Grandpont Daycare
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Whitehouse Road for babies from 10 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 Good by Ofsted in March 2022. Open since 2000, with 24 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
There are several different funding options which are for 15 or 30 hours per week.
What childcare usually costs in Oxfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Oxfordshire 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
OX1 4QHWhat 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, 11 March 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily at the setting. They are confident to come in and separate from their parents well. Children are curious and make independent choices relating to their learning and the activities they wish to participate in. For example, they can choose, for most of the day, whether they wish to play inside or out. In the garden, children enjoy propelling balance bicycles, climbing, digging in the sand and transporting water in the mud kitchen. This ensures the setting is inclusive for those children who prefer to learn outdoors.
Children form positive and nurturing relationships with staff and each other. They show great delight when their friends arrive and greet them warmly. Children understand the routines of the day. For instance, they collect their coats to go outside and happily settle when it is time to sleep. Children understand the high expectations of staff. They know to pick up books from the floor in case they slip on them. Children explore their feelings and understand how to treat their peers with respect. Staff develop appropriate strategies for those who find sharing and interacting with others more difficult. Children use mirrors to learn about facial expressions and read stories to reinforce the messages. As a result, children behave extremely well.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop staff's understanding of how to better support children, to avoid interrupting or limiting their learning n support staff to use the correct words to reinforce children's language and vocabulary precisely - reinforce children's understanding of healthy practices to prevent the spread of infection.
- 11 March 2022Good
- 28 September 2021Inadequate
- 12 December 2019Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Grandpont Daycare
- 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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