Golden Stars Nursery Limited
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Birmingham for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:30 to 16:00, 5 days a week. £36.00 a day for 0-2 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2023. Open since 2018, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Term time only, 38 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-2 yearsbirth to 2y | £36.009am-3.00pm £55.00 | £30.00Moring half-day or Afternoon half day, 7 hrs | – | £125.00Full week Monday to Friday £250.00Full week Monday to Friday | |
| Up to 5 years5y to 5y | £30.00One day £50.00 | – | – | £150.00full week Monday to Friday or full week £200.00full week Monday to Friday | |
| All ages | – | – | £8.00child minders services late shifts | – |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £5.00 a day Extra charges full time and part time places for funded
- £5.00 a day 3.00 pm-3.30 pm per dayfunded places
- £5.00 a day Late payment Feepayments made after Wednesday
- £10.00 a day 8am – 9am full dayfunded places
- £15.00 a day 3pm – 4pm per dayfunded places
- £25.00 full late feepayments go onto the next week
- £25.00 to £75.00 a week Full week Monday to Fridayfunded places
- £50.00 a week full wee4k Monday to Fridayfunded places
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Free funded places are available at Golden stars for children from the age 9 months, 2,3 & 4 between only 9.00 am- 3.00 pm, 9:00 am-12:00 pm, 12:00pm – 15:00pm and only term and condition apply) only after eligibility code is confirmed.
Worth knowing. We do not offer stretched Early Education Entitlement funded hours throughout years (52 weeks) 30 and 15 hours are available 38 weeks over 3 terms.
What childcare usually costs in Birmingham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Birmingham 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
B26 1DTWhat 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, 5 January 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enter this welcoming nursery and settle quickly. They form close bonds with staff, who know them well. Children are confident to chat to staff and they share pleasant conversations over mealtimes. This builds children's communication skills and widens their vocabulary. Together they explore the number of seeds they find in an apple core, and children make plans to plant them. Staff encourage children to make predictions about what might happen to the seeds. This builds children's critical thinking skills and helps them to understand the world around them.
Children make regular trips out into the local community. They have fun as they use nets to chase and pop bubbles in the nearby park, building on their physical skills. They visit the post office to buy envelopes for the letters they write and then take the letters to the letterbox to post to their families. These real-life experiences strengthen children's knowledge for use in the future and help to develop early writing skills. Parents say children talk about these experiences at home. This helps to consolidate their learning between home and nursery. It also sparks conversation with their family members, so they can practise their language skills at home too.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- make better use of the monitoring of staff teaching to improve the quality of practice and enhance the outcomes for children even further n allow more thinking time for children to respond to the questions they are asked, so they can be challenged to the highest level.
- 5 January 2023Good
- 3 August 2022Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Golden Stars Nursery Limited
- Meals
- 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 £36.00 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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