Kids Planet Salford Quays
Good★ 4.3 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Salford for children from birth to 8+, open 07:00 to 19:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2022. Open since 2016, with 135 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Salford
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Salford 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
M5 3EQWhat 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, 20 October 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders and staff focus strongly on developing effective relationships with children and their families. Children are developing friendships and give each other hugs when they arrive. Babies and young children go to staff when they need comforting and snuggle in for cuddles. This helps them to settle in quickly, showing they feel safe and secure.
Children are supported to learn to walk, run, sing and talk. When children use shortened versions of words, such as 'ta', adults say 'thank you', so that children hear the correct version of words. Children actively join in with songs and rhymes, learning the words and copying the actions. Young children show enjoyment as they count the numbers of monkeys bouncing on the bed. Older children are encouraged to use number and confidently count beyond 20. This supports their early mathematical development. Parents report that their children are more sociable and talkative since attending. Children are well behaved.
The learning environment is intentionally designed to entice babies and children to explore, investigate and be physically active. Ample floor space and appropriate equipment and furniture helps them to practise crawling and walking safely and confidently. Many children do not have a garden space at home, so staff make sure that children have lots of opportunities to play and learn outdoors. Babies reach for board books to look at and toddlers experiment with running sand through their fingers and finding plastic spiders. Pre-school children delight when they conduct an experiment and watch the chemical reaction taking place as 'lava' pours out of the pumpkin head. This supports their good all-round development.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- embed the curriculum intent for promoting children's communication and language development with all leaders and staff, so that children make the best possible progress n help leaders and staff to enable children to learn how to do more things for themselves in order to better promote their school readiness.
- 20 October 2022Good
- 21 December 2018Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Kids Planet Salford Quays
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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