Opening hours
07:30 – 18:00
Thorpe Willoughby Childcare Centre is a charity-run establishment in Selby, managed by a voluntary committee, dedicated to providing high-quality childcare for local children. The centre prides itself on offering a safe, caring, and stimulating environment, with a professional and dedicated team that ensures a diverse and inclusive setting.
They believe in the intrinsic value of early years education, focusing on nurturing each child as a unique individual and fostering a lifelong love of learning. The centre offers a range of services including a Breakfast Club, After School Club (Pit Stop), and a Holiday Club.
" Currently, the centre is actively fundraising for essential repairs, particularly a new roof, to ensure its continued operation and ability to serve the community.
Our ethos
At Thorpe Willoughby Childcare Centre we understand and value the importance of Early Years education in its own right and not just in preparation for starting school. We believe that each child is unique and therefore strive to ensure that each child is valued through our warm and nurturing environment, an environment in which each child can flourish, develop a lifelong love of learning and reach their full potential.
What it's like
Children thrive in this warm and supportive environment, greeted daily by patient and kind staff. The provider prioritises giving children a voice and offers a rich variety of resources and activities, allowing them to make choices about their learning. Children demonstrate confidence in sharing their knowledge and ideas, and their independence, social, and emotional development are fully promoted.
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07:30 – 18:00
Term time / All Year
All Year
Established
1977
Last inspected 2 July 2025 · Nicola Dickinson
What it's like to attend
Children thrive in this warm and supportive environment, greeted daily by patient and kind staff. The provider prioritises giving children a voice and offers a rich variety of resources and activities, allowing them to make choices about their learning. Children demonstrate confidence in sharing their knowledge and ideas, and their independence, social, and emotional development are fully promoted.
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Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents comment that staff are amazing and the setting is an enriching environment that sparks their children's curiosity and wonder.
Inclusion & environment
Staff have high expectations for all children and work hard to help them reach their full potential, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Leaders have built strong partnerships with other professionals to ensure a shared approach to children's learning and development, and they work closely with parents of children with SEND to ensure access to additional support, which quickly narrows developmental gaps and prepares children for school.
Children are confident to share their knowledge and ideas, for example, they talk about the lavender in the nursery garden and recall when they saw bees landing on it to collect pollen.
Date: January 2009
Thorpe Willoughby Childcare Centre registered in 1977. The provision is a community centre which operates from two buildings in the school grounds of Thorpe Willoughby School in North Yorkshire. It employs 11 members of childcare staff, with eight holding appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 or above. The centre opens from Monday to Friday, all year round, except for bank holidays and a week at Christmas, with sessions from 7:30am until 6pm. The centre provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.
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