Adorables Day Nursery
Good★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Northampton for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2025. Open since 2010, with 27 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in West Northamptonshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in West Northamptonshire from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
NN7 3BUWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 1 April 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Older children are happy and excited when they arrive at the nursery. Younger children, who are reluctant to leave parents, soon settle and become immersed in self-chosen play. Children build strong bonds with the nurturing and supportive staff. Younger children go to staff for reassurance and cuddles when they feel unsure about new people in the nursery. Staff are positive role models and have high expectations for children's behaviour. Children listen to staff and understand what is expected of them. They are supported to share and take turns from a young age, and they are praised highly when they do this.
Staff incorporate a strong curriculum for mathematics into everyday play opportunities to maximise children's learning. Children recognise and name numbers on cars. They can count how many items they have threaded onto string and know how many 'one more' will make.
Children play well, either alone or with their friends. They show good imagination as they pretend to be ill in the role-play hospital. They assure their friends that giving them an injection will not hurt them. Staff help children to develop good physical skills, and children love to be outside. They show good coordination and control as they use wheeled toys confidently, moving them easily backwards and forwards. Younger children are supported to climb small steps and carefully move down slides.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help staff to recognise and use every opportunity to support children to develop and use their growing vocabulary and language skills, particularly for those children who speak English as an additional language n support staff to focus more precisely on the individual learning needs of children to be sure that activities are pitched appropriately, particularly during adult-led activities n improve the coaching and mentoring arrangements for individual staff to raise the quality of interactions across the setting to consistently maximise children's learning experiences.
- 1 April 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 7 October 2024Inadequate
- 11 January 2019Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Adorables Day Nursery
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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