Farthing Wood Private Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Halifax for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £49.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2023. Open since 2004, with 52 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Full-time Daily Morning Afternoon Hourly £197.50 . £49.00 £29.00 £28.00 £7.00
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
All three and four year olds are entitled to 15 hours of free nursery education for 38 weeks of the year. ... extended entitlement of 30 hours of free childcare for working parents ... Some two-year-olds are entitled to two-year-old nursery funding. Two-year funding entitles a child to 15 hours of free nursery education for 38 weeks per year.
What childcare usually costs in Calderdale
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Calderdale 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
HX3 0TEWhat 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, 16 January 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are greeted warmly by staff who know them well. Children's behaviour is very good. They demonstrate lovely manners to each other and to adults. Children encourage their friends to join in their play. They patiently wait for others to begin their storybook, cheering as they arrive. This helps children to feel safe and secure.
Children laugh and clap in excitement as they pop bubbles in the air. They demonstrate their understanding of their body parts as staff tell them to pop the bubbles with their elbow, foot and forehead. Babies develop their grip using brushes and sponges to paint. They develop their senses as they listen to the sounds the spoons make as they bang them together. Children scrunch up foil and look at the patterns that the fairy lights make on it. Children explore and learn about their sensory environment.
Children use their buckets and spades to collect snow outdoors. They watch the melting snow drip from the trees and comment that the sun is melting the snow.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- confirm referrals to external agencies for children with SEND have been received, to ensure that targeted support is implemented as soon as possible, to help children continue to make good progress in their learning and development n ensure that covered radiators are regularly removed and cleaned to maintain a clean and hygienic environment for children to play in n ensure that all parents know who their child's new key person is.
- 16 January 2023Good
- 7 November 2018Good
- 6 March 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Farthing Wood Private Day Nursery
- 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 £49.00 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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