Havelock Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Grimsby for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2024. Open since 1997, with 55 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
We receive Nursery Education Funding for eligible 9 month olds and 2-year olds (to start the term after they turn 9 months /the term after their 2 nd birthday) for a maximum of 30 hours per week, (38 weeks per year). All 3 and 4 year olds can access the 15 hours Nursery Education Funding, the term after they turn 3, with no eligibility requirements , working parent eligibility is required for 30 h.
Worth knowing. Please note that any meals taken, or hours booked in addition to your Nursery Education Funding will be privately invoiced as per the nursery price list. Trips or activities will also be charged privately.
What childcare usually costs in North East Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in North East Lincolnshire 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
DN33 2BAWhat 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, 21 August 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff greet children warmly as they arrive at the nursery. They have positive relationships with children and their families. This helps children to settle quickly into the routines of their day. Staff are good role models towards children. For example, they teach children to understand what is expected of them. As a result, children behave well. Staff teach children to take turns and the importance of kindness. Children are confident to reach out to staff for comfort or to play alongside them. This helps children to feel safe and secure.
Staff know children well. They provide interesting and challenging activities that will build on what children already know to further expand their learning and development. For example, staff teach children to identify different features of dinosaurs, enabling children to correctly identify them by the number of horns or the length of their neck. Children practise saying dinosaur names, such as
'triceratops' or 'brachiosaurus', as they use water and brushes to draw them onto the fence. These activities provide wonderful learning opportunities for children and help them to make good progress in their learning and development, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide more opportunities for children to practise counting and mathematical concepts during their play, to build on their mathematical skills and knowledge.
- 21 August 2024Good
- 27 November 2023Needs improvement
- 29 January 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Havelock 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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