Papplewick Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Nottingham for from 2 years up to school age, open 8am to 6pm. £8.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2022. Open since 1974, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Our hourly rate is £8
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
30 hours per week for working parents of children age 2 and over; 15 hours for all children age 3-4 years.
What childcare usually costs in Nottinghamshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Nottinghamshire 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
NG15 8FBWhat 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, 11 July 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enjoy their time spent together as a group. They respond quickly when they hear the bell chime, showing that they are familiar with the routine. They pause their activities and join with their friends and staff to start the day. Children confidently share their ideas during this social time. They explain to each other the ways they can keep themselves safe in the sun, saying: 'When it's hot you need more drinks.' Children go on to tell their friends that they take vitamins each morning to stay healthy. Staff use this as an opportunity to help all children learn this new word, explaining that 'vitamins' build strong bodies.
Children develop their mathematical learning through many of the activities that they choose to engage in. At the modelling dough table, children make five currant buns and count out the number of cherries that they need to decorate them.
Children work with staff to build a tower from large construction blocks. Staff ask children if the tower is taller or shorter than themselves, and children reply using the mathematical language that they know. Children develop their problem-solving skills. They correctly work out how many more blocks they need in order to build their tower as tall as the tower that their friend has built.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- further develop the organisation of the learning environment to maintain children's focus on learning n consider ways of sharing children's next steps in learning with all staff to maximise teaching opportunities throughout all activities.
- 11 July 2022Good
- 20 September 2021Needs improvement
- 27 April 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Papplewick Pre-School
- 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
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 £8.00 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.
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