Alderbury Preschool
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Salisbury for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £6.20 an hour for 2 Year Olds, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2025. Open since 2015, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
2 Year Olds £6.20 per hour
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Some 2yr olds may be entitled to 15 hours funded childcare; All children over 9 months are entitled to 30 hours funded childcare; The term after your child turns 3 they will automatically be entitled to 15 hours universal funding.
Worth knowing. We accept the 30 hours funding, and this can be used across any regular sessions scheduled between 7.30am - 5.30pm. We can not use funding for holiday clubs or 'extra' sessions as funding is pre agreed with the local authority at the start of each term, January, April and September.
What childcare usually costs in Wiltshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Wiltshire from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
SP5 3BDWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
- 3 July 2024 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 9 January 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happy and excited for their day at pre-school. Staff make time for parents when they drop off their children, giving them the opportunity to talk to and share information about their children. Staff are well informed and able to meet children's needs. Children enter the playroom with confidence and seek favourite activities to engage with. They are safe and secure in the pre-school environment.
The provider and staff work closely together to construct and deliver a broad and inclusive curriculum. Staff in the baby room support children to develop their strength, ready for walking; babies cruise around low-level furniture and stand at table-top activities with confidence. Staff foster toddlers' love of literacy when they read them stories with excitement and enthusiasm. Staff provide older children with instructions for a music and movement activity to help them develop their listening and attention skills in preparation for school. Children are keen to engage and giggle with joy as they hold hands with friends and do the 'hokey cokey'.
The pre-school is an active part of the local community, helping children to learn about where they live. Staff take children on walks in the local woods and to visit the local parks. In spring, the pre-school children help hatch ducklings, which they then return to the local farm and visit on a regular basis to watch them grow. Staff support children to take care of the pre-school's guinea pigs. Children learn how to care for living creatures and get the opportunity to share this experience with their parents and carers at the weekend, when, if they wish, they can take the guinea pigs home to look after.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to use consistent strategies to help children to understand the expectations and the impact of their behaviour on others n help staff to offer consistent levels of support for those children who are less confident, to promote their participation and enhance their learning and development.
- 9 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 6 January 2023Good
- 27 June 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Alderbury Preschool
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- Is £6.20 an hour still the rate? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.