Camel Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Wantage for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £41.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 2006, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Term time only, 38 weeks a year, price list dated September 2026.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £41.00Care 9am – 3pm | £5.50Lunch Club £6.10Breakfast Club £11.80After School Club (4:30pm) £17.00After School Club (6pm) £17.75Pre-School (AM or PM) |
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
All 3 and 4-year-old children receive 15 hours of childcare per week (term time). 15 hours of early learning funded childcare is also available for families receiving additional support. Children with working parents may be eligible for 30 hours of funded childcare from the age of 9 months.
Worth knowing. Parents can use their funded hours at any time during opening hours, including for wrap around care; parents need to provide a packed lunch for their child. This is not provided.
What childcare usually costs in Oxfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Oxfordshire 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
OX12 9HLWhat 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, 21 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff support children to settle well and place a strong focus on their happiness and safety. Children respond warmly to nurturing staff, who know the children and their families well. Children display good behaviour which is appropriate to their age and stage of development.
All children enjoy access to the large outside area throughout the day. They have plenty of opportunities to practise their physical skills. For example, following an interest in traditional tales, children use large building blocks to build 'ice-cream castles'. In addition, they learn to balance on the large wooden climbing frame and navigate the wooden steps. Children develop their early writing skills. They make marks on the outside easel with paintbrushes. Inside, children explore the patterns they make in the cocoa powder and flour.
Children develop their confidence and a love for books and reading. For example, younger children are excited to act out and join in with the well-known phrases of
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to confidently identify how and when to step in to support children, including children with emerging special educational needs and/or disabilities n strengthen the arrangements for supervision, monitoring and training of all staff to enhance their professional development and raise the quality of education to an even higher level.
- 21 June 2023Good
- 18 November 2017Good
- 8 September 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Camel Pre-School
- 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.
- Is £41.00 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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