Highnam Day Nursery
GoodBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Gloucester for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £76.00 a day for 4 months - 24 months. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2004, with 42 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 months - 24 months4m to 2y | £76.00 | £44.00Morning or Afternoon, 5 hrs | £11.00Flexible hourly | |
| 24 months - 36 months2y to 3y | £72.00 | £39.00Morning or Afternoon, 5 hrs | £11.00Flexible hourly | |
| 36 month +3y to 5y | £70.00 | £37.00Morning or Afternoon, 5 hrs | £11.00Flexible hourly |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £10.50 a session Early start
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
What childcare usually costs in Gloucestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Gloucestershire 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
GL2 8DHWhat 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 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and enjoy their time at nursery. Staff are friendly and kind.
They eagerly welcome children and their parents when they arrive. The managers and staff have high expectations for all children. They provide a welcoming and interesting environment and children confidently make their own choices about what they would like to play with. Staff deploy themselves well so that they are readily on hand to support children's play and learning. Babies enjoy listening to familiar stories. They eagerly find plastic animals to match what they see in the story, and they excitedly copy the sounds that the animals make. The oldest children have good friendships in the nursery. They enjoy playing imaginatively together. They create maps and work together to follow their maps using magnifying glasses to find the treasure.
Leaders and staff have good procedures in place to keep children safe. For instance, staff recognise that the garden can be too hot for children at certain times of the day, so they carefully consider when it is safe to take children outdoors to play. Children behave well. They listen and follow the rules in the nursery and staff set clear and consistent boundaries to help children know what is expected of them.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- continue to develop the implementation of the curriculum, particularly in the older babies and toddler rooms n further develop the good partnerships with parents, to gather more information and help the older children to settle when they first attend the nursery.
- 26 June 2024Good
- 29 August 2018Good
- 24 October 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Highnam Day Nursery
- Funded hours
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 £76.00 a day still the rate? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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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