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Kids Planet Southfield

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Dec 2024)
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3.7(7 parent reviews) ·1 Sandersons Terrace, Cramlington, NE23 6XD · Northumberland
Number of places
60 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2024
Local authority
Northumberland

About this day nursery

Kids Planet Southfield registered in 2023 and operates year-round from Monday to Friday, 7am until 6pm, caring for children aged 0-4 years. As of its latest Ofsted inspection on 4th December 2024, the nursery received an overall rating of Outstanding.

The management and staff are highly ambitious, implementing a comprehensive and innovative curriculum that is tailored to each child's unique interests and developmental needs. This approach ensures that every child, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), receives targeted support through individual learning plans developed in collaboration with parents and other agencies.

The nursery places a strong emphasis on early intervention and carefully monitors each child's progress. Children at Kids Planet Southfield are described as extremely happy, settled, and secure, forming close bonds with staff.

They display high levels of confidence and independence, even taking on tasks like serving their own lunch. The nursery continuously self-evaluates, making improvements such as adding new doors to some rooms for easier access to outdoor areas for children and installing low-level sinks for young children.

Recent enhancements to the outdoor learning environment include a tepee in the garden to accommodate pre-school children as the nursery expands. Staff skilfully model a wide range of vocabulary and foster a strong focus on early literacy, encouraging children to engage with stories daily, even challenging parents to read with their children at home.

The staff's comprehensive knowledge of child development underpins this highly ambitious curriculum.

What it's like

Children are extremely happy, settled and secure, forming very close bonds with staff who use their comprehensive knowledge of child development to implement a highly ambitious and innovative curriculum. Children display high levels of confidence and self-esteem, feeling safe and secure and confidently engaging with visitors and new challenges like serving their own lunch.

Highly ambitious curriculumExceptional self-evaluationStrong literacy focusEarly intervention for SENDConfident, secure childrenEnhanced outdoor access

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 7am until 6pm

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2023

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Kids Planet Southfield

Last inspected 4 December 2024 · Lynne Pope

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

What it's like to attend

Children are extremely happy, settled and secure, forming very close bonds with staff who use their comprehensive knowledge of child development to implement a highly ambitious and innovative curriculum. Children display high levels of confidence and self-esteem, feeling safe and secure and confidently engaging with visitors and new challenges like serving their own lunch.

Inspector highlights

  • Management and staff are highly ambitious, providing an exceptional curriculum that supports every child's development.
  • Management has an expert understanding of each child's individual development needs and next steps, with a focus on early intervention for children with SEND.
  • Self-evaluation is exceptional, with continuous reflection and improvements like easier access to outdoor areas and low-level sinks.
  • Staff model a wide range of vocabulary, fostering children's language and literacy abilities.
  • There is an extremely strong focus on early literacy, with children enjoying stories and parents challenged to read with their children daily.
Inspection #10374410 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Management and staff recognise the importance of early intervention. They develop individual learning plans for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities through working with other agencies and parents. They carefully monitor children's progress and target children's learning to meet their individual needs.

Outdoor space

Management has reviewed children's access to outdoor areas, adding new doors to some rooms for easier accessibility. A tepee has also been put up in the garden to accommodate pre-school children as the nursery expands.

Parent Reviews of Kids Planet Southfield

3.7
(7)
Simon Atkinson
a year ago

Our son has been at kids planet for 2 years now and absolutely loves it, from day one of our looking around nursery he’s absolutely loved it. He took straight to Kim and Nicole in the baby room and each room he’s moved up to has always loved the staff there. I know all the staff have such a care for the kids and do everything they can. I completely trust the care of the nursery and would highly recommend this nursery to anyone.

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Laura Bell
a year ago

Since my little boy joined kids planet Southfield 10 months ago he has never been happier. The level of care provided is amazing. My little boy is cared for by the girls as if he was one of their own children. He always comes out happy and tells me all about his day, they share regular updates about what he’s been doing and there is always lots of different varieties of activity on offer

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Danielle Liddle
a year ago

It's such a shame to have to give this nursery 1 star as lots of the room staff are wonderful. Kim, Erin, Debbie and Amanda in particular as they have cared for and loved our son for so long. I would trust them implicitly with my child, just not the terrible environment they have to work in or the management they have to work under. However, the management is poor, the supervision is questionable a lot of the time. A child was able to go into the bathroom and flush a toilet my child was sitting on with no kind of intervention, causing my son to be upset. No feedback has been provided about this matter despite being promised that it would, it's not the first time requests for feedback over incidents have been ignored. We had a major incident where they took the children out, there is still no real evidence that rescue medication was carried, and bought them chocolate at the shop. Completely excluding my child and offering him carrots and blueberries whilst the other children had chocolate. I am so angry at myself for giving another chance after this. The manager often blames other staff for issues, including blaming previous management which is unfair as Amanda would always hold her hands up to mistakes and act upon these. Safeguarding concerns around not understanding medical needs or sharing appropriate information with staff, including not sharing a wheeze management plan then firstly claiming we hadn't shared it then blaming the room staff when it was evidenced we had, again, Amanda was blamed for this. The manager seems to have little clue about what is going on in rooms and will often claim her being in ratio elsewhere as an excuse. They have attempted to gaslight us as parents to cover up their misgivings and have collected themselves and array of positive reviews to try to make this disappear. It's worth checking out Kids Planet of Trust pilot to see that we are not the only parents who have experienced such terrible situations with Kids Planet.

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Michael Calland
a year ago

Amazing nursery, my little boy has grown in confidence massively since interacting with the kids and the girls that look after him

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Inspection history

Date: December 2024

  • December 2024Outstanding
  • December 2024Outstanding

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