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Beechwood Childcare Limited

GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades

A day nursery in Southam for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2025. Open since 2000, with 62 places.

Call 01926 815 155Their website

Cost

What it costs

Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.

Funded hours

15 or 30 hours per week during school terms only, starting in September each year. This is 38 weeks per year.

Worth knowing. Funding is only available for the 38 weeks of school terms, but if you opt for full-time attendance, we stretch the funding over 51 weeks. A voluntary consumables and experiences charge of £1 per funded hour will be added to invoices.

What childcare usually costs in Warwickshire

£6.50an hour, typical for a 2 years old
£6.00an hour, typical for a 3 and 4 years old

This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Warwickshire from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.

The basics

Places, hours and the day

Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.

Who they can take
Birth to 8+Registered from birth. Whether there is a baby room is a question for the call.
When it's open
07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a weekFrom their Google listing
Funded hours
Takes them
Meals
Not includedBreakfast, mid-morning and afternoon snacks and refreshments are included within the daily fees. Hot Lunches are included where indicated or can be purchased as extras if required.
Nappies
You provide them
Settling in
They offer settling sessions
Forest school
Yes
How many children
62 placesLarge for England
How long open
26 yearsOpen for decades
Address
Southam Nursery, St. James C of E Primary School, Southam, CV47 1EE

Where it is

CV47 1EE
Ofsted URN 200502On the register since 11 September 2000
Ofsted

What 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.

Ofsted inspector, 16 January 2025 · read the full report

What it is like to attend

Children are warmly welcomed into this calm, nurturing nursery. Staff talk to children about their morning, and this helps them gain an understanding of how children are feeling. Children settle into the daily routine in their own time, and staff respect their choices. Children are exceptionally well behaved and show kindness and compassion to their friends. This helps all children feel valued and secure.

Children's language and communication are focus areas across the nursery. Staff introduce new words during daily routines and activities and include repetition in rhymes, stories and songs. This supports children to learn and remember more words. Children enthusiastically join in songs. For example, they sing 'everybody line up' as they get ready to go outside, and 'put your name on the door' as they are given their name cards. This instils a sense of fun and helps develop good routines that will support them as they move on to school.

Managers are highly motivated to ensure all children get the best start in life. They have embedded a clear curriculum that helps children build on what they already know to help them progress in their learning. Staff are included in planning for their key groups and are clear on the learning intentions of the curriculum.

What Ofsted told them to improve

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:

- review the frequency of planned care routines to further enhance staff interactions with children and support their learning experiences even more.

  • 16 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
  • 25 February 2019Good
  • 10 March 2016Good

Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.

Still missing for Beechwood Childcare Limited

  • What it costs
  • Youngest age taken
  • Waiting list

No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.

Before you ring

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.

  • What does it cost, all in? 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.
  • Is there a place for my child's age? 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.
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Everything here comes from Ofsted's published childcare register, under the Open Government Licence. Ratings are quoted exactly as Ofsted gave them, with their dates. Read the full Ofsted reports · How we put this together.

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