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Little Acorns Nursery With Sunrise And Sunset Club

GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established

A day nursery in Wigan for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £23.50 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2024. Open since 2016, with 45 places.

Call 01257252647Their website

Cost

What it costs

Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.

47 weeks a year.

AgeFull daySession
All ages
£23.50Holiday club 8am -5:30pm
£33.509am-3:30pm
£41.508am-5:30pm
£5.75Morning 8am - 8.55am
£7.00Afternoon 3.30pm-5pm or Morning 7:45am - 8.55am, 1.5 hrs
£9.25Afternoon 3.30pm -5.30pm, 2 hrs
£10.25Currently unavailable and under review
£18.509am-12pm, 3 hrs
£24.758am-12pm or 9am-1pm, 4 hrs
£27.751pm-5:30pm, 4.5 hrs
£31.008am-1pm, 5 hrs

Funded hours

15 and 30 hours free entitlement available with no extra costs.

Worth knowing. The fees listed below are exclusive of any free entitlement.

What childcare usually costs in Lancashire

£5.80an hour, typical for a 2 years old
£5.50an hour, typical for a 3 and 4 years old

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.

The basics

Places, hours and the day

Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.

Who they can take
Birth to 8+Registered from birth. Whether there is a baby room is a question for the call.
When it's open
08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a weekFrom their Google listing
Funded hours
Takes them
How many children
45 placesMedium for England
How long open
10 yearsLong established
Address
All Saints C of E Primary School, Finch Lane, Wigan, WN6 9DT

Where it is

WN6 9DT
Ofsted URN EY500596On the register since 16 June 2016
Ofsted

What 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, 9 May 2024 · read the full report

What it is like to attend

Staff greet children warmly and are genuinely excited to hear their stories from home. Children arrive eager to see what is happening in nursery today. They know where to put their things and settle quickly to their learning. The environment provides a fascinating array of learning experiences indoors and outdoors. Staff play alongside children, keeping them safe and secure as they explore. Children are confident to use resources creatively. For example, they make a telescope from a cardboard tube to watch their friends arrive. Children show real care and concern for each other. They persevere when things get tricky and encourage their friends to do the same. Staff foster a culture of care and respect. Children behave beautifully in response to the high expectations of staff. They take care of each other and their environment. Children are learning to keep themselves safe, particularly on their regular visits to the forest area.

Staff provide learning experiences that build on children's prior learning and experiences. They provide carefully planned activities that follow children's interests. Children make good progress across all areas of the curriculum. They enjoy talking about their learning and the things that they enjoy doing. Leaders have implemented an ambitious curriculum that supports children's communication and language development effectively.

What Ofsted told them to improve

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:

- enrich the curriculum to explore diversity further in order to help children learn and understand about people, families and communities different to their own.

  • 9 May 2024Good
  • 25 June 2018Good

Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.

Still missing for Little Acorns Nursery With Sunrise And Sunset Club

  • 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.

Before you ring

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 £23.50 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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Everything here comes from Ofsted's published childcare register, under the Open Government Licence. Ratings are quoted exactly as Ofsted gave them, with their dates. Read the full Ofsted reports · How we put this together.

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