Treasures Neighbourhood Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Chesterfield for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 2005, with 48 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 hours funded childcare each week.
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
S43 3UUWhat 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, 5 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enjoy their time at this welcoming nursery. They arrive eager to start their day and happily leave their parents at the door. Children are developing a love of books, which staff place thoughtfully throughout the nursery. Babies sit with their chosen board books. They readily babble away to themselves as they focus on each picture, taking care as they turn the pages. Toddlers sit and listen to a story about a caterpillar. Staff ask children questions to prompt their thinking, and toddlers eagerly share their knowledge. Toddlers are encouraged to recall from previous learning that caterpillars make cocoons and will turn into butterflies. This helps children to develop confidence in their conversational skills.
Children enjoy outdoor play. Staff ensure that there is a variety of equipment on offer to suit all children's different levels of ability. Pre-school children work with staff to create a balance beam from a plank and two crates. Children take turns walking across the plank while staff offer a helping hand to those who are less confident. Toddlers demonstrate agility as they climb on small climbing apparatus, while others work with their friends to roll balls down the slope. Staff have provided additional challenges to encourage babies to develop their physical skills.
Babies eagerly crawl through tunnels and over small obstacles. This helps children to develop their muscle strength and coordination skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to strengthen the delivery of planned activities to include all identified learning intentions for children - review the deployment of staff to ensure that they provide consistent and purposeful interactions for children which build on their existing skills and knowledge.
- 5 June 2023Good
- 13 December 2022Inadequate
- 10 January 2017Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Treasures Neighbourhood Nursery
- What it costs
- 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.
- What does it cost, all in? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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