East Leake Village Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Loughborough for babies from a few weeks old 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 May 2024. Open since 2000, with 75 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Government funded places are also available for children to attend various sessions during the Nursery opening times to suit individual needs.
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
LE12 6JGWhat 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, 29 May 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, parents are invited to stay with their children for at least their first settling-in session prior to them starting. This enables children to see their parents holding conversations with staff and feeling comfortable in the nursery. This results in helping children to feel safe and secure. Children in the baby room are encouraged to keep trying and to persevere at activities. For example, when they try to complete inset puzzles and struggle to make pieces fit, staff say, 'Keep trying.' Children in the pre-school room are praised by staff for sharing, such as when they pass watering cans to their peers in the garden. This helps to raise their self-esteem.
Children are supported to develop their physical skills. For example, in the baby room, when children want to access a low-level bridge, staff hold onto their hands to support their balance when they show an interest to begin to walk. When children in the toddler room want to walk across wooden beams, they look to staff for support, such as to hold their hand to help promote their safety and confidence.
Staff plan activities that allow children to follow their interests. For example, in the pre-school room, children develop their knowledge of space. They show their imagination when they make pretend rockets from boxes and plastic bottles and zoom them into the air to see which one goes the furthest.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help staff to strengthen the implementation of the curriculum to support children's behaviour in the toddler room.
- 29 May 2024Good
- 29 June 2018Good
- 15 March 2018Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for East Leake Village Day Nursery
- 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.
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