Blackberry House Day Nursery (Wisbech)
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Wisbech 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 July 2024. Open since 2010, with 58 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
PE13 3UTWhat 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, 31 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The leadership team have designed a high-quality curriculum that captures children's interests and precisely reflects their growing skills. Children become engrossed in their self-chosen tasks. Practitioners use their expert knowledge and skilful interactions to create a rich learning environment for children. As a result, children flourish. Practitioners understand the importance of encouraging children to keep trying when they encounter difficulties, to help them be successful learners. Children make sustained progress, rapidly developing the key skills they need to be ready for the next stage in their learning. They quickly become independent learners, showing high levels of curiosity.
Practitioners skilfully support children to develop their self-control and to solve problems by talking to their friends. They encourage children to use their words to explain why they do not like something. Children are beginning to understand their emotions and how to express themselves with considered support from practitioners. Children form very strong attachments to their key person, which provides the security for them to become absorbed in their learning and play.
Practitioners provide babies with warm, consistent care and respond to their needs.
- 31 July 2024Outstanding
- 6 March 2020Good
- 12 August 2013Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Blackberry House Day Nursery (Wisbech)
- 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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