Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8:00am to 6:00pm
Diggory's Day Nursery
Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2024)
Number of places
19 places
Age range
0–3 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2024
Local authority
Nottinghamshire
About this day nursery
Diggory's Day Nursery is situated in the charming rural village of Beckingham, Nottinghamshire, surrounded by picturesque greenery and a well-equipped play park. The nursery is designed to foster free thinking and enriched learning through a main exploring room featuring various activity stations.
Founded by Sophie Wilkinson, an experienced primary school teacher with a passion for early years education, the nursery aims to provide a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment. Their philosophy is centred on curiosity, wonder, enriched play, and nurturing an atmosphere of love.
The nursery is committed to creating good problem solvers and independent thinkers, encouraging kindness, creativity, and celebrating the uniqueness of each child. They also prioritise purposeful learning opportunities to develop fundamental literacy and mathematics skills, as well as physical movement and coordination.
Diggory's Day Nursery ensures that all children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities, feel valued, empowered, and confident in exploring their interests.
Our ethos
Here at Diggory’s Day Nursery, we provide a safe and stimulating environment filled with curiosity, wonder, enriched play and a sprinkling of love.
What it's like
Staff have built positive relationships with children and their families, which helps children feel confident and happy at nursery. Children are eager to engage with a variety of resources that cover all areas of early learning. Staff use children's interests to create stimulating environments.
Rural settingFocus on free play and critical thinkingExperienced founder
Pricing & funding
Fees are charged for full day or half day sessions. Full day sessions run from 8am to 6pm, while half day sessions are available in the morning or afternoon. The nursery is open Monday to Friday.
- Full day price£47.50 / day
- Half day price£27.00 / session
Good to know
- Full day sessions run from 8:00am to 6:00pm.
- Half day sessions are 8:00am to 1:00pm or 1:00pm to 6:00pm.
- The nursery is open Monday to Friday.
Key facts
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Diggory's Day Nursery
Last inspected 17 January 2024
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
Staff have built positive relationships with children and their families, which helps children feel confident and happy at nursery. Children are eager to engage with a variety of resources that cover all areas of early learning. Staff use children's interests to create stimulating environments.
Inspector highlights
- Staff and managers understand child development and identify areas of focus from assessments to enhance activities.
- Staff support children to develop a love of reading by encouraging them to read and linking it to activities.
- Staff develop children's communication through repetition, single words, and signs.
- Staff help children develop friendships and independence, prompting them to join activities and take ownership of their lunches.
- The arrangements for safeguarding are effective with an open and positive culture.
Areas to develop
- 1support staff to be consistent with their expectations, to ensure children understand how they are expected to behave
- 2develop the consistency of staff interactions within free play activities to extend learning beyond what children already know.
Inspection #10305134 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
Outdoor space
Managers plan to develop their resources to support children further with their mathematical learning, such as offering more number and shapes outside.
Parent Reviews of Diggory's Day Nursery
5.0
(1)
Hayley Marshall
9 years ago
This is a wonderful local preschool that my daughter has attended for the past two years (since age 2), and I plan for my younger daughter to do the same. The staff are experienced and friendly, and clearly really care for the children and enjoy helping them develop. As its a smaller group my daughter has really gained in confidence and independence, and knows all the other children by name (including those older and younger than her). They are also able to go for lots of local trips out - on the bus to the library, to the local shops, fire station, windmill and soft play area as well as others. I couldn't recommend them highly enough.
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Inspection history
Most recent inspection
17 January 2024
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
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