North Star Nursery Ltd
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Swindon for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £71.50 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2022. Open since 1992, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated 1st of April 2025.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £24.00Holiday Club £26.00Holiday Club £71.50All day | £50.50Half-day (am or pm) |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £1.50 Afternoon Tea
- £2.00 2 Course Hot LunchHoliday Club
- £2.00 2 Course lunch
Discounts
- 10% Discounted price for older siblingsolder siblings, non-funded sessions
Funded hours
15 or 30 hours of funding, Stretched funding over 49 weeks.
Worth knowing. 15 or 30 hours delivered over 38 weeks, max 10 hours a day; stretched funding over 49 weeks reduces 30 hours to 23.16 hours per week, max 9.45 hours a day.
What childcare usually costs in Swindon
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Swindon 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
SN2 1FLWhat 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, 19 August 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children thrive in this warm and welcoming nursery. They build strong relationships with their key persons. Staff offer all children lots of praise and reassurance. This helps them to feel safe and secure to freely explore the environment around them.
For example, the babies explore the garden. They move away from staff and discover a water tray. They make sounds and point to the tray to gain the staff's attention and to engage them in their play. The older children help choose the preschool rules and boundaries. This supports the children to feel empowered to uphold these rules. For example, older children remind each other of the rule to not touch the flowers on the table or they might die. They tell staff when these rules are not being followed.
Children benefit from the large outside garden, which gives them space to be physically active. Younger children climb up small play slides and crawl through tunnels. They roll balls back and forth to each other. Older children run between the trees. They race around on 'stomper stilts' and create obstacle courses. The children extend their play by seeing if they can make it more challenging, while discussing the risks. For example, the children discuss racing on stilts. They discuss how it might be dangerous to run on the playground. They decide to race, walking down the hill on grass as, 'it will be safer'.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consider reviewing the organisation of mealtimes to ensure children are not waiting for too long - further extend opportunities for children to express and represent their own ideas and creativity in planned activities.
- 19 August 2022Good
- 19 September 2016Good
- 20 August 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for North Star Nursery Ltd
- Youngest age taken
- Nappies
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 £71.50 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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