Green Shoots
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Bath for children from birth to 8+, open 09:00 to 15:00, 4 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2024. Open since 2013, with 36 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours, plus 2-year-old funding.
Worth knowing. Enhanced Provision Voluntary Payment (EPVP) per funded hour, meals additional.
What childcare usually costs in Bath and North East Somerset
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bath and North East Somerset 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
BA2 4QJWhat 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.
- 19 August 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 3 May 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children form strong relationships with staff, who provide an extremely caring and reassuring approach. Children feel valued and safe in their care. Staff have high expectations of all children and create a well-balanced curriculum. They give an extremely strong focus to promoting children's personal, social and emotional wellbeing. Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities
(SEND) and those with English as an additional language (EAL), make continually good progress.
Children gain confidence from a young age to have a go in their play and they experience a great variety of activities that enhance their knowledge and skills. For example, children concentrate carefully when attempting to cut off pieces of Bath stone using real tools. They learn about keeping themselves and others safe and know they need to wear protective glasses when using the tools. Children enjoy going on a bus trip with staff into town to visit a local art gallery. They like to take a pre-school 'travel pup' toy away on holiday with them. On return, they eagerly tell their friends where they have been, such as on an aeroplane to a hot country.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- make more use of opportunities for children to understand about linking number and quantity and develop aspects of their early mathematical awareness further n review and strengthen the organisation of group activities to maximise learning opportunities for children.
- 3 May 2024Good
- 15 May 2018Good
- 24 February 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Green Shoots
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.