Sunny Days Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Derby for babies from 3 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 April 2023. Open since 2015, with 45 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated April 2026.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £66.00Full Week (5 X 7:30am-6:00pm) £73.007:30am-6:00pm | £45.00Morning (8;00am-6:00pm) or Afternoon (1:00pm-6:00pm), 5 hrs | £10.00Additional hour (1 Hour) | £330.00Full Week (5 X 7:30am-6:00pm) |
Funded hours
Free funded places for 9 months to 4 years; 30 hours of childcare available from the term after your child is 9 months until they start school.
What childcare usually costs in Derby
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derby 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
DE21 4AAWhat 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, 14 April 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children leave their parents with ease as staff welcome them to nursery. Children behave well, which results in the nursery having a calm atmosphere. Children have lovely bonds with staff. Babies feel comfortable to cuddle staff as they play and read with them. Children new to the nursery, as well as children moving to new rooms, settle quickly and are confident to explore their new environment. Children are friendly and polite. They enthusiastically show visitors toys they like and engage them in conversations about what they are doing. Staff teach older babies how to climb stairs. Children copy staff saying 'steady' as they are reminded to walk slowly so as not to slip.
Children actively engage in a large variety of activities, showing a positive attitude towards their learning. Children of all ages have many opportunities to develop their physical skills. For example, staff support toddlers to develop their smallmuscle skills as they take part in 'dough disco'. Children shout, 'I made a worm,' as staff encourage them to pinch, poke and roll play dough as they listen to music. All children enjoy being outside. Pre-school children build towers with large bricks and balance on stepping stones. Children show a love of books and access these freely.
Babies concentrate as they persevere turning the pages of books, intently looking at the pictures as staff read to them. This supports their emerging communication and language skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to increase opportunities for children to hear their home language to support their understanding during daily tasks and activities n support staff to challenge the most-able, pre-school children during daily interactions and activities so they can progress to the highest level.
- 14 April 2023Good
- 24 July 2017Good
- 4 November 2016Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Sunny Days Nursery
- 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.
- 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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