Session types
Full-time day care, Part-time day care, After-school care, Weekly Learn Play Grow sessions, Weekly yoga, Forest School sessions
Bedale Day Nursery
Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(3 parent reviews)
·Tutin Road, Leeming Bar Industrial Estate, NORTHALLERTON, DL7 9UJ · North Yorkshire
Number of places
59 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2026
Local authority
North Yorkshire
About this day nursery
Bedale Day Nursery, located in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, has been providing a stimulating and inclusive environment for children aged 0-11 years since 2014. The nursery operates Monday to Friday, all year round, from 7:30 am to 6 pm, accommodating after-school care and school holidays.
The setting prides itself on its robust safeguarding standards, with an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities thrive here, benefiting from skilfully adapted activities and resources.
The nursery fosters a love for the outdoors, with regular access to an inviting environment and dedicated forest school sessions for older children, encouraging an understanding of nature and risk assessment. The ambitious EYFS curriculum, implemented by highly knowledgeable and reflective staff, ensures excellent progress for all children, with targeted individual learning plans to address any learning gaps.
Our ethos
The nursery aims to foster a nurturing 'home from home' atmosphere, supporting each child's emotional, physical, and intellectual development by following the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. They offer a variety of learning through play opportunities, including Forest School sessions and community engagement.
What it's like
Children enjoy their time at the nursery, forming warm and affectionate relationships with staff and feeling emotionally secure. Staff provide a stimulating learning environment, identifying individual next steps and offering activities to promote them. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities thrive due to skilfully adapted activities and resources.
Strong safeguardingInclusive SEND provisionAmbitious EYFS curriculumOutdoor learning focusSkilled and knowledgeable staffExcellent progress for all
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Key facts
Age range
0-5 years (nursery), after-school care also available
Food
Meals and snacks provided, prepared by a cook with a 5-star food hygiene rating.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday : 07:30 - 18:00
Term time / All Year
All_year
Established
2014
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Expected standard
Last inspected Jan 2026
Grade summary
Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
—
Needs attention
Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.
Category grades
AchievementStrong standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesStrong standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Age range
0 to 11
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Bedale Day Nursery
Last inspected 29 January 2026
Actions the provider must take
- ensure babies and young children are supervised appropriately and seated safely in a high chair or appropriately sized low chair while eating
- implement robust hygiene policies, including sanitising sleep mats and providing clean hand towels for children
What it's like to attend
Children enjoy their time at the nursery, forming warm and affectionate relationships with staff and feeling emotionally secure. Staff provide a stimulating learning environment, identifying individual next steps and offering activities to promote them. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities thrive due to skilfully adapted activities and resources.
Inspector highlights
- Children enjoy their time at the nursery and feel emotionally secure, forming warm and affectionate relationships with staff.
- Staff provide a stimulating learning environment, identifying individual next steps and offering activities to promote them.
- Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities thrive due to skilfully adapted activities and resources.
- There are effective procedures in place to help children settle in and track their development.
- Children have regular access to an inviting outdoor environment and engage in physical activities, including forest school sessions.
- Strong relationships are fostered with parents, who praise the nursery highly and are invited to regular meetings to discuss their children's progress.
Areas to develop
- 1Hygiene practices do not promote children's health effectively. Regular cleaning of sleep mats is not undertaken often enough and sanitised hand drying facilities are not consistently provided. Some children share a towel that comes into contact with the floor in the bathroom. Young children are not always seated securely for meals, which compromises their safety.
- 2Leaders do not effectively monitor staff to ensure that supervision of children while eating is consistently embedded, or that hygiene practices are implemented in line with policies. This has a detrimental impact upon children's welfare.
Inspection #10076282 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities thrive in this inclusive setting. Staff skilfully adapt activities and resources to ensure all children are fully included. Staff are highly skilled and knowledgeable, working closely with outside agencies, they deliver individual learning plans and help children reach their full potential, especially those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
Outdoor space
Children have regular access to the inviting outdoor environment and engage in regular physical activities. Forest school sessions support older children to develop an excellent understanding of the natural world and to assess their own risks, such as freely exploring and jumping in muddy puddles.
Parent Reviews of Bedale Day Nursery
5.0
(3)
Georgia
3 months ago
My little girl has been at BDN since Nov/Dec, and she absolutely loves it... the team are amazing with the children, and I have no faults or issues. Im writing this though, especially after today, with a morning from hell, including transport issues which also meant i worried about breakfast. The girls were amazing and so understanding of the issues I had, and ensured me not to worry, and they would help with my daughter as soon as I got there. I highly recommend BDN to anyone, theyre amazing!!
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Bethany Dullea - Aura Music Academy
2 years ago
Our little boy joined Bedale when he was 9 months old and the team have been absolutely amazing. He loves going to nursery and is very comfortable with each of the baby room team. It's a real 'home from home' setting and we really like the fact that the team don't update us on an app, instead we get a written sheet at the end of each day with all the details of what our child has eaten, slept, played with etc. I really appreciate that the team are so flexible to our requirements - we have a term-time only place and we also do 1 full day and 2 half days each week, which works with my work schedule. We can also ask them for additional days or swaps and they're more than happy to help if they have space. I cannot recommend Bedale Nursery enough, they are a fantastic team who work very hard and my little boy is thriving there.
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Ricardo Sousa
a year ago
Amazing nursery, couldn’t fault their service and the staff are so friendly!
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Inspection history
Date: April 2016
The most recent inspection point has been hidden because the parsed entry didn't match the headline Ofsted rating (Good). We're re-checking it against the original report.
- February 2020Good
- April 2016Good
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