Saddleworth Stars
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 3.8 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Oldham for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £75.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in May 2025. Open since 2014, with 109 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Day rate £75 fully inclusive. Minimum booking required: 2 days
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Funded places from 9 months, Working parent 30 hour funding, 3-4 year old 15 hour funding, 2 year old additional 15 hour funding.
Worth knowing. Working parent 30 hour funding: 2 days fully funded, 8am -6pm, All inclusive places £25 per day charge. 3-4 year old 15 hour funding: 2 half days fully funded. 7.30am – 1pm or 12.30pm – 6pm, All inclusive places £12.50 per session. 2 year old additional 15 hour funding: 2 half days fully funded. 7.30am – 1pm or 12.30pm – 6pm. This is fully inclusive.
What childcare usually costs in Oldham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Oldham 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
OL4 4AGWhat 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, 15 May 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff form exceptionally warm and trusting relationships with children. They create a nurturing environment where emotional well-being is prioritised. Staff know the children incredibly well. They listen carefully to children and respond effectively demonstrating the value they have for children's ideas. Children feel secure, build strong attachments and demonstrate high levels of emotional resilience and selfregulation. The large outdoor environment is expertly designed to promote children's physical well-being. The wide range of challenging and engaging activities provide children with continuous opportunities to climb, dig, build with large-scale materials and grow vegetables. Children learn how to manage their own risks through navigating a wealth of climbing apparatus. Children develop excellent physical coordination, strength and confidence, while also learning how to stay active and healthy. Children demonstrate highly positive attitudes to learning.
The curriculum is carefully designed, ambitious and challenging for all children.
Staff expertly extend children's knowledge and understanding. They use real-life materials to skilfully stretch children's levels of understanding. For instance, children use mud and real ingredients like corn, cabbage and pasta to mix potions and role play. Children show deep levels of engagement, high levels of language and confidence in expressing their ideas through play. Staff support children to develop excellent levels of thinking and understanding. For instance, young children explain how the magnifying glass they are using makes things big.
- 15 May 2025Outstanding Safeguarding: Yes
- 5 July 2019Outstanding
- 24 November 2016Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Saddleworth Stars
- 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 £75.00 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.
- 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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