Kids Planet Sale

An Atelier Room for experimenting with natural materials, a sensory room for quieter moments, and regular outings to Worthington Park give Kids Planet Sale a character that extends beyond its age-stage rooms. Creative exploration and emotional support have concrete spaces here. For parents, that combination offers something useful to weigh alongside the practical timetable.

Based at Brook House on Wharf Road, Sale, M33 2AF, the nursery has capacity for 83 children and accepts children from three months to five years. At its January 2024 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good and found safeguarding effective, while identifying a weakness in assessing younger children’s knowledge and experience in their home languages.

Later supervision-related regulatory action matters to that assessment too. The nursery offers morning, afternoon and full-day bookings, with separately priced extensions at either end of the day.

Rooms and Ages

The Atelier Room gives children sand and natural materials to investigate through play, with no prescribed finished piece. Children can test what materials do and pursue their own ideas.

Gentle lighting, tactile materials and sensory resources give the sensory room a different purpose: a quieter setting for children who need to pause or regulate their emotions.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage is the framework for children’s learning, development and care: in everyday terms, play, conversation and practical experiences support their growing skills. Sale’s additions include sports sessions with an on-site coach and cooking activities led by its chef. These bring movement and food preparation into children’s learning rather than leaving them solely as routines around it.

In January 2024, younger children chose resources and developed pretend play with dolls and tea sets; staff extended their ideas by introducing water and tea bags. Older children used a pretend shop to practise numbers and interacting with one another. Staff demonstrated the activity first, then children returned to the roles of customer and shopkeeper in their own time. The sequence gave children an example to work from and room to try it themselves.

Daily sessions with a physical development specialist were part of older children’s experience in January 2024. Movement games also incorporated counting and small responsibilities, such as distributing drinking glasses. Physical activity therefore connected with practical independence and early mathematical language, rather than sitting apart from the rest of the day.

Outdoor and Community Life

The outdoor space supports daily movement and exploration, including sessions with the sports coach. Regular outings include the nearby canal, Worthington Park, Sale Waterside and the post office. Those destinations give children encounters with both outdoor surroundings and everyday community life, with different reasons to observe, talk and ask questions.

In January 2024, children also made regular visits to a care home, shops, the library and a leisure centre. A dentist and beekeeper visited to explain their work. These experiences introduced people and occupations beyond the nursery team, giving children concrete examples of how their wider community functions.

Relationships and Communication

Settling was personalised in January 2024, including offering a teddy bear to children who felt overwhelmed. Comfort helped prepare children to participate.

Key-person observations informed discussions between staff in January 2024 about what children had learned and what should come next. Home activities extended some of that work: families could borrow resources and guidance for practising positional vocabulary, while autumn soup kits connected food preparation with learning at home. These were tangible activities families could use together, rather than simply a progress update.

For current communication, Famly, the parent app, provides real-time updates. That gives parents a way to follow aspects of their child’s nursery day alongside conversations with staff.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

The team includes a SENDCO trained in special educational needs and disabilities, an emotional support assistant and a yoga teacher. Alongside those roles, the sensory room provides a physical setting for quieter sensory exploration. Together, these roles and resources provide both staff support and space for calmer activity.

In January 2024, staff used books, visual prompts and demonstrations to help children recognise feelings. One strategy involved pushing against a wall to express anger physically; another used a puppy toy to practise gentle handling and kindness. Emotional learning was made concrete through actions children could try, rather than relying only on verbal explanations.

Language assessment was the weaker point in January 2024. Staff working with younger children did not consistently establish what children could already do in their home languages, or use that information when planning learning. For multilingual families, the practical issue is whether a child’s starting point is understood across their languages, rather than assessed only through English.

An on-site chef prepares meals and also leads children’s cooking sessions. Meals and snacks cater for dietary needs, connecting food provision with opportunities for children to participate in preparing it.

Supervision requires a clear account. In October 2024, a child had been outside staff’s sight or hearing for approximately 10 minutes, prompting a review of outdoor safety risks and changes to how children were taken outside. A welfare requirements notice followed in December 2025, requiring appropriate staff supervision arrangements by 9 January 2026. Ofsted accepted the October 2024 corrective action and, following a visit on 27 January 2026, confirmed that the later safeguarding and welfare action had been met through revised procedures, training and supervision, including video training about moving children around the building.

Sessions and Attendance

Opening hours are 7am to 7pm, Monday to Friday, across 52 weeks of the year. The booking timetable is more specific: Full Day runs from 7.30am to 6.30pm, Morning from 7.30am to 1pm, and Afternoon from 1pm to 6.30pm. A Full Time pattern uses the same 7.30am to 6.30pm window.

Early Bird covers 7am to 7.30am, while Late Bird covers 6.30pm to 7pm. These extensions are separately priced, so a family needing the whole opening window should distinguish it from the standard Full Day booking. Adhoc hourly care is also priced separately. The nursery closes on bank holidays.

Getting There

The address is Brook House, Wharf Road, Sale, M33 2AF. Nearby transport connections include Metrolink and the A56 and M60 roads, giving families different options for fitting nursery into their journey.

Enquiries can be made by telephone on 0161 969 4799 or by email at sale@kidsplanetdaynurseries.co.uk. A tour booking route is also offered.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare and privately paid hours are offered. For privately paid care, fees include snacks and meals, alongside formula, nappies, sun cream and wipes; sports activities and the Famly app are included too. That reduces the everyday items families need to supply for those bookings.

Days with early years funding applied have a different charge structure: activities, consumables and meals are charged separately. The charge category depends on the length of the funded day, with half-day, short-day and full-day categories. Include those extras when comparing funded and private bookings. Current prices come in the nursery’s written quotation.

• Supervision following repeated action. The October 2024 incident and December 2025 welfare requirements notice concerned supervision-related practice; the later action was confirmed met in January 2026. At a visit, ask how the revised arrangements work when children move between spaces and go outdoors.
• Multilingual starting points. January 2024 assessment did not consistently capture younger children’s abilities in their home languages. Ask how staff gather and use that information before planning your child’s learning.
• Opening hours versus bookings. The 7am to 7pm opening window includes separately priced Early Bird and Late Bird periods around the standard day. Match the quotation to the hours your family will actually use, including funded-day extras.

Kids Planet Sale suits families choosing either shorter morning or afternoon sessions, or a full-day pattern with early and late extensions. Its strongest practical attractions are the combination of creative space, a calming sensory room, coached physical activity and regular local outings. Children have different ways to participate, explore and take a quieter moment.

The January 2024 assessment weakness and subsequent supervision action deserve weight alongside those attractions. The later action was met, but the repeated supervision-related history makes the everyday operation of revised procedures an important part of choosing this nursery. Its learning spaces and attendance choices have practical appeal; consistent supervision remains a central consideration.