Castle Nurseries at Dunstanburgh Road
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Newcastle upon Tyne for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in April 2023. Open since 1991, with 55 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Eligible children of working parents 9m + = 30 hours per week (38 weeks); 2 year funded entitlement for eligible children = 15 hours (38 weeks); Universal entitlement for all 3&4 year olds = 15 hours (38 weeks).
What childcare usually costs in Newcastle upon Tyne
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Newcastle upon Tyne 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
NE6 2QNWhat 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, 17 April 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children benefit from exceptional quality interactions with staff at this inviting and stimulating setting. They show that they feel safe and secure as they immerse themselves in experiments and games, such as finding out what object can move the fastest down a hill in the nursery garden. Children use balls, toy vehicles and pipes to conduct their experiment. Staff offer questions to help children to enhance their already excellent imagination and thinking skills. Children are inquisitive and make predictions as they play. Staff celebrate with them as they solve problems they encounter. This helps to effectively promote children's self-esteem.
Staff are superb role models. They encourage children to develop remarkable friendships with each other. This includes children being able to resolve minor conflicts between themselves and learning to recognise how others are feeling.
Staff use emotive language to acknowledge children's emotions from young babies to pre-school age. This helps children to recognise how their own feelings and behaviours may impact on others. Staff complete precise assessments of children's learning and astutely plan for what children need to learn next. This helps them to provide an appropriately challenging and ambitious curriculum for all children that helps them to build on their excellent skills ready for starting school.
- 17 April 2023Outstanding
- 8 September 2017Outstanding
- 8 July 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Castle Nurseries at Dunstanburgh Road
- What it costs
- 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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