Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 07:45 - 18:00, 52 weeks of the year
Kids Planet Southridge
Ofsted: Outstanding
(Jun 2025)
Number of places
54 places
Age range
2–5 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
North Tyneside
About this day nursery
Kids Planet Southridge offers a nurturing and stimulating wraparound care provision located within Southridge First School. The nursery is led by a dedicated and experienced team focused on creating a consistent and caring environment where children can flourish into happy, confident, and well-adjusted individuals.
Their approach integrates active outdoor exploration with creative indoor activities, encouraging children to develop physical resilience, imagination, and curiosity. Mealtimes are designed to foster healthy eating habits with balanced, nutritious food and a zero-waste ethos, teaching children to value resources.
The nursery prioritises safety and wellbeing through secure access systems and skilled practitioners, ensuring a supportive space for learning, playing, and thriving. Kids Planet Southridge is recognised for its excellence, having received a Top 20 Nursery Award in the North East England region, a testament to its commitment to high-quality care and support.
Our ethos
Our approach encourages active exploration and gentle challenge, helping children build physical resilience while feeling supported every step of the way. Indoors, children enjoy creative, hands-on activities that spark imagination and curiosity, while outdoors they are encouraged to safely test new skills in a familiar, encouraging space. Mealtimes also promote healthy habits, with balanced portions and a zero-waste ethos that helps children appreciate the resources around them. Safety and wellbeing are at the centre of our practice, with secure access systems and skilled practitioners creating a calm, supportive environment where children can learn, play, and thrive.
What it's like
The nursery provides a nurturing environment where children thrive. Staff offer a warm welcome and consistent care that helps children to feel secure and develop highly positive attitudes and behaviour. The atmosphere is filled with joy and laughter, and children make strong progress from their starting points in development.
Wraparound careOutdoor learningNutritious mealsAward-winning
Pricing & funding
Fees are charged per day for the Holiday Club, with distinct rates for full day and short day sessions.
Funding accepted
Tax-Free Childcare
Key facts
Food
Nutritious meals and snacks, nappies, wipes, formula, and sun cream included
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Kids Planet Southridge
Last inspected 19 June 2025 · Clare Wilkins
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
What it's like to attend
The nursery provides a nurturing environment where children thrive. Staff offer a warm welcome and consistent care that helps children to feel secure and develop highly positive attitudes and behaviour. The atmosphere is filled with joy and laughter, and children make strong progress from their starting points in development.
Inspector highlights
- The nursery environment is carefully planned to spark children's curiosity, creating exciting opportunities that inspire and motivate children.
- Staff have an excellent knowledge about each child's learning needs and vary their teaching to support each child effectively.
- Staff weave stories into activities and encourage children's love of reading, enriching the environment with language.
- Leaders scrutinise their provision and have focused on enhancing staff's well-being, resulting in high morale and a positive atmosphere.
- Partnerships with others involved in children's care and education are a significant strength, with excellent communication between home and nursery.
- Support for children's behaviour is exemplary, with consistent strategies and boundaries to help children understand expectations.
- Children's health and emotional well-being is a high priority, benefiting from carefully planned physical activity, healthy meals, and relaxation techniques.
- Staff enrich children's understanding of the world through music, stories, and age-appropriate activities, teaching them to value and respect others.
Inspection #10405858 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Staff have high expectations for every child. They tailor their teaching to help each child to build on what they already know and can do. The curriculum centres around the areas where children need the most support. The plans for children's learning are meticulously personalised to each child, which contributes to the swift progress that all children make.
Outdoor space
The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact on children's learning. Staff encourage relaxation, for example, during 'peer massage' sessions and by encouraging children to lay on the grass and feel the sunshine on their skin.
Inspection history
Most recent inspection
19 June 2025
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
View full Ofsted reportFrequently asked about Kids Planet Southridge
About the setting
Kids Planet Southridge registered in 2023. It is independently run and located within Southridge First School in Whitley Bay. The nursery operates all year round, except for bank holidays. It opens from 7.45am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. There are 12 members of staff who work directly with children. Of these, nine staff hold relevant qualifications at level 3 or above, including an early years teacher. The nursery offers government-funded childcare and receives additional funding for disadvantaged children.
- URN
- 2754813
- Registered person
- Kids Planet Day Nurseries Limited
- Day care type
- Full day care
- Register
- Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
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