Term time / All Year
All Year
Mulberry House Day Nursery
Ofsted: Outstanding
(Sept 2024)
Number of places
45 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2024
Local authority
Trafford
About this day nursery
Mulberry House Day Nursery, located in Sale, provides a nurturing environment for children in a spacious detached house. With an 'Outstanding' rating from Ofsted, the day nursery boasts a highly skilled and friendly team dedicated to delivering exceptional care and a stimulating learning experience.
A key feature is its impressive outdoor area, where children across all age groups can explore and further their development. The nursery focuses on a personal approach, limiting its registration to 45 children to ensure strong connections between staff and children.
The founder, Rebecca McGrath, with a strong educational background, actively collaborates with the team to maintain high standards of care and education, consistently striving to enhance their services. The nursery integrates learning through play, fostering confidence, communication, and independence, allowing children to make choices, solve problems, and engage with the world around them.
They also incorporate outdoor learning experiences, encouraging creativity and connection with nature.
Our ethos
At Mulberry House, we know that children thrive when they feel truly seen, understood and valued. Our smaller class sizes allow our team to build meaningful relationships with every child, noticing their interests, supporting their next steps and creating learning experiences that genuinely reflect who they are. Because early years education should never feel one-size-fits-all. It should feel personal, calm and full of opportunity. Every experience in nursery is shaping confidence, communication and independence. We carefully provide a wide variety of activities and experiences that encourage children to explore, talk, question and discover the world around them.
What it's like
Staff have exceptionally high expectations for children's behaviour and learning. They greet children with excellent communication and varied vocabulary, sparking imaginations and encouraging rich conversations. Children are encouraged to be independent learners, demonstrating a 'can-do' attitude and persevering with tricky tasks.
Ofsted OutstandingSpacious Outdoor AreaPlay-Based LearningSmall Group Approach
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
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Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Mulberry House Day Nursery
Last inspected 20 September 2024 · Denise Barnes
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
What it's like to attend
Staff have exceptionally high expectations for children's behaviour and learning. They greet children with excellent communication and varied vocabulary, sparking imaginations and encouraging rich conversations. Children are encouraged to be independent learners, demonstrating a 'can-do' attitude and persevering with tricky tasks.
Inspector highlights
- Staff support children's literacy skills extremely well, sharing core stories with parents and providing book bags for home reading.
- Children develop excellent mathematical skills by counting, matching numbers to items, and comparing quantities.
- Children have wonderful opportunities to develop independence skills and learn about healthy lifestyles, including using cutlery and serving their own food.
- Staff carefully plan opportunities to help children become more aware of diversity, including visits to the city centre by tram and inviting parents to read stories in their home language.
- Children discover and explore the natural world, learning to grow vegetables, talking about butterfly life cycles, and identifying features of insects.
- Staff work tirelessly to create a setting that fosters strong motivation in all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), working with professionals to improve outcomes.
Inspection #10355447 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents are extremely complimentary about the nursery and staff.
They say their children make excellent progress and that they feel very well informed.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Staff work tirelessly to create a setting that fosters strong motivation in all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). They work incredibly well with professionals to improve outcomes for children with SEND. As a result, children with SEND make excellent progress.
Outdoor space
The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.
Google Reviews of Mulberry House Day Nursery
5.0
(7 Google reviews)
Susana Almeida
8 months ago
🌟 A Truly Exceptional Nursery Experience 🌟 My daughter attended this nursery for over three years. From the very beginning, the warmth and professionalism of the staff gave me complete peace of mind. Every member of the team is genuinely caring, attentive, and deeply committed to the children’s wellbeing and development. Sarah, the manager, runs the nursery with such heart and dedication—always approachable, always proactive, and clearly passionate about creating a nurturing environment. Brenda, the cook, deserves a special mention too: the meals are not only nutritious but absolutely delicious! My daughter would come home with a form often saying she had seconds (if not thirds!), and I loved knowing she was eating so well. The activities were consistently engaging, creative, and thoughtfully planned. It’s clear the team puts a lot of love and effort into making every day special. I’m so grateful to everyone there for giving her such a joyful start in life! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Libby Low
8 months ago
So sad that my little girl won’t be attending ‘baby nursery’ anymore. She was always so happy to go in each day and has learnt so much during her time there. I’m so grateful for everything they’ve done for her. The staff have been exceptional – especially Sarah, Nikki and Stacey. Thank you all so much 🤍
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M Cz
a year ago
The best place for kids ever! My daughter has absolutely loved it. The staff is brilliant and the facility is very child-friendly. She has learned so many things there and made lots of friends. Oh, and Brenda, the cook, is amazing! The children love her food more than anything. It’s a great place!
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Hannah Jordan
5 years ago
Just want to say a big thank you to all the nursery staff at the best nursery . For making my son birthday really special. Thank you brenda for the cupcakes you made for Jayden and his friends. Thank you Sophie.Asifa. viola. For organising his special day. I can not rate this nursery highly enough. My son has attended since the age of 6 months and he is now 2 years old.hes in such good hands with this nursery. They are amazing. If you are looking for nursery places for your child you will not be disappointed at mulberry house they are fab.
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Amy Lister
2 years ago
This place has been incredible for us. Our son struggled at a previous nursery as he had a lot of special needs and we were anxious to find a new one but we were recommended Mulberry. They have been nothing short of excellent. Caring, patient and flexible with him. I would highly recommend this place.
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Inspection history
Date: February 2011
- September 2024Outstanding
- November 2018Outstanding
- July 2015Good
- February 2011Good
Frequently asked about Mulberry House Day Nursery
About the setting
Mulberry House Day Nursery Limited registered in 2016. The nursery employs 12 members of staff, with three qualified teachers and eight staff holding childcare qualifications at levels 2, 3, or 6. It opens from Monday to Friday, all year round, from 7.30am to 6pm, and provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.
- URN
- EY275100
- Registered person
- Mulberry House Day Nursery Limited
- Day care type
- Full day care
- Register
- Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
- Previous rating
- Outstanding
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