Sunshine Nursery School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in High Peak for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £47.66 a day for 2-3 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2022. Open since 2006, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 2'sbirth to 2y | £48.27All day: 9-4 | £20.693 hour: 9-12/1-4, 3 hrs £27.584 hour: 9-1/12-4, 4 hrs | £6.89non-funded hours | |
| 2-3 years2y to 3y | £47.66All day: 9-4 | £20.423 hour: 9-12/1-4, 3 hrs £27.224 hour: 9-1/12-4, 4 hrs | £6.80non-funded hours | |
| 3-5 years3y to 5y | £40.81All day: 9-4 | £17.493 hour: 9-12/1-4, 3 hrs £23.324 hour: 9-1/12-4, 4 hrs | £5.83non-funded hours | |
| 5-8 Years5y to 5y | £27.00Holiday Club Only: 9:00am - 4:00pm | £18.00Holiday Club Only: 9:00am - 12:00 or Holiday Club Only: 1:00pm - 4:00pm, 3 hrs | – |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £1.50 8:45am - 9:00am
- £3.00 per 15 minutes 4.00 pm - 5.30 pmincludes snack tea between 5 - 5.30
- £3.00 After school pickup from Whaley Bridge Primaryincludes snack
- £3.00 per 15 minutes After school pickup from Whaley Bridge Primary - per half
- £3.00 per 15 minutes Early bird session and extended hours 7:30 am - 9.00 amincludes breakfast between 8 - 8.30
- £4.00 Lunches
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £3.00 a day Consumable Fee
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
9 month and 2 year old funding and 30 hour funding for those who are eligible. The 15 hours is automatically applied for all children from the term following their 3rd birthday.
Worth knowing. Consumable fee £3 per day; optional lunch £4.00 per meal; funding can be divided between settings if a child attends more than one nursery.
What childcare usually costs in Derbyshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derbyshire 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
SK23 7HUWhat 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, 1 April 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children eagerly enter the setting where they freely give cuddles to staff. They are keen to start their day, settling quickly with their chosen activity. Children demonstrate positive attitudes to learning. Pre-school children thoroughly enjoy baking. They behave well as they take turns to measure out ingredients and stir the mixture. Children demonstrate good social skills. They talk about where they go shopping and what food they buy. Staff extend on this and ask children, for example, how flour is made. Children recall previous learning and confidently state that a combine harvester chops down the wheat and turns it into flour. Children are developing skills they need in preparation for school. For example, they do things for themselves, such as readily tidying away resources, accessing the toilet and pouring their own drinks.
Children are developing their physical skills. Babies show confidence as they learn to walk. Staff hold their hands to ensure they are safe. Toddlers concentrate as they use water to carefully paint the fence outdoors. Pre-school children excitedly join a music and dance session. They listen carefully to the changes in the music and enthusiastically move their bodies to the rhythm as they pretend to be volcanos. Children skilfully transfer the dance movements into smaller movements.
For example, they follow the music again, this time using crayons alongside hand and arm movements. Children eagerly create drawings of volcanos. The range of physical movements they use during the activity prepare them for early writing.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review the organisation of group times so children do not lose focus and have their learning disrupted n support all staff to use free-play activities effectively to extend children's curiosity and build on their learning further.
- 1 April 2022Good
- 26 April 2016Outstanding
- 13 December 2011Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Sunshine Nursery School
- 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 £47.66 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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