Cherry Tree Day Nursery (The)
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Derby for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £76.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in December 2021. Open since 1996, with 24 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated 30.03.26.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £57.00Short Day £76.00 | £10.50Before School Breakfast Club £16.50After School Club - pick up till 5.00pm £23.50After School Club - pick up till 6.00pm £40.50Mornings or Afternoons, 4 hrs | £10.55Any additional hour/part hour |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £5.00 Early start
- £6.50 Late finish til 6.00pm
- £10.55 an hour Any additional hour/part hour to these sessions
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £0.50 Long Day Meal - Snackchildren claiming 15/30hrs funding
- £0.50 Short Day - Snackchildren claiming 15/30hrs funding
- £1.75 Long Day Meal - Breakfastchildren claiming 15/30hrs funding
- £2.25 Long Day Meal - Light Teachildren claiming 15/30hrs funding
- £5.25 Short Day - Lunchchildren claiming 15/30hrs funding
- £5.25 Long Day Meal - Lunchchildren claiming 15/30hrs funding
Funded hours
Funded places for 9 months, 2,3 and 4 year olds.
Worth knowing. Funded hours can be taken term time only (15 or 30 hours per week for 38 weeks) or stretched across the year over 50 weeks, depending on your preference.
What childcare usually costs in Derbyshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derbyshire 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
DE65 5FTWhat 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, 9 December 2021 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children demonstrate secure attachments with staff as they confidently move around the setting, choosing how they play. They eagerly explore the wide range of exciting opportunities, which help them make good progress in their learning.
Children demonstrate good imaginative skills. For instance, three- and four-year-old children excitedly create a pretend campfire. They concentrate and take turns to mix different vegetables together to make a pretend soup. Staff stretch children's understanding of the name of the vegetables and ask how the children will tell the soup is ready. Children say it will be 'hot' and 'smell nice'. They enthusiastically call out 'dinner time' while ringing the dinner bell. Children's social skills are developing very well as they decide together who should serve up the pretend soup and who should get the plates ready.
Children have many opportunities to develop their early mathematical skills. Older babies play with small wooden trains and are encouraged to count the carriages with staff. Toddlers follow a pattern to make a chain of elephants, where staff support children to recognise 'bigger than' and 'smaller than'. Pre-school children correctly identify the numbers on a spinner, and then carefully match this to the number of fruits on a card. Children are supported by staff who encourage them to share their answers and acknowledge them for trying. This supports children's confidence and self-esteem.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to embed children's growing independence skills within routine activities n review and improve the nursery routines at story time, so children's learning is not disrupted.
- 9 December 2021Good
- 8 September 2015Good
- 19 April 2011Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Cherry Tree Day Nursery (The)
- 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
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.
- Is £76.00 a day still the rate? 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.
- 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.
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