Ducklings Limited
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Middleton for from 1 year 6 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2016, with 44 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours funding.
Worth knowing. Consumables fee is £2 per week (£76 a year)* *The annual consumables fee of £76 (voluntary for children who already receive funded hours).
What childcare usually costs in Rochdale
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Rochdale 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
M24 1NYWhat 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, 22 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are eager and happy to attend this welcoming, friendly nursery. The manager ensures that staff provide meaningful experiences that excite and motivate children to learn. For instance, staff use careful questioning to challenge older children to think and solve problems. Children clamour to tell staff their ideas, such as about what tools they need to create a building when playing with blocks.
Children have a positive attitude to learning. They behave sensibly because of staff's skilful support and role modelling of positive behaviours. Children remember the nursery's rules about how to behave.
Staff help children and babies to settle well at the nursery. They focus on creating secure relationships to support children's well-being and happiness. Babies explore the nursery resources with confidence, supported by skilful, gentle staff. Two-yearolds delight in listening to familiar stories that staff read aloud with skill. Staff help children's learning expertly, such as when they pretend to be a character from a story that children have recently learned. Children adore copying staff and acting out the roles of their favourite characters. This helps children to remember key information. They are ready for their next stage in their learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the curriculum in physical development and literacy so that staff are clear what key information children should learn and how this links to what children already know.
- 22 March 2024Good
- 3 October 2019Good
- 19 June 2019Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Ducklings Limited
- 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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