Orchidale Children's Nursery

Nursery Bungalow, Fir Covert Road, Taverham, Norwich NR8 6HT
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  • Orchidale Children's Nursery, Norwich
Orchidale Children's Nursery was graded “outstanding” by Ofsted (June 2022).

The nursery garden is very large and includes a separate baby and toddler garden, toddler and preschool garden, patio, and a forest school garden with a trained forest school leader. Here children are free to explore the natural environment and can develop shared joy and a sense of wonder about nature. In the vegetable patch, children can learn to grow and harvest fruit and vegetables.

Inside there are open and homely environments and children are looked after by the highly qualified and experienced team, including Early Years teachers.

The wide curriculum includes daily and weekly gardening, baking, forest school and yoga. Orchidale also has termly visits and visitors such as the fire brigade and zoo.

To meet all children's unique individual needs this exciting curriculum uses diverse learning styles, from sensory, visual and auditory to kinaesthetic, musical and naturalistic.

Orchidale's teaching values healthy active days and provides great choices in healthy eating. This extends to care for a healthy planet. The home cooking uses local produce, fruit and vegetables, as well as nursery children's ‘own grown veg’ from the vegetable plot.
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Type of Service

  • Day Nursery
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Group/Owner

Person in Charge

  • Jess Woodrow (Nursery Manager)

Number of Childcare Staff

  • 20

Total Places for Children

  • 75

Age Range

  • from 0 years 0 months
  • to 5 years 0 months

Opening Times

  • Monday 07:30-18:00
    Tuesday 07:30-18:00
    Wednesday 07:30-18:00
    Thursday 07:30-18:00
    Friday 07:30-18:00

When Closed

  • Bank Holidays

Parking

  • Orchidale have a large car park and easy drop off and access to collect.

Orchidale Children's Nursery Reviews (105)

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Orchidale Children's Nursery has a Review Score of 10 (9.958) out of 10, based on 40 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Orchidale Children's Nursery has 105 reviews.

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Review from Mia H (Mother of Child) published on 20 June 2018 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Both my children have been and still attending this nursery and in over 5 years have never had any issues at all. My children love the nursery and the staff are lovely and very approachable. I always get fully informed on the day my children have had and always get updates throughout the day via Tapestry.
Very impressed with everything and highly recommend it.
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Review from Kendal M (Mother of Child) published on 20 June 2018 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Orchidale is a really fantastic nursery. The staff are so lovely and amazing at what they do, the children are always so happy to be there. My oldest child left Orchidale for school last summer and he still asks to go back now he loved it that much. They helped him massively with speech issues and getting
the correct help he needed. They also really helped prepare him for starting school. I also currently have my other son attending Orchidale and he has created such lovely bonds with staff and the children. We love everything about Orchidale!
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Review from Kayleigh B (Mother of Child) published on 19 June 2018 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My daughter has been going to Orchidale since she was 10 months and she loves it. The staff are very friendly and always happy to listen and advise when needed, they help to progress the children and I love that I get updates from them.
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Review from C H (Mother of Child) published on 19 June 2018 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
We love this nursery. Our son has attended here since he was 9 months old. He loved his time in the baby room and all the staff there were very attentive, especially his key worker. He is now happily settled into the “big boy” room and looks forward to his nursery days. My favourite thing about this
nursery is how much all the staff appreciate our little boy for who he is. Orchidale Children's Nursery was recommended to us and we couldn’t have found a better place for our son. We feel very happy and comfortable leaving him in the staffs care.
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Review from James J (Father of Child) published on 11 June 2018 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Absolutely wonderful nursery, staff are just amazing, mature management team and really well run nursery. The outside space is amazing and my child had four very happy years at Orchidale before going off to school, couldn't recommend highly enough.
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Current Review Score: 10.0 (9.958)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 10 (9.958) out of 10 for Orchidale Children's Nursery is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  1. The Average Rating is 5.0 out of 5 from 40 Reviews in the last 24 months.
  2. The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 40 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  1. 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months. The Average Rating of 4.958 for Orchidale Children's Nursery is calculated as follows: ( (461 Excellents x 5) + (16 Goods x 4) + (2 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 479 Ratings = 4.958
  2. 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5'). The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Orchidale Children's Nursery is based on 40 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    1. 4 points are available for the first 20 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews, 0.05 Points for the next five Positive Reviews, and finally 0.025 Points for the next ten Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.050, 7th = 0.050, 8th = 0.050, 9th = 0.050, 10th = 0.050, 11th = 0.025, 12th = 0.025, 13th = 0.025, 14th = 0.025, 15th = 0.025, 16th = 0.025, 17th = 0.025, 18th = 0.025, 19th = 0.025, 20th = 0.025) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.05 + 0.05 + 0.05 + 0.05 + 0.05 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 + 0.025 = 4
    2. 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 75 number of registered child places is 15, which has been reached with 40 Positive reviews. Points = 1
  3. When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
  4. If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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