Cornfields Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Huddersfield for babies from 9 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 Good by Ofsted in September 2024. Open since 2007, with 75 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Funded places from 9 months.
What childcare usually costs in Kirklees
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Kirklees 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
HD7 5JNWhat 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, 11 September 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children feel safe and thrive in the nursery through individualised support from very skilled and experienced staff. The curriculum is challenging and well thought out to ensure all children make rapid progress from their starting points. Highquality interactions from staff encourage children to be curious and inquisitive learners. This also helps to build children's confidence and promotes their selfesteem.
Staff take great note of what motivates the children and captures their interest.
From a young age, many of the children are fascinated by the different vehicles they see come and go from the builder's yard. The children watch as the forklift trucks pass the window, and they listen to the different sounds they make. In the baby room, staff put together an area with different toy trucks and simple construction toys, as well as picture books to refer to with the different vehicles.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consider how best to effectively deploy staff, at lunchtimes, to assist those children that are less inclined to ask for help n ensure when any changes are made to the nursery environment, risk assessments are revisited to ensure they still remain effective.
- 11 September 2024Good
- 17 December 2018Good
- 6 February 2018Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Cornfields 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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