Early Years Playgroup
GoodBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Nottingham for from 2 years up to school age, open 09:00 to 15:00, 5 days a week. £10.00 a session for 2-6. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2022. Open since 2012, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| 2-62y to 5y | £10.00Holiday Club £20.00Holiday Club |
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
What childcare usually costs in Nottinghamshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Nottinghamshire 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
NG9 8FNWhat 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, 23 November 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children show positive relationships with staff. They benefit from staff spending time with them and getting to know them as individuals. If necessary, children receive a reassuring hand to hold from staff to help them to feel safe and secure.
Children are happy and visibly show their enjoyment of spending time at the playgroup. For example, they laugh with staff and their friends when they play a game of hide and seek. Children behave well and work as a team to build and construct using foam bricks.
Children show good hand and eye coordination. Older children use toy hammers safely to bang pegs into a cork board. Younger children roll balls down a drainpipe and collect them at the end. They learn how to solve problems, such as when the drainpipe falls off a stand at one end. Children think about how to secure it back in position. Children are encouraged to develop their literacy skills. For example, older children are supported to recognise the initial sound of letters at the beginning of their name. They are given opportunities to recognise their written name. Children are offered experiences to learn about their local community and people who help them. For example, the manager spends additional funding for individual children to support their interests. This includes taking them to see a fire station.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to develop their understanding of how to support language development for children who speak English as an additional language n help staff to build on what children already know and can do n strengthen staff's knowledge of how to help younger children to understand and follow the instructions they give them.
- 23 November 2022Good
- 24 November 2016Good
- 2 May 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Early Years Playgroup
- Funded hours
- 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.
- Is £10.00 a session still the rate? 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.
- 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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