The Little Ripley Day Nursery
Good★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Birmingham for children from birth to 8+, open 07:00 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 They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask.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 June 2024. Open since 1994, with 60 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 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
B23 7HYWhat 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, 6 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff carefully plan the environment to ensure the resources and activities positively impact children's outcomes. For example, leaders have purposefully created a sensory room for those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities
(SEND) to regulate their emotions. Younger children benefit from large play equipment indoors, where they learn to climb and balance, and table-top activities to strengthen their early standing. Additionally, children engage in daily outdoor play, where they further develop their excellent physical skills.
Staff skilfully deploy themselves to engage in children's learning and purposefully invite others to join their play. This positively contributes towards children's enthusiasm to learn and high levels of confidence in social situations. For instance, toddlers hand the inspector a colouring crayon, inviting them to join their markmaking activity. New babies demonstrate that they feel emotionally secure as they build early attachments with staff. Parents and carers report on how comfortable they feel leaving their children in 'safe hands'. This is reflected in how well children settle.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - make the most of all interactions with children to offer them more challenge and further their communication skills, focusing particularly on the use of closed questions.
- 6 June 2024Good
- 13 August 2018Good
- 22 September 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Little Ripley 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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