In April 2025, children explored a caterpillar's development and connected a shared story with dough models of butterflies and caterpillars. Rolling and shaping the dough gave them practice using their hands and tools. During sand play, staff introduced words about weight and fullness, bringing mathematical language into an activity children were already enjoying.

Chatter Matters Week emphasises speech, language and communication. In April 2025, storytelling gave children opportunities to practise communicating, alongside the stories and rhymes in Toddler Room.

The Creative Curriculum Fund is a voluntary contribution supporting cooking, movement with music, community outings, seasonal crafts, book-library access and external visitors. Families can weigh these activities alongside the payment arrangements.

Outdoor and Community Life

In April 2025, younger children practised climbing and sliding, while older children used patterns and numbers during an egg hunt in the garden. Staff also helped younger children learn to descend the stairs to reach the outdoor space. That physical arrangement is a useful detail for parents considering how their child moves between activities.

In November 2025, pumpkin rolling, potion making and mark-making with natural materials brought seasonal objects into children's exploration.

A preschool group visited Holly Grange House in July 2025, sharing bean bag games and throwing and catching with residents. The visit extended their social experiences beyond nursery.

Relationships and Communication

Baby Room's daily sheets cover feeds, sleep, nappy changes and activities, giving parents practical handover information. Staff follow care routines agreed with families and share each baby's interests.

In April 2025, babies shared simple picture books with staff, pointing at illustrations and responding to animal sounds. Practitioners also left time for children to answer during conversations and used signs and widget boards as additional communication tools. The combination gives a concrete picture of how interaction was adapted to children who communicated in different ways.

Tapestry provides an online learning journal, with access included in the Creative Curriculum Fund's list of resources. Parents evenings are also included in that list. The book library adds another connection between nursery and home: its materials include nursery-rhyme books and cards for putting stories into sequence.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

Current safeguarding arrangements include training for all staff and four staff with designated safeguarding training. The nursery follows the Warwickshire safeguarding team's procedures for recording and reporting concerns. These are the arrangements families can discuss with staff; the dated effectiveness judgement is set out above.

Brilliant Brushers is a supervised toothbrushing scheme. In October 2025, the nursery announced plans for children aged three and above to have individually identifiable toothbrushes at nursery and a pack supporting brushing at home. The nursery makes clear that brushing there is intended to accompany home toothbrushing.

Sleeping facilities for babies and the toddler snug give rest its own space alongside active exploration.

Sessions and Attendance

Opening hours are 8am to 5.45pm, Monday to Friday, across 51 weeks. Closures include bank holidays and a week at Christmas. Paid additional hours can extend attendance beyond a funded session, and the fee arrangements include Breakfast Club from 8am to 9am, with breakfast offered only to children arriving by 8.20am, and Tea Time Club from 5pm to 5.45pm.

Eligible children using Universal and Working Parent 15 Hours Funding can attend five morning sessions, 8.30am to 11.30am, or five afternoon sessions, 1pm to 4pm, during the 38-week term-time offer, with a minimum booking of two sessions each week and three hours per session. Eligible children using 2 Help Funding have the same morning or afternoon windows over 38 term-time weeks, without an enrolment fee.

Working Parent 30 Hours Funding is offered to eligible children across five full days, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 3pm, for 38 term-time weeks, with the offer restricted to 10% of children and allocated first come, first served, subject to availability. A waiting list applies when that allocation is full. Eligibility therefore does not itself secure this attendance pattern.

Getting There

The address is 119 Manor Court Road, Nuneaton, CV11 5HQ. Parking is behind the building, reached from Earls Road, and the nursery is on a bus route.

Funding and Paid Extras

Food payments are optional for both funded and privately paid attendance, and families may supply their own food instead. The nursery offers a packed lunch and hot food at Tea Time Club; food from home must follow its allergy and food-safety policy, include an ice pack in the lunchbox, and cannot be cooked or reheated there.

The Creative Curriculum Fund is voluntary and includes creative resources and activities. Additional childcare hours are paid, separately from the funded entitlement. Parents supply nappies, wipes and nappy cream for both funded and privately paid attendance. For current prices, ask the nursery for a quotation.

An enrolment charge applies, but it is refunded after headcount day for children attending solely on funded hours; children receiving 2 Help Funding do not pay it. Leaving before headcount day incurs the hourly fees for funded children, and sessions attended are charged if a receiving setting will not transfer the funding. Withdrawal requires four weeks' written notice; session changes require four weeks' notice, with four weeks' fees payable. Fees remain payable during sickness and holidays.

• The funded pattern must fit your week. The 30-hour offer uses five daytime sessions and a restricted allocation; the 15-hour offer uses morning or afternoon sessions during term time. Discuss your intended weekly pattern and care outside funded weeks before booking.
• Learning intentions need sharper execution. At the April 2025 inspection, Ofsted asked staff to make planned learning clearer in practice and respond more effectively to children's interests. During a visit, ask how staff now turn a child's interest into the next learning opportunity.
• Food from home has practical rules. Lunchboxes need an ice pack, and staff cannot reheat or cook food brought in. Families managing allergies should confirm current food practices and how their child's requirements will be handled.
• Room moves. The room bands run from babies through preschool, while the overall age range extends to five years. Ask how room transitions work for your child.

Jack in the Box suits families considering either morning or afternoon funded sessions, as well as those seeking the five-day funded daytime pattern with additional paid hours. Baby care sheets, a toddler snug, communication activities and the book library give parents concrete points to weigh. The April 2025 learning priorities also deserve attention. The best fit depends on the attendance pattern, the child's room and how the optional food and curriculum payments work for the family.