Aunty Sue's Day Care
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Mansfield 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 January 2025. Open since 2016, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Government funding for all eligible children over 9 month old, up to 30 hours per week term time, or stretched over 51 weeks (22 hours per week).
Worth knowing. Additional fees for funded children: Breakfast £2.00, Lunch £5.00, Tea £3.00. £10 per hour if going above funded hours.
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
NG18 1QHWhat 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.
- 18 May 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 3 January 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are supported to understand their feelings and emotions. For instance, younger children learn how to show different facial expressions, such as happy, funny and angry. Older children listen to staff read stories about characters in books who are worried. They learn why characters in stories feel a certain way and talk about their own experiences of feeling worried.
Staff encourage children to have a positive attitude to learning. For instance, when children say that they cannot put on an apron, staff encourage them and ask children to push one arm in at a time. This encourages children to persevere. Staff give children plenty of praise for their achievements. For example, when younger children manage to move a toy car that is stuck in dough, staff give them a 'high five', helping to raise their self-esteem. Children learn how to use tools for a purpose. Younger children copy staff and look through magnifying glasses to closely observe objects. Older children are supported by staff to understand where to put their fingers when they use scissors to cut. Additional funding that some children receive is spent effectively to help close gaps in their learning. For instance, support from staff offers children additional group times to help them understand language to describe quantity. This contributes to building on their mathematic skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help staff to support younger children to understand the choices they make during group times n strengthen the sharing of information between children's key person and other staff so that children's learning is promoted more consistently.
- 3 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 4 February 2019Good
- 24 May 2018Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Aunty Sue's Day Care
- What it costs
- 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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