Leaps and Bounds Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 3.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Belper for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £43.30 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2014, with 102 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| All ages | £23.95Using 5 Funded Hours £43.30Full Fees 9am - 1pm £46.15Full Fees 1pm - 6pm £47.20Full Fees 7:30am - 1pm £52.20Using 10 Funded Hours £57.95Full Fees 8am - 3pm £70.00Full Fees 7:30am - 6pm |
Funded hours
Funded hours in blocks of 4, 5, 7, 10 hours for all children.
Worth knowing. We only offer our funding term time at Leaps and Bounds Day Nursery. Therefore 38 weeks of the year you will receive funded hours and the half terms and holidays will be full fees. We do not charge any consumable charges but meal and snack charges will be charged during funded sessions.
What childcare usually costs in Derbyshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derbyshire 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
DE56 1UPWhat 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, 20 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff plan a variety of activities for children to develop their small-muscle skills.
These activities help children practise the skills needed for early writing. For example, pre-school children use their fingers and hands to smear coloured paints over tables. Staff demonstrate how to use toothbrushes, scrappers and rollers to make patterns in the paint. Children learn how to use these tools to make marks, giggling at the changing colours on their hands. Other children develop concentration skills. They use glue spreaders to stick glitter and sequins onto their pictures. Toddlers enjoy squashing and squeezing the dough. They tell the staff they are making pizza and worms. This supports children's developing creativity.
Staff encourage children to develop their muscle strength and coordination. Babies learn to crawl and pull themselves up on play equipment. Older babies sit with staff, rolling balls back and forth. Toddlers dig in the sand, where staff help them fill buckets to make sandcastles. Staff talk to older children about the beach. This encourages children to recall their experiences of holidays. Pre-school children push themselves along in bubble cars, where staff help them consider how to move around obstacles safely. Children show kindness when they notice friends are stuck on climbing equipment. They stop their play and help staff suggest how their friends could move their feet to get to different parts of the climbing frame. This helps children to problem solve.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to promote children's speech and language skills even further by reducing the time children use dummies n build on how staff plan the outdoor provision for pre-school children.
- 20 June 2024Good
- 6 July 2018Good
- 14 August 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Leaps and Bounds Day Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £43.30 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.
- 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.
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