Little Acorns Pre-School Moulton
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Long established
A pre-school in Northampton for babies from 9 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 16:15, 5 days a week. £5.00 a session, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2025. Open since 2017, with 32 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Term time only, 38 weeks a year.
| Age | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| All ages | £5.00After School Club £6.00Breakfast Club £20.00Morning or Afternoon |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £20.00 Late payment feelate payment of privately paid for sessions unless an agreement is in
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £0.50 a day Non-Food Consumablesper morning and afternoon session
- £0.50 a session Activities and Resourcesper morning and afternoon session
- £1.00 a day Snack and Food Consumablesper morning and afternoon session
- £2.00 a session Consumable chargecompulsory for all privately paid for sessions and voluntary for all
- £3.50 a session Lunch Session
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 hours for 3- and 4-year-olds, 30 hours Working Parents Entitlement, and Free Childcare and Education for 2-year-olds.
Worth knowing. No hourly top up rates; consumable charge is voluntary for Government Funded sessions; Monday Morning and Monday Lunch Sessions are privately paid when accessing above 30 hours government funding.
What childcare usually costs in West Northamptonshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in West Northamptonshire 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
NN3 7AXWhat 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, 18 September 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff create a welcoming atmosphere, where children are happy and settled.
Children arrive excited and eager to start their day. Staff know their key children well and form good bonds with them. Children display positive attitudes to their learning. They select where they want to learn from the range of activities that staff carefully plan for them. For example, children spend an extended time making cakes using conkers in the mud kitchen. They talk with their friends, counting how many cakes they each have in their pan. Children are confident to ask for support from all the staff, showing they feel safe and secure in their care.
Staff are excellent role models. They support children to build caring and respectful relationships. At group time, staff remind children to listen to each other as they reflect on what they have learned during the morning. Staff support young children to share toys as they play in the sand tray. Older children wait patiently for their friends to climb the ladder as they take turns to go down the slide. Children learn the pre-school expectations and follow instructions well. For example, children tidy up when staff sound the tambourine and then sit down for group time. Children's behaviour is very good.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support children to manage and assess their own risks during play to further enhance their learning n provide parents with information about their children's progress and how they can support and extend learning at home.
- 18 September 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 5 December 2019Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
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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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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