Bluebirds Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 3.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Grays for babies from 5 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2024. Open since 2012, with 48 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
For 2 & 3 Year-Olds, we offer free places for 15 hours or 30 hours under the Government Funding Schemes!
Worth knowing. Government Funding only covers 38 weeks of the 51 operating weeks. The remaining 13 weeks will be at the Nursery full rate. 8am-1pm (meal fee applies); 1pm-6pm (meal fee applies); 8am-2pm (AM session, meal fee applies); 12pm-6pm (PM session, meal fee applies); 8am-6pm (meal fee applies).
What childcare usually costs in Thurrock
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Thurrock 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
RM17 5XXWhat 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, 13 August 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and settled in the welcoming nursery environment. They develop secure relationships with the friendly and nurturing staff. This helps children to feel safe and secure. Staff know and follow children's care routines, ensuring their individual needs are met. Children enjoy exploring the environment and make their own play choices. Older children confidently access different resources to help them adapt and change their play. For example, they find small toy cars to put inside the tunnels they build.
Children learn the behaviour expectations at the nursery through age-appropriate
'golden rules'. Staff encourage them to use polite language, such as 'please' and
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to challenge and extend the older and most-able children's learning more effectively.
- 13 August 2024Good
- 19 October 2018Good
- 25 July 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Bluebirds Day Nursery
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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