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Twizzle Tops Day Nursery in Ipswich

Ofsted: Good
(Dec 2024)
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4.1(9 parent reviews) ·9 Cavendish Street, Ipswich, IP3 8AX · Suffolk
Number of places
77 places
Age range
Up to 3 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2024
Local authority
Suffolk

About this day nursery

Twizzle Tops Day Nursery in Ipswich is a modern, purpose-built facility offering spacious and bright learning environments for children. The nursery features four distinct rooms designed to encourage development and exploration, complemented by a vibrant garden area where children can engage in outdoor play, digging, and even growing their own herbs and vegetables.

Emphasising strong key person relationships, the nursery fosters a family-like atmosphere, celebrating children's birthdays and hosting family events. The staff are described as friendly and approachable, actively involving parents in their child's learning journey through a dedicated parent app.

The nursery benefits from its excellent location near the university, town centre, and residential areas, making it convenient for both local families and commuters. It also boasts a large car park to facilitate easy drop-offs and collections.

Twizzle Tops Ipswich leverages local learning opportunities, taking children on outings to places like the marina and Holywells Park to enrich their learning experiences.

What it's like

Staff engage well with children, role modelling kind and respectful behaviours, which children copy. Children enjoy listening to familiar stories and engage in linked art and craft activities, developing an enjoyment of reading and building their vocabulary. Staff identify when children struggle and adapt their teaching to ensure individual challenge and achievement.

Purpose-built facilitySpacious learning roomsOutdoor garden with growing opportunitiesStrong key person relationshipsConvenient Ipswich location

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)
Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 8am until 6pm

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Twizzle Tops Day Nursery

Last inspected 16 December 2024

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 engage well with children, role modelling kind and respectful behaviours, which children copy. Children enjoy listening to familiar stories and engage in linked art and craft activities, developing an enjoyment of reading and building their vocabulary. Staff identify when children struggle and adapt their teaching to ensure individual challenge and achievement.

Inspector highlights

  • The provider has ensured that good progress has been made since the last inspection, significantly improving the standards of care and education.
  • Leaders have re-developed the curriculum to enhance the focus on helping children to develop necessary skills and knowledge.
  • Leaders monitor and support staff practice, with clear and focused training plans and mentoring.
  • Staff get to know children well, recognising their interests and planning play-based learning opportunities.
  • The learning environment and available resources indoors are of high quality and provide a broad range of opportunities for children to make progress.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff to develop the planning for delivering the currilculum outdoors, to help to focus and engage children more purposefully in learning when they play outside
  • 2enhance the provision for children to practise their skills in moving in a variety of different ways so that they can more freely access these opportunities.
Inspection #10359496 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders and managers have a clear system in place to identify when children may need extra support to make good progress in their development, with a particular focus on their communication and language skills. They work with parents to understand where children are in their development when they first begin.

Outdoor space

Outside, in the garden area that children use, the opportunities are less well planned. Consequently, children are sometimes less focused and engaged in learning during their time outdoors. However, children have daily opportunities to play outdoors.

EAL / language support

Where children speak English as an additional language, appropriate strategies are used to assess and deliver support to help children to develop their skills in English.

Parent Reviews of Twizzle Tops Day Nursery

4.1
(9)
harry farrow
3 years ago

My granddaughter loves it. She goes there three times a week. Absolutely loves it. I pick her up and my daughter sometimes. It's a lovely place. It's good for the kids. It's lovely nursery

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Sharna Parlour
a year ago

If I could rate this place a minus I would. My children attended here from 2022-2024, started off as a lovely place! Never had any reason to complain. Then my children were coming home with unexplained bruises and filled nappies that hadn’t been changed all day and all became clear. Parents considering this nursery, I beg you look at the ofsted report. The company have deleted parents comments from Facebook and there is no accurate way to see how utterly horrific this nursery was. Please don’t subject your children to an early childhood of neglect!!!

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Mirlind Reci
3 years ago

Really pleased with this nursery, they did a fantastic job with our little one who struggled to settle at first. He loves going to the nursery now and is always talking about his experiences at the nursery. Well done to the staff who keep us updated on the blossom app. They have a great range of activities for kids to keep them engaged and develop their skills.

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Michelle Butler
5 years ago

My little boy started this nursery not too long ago but it has been the best experience ever. I was dreading sending him to nursery when I returned to work but the whole process has been incredible. All the staff are extremely welcoming for both myself and my partner and our little boy. It’s such a home environment and relaxed that he just settled in straight away and made lots of friends. We always receive regular updates on his day through the app which includes information about what he has eaten, activities and lots of photos as well as naps taken. He always takes part in sensory play, outdoor activity and arts which he loves! He is always happy to go there and the staff always make time to speak to us about his day and about how he has been before we drop him off for the day It’s so flexible. He has his set days but I’m able to add extra days on if there is something going on for him to join in on as they always run themed days and activities. Everything is so personalised to the children and so much thought and effort goes into the planning of the days. There’s loads of parking available and often breakfasts to ‘grab and go’ for the parents one a week. It’s super helpful that the nursery is open from 7am- 7pm as it’s the only one I’ve found in Ipswich that is so it’s a life saver! Would absolutely recommend this nursery, the whole experience for me has been relaxed, calm and organised for me (which is what I needed).

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Cinthia Rodrigues
a year ago

My son went there and started off great however with a change of management, they soon became a nightmare to us. Unexplained bruises on my son, multiple head injuries with no accident forms and the staff “didn’t see” how it happened. Lost clothes. Staff lying to my face. Kids sitting on the floor to eat, instead of tables. No emotional connection with the kids and no emotional support. My child has SEN and they did absolutely NOTHING to help him since the management and the senco changed. Not to say that at one point they had no SENCO so no support at all. They also managed to lost my sons folder that we were supposed to take to new nursery and then a month later they “miraculously” found out and I noticed they didn’t do any activity with him that they were supposed to. We left in July and my son still suffer consequences from this traumatic place. So if you are considering sending your child to this nursery, please DON’T. Look at their Ofsted report. I would say they emotionally abused the kids in that horrendous place. DON’T SEND YOUR CHILD THERE!

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Inspection history

Date: December 2022

  • January 2025Good
  • December 2024Good
  • July 2024Inadequate
  • July 2024Inadequate
  • October 2023Good
  • September 2023Good
  • January 2023Requires improvement
  • December 2022Requires improvement

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