The Tot Stop Early Years Centre
GoodBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Driffield for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2023. Open since 2005, with 45 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in East Riding of Yorkshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in East Riding of Yorkshire 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
YO25 6PNWhat 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 April 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy at this setting. They leave their parents confidently at the gate and talk to staff well. Children are engaged and concentrate on the task in hand.
Pre-school children sit patiently and enjoy registration. They join in with familiar songs and find their names confidently. This promotes their communication and literacy skills. Pre-school children excel on apparatus outside. Toddlers climb and balance extremely well on wooden apparatus in their room. Babies explore flour with wonder. They use spoons and brushes to move flour from one spoon to another, demonstrating their good developing physical skills.
Children are independent. Staff encourage them to feed themselves from a young age. As children progress through the nursery, they gain confidence. Toddlers find their own shoes and master putting them on. Pre-school children pour their own drinks and tidy away their plates at snack time. They gain many of the skills which they need for their next stages of learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- place more emphasis on developing children's early mathematical concepts, so that their progress in this area of learning is accelerated n use systems for staff supervision more effectively to evaluate the impact of staff's practice on children's learning and raise the quality of practice to a higher level.
- 18 April 2023Good
- 5 July 2017Good
- 5 February 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Tot Stop Early Years Centre
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- 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.
What to ask them
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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