Montagu Square Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in St. Neots for babies from 9 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £73.15 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 1999, with 35 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
52 weeks a year, price list dated April 2026.
| Age | Full day | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £73.15School Day £82.00 £86.50 | £8.50Additional Hours |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £50.00 registration feewaived for fully funded places
- £100.00 depositwaived for fully funded places, not refundable
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £10.00 per 15 minutes late collection feeafter the end of their agreed session
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £1.50 Snacks
- £1.50 Consumables
- £2.25 Breakfast
- £5.10 Tea
- £6.50 Lunch
- £6.90 an hour Additional Hours
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 & 30 Hours Childcare Support; Children of working parents may be eligible for up to 30 hours of funded childcare per week from the term after they turn 9 months old until they start school. Some 2-year-olds may also qualify for 15 hours, if you are in receipt of certain benefits. All 3 and 4-year-olds who live in England are entitled to 15 hours of funding per week irrespective of income levels.
Worth knowing. On Government funded days, meals, snacks & consumables are voluntary fees, you can choose to provide your own in line with our policies, please contact the office for more information. Funded hours can be taken in line with our unfunded sessions; we do not offer care by the hour. On funded days, hours attended outside the free funded hours are charged at the nurseries’ additional hours rate.
What childcare usually costs in Cambridgeshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cambridgeshire 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
PE19 2TLWhat 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, 9 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children feel comfortable to explore their environment and demonstrate that they are happy as they play. Parents and children are warmly greeted on arrival, and kind and caring staff help to quickly settle children for the day. Babies show particularly close bonds with the staff who care for them. They seek staff out for cuddles and feel relaxed enough to gently fall asleep in their arms.
Children take great delight in participating in the sensory and creative opportunities presented to them. The youngest babies explore snow and rice, developing their hand muscles as they use spoons to stir and scoop. Older babies mix tea bags and hot chocolate powder with water as part of their tea party role play. Children throughout the nursery demonstrate a love of books and enjoy having stories read to them throughout the day, which helps to build on their communication and language. Toddlers independently look at books, adding their own narrative to the pictures they see.
Children are physically active. They ride bicycles and negotiate an obstacle course in the garden. Children are encouraged to be independent. Older children learn to dress and toilet themselves and participate in tasks, such as preparing their own snack and scraping their plates after lunch.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- seek further ways to focus professional development opportunities on enhancing teaching skills and knowledge to a higher level n implement effective procedures for sharing information with other providers that children attend.
- 9 March 2023Good
- 24 August 2017Good
- 30 May 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Montagu Square Day Nursery
- 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 £73.15 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.
- 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.
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