Big Robins Nursery
OutstandingTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Stafford for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £90.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in January 2023. Open since 1998, with 64 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Day rate · 8.00 – 5.30pm · £90.00
One published rate, dated March 2026. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Nursery Education Grant Funded places are available. Two year old funded sessions available. NEF – National Education Funding & Think 2 funding These schemes, run by the government, ensures that all 2, 3 and 4 year olds can access free educational places for 15 hours a week.
Worth knowing. Consumable charges applies to funded sessions. Think2 Funding fee’s £8.00 per full day.
What childcare usually costs in Staffordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Staffordshire 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
ST17 9JWWhat 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, 9 January 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children flourish and thrive at this exceptional nursery. They form very strong attachments to staff, who are extremely attentive to their needs. Children feel safe and secure. Babies who are new to the nursery settle very quickly and are supported by staff who have a wealth of knowledge and are skilled in their care.
Young children enjoy climbing in and out of a ball pool, developing their largemuscle skills. They show their delight in blowing raspberries, and staff respond to them. Children use their small-muscle skills to explore a tray of toy polar bears and penguins in artificial snow and real ice. Staff constantly talk to children and sing with them. This helps children to mimic sounds and eventually start to formulate words.
Children behave exceptionally well. They all want to help each other. When playing games, children show superb respect for each other. They know which of their friends have not yet had a turn and encourage them to have a go. When helping to tidy up outdoors, children run over to help their friends when they say, 'It is heavy.'
- 9 January 2023Outstanding
- 28 August 2019Outstanding
- 6 September 2013Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Big Robins Nursery
- 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 £90.00 a day 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.
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