Little Monsters Childcare
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Gloucestershire for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £65.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2022. Open since 2016, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Full Unfunded Day £65.00 8.00am - 6.00pm
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Funded hours are Available 9.30am – 2.30pm Monday to Thursday. Funded hours are not available on a Friday. Funded hours are available term time only; we do not offer stretched funding. This means that funding is available for 38 weeks a year, offered in the same structure as school terms, but does not include 5 inset days that schools are afforded.
Worth knowing. Snack on Funded Day £1.00; Lunch on Funded Day £2.00; parents may supply their own snack and lunch following government nutrition guidelines and no nuts.
What childcare usually costs in Gloucestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Gloucestershire 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
GL2 4PYWhat 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, 8 February 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
All the children get the chance to play together at the start and end of the day.
They form good relationships with staff and each other. Younger children explore the large open-plan play spaces indoors. They practise physical skills, such as climbing steps to low-level slides or crawling across different textures on the floor.
They use their senses as they sit in a tray with rice. Staff encourage them to feel the rice with their fingers, use spoons to fill containers and then let the rice trickle out. They talk with children about the sounds as it 'patters' back into the tray.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- improve ways in which less-experienced staff interact with children to enhance learning n consider alternative communications methods to help children and parents'
understanding n continue to build on ways of working with other professionals to support children's development.
- 8 February 2022Good
- 28 February 2019Good
- 15 March 2018Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Monsters Childcare
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £65.00 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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