Macclesfield Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Macclesfield for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £68.25 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2023. Open since 2015, with 52 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £60.00Holiday Short Day or Short Day £68.25Holiday Full Day | £37.50Afternoon or Holiday Afternoon, 5 hrs £42.90Holiday Morning or Morning, 5.5 hrs |
Funded hours
Funded sessions for 9 month, 2, 3 and 4 year olds.
What childcare usually costs in Cheshire East
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cheshire East 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
SK11 8PTWhat 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.
- 11 September 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 28 November 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders have an incredibly positive attitude. They have worked tirelessly since their last inspection to bring about positive change for children. Leaders have placed a real emphasis on staff training and the effectiveness of this. Staff have engaged in a variety of learning opportunities to improve their practice. This has had an incredibly positive impact on the learning experiences that staff plan for children.
Children arrive at the nursery eager to enter. During the morning, staff plan learning experiences that really capture children's interests and ignite their curiosity. Children have great fun exploring with paints. They use different materials to paint with and start to learn how to express themselves creatively and use their imaginations.
Staff are deployed incredibly well throughout this nursery. Children are always well supervised. Staff support children's learning through planning well-thought-out activities that help children to reach their next steps in learning. In the main, children are involved in activities which help to keep them focused and develop good levels of concentration and participation. Children learn to play alongside and with their peers. This helps them to learn the importance of sharing and taking turns. Children also develop an understanding of how to take responsibility for their environment as they actively help to tidy up after activities.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- continue to support staff through training and professional development to effectively implement the curriculum at all times to help children remain engaged in their learning.
- 28 November 2023Good
- 9 August 2023Inadequate
- 26 January 2022Good
- 3 February 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 4 graded inspections.
Still missing for Macclesfield Day Nursery
- 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.
- Is £68.25 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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