Fixbees Private Day Nursery

85 Fixby Road, Fixby, Huddersfield HD2 2JB
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9.7 47 Reviews
  • Fixbees Private Day Nursery, Huddersfield
Fixbees Day Care has been an established early years setting since 1993. It offers a warm and homely environment and caters for children from birth to five years old.

Fixbees prides itself on offering a high standard of care where staff are both passionate and knowledgeable in early years care.

Staff ensure they work in very close partnership with parents and carers and their practices are kept to an optimum level in regard to care, quality and health and safety. Staff engage with families well and they support them in all their home learning, social events and outings.

Fixbees Day Care has 2-year-old 15 hours of free childcare available for eligible families, government funding for 3 & 4-year-olds and also 30 hours funding for working parents.

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.

Adopting the curiosity approach, the team encourage children's natural curiosity by promoting engagement with everyday items rather than modern toys and technology.

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.

If you'd like to find out more, please contact the team at Fixbees Day Care via phone call or email.

Type of Service

  • Day Nursery
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care

Group/Owner

Person in Charge

  • Andrea Drake (Manager)

Number of Childcare Staff

  • 11

Total Places for Children

  • 46

Age Range

  • from 0 years 3 months
  • to 5 years 0 months

Funding & Fees

  • Nursery Fees from April 2024:


    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 £34.50 10 hours £15.

Opening Times

  • Monday 07:30-18:00
    Tuesday 07:30-18:00
    Wednesday 07:30-18:00
    Thursday 07:30-18:00
    Friday 07:30-18:00

When Closed

  • Bank Holidays

Fixbees Private Day Nursery Reviews (47)

9.7

Fixbees Private Day Nursery has a Review Score of 9.7 (9.734) out of 10, based on 16 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Fixbees Private Day Nursery has 47 reviews.

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Review from Anna K (Mother of Child) published on 22 February 2017 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Very friendly and professional staff, providing lots of activities for children in different age groups. Individual approach, creating environment helping children to develop and experiment. Very healthy and balanced meals provided. My boys love the nursery and I feel confident knowing that they are
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Review from Aliah S (Mother of Child) published on 22 February 2017 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
We visited Fixbees before making the decision to send our daughter there and were so impressed from the first moment we stepped into the nursery. The staff really are a credit to them. From the age of one our daughter, who is now over two years old has developed into such a well spoken, polite mannered
child. Her learning and basic knowledge all round is fantastic and I can only put that down to the incredible staff and Fixbees.
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Review from Sonya N (Mother of Child) published on 16 February 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My son settled in so well at Fixbees Private Day Nursery and loved going to nursery. The staff are all really lovely and professional I had no worries at all leaving my son in their care. I was really impressed with the variety of activities available to my son to help him learn through play, both indoors
and outdoors. I would highly recommend Fixbees.
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Review from Rebecca D (Mother of Child) published on 16 February 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Sending your child to the nursery is such an emotional time. You need to feel that the nursery staff really care about your child. I never questioned this with Fixbees Private Day Nursery.
We went to look around several nurseries but none were as good as Fixbees Private Day Nursery. They have a light
airy building, wide open spaces and great rooms for the age groups.


The staff are so dedicated and are constantly going above and beyond. The theme days, new food and experiences the children gain are invaluable. I loved accompanying my daughter on a trip to a local airport and then picnic in the park. I would highly recommend this nursery.

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Review from Anneyce W (Mother of Child) published on 15 February 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
I cannot recommend this nursery highly enough. My son absolutely loved it and they developed him amazingly in time for school. This was more like my son being brought up by an amazing extended family than being at nursery. They have healthy eating to the highest standard, growing vegetables and forest
school. It is worth every penny. This is an amazing nursery with staff who have been there for years and love their job. Thank you Fixbees.
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Review from Jessica B (Mother of Child) published on 15 February 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
I would highly recommend this nursery to anyone! The setting has a wide range of activities for the children to take part in & the staff are very friendly and welcoming. My son loved his time at Fixbees.
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Review from Sadia D (Mother of Child) published on 14 February 2017 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
I've always found Fixbees staff to be friendly and professional. My child enjoys attending the nursery and is always challenged with interesting and age appropriate activities. I feel the nursery involve the parents with stay and play sessions and I receive feedback about my child's progress through
Parentzone and parents evenings. I love this nursery and would not hesitate to recommend it.
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Current Review Score: 9.7 (9.734)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.7 (9.734) out of 10 for Fixbees Private Day Nursery is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  1. The Average Rating is 4.7 out of 5 from 16 Reviews in the last 24 months.
  2. The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 15 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:

  1. 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months. The Average Rating of 4.734 for Fixbees Private Day Nursery is calculated as follows: ( (165 Excellents x 5) + (15 Goods x 4) + (6 Satisfactorys x 3) + (6 Very Poors x 1) ) ÷ 192 Ratings = 4.734
  2. 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 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Fixbees Private Day Nursery is based on 15 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    1. 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
    2. 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 46 number of registered child places is 9.2, which has been reached with 15 Positive reviews. Points = 1
  3. When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
  4. 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)

Andrea

Andrea Drake

Job Title: Manager Joined: 2024

Andrea has been based in our sister nursery as a Deputy Manager since 2012, she has recently moved to Fixbees taking on the Manager role here.

Andrea loves helping out in all rooms with different-aged children. She is a kind and caring person always ensuring everyone's best interest.


Andrea has a degree with Honours in Early Years Education as well as qualifications in leadership and management. Also Level 3 Early Years SENCO.

Sarah

Sarah Bent

Job Title: Deputy Nursery Manager Joined: 2008

Sarah is a bright, enthusiastic and caring individual who has a wealth of experience working with early years children of all ages from babies to our Preschool children. Sarah started first at Birkbees Day Care and in 2010 moved to Fixbees and took on the role of Deputy Manager, a role for which she is highly respected. Since joining the nursery Sarah has started her own family and is a proud mum to two lovely little boys.

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