Happylands Private Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Worcester for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £75.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2022. Open since 1990, with 53 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Our daily rate is £75 and includes all food throughout the day.
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Two Year Old Funding for Families in Receipt of additional support; 15 hour Funding for 3 and 4 year olds; 30 Hour Funding for Working Parents.
Worth knowing. The 15 hours or 30 hours will not be offered as part time sessions (half days etc.) or as term time only.
What childcare usually costs in Worcestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Worcestershire 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
WR4 0DZWhat 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, 19 August 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children flourish in this warm and nurturing nursery. They form secure relationships with the kind, caring staff and quickly settle into their play. Children benefit from a well-planned, broad and stimulating curriculum. They enjoy deep and meaningful learning experiences which staff carefully plan, taking into consideration their individual personalities, likes and dislikes, alongside their learning and development needs. Children make very good progress.
Staff support children's literacy skills very well. Children throughout the nursery develop a love of books. Babies delight in looking at picture books about sea creatures. They recognise the different-sized crabs and identify the bigger crab as the mummy and the smaller crab as the baby. Older children participate in group story time. They confidently discuss the names and roles of the author and illustrator. Children make links as they talk to the group about other stories written by the same individuals. They know storylines well and excitedly join in as they sing and repeat phrases about the 'smartest giant in town'. Children extend their own learning and express their ideas as they tell staff they would like to create a
'city of giants'. Staff acknowledge their request and provide children with a wide range of craft materials to create their own giant which they proudly display in the book corner.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - provide children with even more experiences to fully support their awareness of technology and the digital world in which they live n enhance staffs' understanding of how to support children who speak English as an additional language to further support their communication and language skills.
- 19 August 2022Good
- 1 June 2016Good
- 11 February 2016Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Happylands Private Day Nursery
- 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.
- Is £75.00 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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