The Old Station Nursery Alcester

Kinwarton Road, Alcester B49 6PX
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8.8 25 Reviews
  • The Old Station Nursery Alcester, Alcester
Set across three spacious rooms, The Old Station Nursery Alcester offers an exciting and engaging nursery environment. The nursery offers exceptional care, enriched by unique learning opportunities for your child. One such experience is child-friendly cooking classes, helping to equip children with valuable skills and deeper knowledge of the cooking process.

Promoting life skills from an early age, the cookery enhancement provides children with safe and user-friendly cooking and baking equipment tailored to their needs. These tools are thoughtfully designed to support their culinary adventures and foster a love for cooking from an early age.

Each space within the setting has been purposefully set up to support children’s development at every age. From sensory play to self-serving at mealtimes, the varied resources and exciting activities ensure that children are encouraged to be confident and independent in a supportive and safe environment.

Outside, the covered areas ensure that children are able to enjoy the outdoors no matter the weather, and the stunning woodland area is the ideal space for children to develop a love for the outside.
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Funding & Fees

Full Day Session £75.70

A £100 non-refundable registration fee is required to secure a place. Exact days of attendance should be confirmed no later than 6 weeks prior to the child’s start date. Any changes are subject to availability.

Contact The Old Station Nursery Alcester to get a personalised quote.

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Type of Service

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

Group/Owner

Person in Charge

  • Sarah Cook (Nursery Manager)

Number of Childcare Staff

  • 14

Total Places for Children

  • 81

Age Range

  • from 0 years 3 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 & Christmas

Parking

  • The nursery has onsite parking available for convenient drop off and pick up.

The Old Station Nursery Alcester Reviews (25)

8.8

The Old Station Nursery Alcester has a Review Score of 8.8 (8.811) out of 10, based on 9 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time The Old Station Nursery Alcester has 25 reviews.

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Review from H B (Mother of Child) published on 23 March 2023 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
This nursery is absolutely wonderful, they really take the time to listen to my daughter and encourage her interests. For example, around Christmas time my daughter took an interest in the postal service. I was sent photos of her on the app and the practitioners had made her a satchel, found her some
fancy dress items to make her into a postman for the day and she went around posting Christmas cards to all of her friends. Impromptu activities like this make this nursery so special. All the staff in the building know my daughter by name and pay an interest in her as we come and go daily. It feels like we are leaving her with family, we feel that she is safe and really cared for whilst she attends nursery and the fact that she asks to be dropped off every time we drive past confirms to us that she’s happy there!
Reply from Beth Lewendon, Marketing Coordinator at The Old Station Nursery AlcesterWhat a lovely review to read! We are delighted to hear how well your daughter has settled into the nursery and it's wonderful to hear about how her interests have been developed, thanks to the team. Thank you for your review!
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Review from Tasha G (Mother of Child) published on 29 October 2019 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 2.0 out of 5
The nursery layout is good and the play area outside is a good size, however, communication is poor compared to other nurseries. While our son was there, a safeguarding issue got highlighted to us three weeks late.
Unfortunately, because of this I wouldn’t recommend Polkadots as a nursery to my friends
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Review from Amanda R (Mother of Child) published on 5 June 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My little girl has been attending Polkadot Alcester (the baby room) since January 2017 and in the time she has been there, she has developed so much. She absolutely loves going there and attends three full days a week. The staff are fantastic and have bonded with her really well. They do so many activities
with the children, each day they do something different. There is lots of variety from water play, flour play, crafts, yogabugs, outside playtime etc. She loves being outside in the garden area. When I drop her off in the morning, I cannot get over how all of the little toddlers are sitting so nicely around the tables and eating their breakfast so well. They learn table manners from such a young age which is great. The nursery itself has great facilities, it's always clean and the staff are very helpful if you have any requests or queries. I can't speak highly enough of Polkadots and would highly recommend to anyone.
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Review from Joanne G (Mother of Child) published on 28 March 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My daughter has attended Polkadot Alcester for nearly 2 years and I have never had a problem in all this time!
My daughter takes a long time to adjust to change and the staff at Polkadots have been amazing with her. The transition of moving from toddler room to pre-school room was quite nerve racking
for her but the girls there were brilliant, slowly easing her in and helping her confidence at the same time.
Each time I pick my daughter up I find out what activities she has done that day, even how much of her lunch she's eaten! The staff always seem to have time for you, answering any questions/concerns you may have.
Polkadots is very clean, has a fantastic outdoor area/forest school and plenty of indoor activities.
The staff are very caring and friendly. I would definitely recommend polkadots to a friend!
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Review from Rosalind (Mother of Child) published on 22 March 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5
I am overall very happy with the care of my child at this nursery. The children do lots of activities and there is a lot of space inside. The only thing I have noticed recently is that there are some new assistants who do not seem as forthcoming with comments on what my child has done that day or how
he has been. I have also noticed an increase in the number of children in the class which makes handover and the collection of coats/shoes a bit chaotic at midday.
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Current Review Score: 8.8 (8.811)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 8.8 (8.811) out of 10 for The Old Station Nursery Alcester is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  1. The Average Rating is 4.7 out of 5 from 9 Reviews in the last 24 months.
  2. The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.1 out of 5 from 8 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 4.667 for The Old Station Nursery Alcester is calculated as follows: ( (85 Excellents x 5) + (17 Goods x 4) + (2 Satisfactorys x 3) + (1 Poors x 2) + (3 Very Poors x 1) ) ÷ 108 Ratings = 4.667
  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 4.144 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for The Old Station Nursery Alcester is based on 8 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 = 3.65
    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 81 number of registered child places is 16.2. 8 Positive Reviews ÷ 16.2 = 0.494
  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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Meet the Team (1)

Sarah

Sarah Cook

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Hello, I'm Sarah and I'm the Nursery Manager here at The Old Station Nursery Alcester.


Here at The Old Station Nursery Alcester, we provide a holistic environment where children are treated as individuals and feel secure to express themselves and their personalities confidently. Care is taken to support children’s learning, promoting self-confidence and independence from a young age.


We look forward to welcoming you to our nursery!

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