Kangaroo Pouch Day Nursery Tividale

A garden divided between babies and older children gives Kangaroo Pouch Day Nursery Tividale a clear practical identity. Its purpose-built, single-storey building on Elm Terrace has age-based rooms and direct access to outdoor play. The arrangement gives the youngest children their own outdoor area while toddlers and preschool children share another.

At its June 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, judged safeguarding effective and found strong support for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Those positive judgements sit alongside specific improvements concerning communication about key people and greater challenge for the most able children. A later dietary-safety event also matters to the decision.

The nursery has capacity for 62 children, with an accepted age range of 2 to 60 months. That is a whole-setting figure, rather than the size of an individual room or the number of children attending together.

Rooms and Ages

Three rooms organise the day by age. The Joey’s room serves children aged 0-2 years and has its own garden area; the Wallaroo’s room serves ages 2-3 and the Kangaroo’s room ages 3-5, with these older groups sharing the other outdoor area. Age-appropriate play equipment supports the arrangement. For families, the useful distinction is between the babies’ separate outdoor space and the shared space for older children.

Free-flow garden access connects indoor play with time outside. The physical layout makes outdoor activity part of the nursery environment, rather than a separate destination.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage sets the framework for learning, development and care: children build skills through play, interaction and everyday experiences. In June 2025, staff planned activities around skills children already had, using questions and discussion to encourage them to contribute ideas. Older children showed curiosity and wanted to learn.

There was a clear limit to that picture. In June 2025, staff did not consistently extend learning far enough for the most able children. For a child who quickly masters an activity, the relevant issue is what happens next: whether an adult adds a harder task or develops the child’s question into further exploration.

Outdoor and Community Life

In June 2025, children played outdoors daily, tackling the garden hill and steps with adult encouragement. These were everyday opportunities to practise movement and attempt something difficult for themselves. Staff supported the effort as well as the successful outcome.

Community outings and dance classes also featured in June 2025. They added experiences beyond room-based activities, although neither should be read as a promise of a particular timetable today.

Relationships and Communication

In June 2025, staff collected information from families before children started and used it to plan their next learning steps. They responded to tiredness, hunger and personal-care needs, and helped children settle into their rooms. The emphasis was on understanding the individual child, rather than applying the same response to everyone.

Changes to staffing and room deployment had also changed key-person arrangements by June 2025. Some parents were unclear about which practitioner held that responsibility. This was an explicit improvement point: everyday conversations need to leave families knowing who oversees their child’s care and education.

Family participation had a practical place in June 2025. For Father’s Day, children joined sports activities with important males in their lives, giving staff opportunities to discuss ways of continuing learning at home. Staff also helped children take turns and work through small disagreements with other children.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

In June 2025, staff reviewed children’s development and discussed concerns with families or other professionals. This approach connected monitoring of development with discussion of additional support, bringing families and other professionals into the conversation.

Dietary safety requires close attention here. In its compliance outcome dated 19 March 2026, Ofsted recorded that children with dietary needs had been exposed to potentially harmful drinks, found requirements had not been met and recorded that the provider had taken corrective action through stronger procedures and risk assessments. This followed a food-intolerance incident reported at the June 2025 inspection, after which preventative action had been taken but the incident had not been notified to the regulator. The recurrence makes the handling of dietary instructions a substantial consideration for affected families.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is Elm Terrace, Tividale, Oldbury, B69 1UH. Opening hours are 7.30am to 6pm. The nursery operates Monday to Friday across the year, closing for bank holidays and Christmas. Those closures matter when matching childcare to a working calendar.

For direct enquiries, the nursery can be contacted on 01384 671 499 or through its contact form. Current prices come in the nursery’s written quotation.

Funding and Paid Extras

In June 2025, the nursery offered government-funded childcare places and received specific funding for disadvantaged children. Families considering funded attendance should distinguish the entitlement hours from the full attendance arrangement and any associated charges.

• Dietary safety. The 19 March 2026 outcome followed another dietary incident reported at the June 2025 inspection. At a visit, ask how food and drink instructions reach every practitioner and how serving checks work for your child.
• Key-person communication. In June 2025, some parents did not know who their child’s key person was after staffing changes. Ask how that responsibility is introduced and how subsequent changes are communicated.
• Stretch for quick learners. Greater challenge for the most able children was a June 2025 improvement point. Ask for an example of how staff extend an activity once a child has mastered it.
• Attendance and charges. The nursery opens across the year and closes for bank holidays and Christmas. Ask which booking pattern fits your week and how funded hours, meals and non-food consumables appear in the written quotation.

Tividale suits families who value age-based rooms, a separate outdoor area for babies and garden access built into the setting’s layout. The June 2025 judgement gives a positive assessment of education and care, with concrete improvements to weigh alongside it. Dietary-safety recurrence deserves particular attention; key-person clarity and challenge for quicker learners are also useful tests of the nursery’s current practice.