First Class Nursery Huddersfield

16/16a Portland Street, Huddersfield HD1 5PB
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9.5 47 Reviews
  • First Class Nursery Huddersfield, Huddersfield
First Class Nursery provides high-quality, integrated and flexible day care for babies, toddlers and pre-school children, close by to Huddersfield town centre.

Highly trained and experienced staff provide a wide range of stimulating and educational activities linked to the EYFS curriculum. The staff encourage and support all children to achieve their full potential, actively promoting the development of positive self-image within each child.

Children are given lots of opportunity to get creative in the outdoors, with woodwork, loose parts play and caring for the fruit and vegetables which are grown every year.

First Class has embedded the curiosity approach, where modern toys and technology are removed from the learning environment and replaced with everyday items to encourage children's natural curiosity and eagerness to explore and create.

First Class Nursery menus are planned in house and children, parents and staff are actively involved in this process. Good quality, fresh, wholesome ingredients are used to prepare meals. The nursery supports local suppliers where reasonably practical and cater for a variety of special diets. Nursery currently holds a Food For Life Early Years Award and continue to follow the Food for life ethos.

The nursery work in close partnership with parents and carers, maintaining strong, open and honest working relationships and good communication through regular newsletters, email updates, parents zone electronic journal, child's learning journals that can be accessed in the child's room and also parents evenings.

If you would like any help or other information feel free to contact the team on the nursery phone or email address.

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Care Provided by First Class Nursery Huddersfield

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

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Laura Barthorpe (Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 17
  • Total Places for Children
  • 92
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 0 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:00-18:00
    Tuesday 07:00-18:00
    Wednesday 07:00-18:00
    Thursday 07:00-18:00
    Friday 07:00-18:00
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays & Christmas

Funding & Fees Guide for First Class Nursery Huddersfield

  • Nursery Fees from April 2022 ...


    Under 3's: Full time (Monday - Friday) £300/ Full Day £63 / Half Day £37,
    Over 3's: Full time (Monday - Friday) £295 / Full Day £62 / Half Day £36,
    Hourly Rate £8.

  • Morning session - 7:30am - 12:30pm / Afternoon session - 1:00pm - 6:00pm. They offer 15 Hours funding for two and three year olds and 30 hours funding for 3-4 year olds.
    Fully Funded 30 hours places are subject to a sundries charge of £1.50 per hour
    For example: 23 hours per week £34.50 10 hours per week £15.

First Class Nursery Huddersfield Reviews (47)

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9.5

First Class Nursery Huddersfield has a Review Score of 9.5 (9.522) out of 10, based on 11 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time First Class Nursery Huddersfield has 47 reviews.

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Review from Janine T (Mother of Child) published on 16 February 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My daughter had been attending First Class Nursery Huddersfield since July 2014 when she was 12 months old. She loves the nursery and we often have tears at home time! She has been very happy at nursery and where there have been times she has seemed upset staff a quick to react to her needs and ensure
they do all they can to ensure her time there is a happy one.

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Review from Anna L (Mother of Child) published on 16 February 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My son attended nursery when he was a 1 year old baby. He really likes it. All staff are so nice and competent. Children have a lot of activities. He is 2,5 now and still at the same nursery. Sometimes he doesn't want to go home. In the summer I will send my daughter to the same place.

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Review from Rebecca A (Mother of Child) published on 15 February 2017
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Our daughter has attended this nursery since she was 7months. We looked into various nurseries and chose First Class Nursery. We have been more than happy with the care she has received. She is settled and always happy. I love how they add things to Facebook as the day goes on and I can then see what
she has been doing whilst at work. Our daughter loves being outdoors and she is always outdoors and doing activities that are exciting and linked to her interests. We could not recommend the nursery highly enough.

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Review from Samantha L (Mother of Child) published on 26 September 2016
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I have had the pleasure of the staff at First Class Nursery providing care to my two children over the last four years and that care has been nothing short of excellent! They are friendly, caring and have helped my children in their growth and development. They have always been on hand to offer support.

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Review from Katie W (Mother of Child) published on 6 September 2016
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My eldest daughter has attended First Class Nursery Huddersfield since September 2013 and my youngest daughter started May 2016. My daughters love going to nursery. The activities provided are varied, fun and a good basis for their early education. Detailed feedback is given about their day. Provision
for the children is excellent, the nursery is bright and colourful and there are lots of varied equipment which is accessible all the time. Outdoor provision is superb. My eldest daughter loves playing outside on the climbing frame. the staff are very friendly and make the whole family welcome. I would definitely recommend this nursery.

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Review from Alison H (Mother of Child) published on 31 August 2016
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My daughter attends the preschool here, she loves the vast selection of activities on offer from Forest School to food for life cooking, baking, she enjoys the woodwork area, sensory garden and water activities. She loves all the staff in the nursery which are of a range of ages, ethnic backgrounds
and long term members of staff offering stability, continuity and low staff turnover. I love that the staff plan for my daughter's individual needs following her interest and taking on board things that she likes at home. Staff know exactly where her learning is at and plan around her areas for development.

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Review from Karen P (Mother of Child) published on 30 August 2016
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I chose to put my little one into a nursery when she was 2. She went one day per week until she was 3. She really enjoys her time at First Class and the staff look after her as well as I could. The level of staff is fab and she has come on no end in the last 2 years. She will be leaving the setting
in September and she will miss the staff and her friends. I feel that she has been well cared for and would highly recommend to anyone.

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Current Review Score: 9.5 (9.522)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.5 (9.522) out of 10 for First Class Nursery Huddersfield is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 11 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.6 out of 5 from 11 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 4.924 for First Class Nursery Huddersfield is calculated as follows: ( (121 Excellents x 5) + (10 Goods x 4) ) ÷ 131 Ratings = 4.924

  • 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 4.598 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for First Class Nursery Huddersfield is based on 11 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 92 number of registered child places is 18.4. 11 Positive Reviews ÷ 18.4 = 0.598

  • 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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Meet the Team (2)

Laura

Laura Barthorpe

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Joined: 2018

My Name is Laura, I am the Nursery Manager at First Class.


I qualified in 2010 with BTEC Level 3 in childcare. I then went on to complete my degree in BA (Hons) Early Years with professional studies and QTS. I graduated in 2015 with a 2:1.


I started working at First Class in 2018 as a nursery practitioner and then was promoted to senior practitioner in 2019. From then, I remained a Pre-School senior until I was promoted to deputy manager in 2022. I have recently been promoted to nursery manager.


I am now mainly based in the office but I like to go into the rooms to help out when needed and at dinner times. I love my job and I’m passionate about working with children. I am told by my colleagues that I am kind, and always willing to listen and help. Goes above and beyond in my role as a manager.


My other roles within the nursery are safeguarding officer and health and safety officer. I have carried out many training courses including EYFS, food hygiene, First Aid, behaviour management and Mental Health First Aid.


Gemma

Gemma Bradshaw

Job Title: Deputy Nursery Manager

Joined: 2013

I qualified in 2010 with an NVQ Level 3.


I've worked at First Class since 2013.


I have worked in all the rooms in the nursery as a practitioner and also as a senior, I then became deputy manager in 2016.


In 2018 I completed a BA in Early Years.


I have been on many training courses including behaviour management, health and safety, food hygiene and first aid.


I've been told I am a funny, caring enthusiastic member of the team. I love working with children and I love to work with all age groups at First Class.


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