Blackberry House Day Nursery (March)
OutstandingTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in March for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in February 2023. Open since 2015, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 hours for eligible working families (9 months to 4 years), 15 hours for eligible two-year-olds, universal 15 hours for every 3-year-old; delivered as 22 hours per week (extended) or 11 hours per week (universal) across 51 weeks.
Worth knowing. Funded hours are delivered within session packages; children attend a minimum of 3 sessions per week; under-3s cannot attend term-time only sessions and term-time only places for over-3s are limited; meals (hot lunch/tea) are optional and chargeable; parents provide nappies, wipes and nappy creams; no charge for consumables, essentials or curriculum activities.
What childcare usually costs in Cambridgeshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cambridgeshire 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
PE15 9NTWhat 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, 17 February 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive confidently, eager to greet their friends and staff. They separate from parents and carers with ease and thoroughly enjoy their time at this homefrom-home nursery. Children show that they feel relaxed, safe and secure. They openly share their ideas and thoughts with staff, who build meaningful conversations with them. Children demonstrate that they have strong bonds with staff. They listen to instructions and eagerly help to keep the environment tidy.
Children prefer to play outside. They have plenty of space to move about freely and gain increasing control of their bodies and movements. Children learn about the different habitats and features of other living creatures. For example, they learn that some insects appear slimy and that this helps them to move. Children compare this to how humans walk and that penguins waddle. They are articulate when they describe the creatures and show how they use what they already know to make sense of new information.
Children thrive in this welcoming nursery. They show increasing levels of concentration. They greatly benefit from how skilled staff adapt their teaching to provide each child with meaningful learning experiences. Younger children show high levels of concentration and engagement with books and stories staff read to them. They accurately retell stories and create pictures that demonstrate that learning is embedded. For example, children explain that there is not a monster in the story, rather it is the frog's shadow.
- 17 February 2023Outstanding
- 8 March 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Blackberry House Day Nursery (March)
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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