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Footprints Nursery Macclesfield

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2025)
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4.3(12 parent reviews)
·154 Cumberland Street, Macclesfield, SK10 1BP · Cheshire East
Number of places
68 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Cheshire East

About this day nursery

Footprints Nursery offers a nurturing and stimulating environment where children are encouraged to learn, grow, and express their individuality. The nursery prides itself on fostering confidence and independence in every child, recognising their unique talents and backgrounds.

With a strong emphasis on family values, Footprints Nurseries aim to provide the best possible start in life for children, working collaboratively with parents to support each child's development. Their approach is deeply rooted in inspiring creativity and a lifelong love for learning, ensuring that children flourish in a caring and supportive atmosphere.

Located in Cheshire, the nurseries have received an 'Ofsted Outstanding' rating and multiple awards, underscoring their commitment to exceptional childcare. The team at Footprints believes that by prioritising the children's needs, all other aspects of their operations naturally fall into place, creating a harmonious and enriching experience for everyone involved.

Our ethos

Footprints Nursery aims to provide the best possible start in life for children by fostering their confidence, independence, creativity, and a lifelong love for learning. They recognise each child's unique talents and background, working collaboratively with parents in a nurturing and supportive atmosphere. Their approach prioritises the children's needs and family values.

What it's like

Children show that they feel happy and safe. Their obvious sense of security stems directly from how well leaders promote positive relationships throughout the nursery. Staff help children of all ages to learn new vocabulary in meaningful ways.

Ofsted OutstandingFamily ValuesAward-winning

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm.

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2002

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Footprints Nursery Macclesfield

Last inspected 5 June 2025 · Susan King

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Children show that they feel happy and safe. Their obvious sense of security stems directly from how well leaders promote positive relationships throughout the nursery. Staff help children of all ages to learn new vocabulary in meaningful ways.

Inspector highlights

  • Everyone in the nursery demonstrates an unmistakeable drive to help children to thrive.
  • The provision for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is of a high standard.
  • The curriculum promotes children's early literacy.
  • Staff promote children's communication and language effectively.
  • Children's physical development is promoted well.

Areas to develop

  • 1integrate adult-led activities more effectively into the pre-school curriculum, so that children learn actively and pursue their own lines of enquiry.
Inspection #10403207 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Children become excited when they arrive at nursery and that they 'come home buzzing with what they have learned'.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The provision for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is of a high standard. When children's development gives cause for concern, staff make timely referrals to specialist services. Staff build advice from other professionals into the individual programmes for children with identified SEND. This helps children to reach agreed targets. Children with SEND make good progress from their starting points.

Outdoor space

Children regularly go on a variety of local outings. This gives them exciting experiences to talk about and build into their role-play scenarios.

Parent Reviews of Footprints Nursery Macclesfield

4.3
(12)
Daz Moses
7 months ago

Great nursery, my son use to go there when he was young and now our grand daughter goes there, staff are very friendly lots of updates on how they doing through the day. Highly recommend

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Neal Anand Ladwa
3 years ago

My daughter has been here for just over 2 years and son has recently started. The room staff and the back end staff are amazing and really enjoy their job. They have been great at catering for our children's needs and do lots of varied fun activities with the children. Our daughter, once she was settled in, she has never had issues to heading to nursery in the mornings and is looking for her day there with her friends and team staff team.

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Mike Gaskell
13 years ago

Having read the previous review, I felt it only fair to give a counter opinion. My daughter has been attending the babies room from an early age and the staff are exceptional. Her key worker, listens to our requests and does her best to include what we ask into her daily routine, i.e. supporting our baby led weening, to changing sleep routines. Footprints have been exceptionally flexible and have both increased and reduced Poppy's sessions when requested following changes to working patterns, and requirements, and have even gone the extra mile when we moved home. Having been sending our daughter to Footprints for over a year now I can honestly say I have never seen a child attending Footprints near the external gates (other than leaving with their parent) or indeed playing unsupervised in the playground, security is exceptional. Indeed a friend of ours picking up our child was stopped and questioned why they were leaving with our child, they had the required password and Footprints had been contacted to advise who they were being picked up by, that to me is quite reassuring. Living very close by I see staff walking past daily with the children and are always interacting with them, and whilst they may not have fancy carriages to transport the babies and children into town, it's nice to see them use the pavement, and engaging with the children rather than each other and their mobile phones. All the staff I have come across engage with our daughter and in deed when we bump into them in town on the weekend will always say hello. The staff seem to truly enjoy what they do. Of all the nurseries my wife and I visited Footprints, we felt, was best for our daughter. She is about to move up into the toddlers now, is happier than ever, and is developing at a rate we are happy with. We'll miss the nice comments Poppy has on her daily report from her current key worker, but are sure we'll get some more nice comments from her new one. I couldn’t recommend Footprints more, and any more children we may have will more than likely attend Footprints as well.

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Vicki King
3 years ago

My little boy has been at footprints since he was 8 months old. I can’t recommend them highly enough. My little boy has a rare form of development delays. They have supported us as a family and have helped him with all his extra needs including Physio & speech therapy. Amy, Tori and The staff are amazing and treat my little man like he is a celebrity everyone knows him including the cook and the cleaner and they always have time to give him a big hug when he asks them for one. He just adores them and I feel they adore him too. Even when we walk through Macc they say hi to him. In short we love footprints and would recommend it to anyone who asks us

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Pache Norris
3 years ago

Our son is 2.5 and has been attending since he was 1. He was born during the pandemic and therefore there were a lot of adjustments to be made for us all when he first started nursery, having never socialised with anyone else. The staff at Footprints couldn't have been more caring, compassionate and professional if they tried. Our son so quickly and easily settled into life at footprints and continues to thoroughly enjoy his time there. His key worker is like a part of our family - when our son talks about people he loves or who make him happy, his key worker is always one of those mentioned. We are expecting baby number 2 and nursery have been really involving our son with visiting the baby room, talking to him about having a sibling and doing activities and reading books around the topic too. He is soon due to change rooms to the next room up and the transition has been really well managed with multiple visits extending in time and building in activities (eg just a little play and then play and lunch time). Having now read previous negative reviews (all over 5 years old) regarding security, I can only say that there are multiple aspects for ensuring safety of the children (fob key, gates, passwords for adults who dont usually do pick up) and I feel incredibly confident in saying I have no concerns about my childs safety whilst at nursery. Everyone comments on how sociable and confident our son is and nursery has a lot to do with this. We couldn't recommend Footprints enough.

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Inspection history

Date: August 2009

  • June 2025Good
  • November 2019Outstanding
  • September 2014Outstanding
  • August 2009Good

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