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Day nursery in Oldham

TH Day Care Ltd t/a Shooting Stars Pre School Nursery

GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established

A day nursery in Oldham for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £48.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2021, with 135 places.

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Cost

What it costs

Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.

AgeFull daySessionHourly
All ages
£48.00Holiday Club
£58.00
£31.00Morning or Evening, 3 hrs
£46.00Half Day, 6 hrs
£14.00Holiday Club ( Hourly)

Funded hours

15 or 30 hours of free early education each week.

What childcare usually costs in Oldham

£5.50an hour, typical for a 2 years old
£5.33an hour, typical for a 3 and 4 years old

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.

The basics

Places, hours and the day

Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.

Who they can take
Birth to 8+Registered from birth. Whether there is a baby room is a question for the call.
When it's open
07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a weekFrom their Google listing
Funded hours
Takes them
Settling in
They offer settling sessions
Google rating
4.6 out of 5From 9 Google reviews. NurseryWise has none of its own.
How many children
135 placesVery large for England
How long open
5 yearsLong established
Address
Aadam House, 394 Lees Road, Oldham, OL4 5EP

Where it is

OL4 5EP
Ofsted URN 2640917On the register since 6 June 2021
Ofsted

What 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, 18 July 2024 · read the full report

What it is like to attend

Children are eager to enter the busy nursery. The caring, friendly staff help them to feel safe and ready to play. Staff understand how young children learn. Two-yearold children become engrossed in exploring a collection of little socks. They carefully put the socks onto dolls' feet. This helps children's small-muscle development. Children find socks that match. This encourages them to look closely at shapes, colours and patterns. Pre-school children ably apply their knowledge that colours and written words have meaning. When staff hold up familiar cards, children have great fun playing percussion instruments 'fast' or 'slow'. This promotes children's early literacy well.

The atmosphere in the nursery is lively and purposeful. Children's deep involvement in self-chosen activities, supported by knowledgeable staff, promotes their positive behaviour and learning. Parents and carers say that children develop self-help skills at the nursery. For example, the parents of two-year-old children are pleased and surprised when children put their own jacket away. Parents' praise promotes children's confidence and self-esteem. It makes children eager to learn more skills. Support for children who speak English as an additional language is a strength of the nursery. Staff create lots of interesting reasons for children to listen and communicate.

What Ofsted told them to improve

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:

- help staff to focus even more closely on the detail of their interactions with children, so that these are consistent across the team and children make the swiftest possible progress in their learning n review routines in the pre-school room, so that teaching helps all children to participate and develop really positive attitudes to learning.

  • 18 July 2024Good
  • 18 September 2023Needs improvement
  • 20 April 2023Inadequate

Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 3 graded inspections.

Still missing for TH Day Care Ltd t/a Shooting Stars Pre School Nursery

  • Youngest age taken
  • 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.

Before you ring

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 £48.00 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.
  • 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.
Compare

Day nurseries within a couple of miles

This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.

Giggle and Grow Glodwick

Day nursery · 141 Glodwick Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL4 1AR

GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Babies from 6 months08:30 to 16:00, 5 days a week★ 4.5 Google, 8108 placesLong established

A-Star Kids

Day nursery · 77 Lees Road, Oldham, OL4 1JW

GoodBirth to 507:30 to 15:45, 5 days a week★ 5.0 Google, 4468 placesOpen a few years
0.5 mi
10 min walk
0161 785 9227

Learnaid Nursery

Day nursery · 48 Bottom O'Th Moor, Oldham, OL4 1JZ

GoodBirth to 5Open all day, usually 8am to 6pm48 placesLong established
0.6 mi
12 min walk
07865995308

Pick two or three to compare.

Everything here comes from Ofsted's published childcare register, under the Open Government Licence. Ratings are quoted exactly as Ofsted gave them, with their dates. Read the full Ofsted reports · How we put this together.

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