Earlybirds Daycare

Methodist Church School Rooms, Wakefield Road, Normanton WF6 1AG
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9.6 51 Reviews
  • Earlybirds Daycare, Normanton
Earlybirds Daycare is a friendly and welcoming day nursery located just off Wakefield Road in Normanton, West Yorkshire.

The team at Earlybirds create a stimulating and nurturing environment to provide all their “Puddle Stompers” with the best possible start during their early years.

Each child has an online learning journal to record and track their ongoing development during their time at Earlybirds. This journal can be accessed by parents and carers at anytime and families can share with their child’s key person “WOW” moments from home.

Earlybirds is situated in the school rooms of Normanton Methodist Church and is separated into 4 different “rooms:”

Baby Room (0-2 years)

Toddler Room (2-3 years)

Pre-School Room (3-5 years)

Out of School and Holiday Club (5-11 years)

Each room has a different topic of interest each month and practitioners create engaging activities to encourage “puddle stompers” to develop and achieve their next steps of learning.

Earlybirds is a private day nursery open 7am to 7pm offering flexible session arrangements for shift workers, term time only bookings as well as consistent weekly sessions. There is also a number of spaces available for funded children, age 2, 3 and 4 years, receiving 15 or 30 hours “FREE” funding per week.

Earlybirds have the following standard sessions times:

Full Day 8-6

Morning 8-1

Afternoon 1-6

They understand that not everyone’s childcare needs fit the above sessions, so they encourage parents and carers to visit Earlybirds to meet the fantastic team of practitioners and staff to discuss their childcare needs and find sessions to suit them.

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Care Provided by Earlybirds Daycare

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Privately Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Claire Banfield (Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 18
  • Total Places for Children
  • 60
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:00-19:00
    Tuesday 07:00-19:00
    Wednesday 07:00-19:00
    Thursday 07:00-19:00
    Friday 07:00-19:00
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays & Christmas

Funding & Fees Guide for Earlybirds Daycare

  • Full Day 0800-1800:
    0-2 £70.00
    2-3 £65.00
    3-5 £60.00


    Half Day 0800-1300/1300-1800:
    0-2 £35.00
    2-3 £32.50
    3-5 £30.00

  • Earlybirds offers full day and half day sessions and hourly sessions, Early starts from 7 am and late finishes until 7 pm, ideal for commuters.
  • Parking

  • Parking available in private car park adjacent to the nursery, off Cambridge Street.


Earlybirds Daycare Reviews (51)

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9.6

Earlybirds Daycare has a Review Score of 9.6 (9.569) out of 10, based on 11 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Earlybirds Daycare has 51 reviews.

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Review from Jade N (Mother of Child) published on 25 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My daughter attended Earlybirds Daycare from 2021-2023 and absolutely loved it. My son has recently started and also loves Earlybirds, he settled straight in and is always happy and playing. Staff are friendly and really good with the children!

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Review from Lorna L (Mother of Child) published on 6 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Both my children have attended Earlybirds, my daughter from 18 months and my son from just 7 months. Both have absolutely loved it and my daughter gets excited to return now for holiday club. The staff are fantastic and it is abundantly clear how much they care for each individual child and while each
child has a key worker all the staff know all the children so well. It really feels like one big family.
Updates at the end of each setting are clear and thorough and it's great to get periodic photographic updates through the week via the app. The main thing for me has always been that my kids are safe, well fed, healthy and happy and Earlybirds delivers this and so much more.

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Review from Amber M (Mother of Child) published on 5 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My son has been with early birds since 2022. They have been nothing but accommodating professional and overall have given him the best nursery experience I could've wished for before he journeys into mainstream school. Early birds is welcoming, the staff are amazing and being a shift worker for the
emergency services they have always gone above and beyond to provide assistance when needed. I couldn't recommend early birds enough to anyone looking to place a child into nursery. He always comes home full of joy and can't wait to tell me about the day he's had.

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Review from Stacey H (Guardian of Child) published on 5 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My little one absolutely loves school (as she calls it), has made lots of friends and is very fond of the staff. We have always found the staff to be approachable, helpful and committed to needs. She loves the food choices and often comes home singing the songs and telling us stories of who she has
played with that day and what they have done. She also loves bringing the arts and crafts she makes at school home to show us. They go in her memory box. The 7am early start is extremely helpful and has been a great assistance to us as we start work early.The tapestry updates are great but I would like to see more often updates. This is absolutely not a criticism, just my own personal preference. I understand that wraparound isn't available for school nursery however I would just like to confirm that we would use this service if it was available. Again, no criticism intended. Thank you so much for giving my little one a lovely, warm and thriving start to her education journey.

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Review from G T (Mother of Child) published on 4 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

We have used Earlybirds for around 2 years. My child is always well cared for and a clear handover given at the end of the day. The staff are lovely. They clearly all care for children and that shows. My child is happy and thriving - thank you! My only improvement would be more use of online updates
from their nominated service - the app - as updates are rarely added to this. If this was utilised more, events would not he missed, such as pyjama day for children in need. A number of children were upset at drop off that they didn't have theirs on like others.

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Review from Amy F (Mother of Child) published on 4 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My little boy loves going here! The nursery is welcoming and friendly, all the staff are lovely and my little one can't wait to get in the door each morning.
They have so much to do and plenty to play with, my little boy has so much more confidence since starting here, his speech, counting and ability
to express feelings has improved so much. Would highly recommend this nursery setting to anyone.

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Review from H M (Mother of Child) published on 4 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Great nursery, both my children have attended this nursery, both absolutely loved it and never had any issues. The staff and excellent and accommodating. The communication between staff and parents is excellent and any queries are resolved quickly.

