Offerton Farm Day Nursery
Good★ 3.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Worcester for children from birth to 8+, open 07:45 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2023. Open since 1996, with 69 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 Worcestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Worcestershire 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
WR3 8SXWhat 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.
- 3 March 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 9 October 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The ethos of the nursery is for children to have fun while they learn. Staff provide all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, with a range of activities that are planned to meet their individual needs and interests.
As a result, children are eager to join in, and they make good progress in their learning and development. Children persevere with tasks until they achieve their goal. Younger children try hard to climb the steps to the slide. Staff offer lots of encouragement, and praise children when they reach the top. Older children concentrate as they use tweezers to find bugs in 'gloop', or to pick up the conkers they found on an earlier autumn walk.
Relationships between staff and children are kind and caring. Children demonstrate that they feel safe and secure as they actively seek out staff for a cuddle or to involve them in their play. Children who are upset are quickly soothed. Children's personal care needs are met sensitively. Staff talk and sing to younger children and babies as they change nappies. This helps to build relationships and makes children feel secure during daily routines. Children behave well. Staff teach children to share, take turns and have 'kind hands and kind feet'. They implement different strategies, such as a visual timetable and a 'block' jar to help children to learn to manage their emotions and begin to regulate their own behaviour.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- embed fully the changes that have been recently implemented, to ensure practice across the nursery continues to improve and develop n help staff to recognise when to support and extend children's communication and language even further.
- 9 October 2023Good
- 24 March 2023Needs improvement
- 7 June 2022Needs improvement
- 13 December 2021Inadequate
- 20 April 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 5 graded inspections.
Still missing for Offerton Farm Day Nursery
- 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.
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