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New Moon Nursery Warmfield

Ofsted: Strong standard·
5.0(3 Google reviews) ·Low Farm, Warmfield Lane, Wakefield, WF1 5TN · Wakefield
Number of places
73 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2026
Local authority
Wakefield

About this day nursery

New Moon Nurseries operates two childcare settings in West Yorkshire, one in Castleford and the other in Warmfield, near Wakefield. The day nursery caters to children aged 0-5 years, providing a nurturing and homely environment where children can feel secure and happy from the very start of their journey.

They focus on offering high-quality care and education through varied experiences, aiming to develop kindness and consideration among the children. The day nursery is structured into age-specific rooms: the "New Moon Room" for babies aged 0-2 years, the "Half Moon Room" for toddlers aged 2-3 years, and the "Full Moon Room" for pre-school children aged 3-5 years.

Each room provides age-appropriate activities and support for development, including language, play, and school readiness. Food and nutrition are a priority, with all meals being home-cooked on-site using locally sourced ingredients.

They provide a balanced diet, offering breakfast, a hot lunch, and an afternoon tea, with snacks throughout the day. Outdoor learning is a key part of their curriculum, with a large garden space encouraging exploration and connection with nature, regardless of the weather.

They also offer a "Wild Moon Holiday & Nature Club" for school-aged children, focusing on outdoor activities, tool use, fire making, and den building to foster confidence and risk management. Staff are referred to as "educators" and are committed to ongoing training, with each child assigned a Key Person to ensure personalised care and a strong home-nursery connection.

They utilise the ParentZone app for daily updates and progress tracking, encouraging parent involvement in their child's learning journey.

Our ethos

Our ethos is to provide a homely environment so your child feels at home from the start of their journey with us. Our aim throughout the development of the nurseries has always been to maintain the home like family feeling, operating our nurseries like a family where educators know each child inside and out. Our nurseries are calm and nurturing, and our educators genuinely love and know each little personality, understanding the unique little quirks that make each one super special.

What it's like

Children thrive at this nurturing and inclusive setting. They are confident and respectful of one another. Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, those who face barriers to their learning and those known or previously known to children's social care, arrive and settle quickly into the natural rhythm of the day. Children show trust in staff, frequently seeking them out for comforting cuddles or to share play ideas. They feel safe because staff consistently understand their individual needs. Regular attendance helps children to develop secure attachments and become familiar with daily routines, staff and peers.

Homely EnvironmentAge-Specific RoomsHome-Cooked MealsOutdoor Learning FocusHoliday Club

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Food

All food is home-cooked within the nursery kitchen. Breakfast (cereals, toast, fruit), hot lunch, hot or cold tea, with fruit and vegetable snacks throughout the day. Locally sourced ingredients. Water and milk provided to drink.

Session types

New Moon Room (0-2 years), Half Moon Room (2-3 years), Full Moon Room (3-5 years)

Opening hours

Not specified

Age range

0-5 years

Term time / All Year

All_year

Registered with Ofsted

2024

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Jun 2026

Headline: Strong standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
—
Needs attention
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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 wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted report for New Moon Nursery Warmfield

Last inspected 17 June 2026

What it's like to attend

Children thrive at this nurturing and inclusive setting. They are confident and respectful of one another. Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, those who face barriers to their learning and those known or previously known to children's social care, arrive and settle quickly into the natural rhythm of the day. Children show trust in staff, frequently seeking them out for comforting cuddles or to share play ideas. They feel safe because staff consistently understand their individual needs. Regular attendance helps children to develop secure attachments and become familiar with daily routines, staff and peers.

Inspector highlights

  • Children consistently make progress across all areas of learning, building complex sentences during guessing games and formulating detailed questions.
  • Physical development is carefully planned, with babies using soft-play equipment and older children balancing on stepping stones and jumping confidently.
  • Leaders establish high expectations for behaviour, with children displaying positive attitudes towards learning and consistently encouraged to try things for themselves.
  • Routines are consistently embedded, and children confidently remind adults to remove outdoor footwear indoors and understand what happens next during transitions.
  • Leaders put children's welfare and wellbeing at the centre of what they do, following advice from parents on weaning, sleep patterns, and healthcare plans.
  • Children enjoy a healthy, balanced diet, participate in teeth-brushing routines, and learn about healthy lifestyles by planting vegetables.
  • Leaders design an ambitious curriculum that is inclusive for all children, with activities and opportunities covering all 7 areas of learning.
  • Children learn to care for animals like chickens and guinea pigs, understanding life cycles through hands-on experiences.
  • Children thoroughly enjoy rhyme-bag music sessions that build their early communication skills, with babies enthusiastically clapping and vocalising.
  • Parents are fully involved in their children's learning and next steps in development, helping families to extend learning at home.
  • The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders fulfilling their specific responsibilities and establishing an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
  • Children are made safer and feel safe as concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders and those responsible for governance should sustain their work to ensure continued improvement and high standards. They should focus on creating a transformational impact on the outcomes and experiences of those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who may face other barriers to their learning and/or wellbeing.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders create a highly inclusive environment where children's individual needs are identified and addressed quickly. Targeted staff training in special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) ensures the team can plan precise, specialised interventions, working alongside parents and carers. Staff monitor progress using assessments, such as the progress check for children aged between 2 and 3 years, to identify development gaps early and establish small, achievable milestones. Leaders act swiftly to secure necessary funding and guide families through the education, health and care plan process. Staff use specialised resources, such as visual cues, to build children's confidence in communicating.

EAL / language support

The report highlights that children who are developing their speech successfully learn to communicate choices by pointing and using purposeful gestures, benefiting from consistent support.

Google Reviews of New Moon Nursery Warmfield

5.0
(3 Google reviews)
Stacey Hellewell
7 months ago

Lovely nursery - my son Oakley attended pre school before leaving for full time nursery school in September. We looked around so many private nursery’s and I just couldn’t settle with any of them. We looked around New moon pre school and we loved it straight away. Lovely staff and love the activities/Tpee area they have for the children. My son settled in really quickly here and loved giving cuddles to all staff from day one. Katie (Oakley’s key worker) is absolutely amazing, Oakley still talks about her now even tho he hasn’t attended since end of August. The graduation they put on for the school leavers was absolutely amazing, so much thought went into it and was so lovely to be apart of it. We would defo recommend this nursery to everyone 😍 I do have one slight complaint tho - which is other staff members from other rooms on how rude they can be when they see parents collecting a child from another room and they don’t acknowledge the parents so we end up just stood there waiting. This use to be very annoying for us parents/carers collecting as we could be stood waiting for ages especially if the pre school door bell wasn’t working.

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Charmaine Upton
a year ago

Gorgeous Nursery, I always feel at ease when dropping off my little girl with the team at New Moon. She had come on such a long way since starting.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

17 June 2026

Strong standard

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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