Munchkins Kindergarten Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Spalding for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 07:00 to 17:45, 5 days a week. £6.50 an hour for 9 months to 4 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2022. Open since 2007, with 70 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Children aged 9 months to 4 years attending for 30 hours per week term time only (1140 hours per year) offer will be offered up to 4 funded days per week of 0845-1615. Any additional hours will be charged at £6.50 per hour.
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 hours EYE funded places aged 2, 3, 4; 30 hour funded places for children aged 9 months to 4 years.
Worth knowing. 15 hours: only 2 full days 0845-1615, food and snacks £6 per day, no stretched hours. 30 hours: up to 4 funded days per week 0845-1615 term time only, or stretched offer of 22.5 hours per week for 50 weeks with up to 3 funded days per week; additional hours charged at £6.50 per hour; food costs £6 per day.
What childcare usually costs in Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lincolnshire 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
PE11 2XAWhat 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, 17 March 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are busy, engaged and happy in this welcoming, inclusive kindergarten.
Staff instinctively know each individual child's needs. They recognise when babies are tired and when toddlers may need to go outdoors to explore in the fresh air.
Children enjoy the changes staff make to activities that bring a sense of wonder and exploration. For example, when digging in the vegetable patch, the discovery of a worm delights children and renews their focus. They take turns to hold it.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- target staff one-to-one meetings to raise the quality of education to the highest level n embed independence skills in daily activities, so children develop the skills they need for the future.
- 17 March 2022Good
- 25 August 2016Good
- 9 October 2012Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Munchkins Kindergarten Ltd
- 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 £6.50 an hour 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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