Old Dairy Farm Nursery
Ofsted report card Dec 2025Takes funded hours★ 4.4 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Petersfield for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. £81.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Inspected under Ofsted's new report card in December 2025. Open since 2017, with 90 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year, minimum 2 days a week.
| Age | Full day | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £81.00School day or School Day (8am–4pm) £97.008am–6pm | £10.35Additional hours or Additional non-funded hours |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £25.00 settling sessionsTwo settling sessions required
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £1.50 a session Breakfast
- £3.00 a session Snacks
- £3.25 a session Tea
- £4.00 a session Nappies, wipes, etc
- £4.75 a session Hot Lunch
- £10.00 Parent events such as Bonfire night / Sports Dayper person
- £10.35 per 15 minutes Early drop off & late pick up
- £10.35 per 15 minutes Additional 30-min slots (7:30–8:00 or 6:00–6:30)
- £14.00 a session Enhanced Provision
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £2.75 to £2.90 an hour service fee
- £2.75 an hour enhanced provision chargefor every funded hour claimed
- £2.90 an hour per funded hour
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
9 months to 5 year-old funding; 15 hour per week funding; 30 hour per week funding for eligible children aged 3 & 4.
Worth knowing. Service fee £2.90 per funded hour (or £2.75 per funded hour in the funded-only option); maximum 11hrs per week for 15-hour funding and 22hrs per week for 30-hour funding due to stretched funding over 51 weeks; funded-only option has no private hours or extras, days allocated each term, two settling sessions required, parent events chargeable, no access to Famly app, parents may not supply food.
What childcare usually costs in Hampshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Hampshire 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
GU32 3PBWhat Ofsted found, area by area
Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard in each of seven areas rather than one overall grade. Expected standard means it is doing what it should.
What 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.
- 3 December 2025Report card seven areas graded separately Safeguarding: Met
- 27 May 2021Good
Still missing for Old Dairy Farm 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 £81.00 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.
- 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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