Food
Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack prepared fresh onsite daily by a nursery chef. Special dietary requirements catered for.
Kiddy Academy Wavertree, established in November 2013, operates from a purpose-built, single-level facility within the Wavertree Children's Centre. This nursery is registered to accommodate 60 children aged 0-5 years and features three spacious, open-plan nursery rooms.
A dedicated on-site chef prepares fresh, nutritious meals daily in a fully equipped kitchen. The nursery boasts an expansive, secure outdoor play area accessible directly from each room, promoting free-flow play.
The facility is divided into a baby room for children 0-2 years, a toddler room for 2-3 years, and a pre-school room for 3-5 years, each with its own bespoke changing and toileting facilities. Activities are carefully designed to foster development, skill practice, knowledge acquisition, and confidence.
The nursery prides itself on a warm and loving environment, encouraging positive relationships with staff and peers. It is managed by an experienced nursery manager with over 22 years in early years education, supported by a deputy manager and room managers.
All staff receive accredited paediatric first aid training. For sensory exploration, the nursery provides a highly resourced sensory room.
Children also benefit from trips into the local community using a large pram bus. A secure CCTV door entry system is in operation across all nursery rooms.
What it's like
Children enter this warm and friendly nursery happy and excited to begin their day. Staff are attentive to children's needs, providing reassuring cuddles when they become upset, which helps children feel safe and secure. Children demonstrate a positive attitude to learning and staff support them patiently in developing new skills.
The nursery charges a food and enhanced provision fee. This fee is applied at different rates depending on whether a child attends a full day or a half day session.
Funding accepted
Good to know
Food
Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack prepared fresh onsite daily by a nursery chef. Special dietary requirements catered for.
Session types
Morning session (8:00am-1:00pm), Afternoon session (1:00pm-6:00pm)
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8:00am-6:00pm
Age range
0-5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Established
2013
Last inspected 5 November 2024
What it's like to attend
Children enter this warm and friendly nursery happy and excited to begin their day. Staff are attentive to children's needs, providing reassuring cuddles when they become upset, which helps children feel safe and secure. Children demonstrate a positive attitude to learning and staff support them patiently in developing new skills.
Inspector highlights
Areas to develop
Inclusion & environment
All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make progress in their learning. The nursery has trained all staff to provide early interventions to any children who need additional support, which has led to a large decline in children needing further referrals to other professionals.
When children are exploring bugs in the garden, staff talk to them about the size of worms, helping children to develop age-appropriate mathematical skills. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this was having on children's learning.
My daughter has been attending Kiddy Academy Wavertree for the past two and a half years now. I would highly recommend this nursery, it’s just been the best decision I made to place her here. My daughter runs into nursery each morning so happy to be there and the staff are just like an extension of our own family. They are all so lovely and caring towards the children which makes me feel better knowing my child is well looked after whilst I am working. They run regular play and stay afternoons for the parents/carers throughout the year which allows you to see all the fun things they get up to at nursery. My daughter is so bright for her age and I believe this is down to attending nursery and all the things the children are able to learn and explore from such a young age, which is amazing! They have Spanish lessons and PE lessons once a week too which my child loves and really looks forward to. Overall it’s just been an amazing experience for my daughter and I would recommend to anyone whose looking for a nursery.
Read on GoogleExcellent nursery, filled with nurturing, kind and efficient staff. My little boy has been at the nursery for two years and he loves it! 😀 The nursery always has educational and fun activities for the kids to do. He also loves the food, always having second portions! The building is secure and is a safe environment. Would highly recommend this nursery 👍😀
Read on GoogleThe best nursery I could have found for my daughter. A massive thank you for all the staff members for their hard work, for the way they emphasise with the little ones, and care about them. Not once I seen any of the children to be upset for being dropped at the nursery. Everyone is so excited in the morning for the nursery to open so they can have fun. Definitely the best nursery in Liverpool!
Read on GoogleKiddy Academy was recommended to us by two family members and a family friend who have had their 5 kids attend Kiddy Academy in two of their locations. It has been an amazing nursery for the last 2 years, and we will be staying there for another 2 years for pre-school. The staff team are very friendly, the setting is lovely with lots of different activities for the kids to play, including a big outdoor space so they have lots of fresh air and have a large variety of things to do. They have different activities based on the season, having santa visit for christmas, and getting the kids involved in different activities to build their learning and skills with creative ideas. Both the baby room and toddler room have been an amazing experience for us, very reassuring when first leaving your child, receiving regular updates on Tapestry which is lovely to see videos of them having fun and progressing. We've had an assigned key worker (and this has been consistent - we haven't been passed around) but each staff member gets to know your child really well anyway (even when only there a few days a week). The nursery have been extremely proactive when offering additional support for our child's development needs and been a great help in assisting us with receiving the right support for our child. They've also signposted us to other resources within the children's centre, including language support and parent/toddler classes which we've attended quite a few (which have also been great). Our child had a 2 year review which was really beneficial for us as parents, particularly as the nursery setting picked up on lots of thing's that our health visitor didn't (as they know our child so well whereas a health visitor doesn't), so was able to identify additional support where needed. They've catered to our child's allergies very well, continuously updating her allergy plan. They've been a great support and regularly ask for feedback for improvements. They have some parent stay/play sessions so you can see how your child is at nursery which is great to see and reassures you that they're happy there. Highly recommend (I have also recommended the nursery to someone else and their child now attends and enjoys it too).
Read on GoogleOur little boy goes to this nursery and has come on leaps and bounds since starting, they have supported us with his eating which has come on loads. He attends 4 full days a week and has done since he was 11 months, I feel more than comfortable leaving him in the care of this nursery, the staff in the baby room are amazing - Niamh, Ellie, Lindsey, Janet and Amy. He loves it!
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Date: May 2014
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