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Yellow Penguin

Ofsted: Expected standard·
4.0(24 parent reviews) ·50 Parker Street, Birmingham, B16 9AG · Birmingham
Number of places
58 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2026
Local authority
Birmingham

About this day nursery

Yellow Penguin, located in Birmingham, B16 9AG, is a well-established childcare setting that has been operating since 2017. Registered with Ofsted on 11/04/2017, the nursery provides a warm and nurturing environment for children aged 0 to 4 years.

The setting prides itself on its strong safeguarding practices, ensuring a culture where concerns are actively identified and managed, making children feel safe and secure. The dedicated team at Yellow Penguin swiftly identify any barriers to learning children may have, implementing prompt support to help them catch up.

Leaders at the nursery effectively utilise additional funding to ensure rapid progress, particularly in communication and language development. Children demonstrate noticeable progress from their individual starting points, fostered by a curriculum that is tailored to each stage of development.

The nursery prioritises children's wellbeing, fostering trusting relationships with staff. Yellow Penguin offers daily opportunities for outdoor play, including team games and activities provided by external providers, which contributes to children's physical development and calmer behaviour indoors.

The staff are adept at supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), liaising with external agencies and undertaking specific training to ensure effective interventions.

What it's like

Children are well cared for in this warm and nurturing nursery. They show confidence and self-assurance in the well-designed environment, forming strong bonds with staff who provide constant reassurance. Children express themselves with assurance, asking questions and offering their ideas during play.

Warm & NurturingStrong SafeguardingRapid ProgressOutdoor PlaySEND FocusedPassionate Leadership

Pricing & funding

Fees are charged on a weekly, full-day, or half-day session basis, with an hourly rate for extra time. Separate food and consumable charges apply to funded sessions, and a sibling discount is available. A registration fee is required for private places.

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds

Good to know

  • A non-refundable registration fee is required to secure a private space.
  • Offers a 10% sibling discount.
  • Separate food and consumable fees apply to funded sessions.

Key facts

Food

Healthy, balanced menu that changes weekly. Food and consumables for funded-only sessions cost £7 per full day or £3 per a.m/p.m session.

Opening hours

7.30am to 5.30pm for 51 weeks a year, closing for one week over Christmas, excluding Bank Holidays.

Age range

6 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2017

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Expected standard

Last inspected Jan 2026

Headline: Expected standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Yellow Penguin

Last inspected 15 January 2026 · Christine Ward

Safeguarding effective

What it's like to attend

Children are well cared for in this warm and nurturing nursery. They show confidence and self-assurance in the well-designed environment, forming strong bonds with staff who provide constant reassurance. Children express themselves with assurance, asking questions and offering their ideas during play.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff very swiftly identify children's barriers to learning and act promptly to help them catch up in their development.
  • Leaders use additional funding to positively impact children and ensure rapid progress.
  • Children make noticeable progress from their starting points, particularly in communication and language.
  • Children's wellbeing is a priority, and they form safe and trusting relationships with staff.
  • Leaders are passionate and proactive, committed to providing a high-quality learning environment.
  • Children at Yellow Penguin are well cared for in a warm and nurturing nursery.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should support staff to understand how to extend the activities they plan for children, so that children's learning is enhanced even further.
  • 2Leaders should increase staff's understanding of how to create learning intentions that meet the age and stage of development of all children.
Inspection #10201541 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders and those responsible for supporting children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) liaise effectively with external agencies at the earliest opportunity to ensure children have the support they need. Staff engage in specific SEND training so that the approaches they use have a significant impact on children's progress.

Outdoor space

Children benefit from daily opportunities to play outdoors. They play team games and learn new skills that enhance their physical development. Leaders provide further opportunities for physical activity through external providers, resulting in calmer children indoors and improved sleep routines at home.

Parent Reviews of Yellow Penguin

4.0
(24)
Josh Roose
5 months ago

My son has attended Yellow Penguin for the past 9 months. The nursery it self is well kept and has a small but lovely out door area and have seen them visit the local park during the day. The rooms my child has been in are exciting and change regularly to incorporate interesting themes. Staff have always been lovely and handover what he’s been up to. When I’m not collecting him the Family app keeps me informed through out the day on how well he’s eaten or when he’s napped. Meals are always nutritional and he loves them. Overall I would say this is a lovely nursery with well trained and pleasant members of staff.

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R a
5 months ago

My child attended her for 9 months they kept calling for every little tantrum and stressing me sometimes up to 5x in 3 hours. When a child is given in nursery it's there responsibility to take care of them not keep calling me. It was never positive always had negative feedback, staff members are miserable. They dont smile my child use to cry every time he was dropped off. He has special needs they couldn't meet his needs and refuse to compromise and helping him which made me take the decision of taking him out. He had 30 hours yet only allowed 15 hours I asked to extend by 30 minutes they couldn't even compromise that. Very disappointed the manager is on mood sometimes she smiling sometimes she moody. I didn't feel warmth as a parent and felt they didn't want my child there. I wouldn't recommend this nursery to anyone my child left and they didn't even greet him they were so COLD towards him.. some of the staff where very nice one particular staff was very welcoming and loving towards my child. But I wouldn't recommend I didn't have a good experience.

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A. K.
4 months ago

My child attended the preschool room, and from the very beginning the staff were always so warm and welcoming. The room leader was incredibly attentive and always took the time to listen to any concerns I had. Although she wasn’t my child’s key person, she always knew how my child was getting on and was happy to talk to me about her progress whenever I asked. A huge thank you to the Yellow Penguin team for all that you do.

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Emily Hanson
5 months ago

Brilliant nursery, my nephew has been going there for nearly a year now and absolutely loves it! So many activities and choices for the children and brilliant links with staff and families through the famly app.

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i
7 months ago

i had an awful experience with the management here, particularly with a staff member called tahira. absolutely rude and she should not be working with children! this is not a safe environment for children and i’d recommend that all parents avoid this nursery

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Inspection history

Date: January 2019

The most recent inspection point has been hidden because the parsed entry didn't match the headline Ofsted rating (Good). We're re-checking it against the original report.

  • August 2021Good
  • January 2019Good

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