Food
Healthy seasonal lunches and snacks provided daily; caters for dietary requirements and supports weaning.
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Hodge Hill
Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
Number of places
96 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
Birmingham
About this day nursery
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Hodge Hill provides a nurturing and engaging environment for children from three months up to school age. The nursery features dedicated areas tailored to different age groups, including a cosy baby room, a lively toddler room, and a pre-school with free-flow access to an exceptionally large garden.
The setting emphasizes a curiosity-based approach, minimizing plastic toys in favor of natural resources to stimulate children's interests and curiosity. A separate sleep room is available for babies, and healthy seasonal meals and snacks are provided daily, with catering for dietary requirements and support for weaning.
The nursery follows the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, with practitioners monitoring each child's progress and planning enriching experiences to support individual development across all learning areas. Facilities include a mud kitchen, a construction area, and a sensory area within the outdoor spaces.
The team is dedicated to paediatric first aid training, and the nursery participates in the Birmingham Startwell scheme for healthy eating. Flexible sessions are available, with a minimum of two sessions required per child.
Our ethos
At our nursery in Hodge Hill we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, supporting all areas of your child’s development from three months until they are ready to go to school. Our early years practitioners monitor each child’s progress and plan a variety of enrichment experiences to support individual development in all areas of learning. We use a curiosity approach to encourage the children and aim to minimise the use of plastic and focus on natural resources.
What it's like
Leaders and staff focus on children's play interests, creating a learning environment that motivates exploration. Many staff are bilingual, supporting children's communication in their home language and English, fostering a sense of belonging. The nursery offers a warm welcome, with opportunities for parents to exchange information with staff, ensuring children feel happy, safe, and secure.
Curiosity ApproachEYFS CurriculumLarge Outdoor SpaceHealthy MealsFlexible Sessions
Pricing & funding
Charges are based on regular booking patterns, with discounts available for siblings and key workers. A sibling registration fee discount and a referral scheme are also offered.
Funding accepted
Tax-Free Childcare
Good to know
- 10% sibling discount applied to the eldest child's regular booking pattern.
- 10% discount for families working within the NHS, Emergency Services, and Armed Forces.
- Only one discount can be applied per family.
- 50% discount on the registration fee for the second child registering.
- Recommend a friend scheme offers up to 50% off one month's fees for both families.
Key facts
Opening hours
Monday-Friday: 8.00am-6.00pm
Age range
3 months to 5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Hodge Hill
Last inspected 9 January 2025
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
Leaders and staff focus on children's play interests, creating a learning environment that motivates exploration. Many staff are bilingual, supporting children's communication in their home language and English, fostering a sense of belonging. The nursery offers a warm welcome, with opportunities for parents to exchange information with staff, ensuring children feel happy, safe, and secure.
Inspector highlights
- Leaders and staff place a strong focus on using children's play interests and set up the learning environment to support this.
- Leaders and staff support children's communication skills well. Many of the staff are bilingual and communicate with children in their home language as well as English.
- The provision for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is strong.
- Leaders and staff have effective arrangements to support children to manage their behaviour.
- Partnership working is effective, including with parents and the local primary school.
Areas to develop
- 1monitor staffs' planning to check that all children's learning targets are being addressed and implemented fully
- 2give further consideration to the curriculum overview for children's large muscle development to establish clear progression for their learning.
Inspection #10378376 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
The provision for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is strong. Leaders and staff closely monitor children's progress, working with parents and outside agencies to develop individual learning programmes. They make effective use of funding, having created a sensory room to help children manage their feelings, and adapt arrangements like providing smaller adult-to-child ratios for additional support.
Outdoor space
The report does not provide specific details about the outdoor space or how children use it for physical play.
Parent Reviews of Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Hodge Hill
3.5
(11)
Saima
6 months ago
⸻ This is the last year of my twins at this nursery, and what a journey it has been! The staff have been incredibly helpful and supportive to both my twins and me. I would like to give a special thank you to Ishma, the manager. Within a week of starting, she identified my child’s needs, and we began the EHCP process. She implemented several reasonable adjustments and put important support in place, which has made a real difference. My twins genuinely enjoy coming to nursery, and I can see the excitement, especially from my child with additional needs. This is a true reflection of the care, attention, and dedication the staff show toward all the children.
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Kainat Faruk
3 months ago
This nursery has gone downhill since ashborne has taken over, there new menu is horrendous and theres no options for a packed lunch, so if children as little as 3 dont eat theyre given a cracker, a CRACKER?! £120 for consumables and theyre eating crackers?. Send your kids elsewhere this nursery is EXTREMELY dissappointing.
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Liss Wills
5 months ago
Lovely nursery, each room has access directly to the outdoor area. Plenty of parking for easy drop offs.
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Nazmeen Afzal
a year ago
Be careful about sending your children here. They talk the talk but do not walk the walk. Staff members incapable of handling an emergency situation appropriately, abusive toward parents - in-front of the children. Incident report to senior management at Ashbourne and no follow up calls received, no apology from staff member, just brushed under the carpet. The staff are unable to manage the high numbers of children they now have so children sent home in wet pants. Was even told by a staff member “must be the cheap food” !! Professionalism here leaves a lot to be desired Go elsewhere
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Abu Laila
a year ago
A superb nursery that's right next to Hodge Hill Primary and Secondary school. It's great for little ones, and has many facilities and helpful staff. The teachers/carers at the nursery are supportive and helpful. Thank you
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Inspection history
Date: January 2023
- January 2025Good
- June 2023Good
- January 2023Inadequate
Frequently asked about Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Hodge Hill
About the setting
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Hodge Hill registered in 2023, and is in Birmingham. The nursery employs nine members of childcare staff, 8 of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The nursery operates all year round, Monday to Friday, from 8am until 6pm. The nursery offers funded places for children under two, two-, three- and four-year-old children.
- URN
- 2703200
- Registered person
- Ashbourne Day Nurseries Limited
- Day care type
- Full day care
- Register
- Early Years Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
- Previous rating
- Good
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