Fordfield Nursery Ltd Ruxox House
OutstandingTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Bedford for babies from 6 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 Outstanding by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2008, with 75 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Nursery Education Funding.
Worth knowing. Government funding does not cover consumables like meals, nappy changing, or sun cream. These charges will be applied to your account when your child is accessing funding.
What childcare usually costs in Central Bedfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Central Bedfordshire 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
MK45 5BNWhat 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, 28 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders and staff provide a curriculum that is extremely broad, rich and responsive to children's needs. They work very closely with parents to provide activities and experiences that help all children make excellent progress from their starting points. Staff understand children's individual needs extremely well. They use their knowledge, as well as a deep understanding of their preferred learning styles and interests, to shape activities and experiences that thoroughly engage each child.
Children thrive and make excellent progress. They readily recognise two- and three-digit numbers, and thoroughly understand mathematical concepts such as heavier, lighter, more, less, larger and smaller. They are eager investigators, exploring objects in a box. They predict what they might find and quickly compare their treasures. Children confidently make connections, working out that an elephant and lion have the same number of legs. Staff help to reshape and extend children's learning with gentle correction, and introduce new learning at just the right time. For example, when children identify that car wheels are round, staff remind them that the shape name is 'circle'.
Other children concentrate closely as they follow a recipe to make bread. They remember that flour comes from wheat that has been cut and ground, and they work out with staff that sundried tomatoes are dried in the sun. Children thoroughly enjoy picking their own herbs from the nursery garden, and explore their smell, taste and texture. They add herbs to their bread to make their own flavours. Children's behaviour is exemplary as they listen to instructions from staff, and to their friends, working extremely well as a group.
- 28 June 2024Outstanding
- 20 September 2018Outstanding
- 11 August 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Fordfield Nursery Ltd Ruxox House
- What it costs
- 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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