Woodlands PDN
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 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. £8.60 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 1991, with 118 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Extra hours over the funded hours are charged at £8.60 an hour
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Government funded places are available for all ages.
Worth knowing. Food and extra hours are chargeable separately should you wish to book them. If you use the fully funded option parents can bring in a packed lunch making the session free.
What childcare usually costs in Derby
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derby 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
DE22 1BJWhat 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, 6 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children grow with confidence and progress in their learning as they transition through the setting. They are supported by kind, nurturing staff. Babies find comfort with their key person, snuggling in for reassurance when they become tired. Staff have built positive relationships with children and their families. These relationships form firm foundations for children's successful learning and development.
Younger children are eager to explain how they spend time caring for giant land snails. Outside, they find garden snails. Children compare the differences between the species, using words such as big and little.
In the setting's forest school, staff create an enchanted environment where preschool children's imaginations flourish. They role play their favourite stories, demonstrating the familiarity they have with books. Children are challenged by staff to identify the trees around them by looking at their leaves. They use their descriptive language as they identify the similarities and differences between the leaves. Staff introduce the names of trees through the ambitious curriculum that they have developed. Children enthusiastically find and name a conifer tree, a silver birch and a laurel. Throughout their play, children show their awareness of the rules designed to keep them safe. For example, by stepping out of the campfire circle to the rear.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop the curriculum so that children have adequate opportunity to learn, practise and use the fine motor skills they need for their further education and beyond, specifically around the use of tools n focus performance management on staff's interactions with children during routine activities, such as mealtimes, so that children's communication and language development is continually being promoted.
- 6 June 2023Good
- 7 June 2017Good
- 11 June 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Woodlands PDN
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is £8.60 an hour 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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