Little Holland Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Essex for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £53.00 a day for 2+, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2021, though that is 5 years ago now. Open since 2014, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 2sbirth to 2y | £65.50under 2s | £41.004.5 hrs | – | |
| 2+2y to 5y | £53.00School Day (9am – 3pm) £56.50 £58.00School Day++ (8am – 4pm) £65.502+ | £36.00Half Day (8:30am – 12pm or 12:30pm – 4pm), 3.5 hrs | – | |
| School Age Children | – | £7.60Breakfast Club (from 8am and walk to school) £9.80ad-hoc £12.00After School Club (3pm – 5pm), 2 hrs £14.00not available ad-hoc £14.20ad-hoc £14.75After School Club (3pm – 6pm), 3 hrs £16.95ad-hoc | – | |
| All ages | – | – | £11.50Extra Hours |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £1.00 Breakfast 8am – 8:30am
- £1.70 Light Tea at 4:15pm
- £2.70 Lunch at 12(noon)
- £9.50 a session Early Start (7:30am – 8am)subject to availability
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15-hour and 30-hour funded places, some 2-year-olds eligible for 15-hour funding.
Worth knowing. Funding based on 38 weeks per year, can be spread through the year (11 hours a week for 15-hour funding, 22 hours a week for 30-hour funding). Can use funded hours towards most sessions.
What childcare usually costs in Essex
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Essex 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
CO15 5NNWhat 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, 10 June 2021 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enter the nursery excitedly, keen and eager to begin their day of fun and learning. They part from their parents and carers with ease, waving them a cheerful goodbye as they are shown into the nursery building. Children have good relationships with their key person and with the other staff. They chat confidently to them about things from home. Children thoroughly enjoy learning in the exciting and stimulating nursery garden. They enthusiastically pump water through tubes and pipes attached to the new water wall. Children use the interesting selection of laminated pictures to help them in their hunt for insects or to identify flowers and birds. They take great pleasure in sharing their finds. For example, when they spot an insect crawling up the fence, they show the adults and other children what they have found.
Children behave well and are kind and caring towards each other. They form small friendship groups and negotiate roles. Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress from their starting points.
Key persons have high expectations of the children's abilities, based on their thorough knowledge of each child's interests.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff's understanding of using questioning techniques to encourage children to extend their communication and language skills n develop staff's interactions with children to help them to identify when to intervene and focus children on more constructive activities.
- 10 June 2021Good
- 29 April 2019Needs improvement
- 21 February 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Holland Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £53.00 a day 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.
- 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.
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