PATA @ Tiny Tots
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A pre-school in Gloucester for children from birth to 5, open 08:45 to 14:45, 5 days a week. £7.95 an hour for 2 Year Olds, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 2016, with 32 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
2 Year Olds £7.95 per hour
One published rate, dated April 2026. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
2 Year Old: Working Parent Entitilement - 30 Hours - 2 Years; Working Parent Entitlement - 30 Hours - 9 Months to 2 Years; Early Learning for 2 Year Olds - 15 Hours. 3 - 4 Year Old: Working Parent Entitlement - 30 Hours; Universal NEF - 15 Hours.
Worth knowing. You can use your funded entitlements for all core hours (6 per day) with no additional charge, provided you are eligible.
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
GL2 0ATWhat 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, 20 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are warmly greeted by the familiar and friendly staff team. They access a flexible curriculum, which staff carefully plan to meet their interests and individual learning needs. Children display positive attitudes to learning. They choose where they would like to play and quickly become absorbed in the opportunities available.
Older children practise their early literacy skills and display their creativity as they draw pictures. They proudly explain what they have drawn to attentive staff and refer to themselves as an artist, placing their pen behind their ear. Children are independent and display a sense of responsibility. They place their picture in their named tray to take home later that day. Children recognise their name and are beginning to become familiar with routines that will be followed when they move on to school.
Children benefit from meaningful interactions with staff to promote their communication and language skills. They display an understanding of positional language, such as 'in front' and 'behind' as they move a small figure to different places within a space rocket. Children are familiar with number language and accurately predict phrases, such as 'three, two, one, blast off'. They enthusiastically lift a rocket into the air.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to focus more precisely on the intentions for children's learning when planning activities to build on children's knowledge and skills in more meaningful ways n gather more information from parents about children's language at home and provide further experiences for children to hear and use this in the setting to support their sense of self and enhance their learning.
- 20 June 2023Good
- 1 November 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for PATA @ Tiny Tots
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- 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 £7.95 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.
- 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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