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Review from Rebecca R (Mother of Child) published on 4 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My son has been attending Early Birds Nursery since January 2025 and he loves it, he is very eager to go. All the ladies that work there are lovely and very friendly, the admin lady is lovely too and has been very helpful with any queries I have had. The setting is a very caring one and has a good range
of pre school toys and they have a good structure to children learning. My son has developed so much since joining this nursery and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to others.

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Review from Y H (Mother of Child) published on 4 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

The nursery has been very helpful with behaviour techniques while going through the adhd referral. Very good with communication and feel like they have helped bring him along with speech. The staff are nice and friendly.

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Review from C K (Mother of Child) published on 4 February 2025
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

A fantastic nursery! My little boy loves it and enjoys his time there! The staff are amazing with the handover. They always do activities indoor or outdoor and my little boy is always smiling after pick up

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Review from Heather C (Mother of Child) published on 11 July 2024
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 2.0 out of 5

My son has Autism and I was anxious about putting him in wraparound care. He was allowed to attend settling-in sessions and I was happy the staff understood the nature of his needs. He settled after a rocky couple of weeks. The staff themselves were great with my son and provided clear feedback about
his day at collection. Almost 8 months after his time there, an incident occurred (clearly linked with his disability). The Directors, who do not actually work with my son and are based on a different site, decided to terminate the contract with just 2 weeks' notice. This was despite the fact that I had met with the manager to agree on some changes which would prevent the same issue from happening again. There was no attempt to allow reasonable adjustments I had agreed to take effect or to speak to me directly. They have since ignored my emails requesting a meeting line with their own complaints policy. Great staff at the actual site but awful behaviour from the Directors.

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Review from Chloe H (Mother of Child) published on 23 October 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My daughter has been cared for by Earlybirds Nursery since the age of 2. From the first initial visit, I was extremely impressed with not only the staff at the nursery but the content of the activities provided whilst she was being cared for. As my daughter has aged, her care naturally decreased due
to being in full-time school but Earlybirds accommodated pick-ups from school accordingly. I have been extremely impressed with the childcare my daughter has received and would recommend Earlybirds to anyone.

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Review from Amanda D (Mother of Child) published on 5 July 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

All of my 3 children have attended Earlybirds over the last 15 years, and to put in a rating of excellent certainly does not justify how exceptional and amazing they really are because I really cannot praise all the staff enough for the time and care they have given to my boys during their time there.
They are by far the best childcare provider around, my boys and myself will miss you all massively thanks again for your support.

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Review from Nicola F (Mother of Child) published on 14 May 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My daughter loves her time at Earlybirds and is supported in her learning at all times. She is well looked after and the staff are excellent. Earlybirds have been supportive in following both my term-time work and my husband's shift patterns. I would definitely recommend them.

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Review from Aleksandra R (Mother of Child) published on 17 April 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

I am really satisfied with learning care. Staff, management is always helpful. I feel my child is there safe and happy.

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Review from Catherine J (Mother of Child) published on 6 December 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Such a lovely nursery. The girls in the toddler room were amazing with my little boy. They are a fantastic bunch of ladies and he will certainly miss them.

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Review from J G (Mother of Child) published on 25 October 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

The staff at Earlybirds are what makes the nursery for me. They all know my daughter's name, regardless of the area they work in. As a first time mum, they were just what I was after, down to earth, reassuring and supportive. If I have an issue or concern, I know I can approach them.
I also love the
fact that the nursery is organised chaos with toys everywhere, this is because the staff are spending time with the children, playing and doing activities. Not tidying up.

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Review from John I (Father of Child) published on 15 October 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 3.0 out of 5

My two children have been going to the nursery since April and a lot of times when me and my wife have asked to help on development with my children it has taken telling them a few times to action anything. Communicating between themselves seems to need development so that we don't have to repeat ourselves.

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Review from Rebecca K (Mother of Child) published on 3 October 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Since my child started to attend this nursery. She has flourished and grown up beyond her age so much. To me, this just shows the effort the workers put in with our children. My child is always so happy, well fed and continually coming home telling and showing us new things she has learnt. The hours
and days fit perfect and easily changeable when needed. So happy my child has become the little human she is now since the very first day entering this nursery!

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Review from Leanne W (Mother of Child) published on 3 October 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Earlybirds is a fantastic daycare used by both my daughters aged 8 and 4. Both girls absolutely love coming to the nursery during the school holidays to see their friends and carers, who they have an amazing bond with. Would highly recommend to anyone.

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Current Review Score: 9.6 (9.569)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.6 (9.569) out of 10 for Earlybirds Daycare is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.7 out of 5 from 11 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.8 out of 5 from 10 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.736 for Earlybirds Daycare is calculated as follows: ( (111 Excellents x 5) + (5 Goods x 4) + (11 Satisfactorys x 3) + (1 Poors x 2) + (1 Very Poors x 1) ) ÷ 129 Ratings = 4.736

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 4.833 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Earlybirds Daycare is based on 10 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 60 number of registered child places is 12. 10 Positive Reviews ÷ 12 = 0.833

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Earlybirds Daycare

What is the Age Range of Children that Earlybirds Daycare accepts?

Earlybirds Daycare accepts Children aged from 0 years 3 months to 5 years 0 months.

What Days & Hours is Earlybirds Daycare Open?

Earlybirds Daycare is open: Monday 07:00-19:00, Tuesday 07:00-19:00, Wednesday 07:00-19:00, Thursday 07:00-19:00, Friday 07:00-19:00.

How many Children does Earlybirds Daycare have capacity for?

Earlybirds Daycare has capacity for a total of 60 Children.

How far is Earlybirds Daycare to the centre of Normanton?

0.2 mile(s) as the crow flies, distance by road may be significantly further.

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