Bright Sparks Pre-School And Out Of School Club Limited
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Waltham Cross for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2022. Open since 2018, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Free funding for 2, 3&4 year olds and the 30hrs free funding for working 9 months - 23 months, 2 years and 3&4 year olds families.
What childcare usually costs in Hertfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Hertfordshire 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
EN7 6LBWhat 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, 11 May 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children come into the pre-school with enthusiasm and clearly enjoy the activities and experiences on offer. They benefit from planned and spontaneous experiences that arise from staff's knowledge of children's home lives and prior experiences.
Overall, children join in well. For example, they find excitement in growing and harvesting their own foods. Staff help children to remember what has gone before and what comes next, for example that they planted the seeds, watered and fed them and now they can harvest and eat the vegetables.
Outdoor play is a true strength of the pre-school. Children become involved in exploring a large range of natural resources. They enjoy looking for different bugs on a walk around the garden. Children are explorers and tick off the creatures they find as they search around the garden. Children relish the varied opportunities for physical development. They strengthen their core muscles as they roll around in spinning tops. They practise their balancing as they walk across a wobbly bridge and roll tyres from one side of the garden to the other. They persevere, trying again when the tyre falls over. This helps them to be resilient.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review free-play sessions to help staff promote the engagement of less confident children more successfully at these times.
- 11 May 2022Good
- 28 June 2021Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Bright Sparks Pre-School And Out Of School Club Limited
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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