Octopus Children's Daycare
GoodBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Burnham-On-Sea for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2024. Open since 2008, with 28 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Somerset
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Somerset 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
TA8 1JDWhat 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, 13 November 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy, engaged and confident in the setting. They have good relationships with the staff and enjoy their interactions. Children settle quickly and are eager to take part in the activities. They demonstrate how emotionally secure they feel. They have a good understanding of the staff's expectations, such as hanging their coats up and helping to tidy up and prepare tables for snack.
Staff make full use of the available outdoor space, ensuring that children who prefer to learn outdoors have good opportunities to experience all areas of the curriculum. Children are active learners. For example, young children enjoy scooping and pouring rice. Older children use scarves to make large arm movements, and manipulate dough, building their muscles ready for writing.
Leaders and staff plan an ambitious curriculum, which they implement well, focusing successfully on embedding children's prime areas of development.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- focus staff development on providing greater support for children to understand their emotions and enable older children to learn to resolve conflict for themselves n improve adult-planned art and craft activities, to extend children's creativity and challenge older children's learning more effectively.
- 13 November 2024Good
- 29 January 2019Good
- 10 July 2018Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Octopus Children's Daycare
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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