St Catherine's Independent Nursery
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Leyland for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in October 2022. Open since 2015, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Limited free places to parents seeking part-time / sessional places.
What childcare usually costs in Lancashire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lancashire 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
PR25 4SJWhat 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, 11 October 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children flourish in this warm and nurturing environment. They are excited to see their friends when they arrive and settle happily into their learning. Children have exceptional bonds with the staff and readily share their ideas and learning with them. They feel extremely secure with staff, who know them very well. Staff make children's learning fun and chat to them endlessly about the things that they are doing. Children have beautiful manners. They help each other out and work collaboratively together. Children recognise kindness in each other. They decide who needs to put a jewel on the 'kindness tree' at the end of each session. Staff are positive role models and demonstrate to children their high expectations of behaviour. As a result, children understand how to manage their feelings and emotions, and behaviour is excellent. Children are extremely independent and have a real can-do attitude. They persevere to solve problems for themselves.
There is a clear plan to maximise children's learning throughout the environment.
Children are immersed in a rich array of resources and learning opportunities, both indoors and outdoors. Here, children expand their ideas and become fully engrossed in their learning. Staff recognise that some children experienced social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. They quickly identify those children whose language and social development have been affected and plan to boost their learning in these areas. As a result, children make excellent progress in all areas of learning and development.
- 11 October 2022Outstanding
- 11 January 2017Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for St Catherine's Independent Nursery
- 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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