St Aidans Day Nursery
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A day nursery in Wheatley Hills for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £66.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2023. Open since 2009, with 94 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year, price list dated April 2025.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £66.00All Day | £41.25Afternoon £42.35Morning | £8.25Extra hour |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £50.00 Admission feenot refundable, includes four taster sessions
- £50.00 Administration chargepayments have not been received by the 10th of the month
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £2.00 a day Late payment finelate payments
- £7.50 per 15 minutes Late collection chargechild is not collected on time and no alternative arrangements have
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £3.25 a session Afternoon sessionfor fully funded sessions, includes meals and resources
- £5.00 a session Morning sessionfor fully funded sessions, includes meals and resources
- £8.25 a day Full dayfor fully funded sessions, includes meals and resources
Discounts
- 5% Sibling discounttwo or more children attend nursery; applies to the child attending
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Registered provider of early years education funding for 15 or 30 hours for 3 and 4 year-old children. We also offer funded sessions to all children from the term after they turn 9 months of age.
Worth knowing. Children who are accessing the 15/30 hours per week of FEYP funding will be charged for all meals and drinks during these sessions. Alternatively, parents may send their child to nursery with packed meals.
What childcare usually costs in Doncaster
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Doncaster 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
DN2 5NHWhat 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 January 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are confident, happy individuals who enjoy their time at nursery. They engage in a wide range of stimulating activities and are keen to share their experiences with staff and visitors. Children thrive in this welcoming, inviting and homely nursery. They explore and investigate the indoor and outdoor environment and show positive attitudes towards their learning. Children show good concentration and high levels of determination as they engage in play. For instance, toddlers delight in filling a bottle with porridge oats. They persist until the bottle is full to the top. Older children work together, showing a great deal of focus as they make vehicles using wooden bricks and wheels. Children are safe and have secure attachments with staff who are kind, cheerful and enthusiastic.
Children are well behaved and polite. Staff consistently remind children of the nursery rules. This helps children to understand what is expected of them. Older children work alongside staff to devise the nursery rules. Children and staff discuss how to make sure the nursery is safe and talk about the importance of kindness and respect.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help very young children to begin to develop an understanding of good hygiene practices n continue to support less experienced staff to develop a better knowledge of the nursery's curriculum and how to support children's learning.
- 31 January 2023Good
- 1 June 2017Good
- 12 November 2012Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for St Aidans Day Nursery
- 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 £66.00 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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