Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans

Prime House, 14 Porters Wood, St Albans AL3 6PQ
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  • Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans, St Albans
Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans is a modern nursery which has a large indoor and outdoor play area for children to play and learn in. The newly built building provides a safe and exciting environment and staff make sure children get the most form their days at nursery. The nursery values parents input and takes its responsibility very seriously when looking after children aged between 0 and five years old.

Nutritional food is served to children to ensure they maintain a healthy diet while at the nursery. Parents have the benefit of 20 parking places where they can pick up and drop off with ease.

Care Provided by Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans

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

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Danielle Trabucchi (Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 6
  • Total Places for Children
  • 79
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:30-18:30
    Tuesday 07:30-18:30
    Wednesday 07:30-18:30
    Thursday 07:30-18:30
    Friday 07:30-18:30
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays & Christmas

Funding & Fees Guide for Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans

  • Non-funded full day: £88
    Non funded half day: £55


    Funded session:
    Full day - £44 (5.5 hour of funding)
    Half day - £27.50 (2.75 hours of funding)


    Funded meals (3 months to 23 months)
    Full day - £2
    Hall day - £1
    Half day - £4.50 (24 months+)


  • Full Day times 7:30am to 6:30pm
    Half Day Times - AM is 7:30am to 1pm, PM is 1pm to 6:30pm


  • Parking
  • Free on-site parking available


Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans Reviews (43)

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9.2

Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans has a Review Score of 9.2 (9.202) out of 10, based on 8 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans has 43 reviews.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I've always found the staff to be committed, focused and driven. They have understood the needs of my child and helped his development accordingly. My child always enjoys his days here.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

I find my daughter very much enjoys her time at nursery. The staff are very dedicated to her care and learning and are open and friendly. The nursery is always clean and welcoming and has lots of space for play. All the activities planned for my daughter are based around her interests so she is always
keen to take part. All in all I am very happy with the nursery and it's staff team.

Reply from Gayle Entwistle, Manager at Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans

Thank you for your review we are currently looking at recruiting a cook so they would have experience in the kitchen. We have been looking at our menu's and changing them in order to suit the children's needs and likes and ensuring they have a balanced diet.


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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My son has been attending Banana Moon for a year now and my daughter has recently started there. They're in different rooms (Under 2s and Over 2s) and they both really enjoy their time there! The staff are all friendly, qualified and caring – they take a genuine interest in each child’s development,
learning and personality. It took our youngest a few weeks to settle in, however the staff were wonderfully attentive and showed a fantastic level of care to her and reassurance to me. They are happy to work together with any specialists that a child may be seeing and they make learning and developing fun for the children and involve parents as much as possible, providing really useful positive feedback about our children’s progress and great suggestions of how we can continue the development at home. The rooms are spacious and clean with lots of age appropriate toys/activities to keep little ones busy and happy. Meals and snacks are all balanced and nutritious, our children are often eating the healthy veggies which they tend to push aside at home! It is a very happy, positive environment overall.

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Current Review Score: 9.2 (9.202)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.2 (9.202) out of 10 for Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 8 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.3 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:

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

    The Average Rating of 4.896 for Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans is calculated as follows: ( (86 Excellents x 5) + (10 Goods x 4) ) ÷ 96 Ratings = 4.896

  • 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 4.306 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Banana Moon Day Nursery St Albans 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:

    • 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 = 3.8

    • 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 79 number of registered child places is 15.8. 8 Positive Reviews ÷ 15.8 = 0.506

  • 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 (2)

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Danielle

Job Title: Trabucchi

Joined: 2022

I have my level 2,3 and 4 in my early years. I have been the nursery manager at Banana Moon since March 2022. I enjoy working with all age groups of children, I love to watch the children grow and develop and feel it is a real honour to be able to play such a big part in their lives from such a young age. Here at Banana Moon St Albans, we have a wonderful team who are always providing care and education for all the children within the setting.


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Anita

Job Title: Deputy Manager

Joined: 2021

Anita is our deputy manager. She has been a part of our management team since 2021 and is located in Baby Moons.