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The Organic Explorers

Ofsted: Good
(Nov 2024)
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4.7(3 parent reviews)
·The Sixth Form College Solihull, Widney Manor Road, Solihull, B91 3WR · Solihull
Number of places
62 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2024
Local authority
Solihull

About this day nursery

The Organic Explorers in Solihull is a welcoming nursery dedicated to providing a nurturing and stimulating environment for young children. They emphasise high standards and an inquisitive learning space, supported by a passionate and experienced team.

The nursery focuses on supporting children to reach their full potential, offering a range of activities and experiences. They prioritise nutritious, balanced, and freshly prepared on-site meals, ensuring children receive healthy food options.

Safeguarding is paramount, creating a secure environment where children can learn and thrive. The nursery encourages prospective families to visit and observe their daily operations, allowing children to participate in activities and parents to ask questions.

They offer flexible settling-in sessions, tailored to each child's needs, to ensure a smooth transition. Building long-term relationships with families is key, with a focus on gradually increasing children's unaccompanied time at their own pace.

What it's like

Staff in the pre-school room have a deep knowledge of the children's interests and next steps in learning, which they use exceptionally well to provide a wealth of engaging experiences. This helps children to make excellent progress and flourish in an inclusive environment. Across the nursery, staff plan motivating learning experiences linked to children's interests, supporting good progress and emotional well-being.

Nutritious, home-cooked foodExperienced and caring teamSafe and secure environmentFlexible settling-in sessions

Pricing & funding

The nursery offers full-time, full-day, and half-day sessions. Government-funded hours are stretched over 50 weeks per year across a minimum of three full days. Non-mandatory consumable charges apply to both funded and non-funded age groups, with additional hours charged at an hourly rate.

Good to know

  • Government funded hours are stretched over 50 weeks of the year.
  • Funding requires a minimum booking of 3 full days.
  • Remaining hours on the third day of a funded booking are charged hourly.
  • Non-mandatory consumable charges apply to both under-2s and 3/4-year-olds.

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6pm, for 50 weeks a year

Food

Nutritious, balanced and on-site home cooked food.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2022

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for The Organic Explorers

Last inspected 4 November 2024 · Parm Sansoyer

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

Staff in the pre-school room have a deep knowledge of the children's interests and next steps in learning, which they use exceptionally well to provide a wealth of engaging experiences. This helps children to make excellent progress and flourish in an inclusive environment. Across the nursery, staff plan motivating learning experiences linked to children's interests, supporting good progress and emotional well-being.

Inspector highlights

  • The management team ensures staff deliver a curriculum that is centred on children
  • Staff work closely with parents to swiftly identify any children who may need additional intervention.
  • There is a strong commitment to valuing parents and including them in their children's learning.
  • The programme for understanding the world is strong, utilising the forest school area and allotment.
  • The well qualified and knowledgeable leadership team regularly consults with parents and reviews the care and education provided to extend its practice.

Areas to develop

  • 1provide incisive professional development opportunities for staff to help raise the quality of teaching to the highest level across the nursery
  • 2support staff in the toddler room to consistently encourage the least vocal children to increase their confidence and speak during group activities.
Inspection #10368135 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff work closely with parents to swiftly identify any children who may need additional intervention, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Any additional funding received for children is used wisely to provide additional staff to help keep children safe and promote their education.

Outdoor space

The forest school area and allotment are used well by staff to help children learn about living things, life cycles and the changing seasons. Children also have access to sensory relaxation areas outdoors, which are used to help them regulate their emotions.

Parent Reviews of The Organic Explorers

4.7
(3)
pardeep Marway
9 months ago

This nursery is amazing! The people who work here are excellent. They’re so open, accommodating, patient and friendly. They work extremely hard and we’ve really seen it with how well our baby boy has been doing since he’s been here. He’s learned so much like learning to walk, saying new phrases, being much more confident and he even says the names of the carers now too! When we come to pick him up, the carers give us such detailed updates of the activities they’ve done, the toys they’ve played with, how well they’ve eaten and slept and how happy they’ve been throughout the day. We get updates on an app which is really great so we can see how they’re getting on during the day and we regularly get pictures too!We can directly message the carers and the management team through the app and they always respond promptly and are so helpful. The payments are also tracked through the app so it’s great have everything is in once place. So if you’re thinking of enrolling your child here, I’d definitely recommend it!!!

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Inspection history

Date: November 2024

  • November 2024Good
  • November 2024Good

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