Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM, 51 weeks a year (closed Christmas week)
Queensway Children's Centre Daycare
Ofsted: Good
(May 2025)
Number of places
42 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
May 2025
Local authority
North East Lincolnshire
About this day nursery
Queensway Children’s Centre Day Care and Pre School, located in Grimsby, has been providing childcare services for 15 years, operating since February 2010. The nursery is open 51 weeks a year, Monday to Friday, from 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM, closing only for Christmas week.
It offers 65 places for children aged 0-5 years. The centre provides healthy, nutritious, and balanced meals daily.
It emphasises learning through play, believing it helps children develop self-worth and concentration skills by making learning enjoyable and engaging. The nursery also offers various government funding options, including 15 hours for all 3 and 4-year-olds, and additional 15 or 30 hours for eligible 9-month-olds, 2-year-olds, and working parents of 3-4 year olds.
The nursery encourages interested parents to discuss specific funding eligibility and their affordable pricing plan with the Nursery Manager. Queensway Children’s Centre Day Care and Pre School received a 'Good' rating in all areas during its Ofsted Inspection in May 2025.
Our ethos
Play is one of the main ways in which children learn. It helps to build self worth by giving a child a sense of his or her own abilities and to feel good about themselves. Because it’s fun, children often become very absorbed in what they are doing. In turn, this helps them develop the ability to concentrate.
What it's like
Children are exposed to a wide range of experiences and activities, learning about the environment, growing their own produce, and understanding life cycles. They form close bonds with nurturing caregivers who meet their individual needs, ensuring they feel safe and secure. Learning is tailored to individual needs, with staff knowing the children well and supporting them to reach their potential through a supportive key-worker system. Children display good behaviour, use good manners, wait their turn, and show empathy.
15 years of childcareGovernment funding acceptedPlay-based learningHealthy meals providedOpen 51 weeks a year
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds
Pricing on request
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Key facts
Food
Every day healthy, nutritious and balanced meals are freshly prepared
Age range
0-5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Staff
65 places
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Queensway Children's Centre Daycare
Last inspected 29 May 2025 · Dawn Woodhouse-Wykes
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 are exposed to a wide range of experiences and activities, learning about the environment, growing their own produce, and understanding life cycles. They form close bonds with nurturing caregivers who meet their individual needs, ensuring they feel safe and secure. Learning is tailored to individual needs, with staff knowing the children well and supporting them to reach their potential through a supportive key-worker system. Children display good behaviour, use good manners, wait their turn, and show empathy.
Inspector highlights
- Staff identify skills children need to acquire before moving to the next stage, supporting physical development with soft-play and outdoor equipment.
- Staff are very skilful at extending children's vocabulary and developing communication skills, using Makaton to ensure all children can express their needs.
- Staff enable children to respond to others appropriately, encouraging them to talk about their feelings and reminding them about being kind.
- Regular assessments monitor children's progress and respond to emerging additional needs, adapting routines and activities for inclusion.
- Staff feel fully supported by leaders and managers, benefiting from regular supervision to reflect on their practice and identify strengths and weaknesses.
Areas to develop
- 1support staff to consistently follow and teach robust hygiene practices at all times, to promote children's good health and their understanding of how to keep healthy
- 2develop children's understanding of safe practices by helping children to be aware of why we do things and giving explanations to help them make sense of our actions.
Inspection #10404918 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents speak positively about the care and education provided for their children.
They feel their children's individual needs are met and any additional support is readily given.
Parents feel the children's development is communicated well to them and they are aware of the areas of learning staff are focusing on.
They value the bonds key persons build with their children.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Regular assessments enable staff to monitor children's progress and respond quickly to any emerging additional needs. Staff work with children extremely well, ensuring routines and activities are adapted to support inclusion. Staff work with parents and other professionals to ensure children have the appropriate support to enable them to progress.
Outdoor space
Children in the baby room are supported to move around the outdoor area, developing their crawling skills, practising balancing before they progress to walking. They use soft-play resources and outdoor equipment to promote physical development and their climbing skills. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.
Inspection history
Date: February 2013
- May 2025Good
- February 2020Good
- January 2016Good
- February 2013Requires improvement
Frequently asked about Queensway Children's Centre Daycare
About the setting
Queensway Children's Centre Daycare registered in 2009. The nursery employs 24 members of childcare staff, with 2 holding appropriate early years qualifications at level 6 and 19 at level 2 or above. The nursery is open Monday to Friday all year round from 7.30am to 6pm, offering government funded places and specific funding for disadvantaged children.
- URN
- EY397870
- Registered person
- For Under Fives 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
- Good
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