Partou Lidgett Lane Day Nursery & Pre-School

Spanish, Yoga and a lending library give Lidgett Lane a recognisable character: language activities, movement and books sit alongside playrooms equipped with natural materials. Family celebrations add another strand, bringing relatives into nursery life rather than keeping communication solely to updates about the child.

At its January 2023 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good and found safeguarding effective, with children developing close relationships with their key person. That is a dated judgement. The nursery has capacity for 60 children and accepts ages from 3 to 60 months at 51 Lidgett Lane, Leeds, LS8 1PL.

Full days, morning and afternoon sessions, an early drop-off option and term-time attendance give families several ways to organise care. The practical distinction is between the hours purchased and the funded hours applied to them: food and consumables carry separate charges, including during funded sessions.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage sets the requirements for learning, development and care: children build skills through play, conversation, movement and everyday routines. At Lidgett Lane, activities draw on children's interests, giving staff a starting point for experiences children want to join.

Regular Spanish and Yoga lessons add language and movement activities to that day. Natural resources in the playrooms offer materials to explore, while the lending library extends access to books beyond nursery activities.

In January 2023, imaginative play included dressing-up clothes, glasses and hairbrushes, helping older children act out familiar situations. Painting with rollers and brushes gave toddlers opportunities to explore textures and patterns. Older children also handled small objects and practised using scissors and tweezers, bringing careful hand movements into their play.

Everyday tasks supplied learning opportunities too. In January 2023, babies practised feeding themselves with spoons, toddlers poured drinks and older children helped prepare the lunch table. Counting cutlery and cups connected number work to a task with a clear purpose. These examples show how learning could happen during ordinary routines as well as planned activities.

In January 2023, staff also introduced size words as babies built towers from bricks, and counted with toddlers during play. This linked early mathematical vocabulary to objects children were already handling, making number and size part of an activity rather than a separate exercise.

Outdoor and Community Life

In January 2023, babies had indoor space for crawling, standing and practising walking, and children went outside daily. Older children used bicycles and scooters, explored water quantities and made marks outdoors. Movement, early writing and mathematical ideas could therefore share the same space.

The younger children's outdoor experiences needed development in January 2023. Planning also needed to use observations and assessments more precisely when deciding each child's next learning steps. Both points matter: access to an outdoor area is only part of the question, and an appealing activity needs a clear purpose for the individual child.

Close family contact takes several forms. An online learning journal lets parents follow their child's development from home, while celebration days create opportunities to spend time together at nursery. National Grandparent’s Day includes a stay-and-play gathering with cake and tea; Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea and Father’s Day Breakfast invite other family members into shared occasions.

In January 2023, children settled readily and had formed attachments to their key person. Staff used songs, books and repeated sounds with babies, and gave children time to put their thoughts into words during play and daily routines. For a parent weighing settling and communication, those are useful examples of how relationships and language support worked at that time.

Food is cooked on site using a seasonal menu. This makes mealtimes part of the nursery day, with meals, snacks and drinks covered by their own charge rather than the care fee.

Sessions and Attendance

Opening hours are 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. A full day runs from 8am to 6pm; mornings run from 8am to 1pm, and afternoons from 1pm to 6pm. Early drop-off runs from 7.30am to 8am, providing an additional option before the full-day or morning start.

Term-time attendance and year-round childcare are both offered. Bank Holidays are closure days, Christmas Eve finishes at 4pm, and the nursery closes between Christmas and New Year. Charges extend across 51 weeks, including Bank Holidays, so the charging calendar and attendance calendar need to be understood together.

The nursery is at 51 Lidgett Lane, Gledhow, Leeds, LS8 1PL, with a private car park. A branch visit-booking form takes families' contact details and their child's intended start date.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare covers 15 or 30 hours per week across 38 term weeks, subject to eligibility and a maximum of 10 funded hours a day. Term-time attendance uses that pattern; year-round attendance stretches the entitlement across 51 weeks, giving 11.17 or 22.35 funded hours each week. Stretching spreads the support across the year, so the weekly funded allocation is lower than the term-time figure.

Funding pays towards care. Meals and snacks are charged separately, as are consumables, and both charges apply during funded sessions too. The food charge covers drinks as well as meals and snacks; the consumables charge covers items such as sun cream, nappies and wet wipes. Families should obtain a current written quotation for their chosen attendance pattern.

On joining, a non-refundable registration fee or a reservation deposit applies according to the eligibility conditions in the terms and conditions. That distinction belongs alongside the ongoing charges when considering the total commitment.

• Outdoor learning for younger children. In January 2023, this needed development. During a visit, ask to see how babies and toddlers now use the outdoor space and which experiences are planned for them.
• Individual next steps. Assessment and planning needed greater precision in January 2023. Ask for an example of how an observation becomes a specific activity for your child, alongside the updates in the learning journal.
• Funding and the calendar. Year-round funding is spread across 51 weeks, while food and consumables remain separately chargeable. Compare a written quotation with your required sessions and the Christmas closures before choosing a pattern.

Lidgett Lane suits families seeking either full-day care or shorter morning and afternoon sessions, with an early start option and term-time attendance also in the mix. Regular Spanish and Yoga, natural play materials, a lending library and family celebration days give parents concrete features to weigh.

The January 2023 Good judgement provides a useful reference point, while its two improvement priorities make outdoor provision for younger children and individual planning worthwhile topics for a visit. The clearest financial decision is how the chosen sessions, stretched funding and separate food and consumables charges fit the family's routine.