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Sparkles Day Nursery in Selby

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
·47 Micklegate, Selby, YO8 4EA · North Yorkshire
Number of places
52 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
North Yorkshire

About this day nursery

Sparkles Day Nursery, established in December 2022, serves children aged 6 months to 4 years old in a nurturing and secure environment within a small setting located in Selby. The nursery is designed to offer a warm and welcoming atmosphere for all children, featuring dedicated rooms for babies, toddlers, and preschool-aged children.

These spaces are complemented by both indoor and outdoor play areas to support diverse activities and development. In addition to its core nursery provision, Sparkles also extends its services to include a breakfast, after-school, and holiday club for older children aged 5 to 9 years, ensuring continuous care and engaging activities during school breaks.

The club focuses on providing fun, physical play, and a variety of activities for school-aged children. Sparkles aims to create a happy and stimulating environment where all children can thrive.

What it's like

Children benefit greatly from the strong bonds with staff, who have prioritised their personal, social and emotional development. Staff create a curriculum that enables children to access learning opportunities at their own level, leading to positive impacts on their learning and confident engagement throughout the day.

Small settingIndoor and outdoor spaceBreakfast, afterschool and holiday club

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday all year round, from 7.30am to 5.30pm. Closed on bank holidays and for two weeks at Christmas.

Age range

6 months to 9 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2023

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Sparkles Day Nursery

Last inspected 7 January 2025 · Pat Edmond

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children benefit greatly from the strong bonds with staff, who have prioritised their personal, social and emotional development. Staff create a curriculum that enables children to access learning opportunities at their own level, leading to positive impacts on their learning and confident engagement throughout the day.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff create a warm welcoming environment for children and their families.
  • Children's very good behaviour and attitude has a positive impact on their learning and safety.
  • Staff help children to become confident communicators, with conversation at the heart of the day.
  • Children enjoy books, stories and rhymes, with songs being a particularly strong focus.
  • Staff help children to enjoy a healthy lifestyle with home-cooked lunches and regular access to drinking water.

Areas to develop

  • 1be even more ambitious and specific about the vocabulary older children could be learning in relation to a theme or topic
  • 2strengthen further processes for monitoring all aspects of the provision.
Inspection #10337114 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents confirm that their children love coming to nursery.

They are very pleased with their children's development, particularly in how well their speech has improved since attending.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

Children enjoy daily outdoor play, developing strength and dexterity by pushing wheeled toys, experimenting with water, or pretending to paint the house.

Inspection history

Date: February 2024

  • January 2025Good
  • January 2025Good
  • March 2024Requires improvement
  • February 2024Requires improvement

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