Laxfield Pre School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Woodbridge for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:00, 5 days a week. £8.00 an hour for 6 months - 2 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2022. Open since 2017, with 34 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 months - 2 years6m to 2y | £8.00Six months to two years old | |
| 2-3 years2y to 3y | £7.00Two years to three years old | |
| 3-5 years3y to 5y | £7.00Three to five year olds |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £20.00 a day Retainer Feeper day of requested attendance, refundable
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £2.65 Hot lunchif required
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £1.00 a session voluntary consumable charge
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours funded childcare places for children aged 9months to four year olds, subject to eligibility.
Worth knowing. Voluntary consumable charge of £1 per session or £2 per full day.
What childcare usually costs in Suffolk
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Suffolk 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
IP13 8HDWhat 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, 9 June 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children feel safe and secure. They are becoming independent and developing the key skills needed to be ready for school. Children show a good attitude to learning.
Staff mostly organise the session well, to meet children's individual care and learning needs. Overall, children behave well and enjoy staff praise for their individual efforts. Children arrive eagerly and are greeted by friendly and caring staff. Children readily go off to find their friends and choose what they want to do from the varied and interesting range of activities provided for them. Staff store resources well, to enable children to access them independently.
Children who learn best from being outdoors are able to do so. Staff plan for all areas of learning, both indoors and outside. Children enjoy taking part in the
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review and revise the organisation of the transition between routine activities, to ensure that children continue to enjoy a high standard of play, teaching and learning n support staff to plan adult-led activities, so that children who want to participate are able to do so n involve parents in decisions about how the early years pupil premium funding for their children is spent.
- 9 June 2022Good
- 14 July 2021Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Laxfield Pre School
- Nappies
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 £8.00 an hour 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.