Little Orchard Montessori Nursery - Woodlands
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Ivybridge for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2022. Open since 2014, with 26 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
All families with children aged three and four years, and some families with children aged 9 months, are entitled to Government funding to attend early years provision.
Worth knowing. A £1.20 per hour Food & Nutrition Charge applies to all funded hours (also stated as £1.30 per hour). All children need to attend either a morning or afternoon session. Little Orchard Montessori Nurseries offer term time-only spaces for two-year-olds and over three's if required.
What childcare usually costs in Devon
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Devon 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
PL21 9TFWhat 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.
- 16 June 2022Good
- 21 September 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Orchard Montessori Nursery - Woodlands
- What it costs
- 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Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date.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.
- What does it cost, all in? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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