Valley House Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Coventry for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2024. Open since 2013, with 54 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
We offer Nursery Education Funding sessions for eligible children aged 2, 3, and 4, with both 15 and 30-hour options available.
Worth knowing. We do not charge top up fees for funded places.
What childcare usually costs in Coventry
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Coventry 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
CV6 7GQWhat 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, 23 August 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
In this caring and nurturing setting, staff know children extremely well. They are attentive and sensitive to children's personal needs. Children feel safe and secure as a result and develop positive relationships with trusted adults. Children enthusiastically engage in a range of activities that are planned to reflect their personal interests and developing needs. For example, when listening to a story about lost baby owls, staff sensitively support children to recognise and talk about the things that make them feel sad. This supports children to develop resilience as they learn to recognise, understand and manage their developing emotions.
Children enjoy lots of opportunities to play outside in the fresh air. They laugh and giggle as they pour water down shoots and run to collect it at the opposite end.
Staff support children's language effectively as they do this. They model new vocabulary as they encourage children to 'scoop up' the water to fill their containers. Children develop an understanding of mathematical concepts as staff talk to them about the 'heavy' and 'full' containers they fill with water. Staff support children to behave well and understand how their behaviours impact on other children. They support children to develop turn-taking and sharing skills. For example, when children build towers with bricks, staff remind children that 'sharing is caring'. Children then share and pass bricks to their friends. Children also develop confidence and self-esteem as staff consistently praise their efforts and achievements.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- plan opportunities for children to play and work together to further develop social skills and build positive relationships with other children n support staff to understand how to develop explanations of planned learning activities so that children understand what they need to do to be successful in their learning.
- 23 August 2024Good
- 25 October 2018Good
- 4 March 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Valley House Nursery
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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