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Oak Valley Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2025)
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4.0(4 parent reviews) ·Century Park, Station Road, Sheffield, S20 3GS · Sheffield
Number of places
100 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Sheffield

About this day nursery

Oak Valley Day Nursery, part of Early Years Care & Education, is dedicated to providing outstanding care and education for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years. The nursery focuses on creating a stimulating and secure environment where children feel valued and happy, fostering their self-worth, and encouraging the development of new skills within safe boundaries.

Through imaginative indoor and outdoor play areas, the nursery aims to support children’s social, emotional, physical, and educational growth, ultimately developing confident, independent individuals who find joy in learning. Their approach is built on a foundation of qualified and experienced staff, a clear equal opportunities policy, and a strong commitment to child safety, including a password system for child collection.

The nursery also utilises the "eyLog" online learning journal system, enabling parents to track their child’s development and collaborate with staff. Meals are a key component, with a focus on healthy, balanced, and nutritious vegetarian/pescatarian options prepared on-site, catering to different age groups and dietary needs to promote both physical well-being and social skills during mealtimes.

Our ethos

We, as a Company, are dedicated to providing the highest quality care & education for your child. We are passionate about ensuring the children in our care receive the best possible learning & life experiences. We understand that for children to thrive, they need to feel happy, valued & secure.

What it's like

Children are happy and busy in this caring and supportive nursery. They make good progress overall and are well prepared for the next stage of their learning, including starting school. Babies make a positive start to their learning from the individual starting points in development and build strong bonds with staff, settling into well-considered routines.

Award-winning nurseriesOnline learning journal (eyLog)Healthy vegetarian/pescatarian mealsFocus on outdoor learningOfsted-registered

Pricing & funding

Fees are flat across all age groups and charged per standard eight-hour session. Parents can purchase an all-inclusive package, extend standard sessions, or add premium early and late hours for an additional hourly fee. Funded hours may incur daily charges for meals.

Funding accepted

15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare

Good to know

  • Fees are billed monthly, in advance.
  • A 5% discount is applied to full-time places of 50 hours or more per week.
  • Minimum booking of two 8-hour sessions per week.
  • Stand-alone extra sessions require a minimum booking of 8 hours.

Key facts

Session types

Full day care, All year round contracts (52 weeks), Term-time contracts (39 weeks full price/full attendance, 13 weeks half price/half attendance), Funded early learning (FEL) funded term-time only (38 weeks)

Food

All-inclusive session package covers meals and snacks. Breakfast, morning snack, cooked lunch, afternoon snack, and tea are provided depending on the session times. All meals are vegetarian/pescatarian and prepared on-site.

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM, 52 weeks a year (excluding Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year bank holidays).

Age range

6 weeks to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Oak Valley Day Nursery

Last inspected 11 June 2025 · Andrew Clark

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children are happy and busy in this caring and supportive nursery. They make good progress overall and are well prepared for the next stage of their learning, including starting school. Babies make a positive start to their learning from the individual starting points in development and build strong bonds with staff, settling into well-considered routines.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are happy and busy in this caring and supportive nursery.
  • Leaders and staff systematically develop children's skills, knowledge and understanding.
  • The nursery supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities well.
  • Staff promote and value children's communication skills strongly.
  • Leaders are ambitious for children to leave the nursery happy, confident and eager to learn.

Areas to develop

  • 1The provider should support staff to more consistently deepen and extend children's learning, including through real-life and natural experiences, and evaluate the impact on their progress.
Inspection #10398923 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The nursery supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities well. They identify areas in children's learning and development that need attention at an early stage. Leaders make good use of staff's skills and collaborate with other professionals, such as psychological services and speech therapists, to focus on children's development to maximise their progress.

Outdoor space

The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact on children's learning.

Parent Reviews of Oak Valley Day Nursery

4.0
(4)
Alaiya and Averley
7 months ago

Do not recommend this nursery. Not only have they changed their rules so that even fully funded children have to pay and invoice due to their rules on hours they've now made me pay an invoice for this month only to tell me a week later that I owe a late payment charge from 4 months ago and my son is no longer allowed to attend unless this is paid!! Won't give me a refund for the money iv paid for food and nappies and give me no notice to find him a new nursery place. Won't let me speak to management other than 'acting deputy manager' who doesn't know the answer to any question when asked on the phone. Also owe me my 2 daughters deposits but now apparently they were used to clear late payments than didn't exist! Absolutely disgusting money grabbing company. Not only that, there's been several occasions where iv picked my son up and his nappy is either full or iv had to send him back in to have it changed because he's pood and been left in it

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Inspection history

Date: November 2019

  • June 2025Good
  • November 2019Good

Frequently asked about Oak Valley Day Nursery

About the setting

Oak Valley Day Nursery re-registered in 2017 and is located in Sheffield. The nursery employs 19 members of childcare staff, with 12 holding appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round, from 7am until 7pm, and provides government funded childcare.

URN
EY551208
Registered person
Early Years Care & Education Ltd
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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