Opening hours
Monday to Friday, term time only. Sessions are from 8.45am until 11.45am and 12.15pm until 3.15pm.
Wendy House Birkenhead
Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2022)
Number of places
15 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2022
Local authority
Wirral
About this day nursery
15pm. This childcare setting, rated Good by Ofsted on 8th September 2022, serves children aged 2 to 4 years.
Staff are described as friendly and reassuring, providing individual support that helps children to feel secure, particularly new attendees or those returning after a break. The manager has clear principles for the curriculum, teaching children about caring for nursery equipment through limited toy availability and guided use, which encourages thoughtful play and independence.
The experienced and well-qualified team effectively builds on children's existing knowledge, supporting their learning, such as recognising numbers and developing vocabulary through play. Children who speak English as an additional language receive good support, with staff using repetition and playful interactions to help them confidently develop English speaking skills.
Physical development is promoted through activities like throwing and kicking balls, while children also learn habits for personal development, such as managing screen time. Staff ensure children are supervised safely when moving between indoor and outdoor areas, working as a team to maintain awareness of each other's whereabouts.
Parents consistently praise the approachable staff, highlighting the support managers provide with administrative tasks like school enrolments and the help offered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What it's like
Staff are friendly and reassuring and provide children with sensitive, individual support, which helps new children and those returning from the long summer break to feel secure. Children of all ages gather eagerly for story time and listen carefully, sharing ideas and answering questions, which promotes their language development, confidence, and understanding of story structure.
Supportive staffGood progressEffective curriculumOutdoor playEAL supportPhysical development
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds
Key facts
Term time / All Year
Term Time
Established
2019
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Wendy House Birkenhead
Last inspected 8 September 2022
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 are friendly and reassuring and provide children with sensitive, individual support, which helps new children and those returning from the long summer break to feel secure. Children of all ages gather eagerly for story time and listen carefully, sharing ideas and answering questions, which promotes their language development, confidence, and understanding of story structure.
Inspector highlights
- The manager ably demonstrates how his clear underlying principles for the curriculum meet the needs of the children.
- The experienced, well-qualified team help children to build on what they know and can do.
- Children who speak English as an additional language are supported well.
- Staff know which challenges children are ready to meet and skilfully support them to wait, teaching them to follow routines and develop self-control.
- Children's physical development is promoted effectively and they develop habits that promote their personal development, such as limiting screen time.
Areas to develop
- 1focus more closely on the detail of staff's teaching, so that support for improving staff's practice is even more effective and children make the swiftest possible progress in their learning.
Inspection #10215773 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents and carers praise the approachable staff.
They say that managers help them to complete administrative processes, such as enrolling their children at school.
Parents say that the nursery team were supportive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This helped parents to overcome anxiety about bringing their children to nursery when it reopened.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
Outdoor space
Staff work as a team, telling each other their whereabouts, which means that children are supervised safely when they move freely between the indoor and outdoor areas.
EAL / language support
Children who speak English as an additional language are supported well. For example, staff tell children the English words for the fruit in their snack boxes. They playfully repeat the word every time children eat another piece of the fruit. The repetition helps children to work towards speaking English confidently.
Inspection history
Date: September 2022
- October 2022Good
- September 2022Good
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