Headstart Day Nursery
GoodBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Peterborough for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2024. Open since 2006, with 110 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in 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
PE6 8LQWhat 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, 19 April 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happy and demonstrate their strong relationships with staff. Staff's caring and nurturing manner supports children to settle quickly and helps to ensure they feel safe and secure. Staff offer children praise and encouragement throughout the day which helps them to share their ideas and thoughts with friends. Children become highly focussed on a wide range of tasks and opportunities including potion making. Children giggle as they suggest they have made 'worm juice' that is expensive, even if it does not taste nice. Children learn new mathematical language and concepts from staff, such as 'half full', and develop their use of trial and error to understand why their potion might overflow. Children listen carefully and follow staff's instructions and guidance. For example, when asked, they put their aprons away when they have finished with them and wash their hands before sitting patiently for their lunch. Children use manners when responding to one another, using the words please and thank you, which is prompted and reiterated by staff.
Children enjoy being physically active. Staff help children make their own decisions and develop a positive attitude towards managing risks in their play. Indoors, children in the baby room access equipment to challenge their balance, spacial awareness, and coordination, while staff stay close by to help them when necessary, to promote their safety. Staff help children to develop a love of books and stories and take any opportunity to sing with children during the day. Children actively seek books out in the environment to look at independently and are excited for staff to read to them. They demonstrate the variety of familiar words and actions they learn from staff.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to recognise when their input is needed during children's play to further extend children's learning n strengthen the consistency of high-quality interactions staff provide children when supporting their behaviour.
- 19 April 2024Good
- 29 August 2018Good
- 7 August 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Headstart Day Nursery
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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