Jack and Jill's Day Nursery
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A day nursery in Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £5.00 a session, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2022. Open since 2008, with 93 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
50 weeks a year.
| Age | Session | Weekly | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £5.00Early bird 7:30 to 8:00 | £700.00two days a week | £475.2530 hours funding £541.9230 hours funding £683.5830 hours funding £891.9230 hours funding |
Funded hours
30 hours funding for eligible children from 9 months, 15 hours funding for government-supported 2-year-olds, 15 hours universal funding for 3- and 4-year-olds.
Worth knowing. To access funded hours over 50 weeks, children must attend a minimum of 20 hours per week, which must include either a Monday or a Friday.
What childcare usually costs in Hertfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Hertfordshire 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
HP2 7HYWhat 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, 13 April 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enjoy the time at the nursery and demonstrate a positive attitude to their learning. They receive consistent praise for their efforts and achievements, which develops their confidence and motivates them to continue to persevere at their chosen activity. Younger children develop their hand-to-eye coordination as they scoop and pour water from one container to another. Children smile and laugh as they join in with action rhymes, clapping, jumping, turning round and waving their arms. Younger children develop their early writing skills as they paint and make marks on the chalk board. Some older children write their names on their imaginary passports and proceed to use them to check into the pretend airport.
Children enjoy being physically active in the fresh air. Babies enjoy swinging on the swing. Younger children learn to climb the steps of the slide and manoeuvre wheeled toys. Older children gain a practical understanding of safety. For example, they use the obstacle course and assess whether they can climb and jump safely.
Older children use their good language skills as they describe how they will bake the 'chocolate cake' they are making at the mud kitchen. They discuss how to decorate it with icing and strawberries and proceed to find pinecones to use as the strawberries. Children enjoy experimenting. For example, they paint the shed with water and successfully work out that the water makes the shed look darker, and this then goes lighter when the water dries.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance the use of professional development opportunities to focus more precisely on building staff's knowledge and understanding, in order to continually raise the quality of teaching n support staff further in following daily routines while still recognising and allowing children time to enable children to develop and complete activities they are enjoying.
- 13 April 2022Good
- 3 November 2017Good
- 7 April 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Jack and Jill's Day Nursery
- Meals
- 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 £5.00 a session 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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