Banana Moon Day Nursery Edgbaston
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Birmingham for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:00 to 18:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2023. Open since 2014, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
What childcare usually costs in Birmingham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Birmingham from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
B15 3DUWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 5 July 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The emotional security of children is a high priority at this warm and welcoming nursery. Children form close bonds with the kind and caring staff who look after them. Children arrive excitedly to start their day. They benefit from a wealth of resources and activities set up in the nursery playrooms and garden. Children behave very well. They develop independence as they choose activities, tidy away toys, and serve their own meals.
Children develop strong physical skills. Staff skilfully support babies to progress from sitting to crawling and then walking. Babies stand and hold staff members'
hands as they make sounds, babble and sing. Older children enjoy catching, kicking and throwing balls outside. They build and balance using tyres. Small muscle-skills are developing. Babies have fun using their hands and fingers to explore pots, pans and utensils in trays of coloured rice. Older children manipulate dough with their hands and show increasing skill using tools, such as scissors, rollers and cutters.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- increase support and training for staff to develop their teaching skills to a consistently high level, with particular regard to enhancing children's communication and language skills at an even faster rate.
- 5 July 2023Good
- 5 October 2017Good
- 29 July 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Banana Moon Day Nursery Edgbaston
- What it costs
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
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