Greenfields Day Nursery
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Sandy for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 07:45 to 17:45, 5 days a week. £66.55 a day for 2-3 Years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in April 2024. Open since 2000, with 31 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
50 weeks a year, price list dated 1st January 2025.
| Age | Full day | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 2'sbirth to 2y | £68.75Daily fee | £7.00 | |
| 2-3 Years2y to 3y | £66.55Daily fee | £7.00 | |
| 3 Years+3y to 5y | £64.13Daily fee | £7.00 |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £0.50 BreakfastOptional meal charges
- £1.00 TeaOptional meal charges
- £2.00 LunchOptional meal charges
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
9 months -3 years : 22.8hrs a week; 3 years: 11.4hrs a week or 22.8hrs a week.
Worth knowing. Our funding is stretched over 50hrs as we are open all year except for the week between Christmas and the New Year. Funded hours can be used any time the nursery is open. Optional meal charges: Breakfast: 50p, Lunch: £2.00, Tea: £1.00 (Parents can provide their own meals to avoid extra charges.) Optional extra hours over the 11.4hrs (9mths-3yrs) / 22.8hr (3+) will be charged at the hourly/daily rate.
What childcare usually costs in Cambridgeshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cambridgeshire 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
SG19 3BHWhat 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 April 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
All children thrive in the nursery. They eagerly join in the exciting opportunities for learning and become deeply involved as they make new discoveries. Staff help babies to develop strong communication skills as they identify different animals and practise the different sounds they make. Babies giggle with delight as they recognise a toy horse and make clicking sounds to represent horses' hooves. Staff give babies close and caring attention, which helps to build their emotional resilience, and babies have very strong attachments to their key person. Babies are held and rocked with great care, and warmly comforted when they are tired or upset.
Staff expertly check that children have secure existing knowledge before moving on to new ideas. For example, children confidently explain that they believe that heavy items sink in water and light objects float. They are fascinated when a light plastic bottle sinks. Staff encourage them to explore why this happens and they predict, test and conclude that this must be because the bottle filled with water. Children are very secure in what they already know, but they are thoroughly ready to try out new things and test out their own ideas. Children are highly independent and confident, which builds great resilience in readiness for school.
Children behave exceptionally well. They are kind and considerate to staff and each other, and readily help their friends to complete tasks together. For instance, children eagerly take part in tidying-up activities. They carry boxes of resources back to storage areas, helping each other to carry heavier items. All children learn to listen to each other and are highly respectful of each other's ideas.
- 26 April 2024Outstanding
- 13 July 2018Outstanding
- 23 July 2015Good
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 £66.55 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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