Arnold House Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.4 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Nottingham for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2025. Open since 1999, with 84 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Children aged 3+ are entitled to up to 15 hours of free Early Education Funding per week for 38 weeks. We also accept employer childcare vouchers.
What childcare usually costs in Nottinghamshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Nottinghamshire 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
NG5 6HWWhat 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, 7 August 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy, confident and demonstrate a strong sense of belonging in the nursery. They arrive eager to explore and settle quickly, supported by an effective key-person system that ensures secure attachments and emotional well-being.
Staff know the children exceptionally well, understanding their interests, home lives and family circumstances. This allows them to provide targeted support that meets each child's individual needs. Staff provide daily opportunities for children to build strength, coordination and control, indoors and outdoors. In the garden, children confidently balance along planks and tyres, carefully negotiating the uneven surfaces. This develops their core stability, balance and spatial awareness. Children make good progress throughout their time at nursery.
Staff encourage the children to explore and persist with challenges. For example, when toddlers fit shapes into a box, they comment to their friends, 'It's a bit tricky,'
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- adapt staff practice so that children receive the same opportunities to experience new learning and gain new knowledge and skills n help children develop responsibility for their environment and care for shared resources.
- 7 August 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 23 September 2024Needs improvement
- 14 March 2019Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Arnold House Day Nursery
- What it costs
- 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
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? 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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