Your Nursery

Football with City in the Community, books to borrow and a community clothing Swap Shop give Your Nursery an identity that reaches beyond its playrooms. This Openshaw setting combines child-led exploration with practical support for families: reading can continue at home, while outgrown clothes can find another wearer.

At its September 2024 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good, judged safeguarding effective and found that communication and language were supported well, with individual education plans and outside-agency involvement helping children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make progress. There were also clear improvements to make, especially in staff understanding of the curriculum and children's independence.

Your Nursery has 98 places in total and accepts children aged 3 to 60 months. Its rooms span babies, two-year-olds and older children preparing for school, with a sensory room and outdoor space adding different ways to play or pause. Opening hours are 7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday.

Rooms and Ages

The Baby & toddler unit is purpose-built, with sensory exploration, physical play and floor time shaping the youngest children's experience. That emphasis gives babies opportunities to move and investigate, rather than treating their day simply as a sequence of care routines. The baby environment is bright and arranged so that babies can explore it.

Child-led play shapes the Two year old room, where the Reggio Emilia Approach means using the environment and open-ended materials to encourage children's own ideas, with staff responding to interests as they emerge. Resources are intended to invite more than one use, giving children room to experiment rather than follow a single predetermined answer.

In the Three year+ room, project activities build on children's interests, while questions encourage them to think back over experiments and consider what might happen next. The Pre-School Room also emphasises confidence and independence ahead of starting school. These are aims with a practical test: how much children get to attempt and manage for themselves.

The Early Years Foundation stage (EYFS) provides the shared framework for children's learning, development and care, with learning through play running through the day. Here, the Reggio Emilia Approach adds a particular way of organising that play: children's interests guide activities, and the room itself supplies opportunities to investigate. The approach sits alongside the EYFS rather than replacing it.

Learning and Activities

City in the Community provides coached football for preschool children, combining movement and coordination with opportunities to work together.

Rhythm and Rhyme provides music sessions, while songs, rhythms and actions also feature in daily activities. Singing and clapping give children ways to practise listening and join in together. For children learning English as an additional language, repeated words and accompanying movements provide another route into understanding and participation.

Reading extends beyond the nursery through The Imagination Library scheme, which provides books for some families. The Lending Library offers a separate borrowing arrangement: families tell reception which book they have taken and exchange it when finished. One scheme supplies books; the other keeps them circulating. Both make shared reading something families can carry into home life.

The daily routine mixes planned activities with free play and outdoor choices. Older children are encouraged to prepare breakfast, help lay tables and take part in serving food and pouring drinks. Preparing sandwiches or cutting fruit brings everyday tasks into the afternoon too. These are useful opportunities to practise doing things for themselves, alongside the curriculum's more exploratory work.

Outdoor and Community Life

Outside, children have room to run, climb and explore. In September 2024, garden play included movement activities and learning about plant growth, linking physical play with an interest in living things. The current routine also gives children outdoor choices during activity periods.

Community learning includes walks and visits around the local area using the nursery's bus. That takes exploration beyond the room and garden, introducing children to their surroundings through direct experience. The Swap Shop adds a different community connection: families can donate clothes their children have outgrown and take items in a suitable size, and the wider community can use it too.

Relationships and Communication

In September 2024, staff helped children adjust to time away from their families with physical reassurance, including cuddles. Children built relationships with practitioners before venturing further into activities. For a child new to group care, that sequence matters: familiarity with an adult can make exploration easier.

Parents receive information about their child's day when children leave. In September 2024, communication also included learning summaries, conversations about development and individual learning targets. Book sacks went home for families to share. These exchanges connected daily care with what children were learning, rather than leaving parents with only a brief account of meals and play.

Baby massage is incorporated into the youngest children's routines by a dedicated practitioner. A trainer also supports staff in learning the techniques. This gives the baby offer a specific care practice alongside its sensory and movement activities, without making a promise about how an individual baby will respond.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

A Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) role gives additional-needs support an identified point of responsibility within the team. Staff training also includes SENCO and speech-therapy work. For families discussing additional support, these are concrete roles and areas of preparation rather than a general claim of inclusion.

Daily toothbrushing brings oral care into the routine, followed by dance and movement. Children who sleep have a dedicated resting space, individual bedding and a bedding bag; those who no longer nap can continue exploring elsewhere. The sensory room provides another place to relax, with lights and resources for sensory exploration.

Meals are home-cooked, with seasonal changes, and the menu policy includes vegetarian, vegan and allergy-friendly options tailored to individual needs. Snacks include fruit, yoghurt and wholegrain choices, with water and milk provided through the day.

Sessions and Attendance

The nursery opens from 7am to 6pm on weekdays and operates across the year, closing for bank holidays and Christmas. That gives families a clear operating window and identifies closures that need to sit alongside work and family plans.

Getting There

The address is St. Vincents School House, Greenside Street, Openshaw, Manchester, M11 2EX. Families can contact the nursery by telephone, email or its enquiry form; child record forms and a parent contract are also provided through the parent-information pack.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare is offered. Funding routes include 15 hours per week for eligible working parents with children aged 9 months to 4 years, beginning the term after the child reaches 9 months, and support for eligible two-year-olds whose families receive qualifying benefits, beginning the term after their second birthday.

The universal entitlement is 15 hours weekly for three- and four-year-olds, starting the term after their third birthday. Eligible working parents of children aged three or four may qualify for 30 hours, also starting the term after the third birthday and subject to the relevant criteria. Families should obtain current prices in a written quotation from the nursery.

• Curriculum delivery and independence. In September 2024, staff did not fully understand curriculum aims and sometimes completed tasks older children could manage themselves. On a visit, ask how staff now extend play and allow children to organise mealtime equipment or attempt other everyday tasks.
• Funding and the booking agreement. The nursery opens across the year and supports several funding routes. Ask for one written explanation of the attendance pattern, how funded hours are delivered and the treatment of meals and non-food consumables alongside any privately paid hours.
• Dietary needs. The menu policy includes tailored allergy-friendly options. Families affected by allergies should confirm current food preparation and handling arrangements before agreeing their child's care plan.

Your Nursery suits families seeking weekday care with child-led play, coached preschool football and practical connections between nursery and home. City in the Community, Rhythm and Rhyme, the Lending Library and the Swap Shop each have a clear purpose: movement, shared music, reading and the reuse of children's clothing.

The September 2024 Good judgement gives a positive inspection position, while the concerns about curriculum delivery and independence deserve attention. The most useful visit will test those points against the everyday routine: children have opportunities to prepare food, serve themselves and pursue their own ideas, so the question is how consistently adults let them take the lead.