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Tilly-Mints Cherubs Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Jul 2021)
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2.7(7 parent reviews) ·10 Queens Road, Consett, DH8 0BH · Durham
Number of places
75 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2021
Local authority
Durham

About this day nursery

Tilly-Mints Cherubs Day Nursery, located in Consett, offers a nurturing and stimulating environment for children from babies to pre-schoolers. With over a decade of experience in early years education, the nursery ensures individualised care through tailored activities and an age-appropriate curriculum.

They focus on fostering a love for learning from the earliest stages, emphasising social, emotional, and cognitive growth. The team includes highly skilled staff, including SEN specialists, to meet every child's unique needs.

The nursery promotes healthy development through balanced meals and snacks and provides flexible, affordable funded places, including a new term-time only option, to make quality childcare accessible. Activities are designed to spark curiosity, encourage problem-solving, and build confidence, laying a strong foundation for future academic and personal success.

Tilly-Mints Cherubs is dedicated to helping children grow and flourish, offering enriching experiences such as Forest School and weekly yoga sessions with a qualified teacher.

Our ethos

Tilly-Mints Cherubs Day Nursery is committed to fostering a love for learning from the earliest stages, emphasising social, emotional, and cognitive growth. They aim to spark curiosity, encourage problem-solving, and build confidence through enriching experiences like Forest School and yoga. The nursery focuses on individualised care and meeting every child's unique needs, laying a strong foundation for future success.

What it's like

Children thoroughly enjoy coming to nursery and develop secure and trusting bonds with all staff. The nursery has a nurturing atmosphere where children behave exceptionally well and are encouraged to explore, discover, and ask questions. They enjoy regular access to the outdoor area for various activities and physical skills practice.

Experienced StaffSEN SupportHealthy Eating FocusFunded Places AcceptedForest SchoolYoga Sessions

Pricing & funding

Fees are structured by age band for children aged 0-2 and 2-4 years, offering full day and half day sessions. Additional meal charges apply per session for funded three-year-olds depending on their specific entitlement option. Extra hours are available outside of funded hours.

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Good to know

  • Closed on bank holidays and for one week at Christmas.
  • Meal charges apply for funded three-year-olds depending on their entitlement option.
  • Extra hours can be booked before and after funded sessions.

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday all year round, from 7.15am to 5.30pm

Age range

0-4 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Tilly-Mints Cherubs Day Nursery

Last inspected 30 July 2021 · Janet Fairhurst

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children thoroughly enjoy coming to nursery and develop secure and trusting bonds with all staff. The nursery has a nurturing atmosphere where children behave exceptionally well and are encouraged to explore, discover, and ask questions. They enjoy regular access to the outdoor area for various activities and physical skills practice.

Inspector highlights

  • Children thoroughly enjoy coming to nursery and develop secure and trusting bonds with staff.
  • Children behave exceptionally well and develop attitudes to get the most out of their time at nursery.
  • Staff encourage children to explore, discover, and ask questions eagerly.
  • Children enjoy regular access to the nursery's outside area for engaging activities and physical development.
  • The curriculum includes a wide range of events that enrich children's experiences of the community, such as visits to a local care home and practicing real-life skills.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff to refine their practice and focus more rigorously on what they want children to learn so each child makes maximum progress in their learning
  • 2enhance the already good practice in developing older children's expressive language skills by expanding on what they say and using additional words when responding.
Inspection #10174832 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

they do not mind because they receive quality feedback from staff at handover when they come to collect their child

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Babies and young children settle well into routines that carefully consider their individual needs. Children who speak English as an additional language are supported well by staff and make good progress.

Outdoor space

All children enjoy regular access to the nursery's outside area, where they have fun exploring a range of interesting activities and practise their physical skills.

Parent Reviews of Tilly-Mints Cherubs Day Nursery

2.7
(7)
Christopher Rigby
3 years ago

Unprofessional and Immature Management. My son had been attending the nursery since April 22. After recent challenging the manager regarding an invoice, she refused to speak with me any further after going back on her word about certain charges. Then proceed to call me “abusive” after I stated she was being stating unprofessional - all via email - The most inappropriate use of the word. She then canceled my sons nursery attendance instantly with no notice leaving us without childcare. Knowing fine well that I would not be able to enrol in any other Nursery for months. Shocking behaviour, very unprofessional and very immature.

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Adam Woodward
2 years ago

All the staff are great and my eldest son attended this nursery for a couple years and had a great time. However, the manager Emma is incredibly unprofessional and acts like a child who cannot take responsibility. Similar to a review below Emma is inconsistent when it comes to invoices, she sometimes decides to charge you for planned holidays and sometimes decides not too. We where offered term time only from April to September as my youngest Son would turn 3 in May. The advice was to take advantage of the new government funding. We filled out all the relevant paper work and booked a day to visit. On the day of my son's first visit we were told we couldn't have term time only. We would have to pay for the time he wasn't at nursery. Which was the opposite of what we were sold. Obviously this was infuriating. Emma proceeded to blame the government, but it wasn't the government who sold us term time only it was the Tilly mints staff! Emma accused us of being abusive and didn't take any responsibiliy for this error. Emma has now stated we're a risk to the nursery and cancelled my sons place in September. Unfortunately this place is let down by a very unprofessional childish manager. I feel sorry for the staff that have to work for her.

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Chey Louise
2 years ago

The nursery itself seems lovely but management is clearly lacking. After arranging a show around, we turned up with our daughter to be told there was nothing in the diary and the woman at the door had no idea who we were. When I emailed to re arrange I was told to just “leave it then” and then no other emails were answered. Totally unprofessional and would not want to leave my child with such individuals.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

30 July 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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About the setting

Tilly-Mints Cherubs Day Nursery Ltd registered in 2018 in Consett. The nursery employs 11 childcare staff, with varying qualifications up to level 6. It opens Monday to Friday all year round, from 7.15am to 5.30pm, and provides funded early education for two-, three-, and four-year-old children.

URN
EY556308
Registered person
Tilly-Mints Cherubs Day Nursery Ltd
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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