Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay

The Willows, Nicholson Road, Torquay TQ2 7TD
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9.6 125 Reviews
  • Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay, Torquay
Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay offers families in the Torquay and Devon area flexible childcare to fit in with your individual family needs. They're located up the road from the Nicholson Road Retail Park near to Sainsbury’s supermarket and is a five minute drive directly off the A380.

They accept up to 22 hours a week of free funded hours, all year round. The nursery management team is happy to discuss the Childcare Choices options to see what childcare saving schemes you may be entitled to. Half days and full days are available all year round and they also offer school days, which are very popular with families that have older siblings attending school.

Outside play is a daily part of the children’s routine at the nursery, they have a garden that allows the childcare to explore growing vegetables and caring for animals. Whatever the weather, there is plenty for the little ones to do. At the bottom of the garden is a yurt which is an amazing space, for sensory and heuristic activities, that allows children to switch off from their surroundings and fully engage.

The nursery's sensory room is a calm, stimulating environment to the well resourced playrooms which are packed with age-appropriate resources to encourage the children to learn through play. The activities are all carefully planned and carried out by dedicated and highly qualified Early Years Practitioners.

They provide the children with wholesome food each day, prepared by the onsite nursery chef. A wide range of menus are on offer which are checked by a qualified nutritionist catering for all stages of weaning and to develop independence with older children, staff encourage them to help themselves to the food on offer.

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Care Provided by Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Privately Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Helen Churchill (Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 38
  • Total Places for Children
  • 96
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 08:00-18:00
    Tuesday 08:00-18:00
    Wednesday 08:00-18:00
    Thursday 08:00-18:00
    Friday 08:00-18:00
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays & Christmas to New Year

Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay Reviews (125)

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Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay has a Review Score of 9.6 (9.604) out of 10, based on 16 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay has 125 reviews.

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Review from Stacey A (Mother of Child) published on 24 May 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Brilliant nursery, lovely staff and very professional. I have sent both my son's to Kiddi Caru and both have loved it there.
My only criticism it that the nursery doesn't do free or discounted days if the child is away and with plenty of notice (other nursery's do). I understand it shouldn't be the
case on short notice.
Neither does the nursery do day swaps-again with notice, I do not see a reason that I can't swap a day for another day even if there is space. Things like this would help out now and again.

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Review from Emma W (Mother of Child) published on 24 May 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

We have used Kiddi Caru for 8 years and found them always helpful and kind. The children have a great day and are well educated and supported in their early year's development. Two of our children have transitioned into school without any problems, following their start in Kiddi Caru and our third
child will be reluctantly leaving this year to start pre-school. We have recommended Torquay Kiddi Caru to several friends and family.

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Review from Hannah (Mother of Child) published on 24 May 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

We have used Kiddi Caru Torquay for 5 years. All of our children have loved it. Our youngest child started a few months ago and has been happy since his first day. We are confident leaving him in the care of the wonderful staff and wouldn't hesitate to recommend the nursery to other parents.

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Review from Jade B (Mother of Child) published on 23 May 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Kiddi Caru is an amazing nursery - my boy loves it and the staff helped him settle in to relieve me feeling upset when dropping him off. Their comments in my son's diary are detailed and I love reading what he has been up to and what he loved most; I can then try these activities at home.


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out a regular news letter with events, for parents to attend and helps keep us involved, even outside of nursery hours.


The facilities at the nursery are excellent and I love that they have their own animals.


Overall and amazing, friendly and sought after nursery - thank you to all the staff.


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Review from Alexis R (Mother of Child) published on 23 May 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

I highly recommend Kiddi Caru Nursery. We have been very happy with all the services and support that Kiddi Caru has offered. My daughter has been very happy and her progress has come along so well from being at Kiddi Caru. I don't have one bad thing to say about the nursery and I'd be more than happy
to send any of my future children to Kiddi Caru.

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Current Review Score: 9.6 (9.604)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.6 (9.604) out of 10 for Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.8 out of 5 from 16 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.8 out of 5 from 15 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:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.823 for Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay is calculated as follows: ( (172 Excellents x 5) + (8 Goods x 4) + (10 Satisfactorys x 3) + (2 Poors x 2) ) ÷ 192 Ratings = 4.823

  • b) 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 4.781 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Kiddi Caru Day Nursery Torquay is based on 15 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4

    • ii) 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 96 number of registered child places is 19.2. 15 Positive Reviews ÷ 19.2 = 0.781

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • 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)

Helen

Helen Churchill

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Joined: 2003

Helen started her career in childcare in 1995 and has been a part of the Kiddi Caru Torquay team since 2003, during that time she worked her way up to Nursery Manager and had two children of her own.


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