Opening hours
Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm.
Kids Planet Apley
Ofsted: Good
(Mar 2025)
Number of places
194 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2025
Local authority
Telford and Wrekin
About this day nursery
Established in 2023, the setting offers a warm, welcoming, and inclusive environment, where strong relationships between staff and children enable them to thrive. The latest Ofsted inspection, on 25 March 2025, rated Kids Planet Apley as 'Good' in overall effectiveness, reflecting the significant improvements made since the previous inspection.
Leaders ensure swift intervention and strong support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), offering effective small-group and one-to-one sessions, and collaborating closely with parents and external professionals. Children at Kids Planet Apley enjoy a well-sequenced curriculum that promotes good progress in their learning and development.
Outdoor learning is a key feature, with babies confidently moving between indoor and outdoor play. Older children engage in activities such as helping staff make porridge over a firepit and eating it around a campfire, fostering an understanding of healthy lifestyles.
Children also develop their fine motor skills outdoors by using brushes to create marks on paper and paving slabs. The nursery also effectively supports children's mathematical development and encourages a love of books, with staff reading individually and in small groups.
Parents consistently express high satisfaction, praising the good communication and the diverse range of activities, including frequent community trips.
What it's like
Kids Planet Apley provides a warm, welcoming, and inclusive environment where children thrive due to strong relationships with staff. Children arrive with excitement, and even babies are happy, content, and engaged in stimulating activities. Staff are good role models with high expectations, leading to children demonstrating good social skills, understanding rules, and looking out for one another.
Warm, welcoming environmentStrong SEND supportOutdoor learning opportunitiesGood progress in learningEffective mathematical developmentPositive parent feedback
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)
Key facts
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Kids Planet Apley
Last inspected 25 March 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
Kids Planet Apley provides a warm, welcoming, and inclusive environment where children thrive due to strong relationships with staff. Children arrive with excitement, and even babies are happy, content, and engaged in stimulating activities. Staff are good role models with high expectations, leading to children demonstrating good social skills, understanding rules, and looking out for one another.
Inspector highlights
- Staff provide a warm, welcoming and inclusive environment.
- Leaders provide swift intervention when children need extra help.
- Leaders have made significant improvement since the last inspection.
- Staff receive regular supervision sessions and have access to professional development opportunities.
- Staff support children's mathematical development effectively.
Areas to develop
- 1help staff with planning and implementation of the curriculum so they are able to consistently support each child to build on their existing knowledge and skills
- 2provide staff with precisely focused professional development to raise the quality of teaching in all rooms to the highest level.
Inspection #10353823 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents are extremely happy with the nursery and say their children make good progress from their starting points.
They comment on the good communication between themselves and the staff and on the good range of activities, including frequent trips out in the community.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is strong. Leaders provide swift intervention when children need extra help, offering effective small-group sessions and one-to-one support. Staff work closely with parents, carers and other professionals, such as speech and language therapists, to ensure children are fully included and make good progress.
Outdoor space
Babies confidently move between the indoor and outdoor environments as they choose their own play. Older children help staff to make porridge over the firepit outdoors and enjoy eating it around the campfire. Children use brushes outdoors to create patterns and marks on paper and on the paving slabs.
Parent Reviews of Kids Planet Apley
4.2
(19)
A YF
6 months ago
Taking my daughter out of this nursery was the best decision. Staff don’t have a clue and were quite rude about my daughter’s walking skills. No sympathy. I dread to think what they say behind my back. It’s also not very clean and my daughter kept getting sick.
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Leah campbell
a year ago
My grandson attends kid planet and we are so pleased we choose the correct placement for him. The staff are brilliant, all very friendly and he loves to spend time with them. The manager is beyond brilliant, she is kind, thoughtful, she cares for all the children and their family's. She doesn't just stay in the office she makes herself present and joins in with all the fun had by all. I have full confidence in them when I leave my precious boy in their capable hands.
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Ashleigh Jade Campbell
a year ago
The staff at Kids Planet Apley are not only incredible kind and welcoming. They strive for our children's greatness and learning. My son has come out of his shell an immense amount since being apart of Kids Planet Apley. I wouldn't send my kids anywhere else. The manager is incredible with a great amount of patience and decorum.
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Alexandra Kelly
2 years ago
No option for zero stars.Very poor unprofessional management. Daughter was absent for 2 days. I called to ask why no one has contacted home (as per policy states they call home on day of absence) I was told that the preschool leader is not up to date with Kids Planet Policy as she has returned from maternity leave. This is frightening as policy is for safeguarding. I'm so glad my daughter will never return as the management of the establishment is toxic. And this feeds down to some staff. My son had to leave holiday club as staff and management did not give him his prescribed medication. I was told by a member of staff 'he didn't look like he needed it to be fair' To highlight their further incompetence they wrongly identified my son's medication as out of date. Management still agreed to administer as 'it's only a week out of date'. No communication to let me know any of the above what happened. They could have caused medical problems if it was out of date. High turnover of staff throughout my daughters time here. Have been told by staff of the toxic management culture and management brief staff on parents that they need to watch out for. Avoid.
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reg hipkiss
a year ago
Rude staff who like to damage the windscreen wiper on my transporter t5 at 55 pounds. Trying to say you have to pay for parking, but try as i may. i couldn't find any signs to support the claim. I'll be pursuing a claim. Now, they have stated that vehicles will be clamped. There are no signs saying clamping in operation.
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Inspection history
Improved from Requires improvement → Good in 2025
Date: February 2024
- March 2025Good
- May 2024Requires improvement
- February 2024Inadequate
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