Pendley Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Tring for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £57.50 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2023. Open since 2020, with 55 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year, price list dated 1st April 2024.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £57.50School Day £81.50 | £6.00Breakfast Club £43.50Afternoon, 5 hrs £46.50Morning, 5 hrs |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £100.00 Registration feenot refundable
- £150.00 Registration depositrefundable
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £8.00 a session Care Pack - Afternoonfunded places, includes meals, snacks, consumables and activities
- £11.00 a session Care Pack - Morningfunded places, includes meals, snacks, consumables and activities
- £14.00 a session Care Pack - School Dayfunded places, includes meals, snacks, consumables and activities
- £19.00 a session Care Pack - Full Dayfunded places, includes meals, snacks, consumables and activities
Discounts
- £395.00 a week One Week of FREE Childcare for New Startersnew registrations made between 1 February and 31 May 2026
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
We support Government funded childcare and Government funded Tax Tree Childcare. For Government funding, we apply a 'stretched offer' by default - which means funded hours are averaged out over 51 weeks of the year (meaning that school holiday periods are covered).
Worth knowing. For funded places we charge for a Care Pack each session which covers meals, snacks, consumables and activities. Price are: Full Day: £19.00, School Day £14.00, Morning £11.00, Afternoon £8.00. Access to funded childcare is not conditional on the purchase of Care Packs, although these are strongly recommended due to their value and contribution to our quality led approach and offering.
What childcare usually costs in Hertfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Hertfordshire 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
HP23 5NSWhat 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 November 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff know their key children well and are warm, kind and supportive. Children form close bonds with staff and feel safe and secure at nursery. Babies show that they feel safe as they climb onto a staff member's lap for a cuddle. Older children arrive happily to find interesting resources that staff have set out for them. Staff encourage children to be creative and explain their ideas. For example, children use boxes to create castles, building tall towers. They draw windscreen wipers on their towers and confidently state that this is because it is raining today. Staff challenge children to try and do more as they ask children how they can make their tower taller. Children find extra boxes to build further and compare their towers.
Children are confident and curious. They know where they can find familiar resources and are eager to speak with visitors. They fetch their favourite books and bring these to visitors to read, acting out the story with enthusiasm. They clearly know and love the story, as they join in with familiar phrases. Reading is a regular occurrence at nursery and staff provide children with easy access to stories that they return to again and again.
Staff know and understand children's needs, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They monitor children's development closely and address any concerns about potential delay swiftly to help close any gaps.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- continue to develop staff practice to promote more consistent support for children, and more effectively accommodate children's choices n support staff who work with babies to make sensory experiences more accessible for babies.
- 21 November 2023Good
- 23 May 2023Inadequate
- 18 October 2022Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Pendley Day Nursery
- 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 £57.50 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.
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