Foxcubs Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Cheltenham for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £95.00 a day for all children ages, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2024. Open since 2009, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated 1st September 2026.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All children ages | £66.50Friday only £95.00All day | £47.50Morning or Afternoon, 4.8 hrs |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £80.00 business administration chargeper child when registering
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £2.50 breakfastper child per breakfast
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
All children from 9 months are entitled to 30 hours funding if eligible.
Worth knowing. The funding schemes are outside of Foxcubs Day Nursery pricing strategy, and is not all inclusive. (This funding covers the basic cost of childcare and does not include: snacks and drinks and consumables such as nappies, wipes etc. ).
What childcare usually costs in Gloucestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Gloucestershire 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
GL51 6SAWhat 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, 26 January 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff provide a safe and welcoming environment, where children feel settled and happy. They put careful thought into providing resources and activities that engage children and support their learning. For example, they identified that children need more opportunities to take physical risks and have set up a sensory gym for younger children. Children relish attending and develop strong bonds with one another. Staff provide exceptional support for children to recognise and regulate their emotions. Children respond positively and behave extremely well. They are keen to learn and eagerly join in with activities, such as painting birds. They proudly take on the responsibility of doing daily jobs and staff offer them lots of praise and acknowledgement.
Staff have a good understanding of what they want children to learn and work as a team to plan and provide an ambitious curriculum. They adapt this for different age groups and build on children's previous learning and current interests. This helps children develop the skills and attitudes they need for the future. Staff work closely with parents to involve them in their children's learning. For example, they invite them in for play days and encourage them to visit to talk to children about their different cultural backgrounds.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance teaching practice to provide more consistent interactions with children and extend their learning as much as possible.
- 26 January 2024Good
- 5 April 2018Good
- 7 July 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
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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 £95.00 a day still the rate? 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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