Parkview Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Leicester for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2023. Open since 1996, with 45 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
FEEE Funding for children aged from 9 months to 4 years. Some 2 year olds are also eligible for funding, up to 15 hours per week during term time only. Our nurseries offer 15 and 30 hours early years education entitlement placement (subject to availability).
Worth knowing. Subject to availability.
What childcare usually costs in Leicester
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Leicester 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
LE5 5FDWhat 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, 11 August 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
As children and parents arrive at the nursery, staff greet them with warm smiles.
Children happily separate from their parents. Children of all ages are appropriately encouraged by staff to be independent. Babies learn to feed themselves, toddlers are supported to serve their own meals and pre-school children pour their own drinks. As pre-school children pour their drinks, they notice numbers written on the jug. With support from the staff, children read the numbers and count in twos up to ten. Children demonstrate their understanding about the natural world. They eagerly show visitors to the nursery the sunflowers that they have grown. Staff question the children and encourage them to recall that the sunflowers needed sun, water and soil for food in order to grow.
Children demonstrate good levels of concentration. Staff provide children with plenty of opportunity to strengthen the muscles in their hands. Toddlers squeeze, flatten and roll play dough using their fingers. Pre-school children draw and make marks with purpose. Staff encourage children to talk about the pictures that they have drawn. Children add to their illustrations to create a book and narrate the events in their story. Staff take on the role of characters the children have created and follow children's directions to act the story out.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- deepen staff's understanding around how to implement the curriculum, to support children to make the progress they are capable of n develop the curriculum for physical development further to ensure that children are learning to recognise risk and understand how to manage this for themselves.
- 11 August 2023Good
- 27 September 2022Needs improvement
- 27 June 2013Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Parkview Day Nursery
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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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