Lola-Belle's Private Day Nursery

Football coaching, stories with animal props and children pouring their own drinks give Lola-Belle's a practical, hands-on character. In December 2024, these experiences brought movement, conversation and growing independence into the nursery day. The strongest impression is of learning through things children can do themselves.

At its 6 December 2024 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good and found safeguarding effective. That judgement came with two clear priorities: activities needed more precise adjustment to individual children's needs, and staff needed stronger coaching to make teaching consistent between rooms. Both matter when choosing care for a child whose development may differ from that of their peers.

Lola-Belle's Private Day Nursery serves babies and children aged 0 to 60 months at 11 Owen Street, Tipton. A term-time attendance option applies to all ages.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage provides the framework for children's learning, development and care. In parent language, this means that play, conversation and everyday routines all contribute to learning, rather than education being confined to a separate lesson.

In December 2024, babies explored stories using animal props, matching them to characters and repeating animal names with staff. Repeated rhymes gave them another way into language. Older children experimented with moving cereal between containers and used words to describe how much each container held. These are concrete examples of adults drawing conversation out of play.

Play dough offered another combination of physical practice and talk: children rolled and shaped it, explained their actions and received help with tools. Football coaching added opportunities to practise coordination, take turns with equipment and respond to instructions. The activities had clear purposes, although planning did not consistently adapt them closely enough to different children's needs.

Outdoor and Community Life

In December 2024, children used a dedicated outdoor learning space and practised travelling to it safely. Sand and buckets also featured in physical play, while a Christmas-jumper design activity gave children a reason to experiment with making marks. The detail matters: movement, handling materials and creating designs were part of the experience, alongside stories and conversation.

Relationships and Communication

In December 2024, staff helped children cope with difficult feelings through comfort and explanations, and modelled respectful ways of speaking and playing together. Children followed routines and made choices during their day. This gave emotional support a practical expression in ordinary interactions.

Parents received progress updates and detailed handovers about their children's experiences. Staff also discussed family circumstances and responded to questions. That combination connected the nursery day with home: a handover covered what had happened, while progress discussions addressed what a child was learning next.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At the December 2024 inspection, Ofsted found that staff identified developmental concerns promptly and worked with parents and professionals on targeted support, helping children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress. The important mechanism was the link between assessment, agreed next steps and action, rather than a general promise of support.

In December 2024, children practised serving food, pouring drinks, cleaning their faces and brushing their teeth, bringing independence into daily care. Meals were healthy, and staff catered for individual dietary requirements and discussed these with parents.

Sessions and Attendance

Opening hours are 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, across 51 weeks of the year. The nursery closes for bank holidays and a little over a week at Christmas. For families organising work around nursery care, those closures are as relevant as the daily opening window.

Term-time attendance is an option for every age group. This gives families whose routines follow school terms a different attendance arrangement from the nursery's wider annual opening calendar.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare is offered from nine months to four years, with 15-hour and 30-hour entitlements. Nappies are included in nursery fees. Families should obtain current prices in a written quotation from the nursery.

Getting There

The address is 11 Owen Street, Tipton, West Midlands, DY4 8EZ. Enquiries can be made by telephone on 0121 557 9956, by email to lbdaynursery@outlook.com or through the Lola-Belle's contact form.

• Individual learning. The December 2024 improvement priorities concerned precise activity planning and staff coaching. During a tour, ask how an activity is adjusted for children at different stages and how practitioners receive feedback on their teaching.
• Term-time arrangements. The term-time option covers all ages, alongside an annual calendar with bank-holiday and Christmas closures. How would the attendance agreement and funded hours fit your family's required days, including any meal charges?
• Seeing the nursery. Tours and a welcome pack are offered. Use a visit to explore how your child's settling arrangements would work and how the day's activities connect with their interests.

Lola-Belle's suits families seeking hands-on early learning, with term-time attendance an option and an opening calendar extending across most of the year. The December 2024 examples give substance to that judgement: stories encouraged talk, physical activities involved cooperation, and daily care gave children responsibilities of their own.

The balance is clear. Personalised planning and consistent teaching were the areas needing attention, so those deserve particular weight when assessing how the nursery would meet your child's needs.