The Whitehouse Day Nursery
Good★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Derby 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 They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask.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 2022. Open since 2011.
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 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
DE72 3HBWhat 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 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and demonstrate that they are confident as they move around their rooms deciding what they want to play with. Children develop their physical skills. Pre-school children negotiate the steps as they climb to the top of the slide and safely turn around to come down. They balance on giant tyres and ride tricycles and scooters fast around the bicycle track. Younger children enjoy running up and down the field, and babies learn to pull themselves up to standing. They push baby walkers, which helps to strengthen their legs in preparation for walking.
Children have an eagerness to learn and spend long periods at their chosen activities. For example, children in the infant room thoroughly enjoy finding toy chicks inside the plastic eggs. Children use their small-muscle skills to twist the eggs and scream with excitement and shout 'another chick'. Pre-school children relish playing with the construction blocks. They look at books about buildings and recreate famous buildings, such as the Houses of Parliament, after looking at a book about London. Staff extend this activity and ask the children to find London on the map, which they do successfully. To further extend children's learning, staff encourage them to draw and make maps of their own.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff's understanding of how to manage the noise levels in the preschool room so that this does not impact on children's learning n review how group activities are organised to ensure that all children are fully engaged, to extend learning opportunities further.
- 14 April 2022Good
- 4 August 2016Good
- 29 September 2015Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Whitehouse Day Nursery
- 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.
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