Memorial Hall Playgroup
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A pre-school in Leicester for from 2 years up to school age, open 09:00 to 15:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in December 2023. Open since 1982, with 28 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Funded sessions for eligible two-year-olds and all three and four-year-olds.
What childcare usually costs in Leicestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Leicestershire 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
LE3 8DLWhat 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, 5 December 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enter the welcoming and secure playgroup with a smile and are warmly greeted by friendly staff. They quickly settle as they find their favourite activities.
Staff help children build their vocabulary as they encourage them to recall a story about bears and talk about the characters in the book. Children are helped to develop their small muscles as staff encourage them to scoop up porridge oats and tip them into pans. Staff ask questions to encourage children's thinking, such as
'What else do you think we could add to the porridge'. This helps to develop children's communication skills. Children enjoy the sports coaching sessions that the staff provide. They listen to staff's instructions and respond with delight as they run on the spot and do a series of movements to help develop their coordination, balance, and large-muscle skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to fully challenge children during activities, to help expand children's knowledge and help them build on what they already know and can do n encourage children to complete more tasks independently, to help challenge their existing skills.
- 5 December 2023Good
- 1 February 2018Good
- 12 November 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Memorial Hall Playgroup
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.