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Kiddi Caru Nursery in Fareham

Ofsted: Good
(Jul 2024)
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3.8(5 parent reviews)
·Gull Coppice, Whiteley, Fareham, PO15 7LA · Hampshire
Number of places
130 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2024
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

Kiddi Caru Day Nursery and Preschool in Fareham provides a nurturing and stimulating environment for children. The nursery focuses on fostering each child's individual growth and development through a variety of engaging activities.

With a commitment to supporting families, they offer flexible childcare solutions, including the option to stretch funded hours across 51 weeks of the year. The facility boasts a team dedicated to creating a positive and welcoming atmosphere, ensuring that children feel secure and happy in their care.

The nursery also emphasizes healthy living, providing nutritious meals and encouraging outdoor play to promote physical well-being. They work in partnership with parents to ensure a smooth transition into childcare and maintain open communication regarding each child's progress and needs.

The nursery is part of the Grandir UK group, which prioritizes accessible childcare and aims to simplify the funding application process for parents. They welcome new families to visit and experience their supportive and educational setting firsthand.

What it's like

Children form positive relationships with staff, helping them to feel secure. Staff provide a broad range of activities that engage children's interests effectively. Children become absorbed in their play, helping them to become motivated and independent learners, for example creating rockets from a book about aliens and learning mathematical ideas such as positional language.

Flexible funded hoursNutritious mealsOutdoor play emphasized

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-oldsTax-Free Childcare
Pricing on request

This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.

Key facts

Opening hours

Mon to Fri: 7:30am – 6:00pm

Established

2006

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Kiddi Caru Nursery

Last inspected 24 July 2024

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Children form positive relationships with staff, helping them to feel secure. Staff provide a broad range of activities that engage children's interests effectively. Children become absorbed in their play, helping them to become motivated and independent learners, for example creating rockets from a book about aliens and learning mathematical ideas such as positional language.

Inspector highlights

  • Children form positive relationships with staff, helping them to feel secure.
  • Staff provide a broad range of activities that engage children's interests effectively.
  • Children become absorbed in their play, helping them to become motivated and independent learners.
  • Children develop good social skills and learn to share, take turns and collaborate.
  • Staff encourage children to learn about the environment and conservation issues.

Areas to develop

  • 1enhance the arrangements to check that staff have a confident and comprehensive understanding of all aspects of their roles, including temporary staff
  • 2monitor the support for children with SEND more precisely to address minor inconsistencies in the quality of the interactions they receive.
Inspection #10340821 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) have structured support plans in place. These plans help staff understand each child's unique needs and implement strategies to support their learning and development. Overall, children with SEND enjoy their time in the nursery and have their needs met well.

Outdoor space

Staff encourage children to learn about the environment and conservation issues. This is done through discussion and activities that offer practical experiences such as identifying plastic objects to remove from the water tray. Staff have also set up an eco-school committee with the children, where they hold meetings to discuss how they can care for the ocean. Children have contributed to cleaning beaches, supporting them to learn about issues in their local community.

Parent Reviews of Kiddi Caru Nursery

3.8
(5)
Nikki Clarke
9 months ago

I cannot say enough good things about Kiddi Caru Whiteley (Gull Coppice). My son has been going there now for almost a year and he loves it. He has developmental delays and they can’t do enough in terms of support and care for him. His development has come a long way since being there. I’ve found the staff to be lovely, kind and supportive.

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Iram Ukalp
a year ago

I would give 0 if it was the option. If you care for your child, don't send them here. If a adult asks for a cuddle you will give right? These ladies would see the child screaming in front of them asking for just a simple cuddle, no they would carry on their chats with each other. ( I am not talking here about clingy kids,but just a sad moment, where the child just needs a cuddle and will calm down). My child started developing aggressive behaviour, started hitting everybody as soon as was coming back from the nursery, used to put his toys on a line and shouting at them " hey you boys shut up " and was smashing each one of them.( my husband had to call nursery and asking what happened today because his behaviour is not normal, is not from him).Crying in his sleep " noooo noo noooo" . Screaming in the morning " please no nursery " but in a sad way . The lunch sooooo rushed, my child basically was just swallowing without chowing the food, and his poop was the whole food as he ate it ,lost a lot of weight as was not eating breakfast and stopped even the lunch bit by bit.And they have the audacity to lie to your face " he ate all of his food",as soon as you go home and the child is eating like has been starved. Unbelievable how they forget that a mother knows her child better than anyone else. You have to wait for minutes because the ladies inside are having their chats and can't bother to open you the door. I am talking about things I have seen with my own eyes. You buy waterproof clothes for the child to wear outside in wet weather, nooooo way can they bother to put it on on the child, the child would get changed about 3-4 times ,his clothes all wet 24/7.I thought they had a pool! Oh yes they have a pool called, wet weather and leaving the child wetting himself in wee. Do you know why? Because the child didn't trust and probably too scared to ask for toilet. ( talking for a child who stays dry and during the whole night long ). No educational plan, each day a different person, changing staff constantly. Let's not talk about the ofsted report, that one made us even more alarmed. We felt so much guilt and I cried so much thinking how did we trust our most important person in this world to this place.I used to hear from a lot of people how bad the nurseries are and the level has dropped drastically. They don't know the children. Ask the key person just 1 simple question " tell me 1 thing my child likes the most " . Asked the question, the key person didn't know what to invent, was talking generally " well he loves painting as we do a lot of painting activities in the nursery " . I said no, my child is obsessed with cars,you should have noticed that, is so easy, he comes every morning with a car in his hand and his bag is filled with cars and he plays all day with cars. How will you help in the development of a child in his education when you don't know the child. This nursery should be closed. There are a lot more episodes but even this is way more then enough. Wish a took my child off way ahead when the red flags started raising.

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Simon Dennis
7 years ago

My children loved it here when we lived in Whiteley and still talk about some years later. Modern, friendly staff who care and engage with the children and parents brilliantly. Best nursery in the area if your looking around for one.

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Martin L
4 years ago

Since the children have moved to the nursery they are so happy. The staff are great, with detailed handovers each day often with pictures through the online portal.

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Lisa Barrett
5 years ago

A lot of hard working decent BRITISH families living in Britain. So I like to be very careful what I say. Beautiful families

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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Good in 2024

Date: April 2010

  • July 2024Good
  • March 2024Inadequate
  • April 2018Good
  • October 2016Good
  • October 2015Good
  • April 2010Good

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