Little Giants Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Carterton for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £7.50 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2021, with 70 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
• Non-Funded or additional hours: £7.50 per hour
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
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Funded hours
Working Families Funding: up to 30 hours per week; 2-Year-Old Funding: up to 15 hours per week; 3 & 4-Year-Old Funding: 15 hours, working families up to 30 hours per week.
Worth knowing. Consumables & Activities Charge of £7.50 per week for children claiming funded hours.
What childcare usually costs in Oxfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Oxfordshire 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
OX18 1BUWhat 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 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and settled at the nursery. Staff are friendly and have established good relationships with the children and their families, which helps children to feel safe and secure. Staff provide a supportive environment for all children to help them grow in confidence and reach their full potential. Children show positive attitudes to their learning. Overall, children behave well. Staff offer regular praise and rewards to children to recognise their efforts. Children have developed close bonds with caring staff. They show staff are important to them as they invite them to join their play and ask for support when necessary.
Children enjoy the activities available to them. Staff plan and provide learning experiences to build on children's interests and support their progress. For example, children's mathematical awareness is supported as they build enclosures for animals and measure spaghetti. Children have fun outside. They develop their physical skills successfully as they explore obstacle courses and take risks as they master ropes on the climbing apparatus. Staff engage purposefully with the children throughout their time at the nursery and incorporate songs, rhymes and stories effectively. Children demonstrate a love of books and enjoy appropriately structured group times to listen to staff read the nursery's core books.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support children to learn how to manage their feelings and promote consistent boundaries for them n assess the impact of mentoring, supervision and improvements made, to build on and help achieve the highest quality practice.
- 13 March 2024Good
- 26 April 2023Needs improvement
- 29 November 2022Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Giants 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 £7.50 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.
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