Newquay Pre-school and Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.4 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Newquay for babies from 6 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:45 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £6.10 an hour for under five’s, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2023. Open since 2016, with 65 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under five’sbirth to 5y | – | £6.10Under five’s | |
| Under three’sbirth to 3y | – | £6.30Under three’s | |
| Under two’sbirth to 2y | – | £6.40Under two’s | |
| All ages | £51.70non funded children only | – |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £2.00 Tea time mealsincludes main and a pudding
- £3.00 Cooked dinnersincludes main meal and pudding
Funded hours
9 month, two year and three/4 year funding, including 30 hours funding.
What childcare usually costs in Cornwall
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cornwall 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
TR7 2BUWhat 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.
- 15 September 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 10 July 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are curious about the world around them. Babies explore their environment with confidence. They crawl over a wooden ramp and move around furniture to build on their core strength. Toddlers search for insects and like to listen to the wind blowing in the garden. Pre-school children watch the rain fall onto their umbrellas. They watch a spider walk across their hands. Children learn in a safe and secure environment.
Staff establish children's starting points in conjunction with parents when they start at the setting. They build on what children know and can do from this. Staff plan experiences for children based on their interests. For example, pre-school children show an interest in butterflies. Staff bring in real caterpillars for the pre-school children to observe and care for. Children learn about the life cycle of a caterpillar.
They look after them and check on them every day. Staff use this experience for pre-school children to develop a deeper understanding of being kind.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- improve communication and language strategies used with toddlers to help them practise their language skills and build their vocabulary n continue to embed systems for the training, supervision and monitoring of staff in the toddler room to help staff further toddlers' learning effectively.
- 10 July 2023Good
- 9 January 2019Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Newquay Pre-school and Nursery
- 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 £6.10 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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