Park School Day Nursery Ltd
GoodBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Lincoln for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2016, with 50 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lincolnshire 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
LN6 9QSWhat 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, 18 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happy and settle quickly into their play. When babies are new to the setting, staff offer lots of cuddles and reassurance to help them feel safe and secure. Children embrace the opportunities for learning that staff provide indoors and outdoors. The atmosphere buzzes with children's excitement and eagerness to explore. For example, children work together to build a tower with bricks in the garden. They take turns adding a brick onto the tower as staff help them count each brick. When the tower falls, children cheer and quickly start to rebuild. Staff encourage them to beat the number of bricks last counted before the tower fell.
They offer lots of encouragement as they say, 'Let's go again.'
The enthusiastic and dedicated management team has a clear ambition for all children to succeed. Staff provide children with challenging and motivating activities and experiences. For example, children take part in a painting activity. Staff purposefully plan for children to mix the paints to create the colours of the flowers on the table. Children talk about how they can mix red and yellow to make orange.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen support for younger children to build on the range of words they know and to practise their language skills n focus more precisely on the knowledge and skills individual children need to learn next to help them make the best possible progress.
- 18 July 2024Good
- 22 August 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Park School Day Nursery Ltd
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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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