Nursery Rhymes
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Chesterfield for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £72.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2022, with 45 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
50 weeks a year, minimum 2 days a week, price list dated September 2025.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £72.00: 8:00am - 5.30pm | £8.50Early breakfast club 7.30 – 8am £39.00Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5.30pm, 4.5 hrs £42.50Morning: 8:00am – 1:00pm, 5 hrs | £10.50Charge | £320.00Full Week: 8:00am - 5.30pm |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £100.00 Settling-In-Package Feepaid on enrolment, includes four two-hour settling in sessions, snack and a
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £6.50 a session Under 2 years - Afternoon Session 1pm – 5.30pmPackage 1
- £7.50 a session Under 2 years - Morning Session 8am – 1pmPackage 1
- £8.50 a session Over 2 years - Afternoon Session 1pm – 5.30pmPackage 1
- £9.50 a session Over 2 years - Morning Session 8am – 1pmPackage 1
Funded hours
15-hour entitlement and 30-hour entitlement, stretched across 50 weeks of the year.
Worth knowing. For sessions covered by funded hours, these items are supported through optional charges. Package 1: Additional charges for opting into full care package using funded hours. Package 2: No additional charges for opting into a fully funded Term Time space available 1 - 5pm. Must adhere to pack lunch policy. Limited availability.
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
S41 9DXWhat 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 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff provide children with many opportunities to safely learn outside. Children show great interest in the well-thought-out activities provided for them. For example, children have fun taking part in a treasure hunt. Toddlers use a variety of tools to dig for treasure in the large sand pit. Pre-school children demonstrate their growing vocabulary as they excitedly share their thoughts and ideas with each other and staff. For example, they imaginatively create stories around their play as they pretend to repair water pipes with toy diggers and excavators.
Babies are given many opportunities to develop their physical skills. They pull themselves up and hold hands with staff as they learn to start walking. Children show good manners and respect for one another at mealtimes and during activities. For example, children thank their friends for passing the jug of water.
Children develop a positive attitude to learning as they freely explore the environment and attractively presented activities that interest them. For example, toddlers spend considerable time re-telling 'The Gruffalo' story with animals from the story. They use their small muscles to pick up oats and put them into cake cases as they pretend to make 'Gruffalo' cakes.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff interactions for pre-school children during activities to ensure the most-able children are fully engaged and their learning is sufficiently challenged n assist staff to understand how to support children's developing understanding of why rules and boundaries are in place.
- 26 July 2024Good
Still missing for Nursery Rhymes
- 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 £72.00 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.
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