Giggle and Grow Glodwick
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Greater Manchester for babies from 6 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:30 to 16:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2025. Open since 2014, with 108 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 hours funded places for all 3- and 4-year-olds (and some 2-year-olds, subject to eligibility). Giggle and Grow also offers 30 hours funded places for working parents (subject to eligibility), from children aged 9 months.
Worth knowing. Giggle and Grow day nursery have a small fee for consumables, such as breakfast, snack, lunch and tea for children that access 15- or 30-hours Free Entitlement Funding. Parent / carers have the option of bringing their own snacks or packed lunch.
What childcare usually costs in Oldham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Oldham 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
OL4 1ARWhat 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, 20 August 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children show high levels of self-esteem and are settled in this nursery. They benefit from high quality interactions from staff during play. Staff ask questions to probe children's thinking. For instance, while washing toy cars, they think about what happens when foam is mixed with water as they squeeze it out of sponges.
Children enjoy listening to stories and are read to in English and their home language. This helps support their understanding, speaking and listening skills.
Furthermore, staff sing to children to further introduce them to new words, songs and rhymes.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance partnerships with all parents and help them to understand their child's development and next steps in learning to help promote continuity of learning at home n support staff to recognise when children need help to remain engaged in their learning.
- 20 August 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 12 December 2019Good
- 18 December 2015Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Giggle and Grow Glodwick
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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