Hocus Pocus Day Nursery Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Bolton for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £81.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2024. Open since 2003, with 90 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 | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £71.00Short Full Day 9am until 4:30pm £81.008am until 6pm | £54.00Half Day Afternoon 1pm until 6pm, 5 hrs | £13.60Additional Hour |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £7.50 Early Bird Drop Off 7:30amMUST be booked 7 days in advance
Funded hours
Funded places from 9 months up to 4 years of age; 15 hours over two days (9am – 4:30pm); 30 hours over four days (9am – 4:30pm).
Worth knowing. We do charge for meals and consumables, but we try to keep the costs down while providing home-cooked delicious meals. You can, of course, choose to send your child in with a packed lunch.
What childcare usually costs in Bolton
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bolton 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
BL2 1NYWhat 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.
- 20 March 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 10 April 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff form positive relationships with children. They provide a nurturing environment where children feel confident to express themselves. Children settle quickly and are happy to attend. Parents describe the nursery as a 'caring and warm environment'. All children feel safe and secure.
Staff provide a range of experiences that teach children about the world around them. For example, babies learn about different textures as they explore the contents of the outdoor mud kitchen. Children learn how to care for living things as they feed the classroom caterpillars and watch them transform into butterflies.
They excitedly tell their friends that the caterpillars are currently in a cocoon. Preschool children also enjoy looking after their classroom pet snail. All children engage in a variety of experiences, which helps them to develop a positive attitude to learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the curriculum for communication and language so that staff have a clear vision of how to implement the it effectively n strengthen professional development opportunities for staff, to help them focus more precisely on learning intentions.
- 10 April 2024Good
- 14 August 2018Good
- 28 April 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Hocus Pocus Day Nursery Ltd
- 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 £81.00 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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