Gardners Lane Children Centre Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Cheltenham for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:30 to 17:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2024. Open since 2014, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15-hour or 30-hour childcare funding, including extended 30-hour entitlement for eligible working parents; Funded Early Education places are available for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds.
Worth knowing. If you would like your child to stay until 15:30 (a 7-hour day), an additional fee is applied in line with our published hourly rate. Opportunities to pay for non-funded places, additional sessions, or extra hours are subject to availability and may vary across settings.
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 9JWWhat 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.
- 3 December 2024 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 17 April 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children settle well in this welcoming nursery. They are happy and show good attitudes to learning. Children enjoy a range of activities and experiences that staff plan for them. For example, they care for live caterpillars, which they watch in wonder as they anticipate how they will change and eventually transform into butterflies. Staff get to know their key children well and use their knowledge of the children to ensure that their individual interests and next steps in learning are reflected in what they offer. Children make good progress in their learning and development during their time at the nursery, including those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), those who speak English as an additional language, and those in receipt of additional funding.
Children have good opportunities to be physically active. They have access to a wide range of outdoor spaces that staff utilise well to develop children's physical skills and promote healthy lifestyles. Staff are kind and caring towards children.
They prioritise children's well-being and children build positive relationships with staff. Children build positive friendships and socialise well with one another. They learn to take turns and play collaboratively with their peers. They behave well and staff have high expectations for children's behaviour.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide tips and suggestions for parents of ways in which they can support their children's learning at home n provide further opportunities to promote home cultures and backgrounds of children and their families to help children learn about similarities and differences between people and communities beyond their own.
- 17 April 2024Good
- 26 April 2018Good
- 22 September 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Gardners Lane Children Centre Nursery
- 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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