Heaton Park Nursery
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Manchester for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £16.00 a day for under 2s, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in October 2022. Open since 2015, with 92 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Term time only, 38 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | Session | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 2sbirth to 2y | £16.00Under 2s contribution daily fee | – | – | |
| All ages | £22.00Holiday Club full-day £24.00Holiday Club daily £74.00One Full Day | £49.00Half day | £120.00Holiday Club weekly £307.50 |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £50.00 Late payments chargemust be paid within 4 weeks
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hour funded places are available for eligible 2, 3, and 4-year-olds.
Worth knowing. Funded hours are delivered during term-time only (38 weeks) or stretched across the year depending on availability; Funded places do not cover meals, snacks, or consumables, which may be charged separately.
What childcare usually costs in Manchester
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Manchester 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
M24 4GYWhat 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, 18 October 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive extremely excited and eager to play at this wonderfully nurturing and safe nursery. They form exceptionally strong bonds with staff, who welcome each child warmly with huge smiles and an abundance of affection. Children are cared for by kind and nurturing staff, who know them tremendously well as individuals. Children are incredibly content and confident, they thrive in this loving, child-centred environment. Children continuously demonstrate that they feel safe and secure.
Children are ready to learn and are extremely motivated and engaged. Every room throughout the nursery is a hive of activity. Staff construct a rich and highly ambitious curriculum that continuously builds on children's existing skills and abilities. They have wonderfully high expectations of what children can achieve and, as a result, all children excel from their starting points. This includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those that speak English as an additional language. Children of all ages make excellent links in their learning.
For example, children have been exploring pumpkins as part of their understanding about harvest and Halloween. Pre-school children comment that their tangerine looks like a pumpkin and recall a recent 'tangerine challenge'. Children proudly share with the inspector that they are now able to peel a tangerine independently as a result of the 'challenge' set by the encouraging staff.
- 18 October 2022Outstanding
- 19 July 2017Good
- 31 August 2016Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Heaton Park Nursery
- 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 £16.00 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.
- 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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