Wise Owl Private Day Nursery Scunthorpe
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in North Lincolnshire for babies from 9 months 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 September 2024. Open since 2005, with 69 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
All three and four year olds are entitled to 15 hours of free nursery education for 38 weeks of the year. Many three and four year olds of working families will be entitiled to 30 hours funding. Many 2 year olds of working families will be entitled to up to 30 hours a week 2 year old funding. Many babies over the age of 9 months of working families are now eligible for up to 30 hours a week funded.
What childcare usually costs in North Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in North Lincolnshire 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
DN16 2AWWhat 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, 3 September 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Managers have worked hard to address the weaknesses found at the last inspection. They have focused on key areas such as risk assessment processes.
They have prioritised what needs to be done to ensure that children are safe and secure. They have focused on training, that develops the new staff teams collective skills. This helps all children to make good progress from their starting points.
Learning builds on what children already know and can do. For example, babies are provided with opportunities to develop their muscles in their legs ready for becoming confident walkers. They practice climbing in and out of soft play equipment and bending up and down to pick up toys. This helps children to develop their physical skills form an early age.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consider how plans for widening children's experiences will enhance your curriculum and build children's characters and sense of belonging n use existing performance management processes to securely embed all staff's knowledge of the skills you want children to learn.
- 3 September 2024Good
- 7 March 2024Inadequate
- 21 October 2022Good
- 6 September 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 4 graded inspections.
Still missing for Wise Owl Private Day Nursery Scunthorpe
- 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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