Mulberry Bush Nursery Walmersley
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Bury for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in July 2022. Open since 2011, with 80 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
All three and four-year-old children are entitled to claim 15 funded hours per week for 38 weeks of the year, amounting to 570 hours per year. In addition, children of working families aged nine months upwards are entitled to 30 funded hours per week for 38 weeks of the year.
Worth knowing. During funded weeks at Mulberry Bush, if children are entitled to 15 funded hours per week, they will access 12 funded hours per week, 6 per day, based on a minimum attendance of two days per week. If children are entitled to 30 funded hours per week, they will access 24 funded hours per week, 8 per day, based on a minimum attendance of three days per week. We do not charge any extra for meals, drink or snacks, or for the consumable items which we provide as part of our service, including nappie.
What childcare usually costs in Bury
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bury 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
BL9 5JWWhat 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, 21 July 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
All children, from babies up to pre-school, are extremely happy, settled and engaged in learning. This leads to a calm, safe and relaxed atmosphere. Each member of the high-quality staff team is very well deployed in all rooms. This means they are quickly on hand to provide every child with the bespoke care and support they need. Children of all ages have developed very secure relationships with staff. Children confidently go to staff when seeking comfort and cuddles or to help them resolve any conflicts or problems.
Children understand, respect, and follow the rules and routines of the setting. They are extremely kind towards each other and are developing secure and respectful friendships. Staff purposefully help children to learn to do things for themselves from a young age. This leads to high levels of independence and a determination to succeed among the children. Children delight in their achievements and bask in the copious praise they consistently receive from staff.
All staff purposefully engage in children's play and learning. They thoughtfully provide a wide range of activities and resources that they know will ignite children's interests. This encourages children to explore and learn, which they do with great excitement. Staff are highly skilled in knowing exactly when to challenge and extend children's learning, and when to let them experiment, test out their own ideas, and learn for themselves. This leads to an industrious environment where all children are highly focused on their play. They are very keen and able to learn new things and develop their skills, and are making exceptional progress.
- 21 July 2022Outstanding
- 10 February 2016Outstanding
- 21 November 2011Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Mulberry Bush Nursery Walmersley
- What it costs
- 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.
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