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Partou Storytimes Day Nursery & Pre-School

Ofsted: Good
(Nov 2021)
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4.9(18 parent reviews)
·68 Leigh Road, Atherton, Manchester, M46 0PA · Wigan
Number of places
84 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2021
Local authority
Wigan

About this day nursery

Partou Storytimes Day Nursery & Pre-School, located in Atherton, Manchester, is a childcare setting registered in 2018. It operates from Monday to Friday, all year round, with sessions spanning from 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM.

The nursery caters to children aged 0 to 5 years and benefits from a dedicated team of 21 childcare staff, with 15 holding qualifications at Level 3 and above. The staff are highly motivated and involved in children's care and education, creating a welcoming and secure environment where children are encouraged to explore and learn.

The nursery places a strong emphasis on fostering confidence and independence in children, offering various opportunities for them to develop self-care skills, and promoting positive attitudes towards learning and social interaction. Parents consistently commend the quality of service, highlighting excellent communication and the personalised approach provided by the staff.

What it's like

Staff enthusiastically welcome children and parents when they arrive, enabling children to quickly settle and explore activities based on their interests. Babies settle easily with familiar staff who know their individual needs. Older children are keen to participate and are highly motivated to learn through challenging activities. Children make good progress and are well-prepared for the next stage in their learning.

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM

Term time / All Year

All_year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Partou Storytimes Day Nursery & Pre-School

Last inspected 4 November 2021

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Staff enthusiastically welcome children and parents when they arrive, enabling children to quickly settle and explore activities based on their interests. Babies settle easily with familiar staff who know their individual needs. Older children are keen to participate and are highly motivated to learn through challenging activities. Children make good progress and are well-prepared for the next stage in their learning.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff enthusiastically welcome children and parents, and children quickly settle in and engage with activities based on their interests.
  • Babies settle easily with familiar staff who know their individual needs, helping all children feel safe and secure.
  • Older children are motivated to learn and make good progress due to challenging and exciting activities planned by staff.
  • Staff skilfully teach children through play, encouraging them to lead their own learning and extend it through imaginative activities.
  • Children show delight in their creations, and staff celebrate their achievements.
  • Staff encourage children to enjoy books, stories, and rhymes, with both younger and older children engaging enthusiastically.
  • All staff maintain exceptionally high standards for children's behaviour, dealing with disagreements swiftly and effectively.
  • Children are extremely confident and independent, with ample opportunities to develop self-care skills.
  • Parents are extremely complimentary about the service and communication, feeling confident in supporting their child's learning at home.

Areas to develop

  • 1Ensure managers identify areas of improvement in the curriculum to enhance support for children's learning.
  • 2Support staff to help children who speak English as an additional language to communicate and listen in both languages to further develop children's speech and language skills.
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Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Managers ensure that all staff share the same vision for children to be confident, happy and progress to the next stage of their education. This includes those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Parent Reviews of Partou Storytimes Day Nursery & Pre-School

4.9
(18)
Teagan Hardy
a year ago

My toddler was enrolled at this nursery for 18 months, he had the best time and always looked forward to going. The staff are very communicative with parents and nothing is too big of an ask. He developed really well with the help of all his teachers, especially his language. I would recommend this nursery / pre school to anyone!

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Molly Stubbs
a year ago

I couldn’t recommend Storytimes enough! My little boy has attended Storytimes since he was 7 months old and absolutely loves coming to nursery. He absolutely loves Chloe and she always goes above and beyond for him! Tinies set up amazing activities for all of the children based off their interests, my little boy loves Spider-Man at the minute and yesterday he got to play in a Spider-Man themed tray which he absolutely loved and couldn’t stop talking about when he got home! Thank you to all of the team at Storytimes for taking amazing care of my baby boy and making him feel so loved.

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Dave Hudson
a year ago

This nursery is beyond superb. Our daughter has recently started aged 6 months old. After the initial apprehension of sending her so young we were quickly reassured that story-times was the perfect environment for her. The staff are knowledgeable, professional and nurturing. Our daughter is thriving!! This is our second child to attend story-times. Our son attended from 2019-2022. I can honestly say the standards have never slipped, big shout out to the nursery manager Laura. Always happy to help and very knowledgeable should I query anything, keep it up team story-times.

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Gemma Sanderson
a year ago

My son loves attending story times nursery and even thinks story times his is home when I ask him "where do you live" he responds "nursery". My son as made lots of friends and as made special bonds with the staff and is very confident within the setting and loves exploring all the different areas. I chose this nursery as it does have a homely, cosy feel.

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chloelou19
a year ago

I couldn’t recommend this nursery enough. My daughter attended this nursery from February 2020 and has now left to start her new journey at school. My son still attends, he started in July 2023 and is now in the Toddler class. The staff there are brilliant. Super friendly, approachable, professional and dedicated. They all take extensive interest in each child both professionally and personally. You can see the great rapport between the staff to children, staff to staff and children to children. It is just so nice to witness especially as a parent. The activities they do at nursery are great. From the day to day activities to the external companies coming in my kids loved them. Their favourite was/is stretch and grow!! My daughter even attended swimming lessons with nursery how good is that!! The new app is much better than the old one. Although I would like it to be updated more often but I understand that the staff have their hands full. In the toddler room they have star of the day which I think is brilliant and my son loved winning star of the day last week! The food is very adventurous at times which is good for my little boy to try new things he wouldn’t tend to at home. I believe they have 5* ratings for the kitchen. I always recommend this nursery to friends and family. The rooms, space and gardens are great and it has everything a child needs for their development. We don’t live in atherton but we chose this nursery due to how good it is, it is certainly worth the short journey. We have the option to put Seb into pre school at my daughters school next year just to make our life easier for both convenience and money saving but we are choosing not too as Seb loves it at Storytimes and we believe he wouldn’t get the same nurturing and brilliant culture as he would at Storytimes if he moved. If you’re looking for a nursery for your child then look no further, you will not be disappointed!

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

4 November 2021

Good

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

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