Moorland Nursery School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Stoke on Trent for children from birth to 8+, open 07:45 to 17:45, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2024. Open since 2014, with 44 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hour nursery education grant funding schemes.
Worth knowing. During term time only.
What childcare usually costs in Staffordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Staffordshire 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
ST9 9NHWhat 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, 26 November 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff are very nurturing and caring in their approach. Consequently, children feel safe and happy at the setting. Children explain that they like to come to the setting to play with their friends. Staff know their key children well. Leaders have also developed an effective key-person buddy system. This helps to ensure children receive the care, support and consistency they require in the absence of their key person. Children enjoy sensory experiences, such as sand play. They develop their hand-eye coordination as they pour and empty the sand into a range of containers.
Staff talk to the children about size, shape and space as they play, which helps to develop their early mathematical knowledge.
Staff provide a good balance of child-initiated and adult-led activities for the children. They identify what they would like children to learn. The experiences on offer excite children's interests. Consequently, children sustain high levels of engagement in their play. All children make good progress in their learning. They develop the muscles in their hands and fingers as they manipulate play dough.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to think more carefully about how they can extend children's learning even further when they complete tasks with ease n review and improve the snacks on offer to children to ensure they are more balanced and to promote children's health.
- 26 November 2024Good
- 9 July 2024Inadequate
- 7 November 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Moorland Nursery School
- What it costs
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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