Jigsaw Preschool
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Crewkerne for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 16:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2016, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Free early learning for three and four year olds and eligible 2 year olds. All three and four year olds are entitled to 15 hours of free preschool education for 38 weeks of the year or 570 hours a year if 'stretched'. Working parents of three and four year olds may be eligible for up to 30 hours a week funded childcare. Eligible two-year-olds are entitled to two-year-old funding, up to 15 hours fr.
What childcare usually costs in Somerset
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Somerset 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
TA18 8DAWhat 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, 21 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and eager to enter this friendly pre-school. They settle easily to play with their friends. Children form very positive relationships with the welcoming, reassuring staff, helping them thrive and feel safe in their care. Staff are keen to help children achieve through their play. They provide a broad curriculum of motivating play experiences that build on children's interests and skills. This helps all children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, to make good progress. Staff carefully consider how to spend any additional funding children receive to support their individual care and learning needs. Children behave very well. They benefit from the frequent praise staff give them and show pride in their achievements.
Children enjoy learning about numbers and are eager to count. For example, they have fun playing a dice game. Children throw the dice enthusiastically and count the spots on top of it. They quickly look for the written number that matches this.
Older children talk confidently to staff about numbers of personal significance, such as the ages of their siblings, and they start to look at numbers higher than 10.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the monitoring of staff practice to support all the learning needs of the quieter and less confident children consistently well n make even better use of resources, such as in the role-play and outdoor areas, to challenge children's learning and support their spontaneous interests even further.
- 21 June 2024Good
- 28 September 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Jigsaw Preschool
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- What does it cost, all in? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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