Explorers At Hadnall
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Shrewsbury for from 2 years up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2023. Open since 2019, with 25 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
2 year olds – 24U funding – Apply with Shropshire Council; Funding for 2,3,4 year old’s.
What childcare usually costs in Shropshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Shropshire 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
SY4 4AGWhat 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.
- 27 September 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 24 February 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children receive a warm and friendly welcome from the kind, caring and enthusiastic staff as they arrive at nursery. This helps them to feel safe immediately. Children are highly motivated learners, who are eager to join in with activities on offer.
Staff spend time getting to know every child well. They carefully plan activities and experiences that children thoroughly enjoy, which link closely to what they want children to learn next. Children sit down with staff to share a book about a monster. They then progress to organising and categorising different coloured pom-poms they have seen in the story, which reinforces their colour recognition.
Staff provide them with tweezers to try picking the pom-poms up with, which builds on their coordination and small-muscle skills. Outdoors, children practise balancing and moving in different ways as they construct obstacle courses. Some children express their creativity as they test their own ideas to create musical instruments.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - extend opportunities for children to learn about equality and diversity, including differences between themselves and others in the world around them n embed the arrangements in place for monitoring staff's teaching and practice to raise the quality of teaching consistently to the highest level.
- 24 February 2023Good
- 26 August 2022Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Explorers At Hadnall
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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