Partou Radcliffe Road Day Nursery & Pre-School
Good★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Nottingham for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 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 They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask.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 October 2022. Open since 2000, with 66 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 Nottinghamshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Nottinghamshire 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
NG2 5HGWhat 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.
- 29 October 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 19 October 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are excited to learn in the vibrant environment staff create. They enjoy a wide variety of resources and learning experiences, including exploring items in the sandpit. Children develop their hand muscles while digging and patting sand into different objects, imagining they are cakes. They learn the names of differentshaped tins and new words they can use to describe quantities, such as 'half full'.
Children confidently share their ideas with staff about the flavour of their cakes.
They listen closely to staff's instructions while searching for natural objects to place on top of their cakes, such as bark to resemble carrots. Staff encouragement motivates children to invite their friends to join their play, and they happily share resources. They all giggle, as a child pretends to cook the cakes 'quicker' with
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to improve the consistency of interactions and questioning skills - develop staff's understanding of the setting's chosen approach to learning to improve the consistency of learning experiences provided for all children.
- 19 October 2022Good
- 20 April 2022Inadequate
- 5 October 2015Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Partou Radcliffe Road Day Nursery & Pre-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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