Kids Planet Attleborough

Outdoor space gives Kids Planet Attleborough its clearest character, with active play, vegetable-growing and wildlife discovery forming part of the current offer. This Nuneaton nursery serves the business park and neighbouring residential communities, with capacity for 120 children aged two months to five years. It is a substantial setting, so the experience within each age group matters more than the headline size.

At its April 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, judged safeguarding effective and found that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities benefited from early identification and support involving external agencies. The same visit raised specific weaknesses in baby-room settling, younger children's language experiences and the consistency of baby-room learning. Those qualifications matter, especially for families choosing care for a baby.

Full days, shorter days and morning or afternoon sessions give families several attendance patterns to work with. The March and April 2026 regulatory findings also deserve attention alongside that grade.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage provides the framework for learning, development and care: children build communication, physical skills and independence through play and everyday routines. The useful question is how that framework becomes a child's day. In April 2025, activities included storytelling, songs, creative work and practical exploration, with children able to choose their activities.

Sandcastle-making gave younger children a concrete lesson in how materials behave. Staff demonstrated why damp sand holds its shape, connecting an enjoyable activity with an explanation children could test for themselves. Older children used paint, drawing materials and scissors, while conversations about colours and shapes introduced early mathematical ideas. These are small experiences with a clear purpose.

Spanish lessons were also part of the April 2025 experience, with children showing the reward stickers they had received afterwards. This adds a language activity beyond the everyday conversations, songs and stories. It sits alongside the main curriculum rather than replacing it.

Younger children's communication needed closer attention, however. In April 2025, some routine instructions lacked the explanation children needed to understand them, including why they had to wait for a snack. The improvement required was practical: use everyday transitions as opportunities to explain what is happening, rather than simply redirecting children.

Outdoor and Community Life

In April 2025, each age group had its own spacious garden. Older children constructed a jumping platform, queued for their turn and experimented with different movements. That combined physical challenge with learning to wait and share an activity. Outdoor space also helped children who preferred learning outside take part in play.

The current outdoor offer includes active play, vegetable-growing and wildlife discovery within the group's nature-based approach. Those experiences give children reasons to move, investigate and notice change. In April 2025, the separate gardens gave each age group its own outdoor space.

Relationships and Communication

Famly, the group's parent app, provides updates about children's days. In April 2025, families also received daily spoken feedback and more detailed information about learning through an online app, with help to continue activities at home. The combination gives parents both a quick account of the day and something more substantial to follow over time.

Settling was a more uneven part of that April 2025 picture. Several new babies remained distressed, and their crying unsettled others nearby. Staff responded attentively and adjusted settling sessions around individual needs, but those changes had not yet achieved the intended result. More consistent baby-room activities were also needed to help children become absorbed in play. For a baby, emotional comfort and engagement are inseparable.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

In April 2025, staff used picture-supported online resources that played words in English and children's home languages. This gave children learning English an additional way to connect a word with its meaning. Independence was practised through ordinary routines too, including toilet training where appropriate and preschool children helping themselves to lunch.

Following regulatory activity in March and April 2026, Ofsted recorded repeated failures to meet requirements, including a missed notification, required improvements to staff supervision and SEND support during changes to routines, accepted those actions as met on 15 April 2026, and recorded on 21 April 2026 that the nursery had acted to improve staff confidence in reporting unsafe practice promptly. These later findings make the day-to-day implementation of supervision, routine changes and reporting procedures a material part of a family's decision.

Freshly prepared meals and snacks are supplied, with provision for dietary needs. Mealtimes in April 2025 included staff eating alongside children, making lunch a shared social activity as well as a chance to practise self-care.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is Logistics House, Alliance Close, Nuneaton, CV11 6SW, on Attleborough Fields Industrial Estate. Opening hours are 7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, across 52 weeks; bank holidays are closure days.

The Full Day runs from 7am to 6pm, and the Full Time pattern uses the same hours. Morning sessions have two starting options: 7am or 9am, both ending at 1pm. Afternoon care runs from 1pm to 6pm. The Short Day is 9am to 3.30pm, while ad-hoc hourly care provides another booking category.

This is a useful spread of patterns. A family can compare a shorter daytime booking with an early-start morning or a full day, rather than treating the entire opening window as the only choice. Enquiries can be made by telephone or email, and tours can be booked.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare is offered to eligible families, alongside privately paid care. The distinction between private fees and days using funding is important: private fees include food and the everyday consumables, while days with early years funding applied carry separate charges for meals, consumables and activities. The charge band depends on the funded hours used that day.

Nappies, formula, wipes and sun cream are included within the group's all-inclusive private-fee offer at this branch. That reduces the everyday packing parents need to manage, but it should be read alongside the separate funded-day charging structure. Current prices come in the nursery's written quotation.

• A baby's start. The April 2025 weaknesses concerned unsettled new babies and inconsistent baby-room learning. During a tour, ask how starts are organised and how staff adapt activities while babies are settling.
• Supervision through change. The March and April 2026 regulatory findings involved supervision, SEND support during routine changes and reporting unsafe practice. Ask for concrete examples of how those arrangements now work, including with cover staff.
• Funded-day costs. Meals, consumables and activities are charged separately on days using early years funding. A written quotation should distinguish those items from privately paid hours for your chosen pattern.

Kids Planet Attleborough suits families comparing full days with morning, afternoon or shorter daytime care, especially those who value generous outdoor space. Outdoor activities and Famly communication are practical attractions; separate age-group gardens and hands-on learning featured in April 2025.

The decision needs to be age-specific. Baby-room settling and learning required improvement in April 2025, while the repeated regulatory findings in 2026 make supervision and support through changes important considerations. The attendance choices are useful; confidence in the routines supporting your own child should carry equal weight.