Hornby Day Nursery Limited
OutstandingTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Lancaster for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in October 2023. Open since 2010, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Free Entitlement is now Funded Hours and is available for children aged 9 months up to children leaving us to go to school. From September 2025 children aged 9 months until they leave nursery may be entitled to up to 30 hours funded childcare a week.
Worth knowing. Children attending Hornby Day Nursery must do so for a minimum of two sessions per week. You can only access the free entitlement at a maximum of two settings at any one time. You cannot swap your funded hours between settings during any term. A parental agreement is set up to cover the agreed funded hours.
What childcare usually costs in Lancashire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lancashire 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
LA2 8JPWhat 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, 4 October 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff instil children with the confidence to get involved and always try hard. A key focus is finding each child's talent and helping them thrive. To support this, leaders source additional activities, such as dance and sensory play, to enhance children's range of experiences. Children demonstrate their happiness and feelings of security through close bonds with staff, and they are confident to approach visitors to show them their nursery.
Staff show children respect. They teach and trust them to make good decisions from the youngest age. For instance, staff support babies to calmly play with water indoors while older children work together to carefully create a 'shop' using real produce. Children understand the high expectations of them. They reciprocate the respect shown to them by behaving well and taking care of each other and their nursery.
Skilled staff help to embed children's learning through interesting discussions and activities that build on prior knowledge. For instance, children recall what a combined harvester does, how flour is made and how they made their own bread and soup. Staff plan a broad range of activities to link children's learning. For example, children use fruits such as pineapples and pears to paint with as they learn about colour and texture. Children demonstrate a mature level and breadth of understanding and develop solid foundations on which to build their future learning.
- 4 October 2023Outstanding
- 9 March 2018Outstanding
- 8 July 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Hornby Day Nursery Limited
- 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.