Iford Bridge Nursery & Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Bournemouth for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 05:00, 5 days a week. £52.00 a day for 2 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2025. Open since 2013, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
49 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under two yearsbirth to 2y | £54.00School Day £63.00All day | £20.00non funded £41.00Morning or Afternoon | |
| Over two years2y to 5y | – | £18.00non funded | |
| 2 years2y to 3y | £52.00School Day £61.00All day | £39.00Morning or Afternoon | |
| 3 years+3y to 5y | £51.00School Day £58.00All day | £38.00Morning or Afternoon |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £12.00 a session Additional end of day session
Funded hours
Universal funding covers: 10 or 15 hours per week depending on a child’s attendance; Extended 30 hour funding covers: 23 or 30 hours per week depending on a child’s attendance.
Worth knowing. Funded children can have 15 hours per week term time only or 10 hours per week which will be stretched throughout the year.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
BH6 5RGWhat 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, 15 January 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily and are warmly greeted by staff, who know them well. The nursery focuses on promoting children's personal, social and emotional development to help children learn to make friends and enhance their well-being.
Staff model kindness and good manners, and children mirror this when talking to their friends. For example, children apologise and make sure that their friends are okay after bumping into them. This demonstrates that children are developing an understanding of the potential impact of their own behaviour on others. Staff support children's communication skills well. For example, they extend children's language by adding new words as they play and repeat back their speech to support their pronunciation.
Children learn to take responsibility for small tasks to help promote a sense of responsibility and belonging. For example, children help to set up the table for mealtimes, put out the chairs and distribute the plates. Children develop their independence in preparation for school. They learn to put on their own coats, pour their own drinks and use cutlery confidently. Children enjoy fresh air and exercise, which helps to keep them fit and healthy. They develop their motor skills as they balance on equipment and dig in the mud with tools. Children make good progress from their starting points and are well prepared for the next stage in their education, including school.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to more confidently implement the curriculum, with particular regard to adapting practice to develop and extend children's interests n strengthen the monitoring of staff's practice to precisely identify areas for development to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level.
- 15 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 9 May 2019Good
- 8 March 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Iford Bridge Nursery & Pre-School
- Youngest age taken
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 £52.00 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.
- 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.
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