Highlights from the Ofsted inspection carried out at Partou Barnwood Day Nursery & Pre-School on 25th November 2025:

“The safeguarding standards are met. This means that leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed. As a result, children are made safer and feel safe.”

“Daily routines are well embedded and help children feel secure. Staff working with babies explain routines to them, such as when it is time to change their nappy. This supports children’s emotional wellbeing. Staff have clear expectations for children’s behaviour, which they apply consistently. They are positive role models and give children clear guidance that helps them behave well. Children demonstrate care and kindness towards one another. They cooperate, share, take turns and show empathy. Staff adapt expectations considering children’s developmental stages and individual needs.”

“Children’s welfare and wellbeing are at the heart of leaders’ practice. The indoor learning environment is welcoming and designed to help every child thrive. Staff meet children’s individual care needs successfully. Babies benefit from nurturing, responsive interactions. Staff engage them in face-to-face play, follow their lead and build strong bonds through talking and singing. Embedded, well-organised routines support children’s physical and emotional wellbeing. For instance, children welcome each other into the nursery each day. They enjoy a wide variety of healthy meals and practise brushing their teeth.”

“Leaders’ inclusive ethos ensures parents and children feel valued. They ask parents for information about home traditions and celebrations. Staff sing traditional songs with children in their home languages and use home languages during care routines to help children settle. Leaders promote links within the community. Children regularly visit a nearby care home, where they share stories and sing songs with the elderly residents, building relationships between the generations.”

“All children make positive progress from their starting points and develop the skills they need for the next stage in their learning, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They participate in discussions in small groups where they share their ideas and discuss plans for the day. They repeat single words and short phrases, which they start to build into sentences. As a result, children develop effective communication and language skills… Children grow in confidence and independence ready for the move to school. They build social skills and establish secure friendships. They dress themselves and manage their own self-care. Children learn about climate change and how to recycle. They explain how their food waste decays and is used as compost for their herbs, which they water and care for to ensure they grow healthily.”

“Overall, leaders design an ambitious, broad curriculum that supports all children’s positive progress from their starting points. Staff use information from parents and accurate assessments of children’s progress to identify next steps in children’s learning. Staff provide warm, positive interactions and use daily routines well to build children’s independence and confidence.”

“Overall, leaders understand the setting’s strengths and take prompt action to address areas identified for improvement. They make decisions in children’s best interests, such as using additional funding to raise outcomes for children. Partnerships with parents are highly successful. Leaders value parents’ opinions on changes and they give feedback, such as voting for employee of the month. Parents speak positively about the care their children receive. They describe staff as accommodating, warm and caring. They greatly appreciate the consistent communication they receive about their children’s progress.”

“Children are cared for in a warm, nurturing environment where they feel safe. They are keen to join their friends in play and eager to learn. Young children quickly form secure attachments with staff, which helps them settle easily and build confidence. Across the nursery, children learn to be increasingly independent. They serve their own meals, brush their teeth and take responsibility for roles that give them a sense of pride. For example, they feed the pet fish and empty the compost bin.”

“All children make positive progress from their starting points. Those who have barriers to learning benefit from targeted support, helping them make rapid progress. Children learn about feelings and emotions, such as thinking about things that make them happy or scared. They are given gentle reminders about rules and boundaries. As a result, they are beginning to manage and regulate their behaviour. Children build secure relationships with their peers through cooperative play. They learn to share, wait their turn and be kind.”

Read the full Ofsted report for Partou Safehands

Upon registration, you will be asked to pay a £75 registration fee (non-refundable) or a £75 registration deposit to reserve your child’s nursery place (see terms and conditions for eligibility).

What’s included in our fees? 

Our full fees are clearly broken down into care, meals & snacks and consumables fees for full transparency. 

Care fees include: trained, qualified team members taking care of your child, regular updates about your child and their progress at nursery, a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities tailored to the needs of your child, and use of the nursery building facilities. 

Meals & snacks fees cover the cost of all food and drinks whilst your child is in our care. Meal and snack times are a very important part of Partou nursery life, learn more about how we make food and nutrition enjoyable and educational for children in our care.

Consumables include; important daily care items needed such as nappies, wet wipes and sun cream. 

Discounts

Only one discount can be applied at any time:

• 5% discount for eldest child for siblings.
• 5% discount for Blue Light Card holders.

Terms & conditions apply 

Other key information

• We’re closed on Bank Holidays.
• We close at 4pm on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.
• Charges apply across 52 weeks of the year, including Bank Holidays.

Partou Safehands Day Nursery & Pre-School is proud to offer funded childcare places 

Funded childcare is a government incentive fulfilled by Local Authorities which aims to provide financial support for eligible families accessing childcare at an OFSTED registered setting. Partou Safehands Day Nursery & Pre-School work with North Yorkshire Local Authority to apply childcare funding for eligible families.

Funding typically covers 15 or 30 hours per week for the 38 term weeks of the year across a maximum of 10 hours a day which will be applied in different ways depending how many weeks of the year your child is in childcare: 

• Children who are in year-round childcare will receive “stretched” funding. This means that their 15/30 hours over 38 weeks will be stretched over 51 weeks of the year so children accessing year round childcare at Partou Safehands will receive 11.17/22.35 hours of funded childcare per week. 

• Children who have term-time only childcare places will receive 15/30 hours funding per week over 38 weeks of the year. Term-time only places are limited and are subject to availability.

Government funding for childcare only applies to the care fee (as described above). Meals & snacks and consumables fees are fully chargeable for all sessions including funded.  

Many families are eligible for government funded childcare, see our childcare funding guide for more information.  

Term duration and dates

The 2025/2026 terms dates set by North Yorkshire for Partou Safehands Day Nursery & Pre-School are below so you can see which term dates funding is applicable for:

Please note that when you access funding in the term can impact the hours you are eligible for within that term period. 

Our team will be able to assist you with any funding and term questions you may have.