Daisychain Preschool
GoodBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Chudleigh for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 17:45, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in December 2023. Open since 2011, with 26 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Devon
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Devon 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
TQ13 0HXWhat 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 December 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are keen to join in with the wide range of motivating play activities provided. Staff plan a curriculum designed to support and build on children's individual abilities and help them make good progress. Children enter the preschool happily and form secure relationships with staff, which helps them to feel safe. Children learn to be kind and helpful to others. They willingly help to tidy up their toys. Children feel valued when staff give them a sticker for being good tidyup helpers.
Children benefit from going on interesting outings with staff to develop their understanding of their community and the world. They visit a farm and see animals, such as miniature pigs and donkeys. They go on a bus with staff to the cathedral of a nearby town and also visit a museum, where they see a display of model woolly mammoths. Children enjoy being creative. For example, they become absorbed sprinkling gold glitter on their pictures and eagerly mix paints. They tell staff, 'We mixed red and blue and have made purple'. Children like fitting the pieces of a train track together and push a model train around it. They begin to use numbers in context and say, 'We have used 22 pieces of track'.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the information gathered from parents at registration to enable staff to plan activities more securely based on children's existing skills and starting points
- provide more opportunities for children to learn how to keep themselves and others safe, such as when using the large play equipment n make better use of play opportunities in the outside area to fully support children's interests and promote all aspects of their learning consistently well, with particular regard to those children who learn best outdoors.
- 13 December 2023Good
- 20 November 2018Good
- 15 April 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Daisychain Preschool
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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.