Roundabouts Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Crewe for children from birth to 5, open 07:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £80.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2022. Open since 2015, with 42 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Full Day (7am-6pm) £80.00
One published rate, dated 1st April 2026. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Limited funded spaces are available for 2, 3 & 4 year olds, please call us to discuss further.
What childcare usually costs in Cheshire East
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cheshire East 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
CW2 5JBWhat 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, 31 August 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enter the nursery happily. They are pleased to see the friendly, welcoming staff. They confidently approach visitors and involve them in their play. This demonstrates that children feel very secure and at home in the familiar surroundings. Staff promote children's physical development well. Babies pull themselves to standing and discover interesting toys on a sturdy table. This helps babies to develop core strength and balance. Older children work with staff to build obstacle courses. They try out different ways of moving across the obstacles. This helps children to be ready to face new physical challenges as they grow.
Parents and carers feel really well supported by the nursery team. They say that they never feel alone when concerns about children's development arise. During the COVID-19 pandemic, some children transferred temporarily to the provider's other nursery. Parents report that staff managed the change well. They say that children enjoyed and benefitted from the new experience. Staff are positive role models for children. They work well as a team and this sets a good example for children. Children behave in a friendly way towards each other. Older children negotiate and modify rules for cooperative play. They begin to listen to each other's ideas.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- sharpen the performance targets for individual staff, so that they know precisely what they must do to raise the quality of their teaching n sequence children's learning even more effectively, so that progress towards the early learning goals is built on really firm foundations.
- 31 August 2022Good
- 25 April 2022Inadequate
- 28 February 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Roundabouts Day Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is £80.00 a day still the rate? 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.
- 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.
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