Cressex Day Nursery Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in High Wycombe for babies from 3 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 December 2021. Open since 2011, with 54 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 hours free entitlement for eligible two-year-olds and all children from the term after their third birthday; 30 hours extended entitlement for eligible working parents.
Worth knowing. 15 hours provided as a stretched offer across 51 weeks, equating to 11.18 hours per week, taken over a minimum of two half-day sessions (subject to availability). 30 hours delivered as a stretched offer across 51 weeks (22.35 hours per week) and available for children attending three full days or more. Any additional hours are charged at our standard rate.
What childcare usually costs in Buckinghamshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Buckinghamshire 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
HP12 4QAWhat 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, 1 December 2021 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and settled at nursery. They have regular opportunities to make choices in their play. For example, babies point at photos of toys that they wish to play with. Toddlers choose the songs they want to sing using picture cards and older children help to select toys for the day. Children have opportunities to share their wider views. For instance, they represent their peers on the nursery council.
Children develop positive attitudes to their learning. Overall, they benefit from wellplanned opportunities to develop their communication and language skills. For example, older children create and re-enact their own stories enthusiastically.
Younger children concentrate well in groups and join in singing using sign language. This helps them to begin to develop their vocabulary.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop staff support and help staff understand how to use their own interactions and resources to deliver the curriculum intent more effectively n strengthen procedures for monitoring completion of children's progress checks between the ages of two and three and ensure that they are all completed in a timely manner.
- 1 December 2021Good
- 18 November 2015Outstanding
- 14 September 2011Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Cressex Day Nursery Ltd
- What it costs
- 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.
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