Parkside Nursery School
GoodBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Loughborough for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2022. Open since 1996, with 35 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 Leicestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Leicestershire 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
LE11 2BNWhat 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, 22 November 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happy and excited at this friendly nursery. They are welcomed into the nurturing environment and immediately select activities that engage them.
Children practise their small-muscle skills as they thread cereal onto spaghetti, watching as it drops to the end. Children develop their mark-making skills as they dip toy dinosaurs' feet in paint and stomp them onto paper to make footprints.
They use brushes to carefully paint dinosaurs, dipping brushes into the paint before carefully sweeping their paintbrush over the paper. Children wash paint off the dinosaurs' feet with sponges and bubbly water, laughing as they use their hands to splash the water.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen teaching, particularly outdoors, to maximise children's learning across all areas of the curriculum n improve the consistency of staff interactions with younger children, to encourage the development of early language skills.
- 22 November 2022Good
- 19 January 2017Good
- 28 July 2016Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Parkside Nursery School
- 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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