Nursery Rhymes
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Cheltenham for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £92.00 a day for 0-3 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2022. Open since 2014, with 70 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated 2026.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-3 yr oldsbirth to 3y | £92.00 | £46.00AM/PMs | £9.20for privately paid hours | |
| 3-5yr olds3y to 5y | £87.00 | £43.50AM/PMs | £8.70for privately paid hours |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £100.00 deposit to book your placenot refundable
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £0.50 to £3.50 a session Activity charge
- £2.00 to £7.00 a session Non-food consumable
- £3.50 to £8.50 a session Food consumable
- £7.50 to £16.00 a session Total
Discounts
- 10% Sibling discount (on sessions attended together)2 children
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Working Parent Funding entitlement.
Worth knowing. Parents can choose to ‘opt out’ of consumable fees but will need to provide everything normally included and follow our strict packed food policy.
What childcare usually costs in Gloucestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Gloucestershire 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
GL53 0NRWhat 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, 21 February 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive with beaming smiles to a warm welcome from staff at this rural setting. Babies reach out for staff and snuggle in for cuddles when leaving parents.
Relationships are warm, open and caring. Children demonstrate that they feel loved, safe and respected through these reciprocal interactions. This has a positive impact on their behaviour and emotional well-being. Children learn how to be kind to animals and living things. When a child picks up a worm, staff explain that the worm is all curled up in his hand because he is frightened, and say, 'If you stroke him gently, he will uncurl and stretch out'. The child gently strokes the worm, which unfurls in his palm.
Staff plan and provide activities that reflect children's interests. They capture moments of learning and react to children's spontaneous comments. A child remarks that, 'It's been a massive storm outside'. Staff create a representation of a storm in a large crate. They fill it with water and cover it in foam to represent the stormy skies. Children are given pipettes which they squeeze into the foam. As paint trickles through the 'cloud' it disperses, colouring the water beneath. They explain that weight of the paint is heavier so it sinks to the bottom and leaves a trail in its wake. Once the water is saturated with blue dye, children add red paint and say, 'Wow, it's a massive volcano'. They splatter the foam, giggling with glee as the volcano 'erupts'. Staff expertly support children, facilitating play and building on what they know.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- further review the organisation of the toddler room to ensure a well-planned learning environment n implement existing action plans in a more timely manner to maximise children's learning n support staff to model the correct pronunciation of letter sounds to children, to further support early reading skills.
- 21 February 2022Good
- 26 July 2016Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Nursery Rhymes
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £92.00 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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