Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Redhill

Four gardens and a preschool treehouse give Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Redhill a clear outdoor character, while its sensory room and library provide spaces for quieter exploration. The setting sits in the Watercolour development, beside Moors Nature Reserve. Its appeal is the combination: children can investigate plants, enjoy physical play and spend time with books within the same nursery day.

Children attend from 3 months to 5 years, and there are 100 places in total. At the 6 July 2023 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good overall, with Outstanding behaviour and attitudes, and judged safeguarding effective. That is a dated assessment, rather than a description of every aspect of today's provision.

For parents, the most useful details are the age-stage playrooms, outdoor spaces suited to different stages and an app carrying updates about routines and learning. Opening hours run from 7.30am to 6.30pm on weekdays. The physical offer is substantial; the main teaching question concerns how individual support carries through into larger groups.

Rooms and Ages

Ducklings, the baby room, combines sensory resources with a refurbished terrace garden for early outdoor exploration. Waterlilies gives toddlers interactive play spaces and its own outdoor area for discovery. Signets serves older toddlers through activities emphasising movement, creativity and growing independence. Swans, the preschool room, brings school preparation together with a treehouse and growing garden for practical investigation.

Room moves depend on a child's readiness across emotional, physical and social development. This gives parents a useful basis for discussing a transition: the next room is a change in daily experience, rather than simply a birthday milestone. For babies, the terrace is a concrete part of that experience; for older children, the treehouse and planting space add opportunities to explore and make choices.

Learning and Activities

The Early Years Foundation Stage provides the framework for learning and care, with play and exploration helping children develop language, early literacy and other skills. Alongside it, the nursery takes inspiration from the Curiosity Approach, encouraging children to pursue interests and investigate at their own pace. In-the-Moment planning introduces learning experiences around children's individual needs. These approaches shape how activities develop during the day, rather than replacing the framework.

Physical activity includes PE with ProTots, alongside yoga and parachute play. Forest School adds outdoor exploration led by a Forest School leader using purpose-built facilities. The appeal for an active child is the variety of ways to move and investigate, from an organised PE session to an activity outdoors. Language experiences also include introductions to different languages.

In July 2023, staff used information about children's development to plan around both their interests and what they needed to learn next. Paint mixing provided practical experimentation, while conversations about spiders connected discoveries with words describing position. Singing supported language and simple mathematics, and staff introduced vocabulary and signs during activities. These examples show learning woven into play, with conversation giving an everyday activity a further purpose.

Outdoor and Community Life

Each of the four gardens is designed for a different age group. Water play, mud kitchens and natural materials give children practical ways to experiment outside, while the growing garden lets them tend plants. This is outdoor provision with things to do: mixing, handling materials and watching plants develop, as well as space for movement.

Regular community outings include visits to a local pond and a care home, plus Tesco trips to gather ingredients for cooking. The Kiddi Caru wagon is part of these adventures. The destinations connect nursery activities with real places and tasks, especially when ingredients gathered on an outing have a purpose back at the setting.

In July 2023, older children brought natural objects from park walks into group sharing activities. Babies and younger children also crawled through tunnels, and staff led weekly movement experiences including sensory activities, dance and yoga. Those examples belong to that period; the current outdoor offer has its own detail in the gardens, Forest School and community outings.

Relationships and Communication

The Grandir UK app, the group's communication app used here, carries daily information about children's routines and progress, together with event updates. Regular family occasions include stay and play, sports days, seasonal celebrations and graduation parties. These give parents different ways to participate, from sharing play to marking the move towards school.

A lending library gives families books to share, and there is also a coffee station for parents. These are practical additions to communication: the app supports day-to-day information, while shared activities and borrowing books offer ways to connect with nursery life beyond a message on a screen.

In July 2023, children had close relationships with their key persons, and staff knew individual children and their families. Everyday tasks also became opportunities for independence. Children practised using cutlery and helping themselves at lunch, while younger children received demonstrations and brief instructions for tasks such as putting on an apron. Care routines were part of learning, rather than separate from it.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

A SENCo works with families around children's additional needs. The sensory room provides a quieter place to investigate light, sound and texture, while the library offers books and storytelling. These are specific arrangements parents can relate to their child's needs, rather than a general promise that one approach will suit everyone.

At the July 2023 inspection, Ofsted found effective individual teaching for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), but identified less consistent interaction during whole-group activities and asked staff to strengthen learning for every child in larger groups. The distinction matters: targeted support and participation in a busy group need separate attention.

Fresh meals are prepared by an on-site chef. This brings food preparation into the setting itself, an arrangement relevant to families considering their child's daily food routine.

Sessions and Attendance

The nursery opens Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6.30pm. It operates across the year, with closures for bank holidays and the Christmas-to-New-Year period. Families whose work continues through school holidays therefore have an opening calendar to weigh alongside their normal weekday needs.

The branch enquiry form supports both questions and requests for a personal tour. Parents can also telephone 01737 762013. The form allows families to include a preferred start date and information about their child, giving the team context for the conversation.

Getting There

The address is The Kilns, Watercolour Development, Redhill, RH1 2NX, within the Watercolour housing development near Moors Nature Reserve. Redhill train station is within a 10‑minute drive, which makes the station connection relevant to families combining nursery with rail travel.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare is offered, with 15 hours and 30 hours highlighted as funding options. These sit alongside paid childcare. Current prices come in the nursery's written quotation, so families can assess the cost of the attendance they are considering.

• Support in larger groups. The July 2023 improvement point concerned extending learning during group activities, including interactions with children with SEND. For a child needing individual support, discuss how that support follows them into shared activities.
• The baby's daily spaces. Ducklings has sensory resources and a terrace garden, while moves between rooms depend on developmental readiness. During a visit, explore how your baby's routines and eventual move to Waterlilies would be handled.
• Attendance and the total bill. The weekday opening window is 7.30am to 6.30pm, and funded options include 15 hours and 30 hours. What booking pattern and funding delivery would apply to your child, and how would meals and consumables be treated in the written quotation?

Kiddi Caru Redhill suits families who value practical outdoor learning, age-stage spaces and regular contact with nursery life through an app and family events. Ducklings has a refurbished terrace garden for babies' outdoor exploration; preschool children have the Swans treehouse and planting opportunities. Those are tangible reasons to consider it.

Its year-round weekday operation also suits parents planning childcare beyond school terms. The July 2023 assessment provides a positive quality reference, balanced by a precise question about teaching in larger groups. For families considering additional support, that question deserves as much attention as the sensory room or garden provision.