Minety Pre-School CIC
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Malmesbury for from 1 year 6 months up to school age, open 09:00 to 15:00, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2015, with 31 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Wiltshire County Council provide 15 hours free, education places for all three and four year olds, for thirty eight weeks of the year. Children become eligible for a funded place from the start of the term after their third birthday. From September eligible working parents will be able to access up to 30 free hours per week (over 38 weeks a year) for children aged 18 months until they start school.
Worth knowing. Eligible parents are required to apply for 30 hour funding, the Pre-School cannot arrange this. Eligible parents are required to apply for this funding, the Pre-School cannot arrange this.
What childcare usually costs in Wiltshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Wiltshire 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
SN16 9QLWhat 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, 11 December 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children benefit from a welcoming and nurturing environment. Staff greet children happily as they arrive ready for their day at pre-school. They make time to talk to parents, where needed, to ensure they are happy leaving their children. Children develop positive relationships with all staff. Staff know what children like and create a safe and secure learning environment for them to explore. Children are confident and well settled.
Leaders have worked hard since the previous inspection to create a broad and ambitious curriculum that they centre around the children's interests and learning needs. Children have recently developed an interest in things that go 'up'. Staff use this interest to create exciting and meaningful learning opportunities for the children to explore this further. For example, children use magnetic bricks to create large structures, and they use their imaginations and critical thinking skills. Some children make tall towers, and others make houses for their toy animals.
Supporting staff ask children how they can make their structure bigger and what shapes might make it stronger.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - provide children with consistent opportunities to develop and practise their large physical movements to enable them to become physically confident and ready for their next stage n use effective strategies consistently to support children to understand the impact their actions may have on themselves and others around them.
- 11 December 2023Good
- 26 January 2023Needs improvement
- 28 June 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Minety Pre-School CIC
- 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.