Precious Times Childcare Services Riverside
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Grimsby for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 07:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2016, with 54 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
2 and 3 year old funded places (15 and 30 hrs); Flexible Funded Entitlement to 9 months; from September 2025 extended to 30 hours for children from 9 months.
Worth knowing. Riverside funded hours can be taken between 9am-6pm in 3 hour blocks; Laceby Acres funded hours can be taken between 7.30am-6pm; you can top up your child's hours by paying for additional sessions.
What childcare usually costs in North East Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in North East 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
DN34 4HDWhat 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, 25 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
All children are respected as unique individuals. Staff work closely with parents to ensure that children's individual needs are met. The management team promotes staff well-being and focuses on their continuous professional development. This helps to ensure that good standards of care and learning are maintained. Children remain safe due to the vigilance of staff. Staff provide friendly reminders as they reinforce the nursery rules and expectations to children. This helps them learn to respect and adhere to these. Turn-taking and sharing are actively supported with all children, but especially with children aged two to three years. During small, planned group activities, staff use children's names in turn as they roll a car to them. They help children learn to wait for their turn during the simple game.
Staff engage children in purposeful, hands-on learning experiences, supporting each child to build on their prior knowledge and skills. For example, in the baby room, staff have strategically placed sensory coloured bags higher up to encourage babies to stand and reach up. Pre-school children enjoy planned activities that focus on promoting their early writing skills. Children listen and follow the directions of staff as they move to the music, copying actions as they hold pieces of fabric. They then practise the movements as they make marks using chalks on the floor. Quieter, more reserved children are encouraged to participate at their own pace through the skilled support of staff.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consider the organisation of snack time in the two- to three-year-old children's room, so that the experience is more effectively used to continue to support children's ongoing learning n support all staff to consistently help children to develop their own ideas and strategies for doing things.
- 25 March 2024Good
- 10 May 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Precious Times Childcare Services Riverside
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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