Playlanders Playgroup (St Georges Church Hall)
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A pre-school in Cambridge for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:15 to 14:00, 3 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2024. Open since 1992, with 25 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Worth knowing. A small extra charge will be made if your child stays for Lunch Club but is not yet receiving Government funding...
What childcare usually costs in Cambridgeshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cambridgeshire 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
CB4 1LNWhat 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, 15 May 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children develop good emotional security and a positive sense of themselves. They mostly come into the playgroup happy, and parents state that their children are keen to attend. Staff implement an effective key-person system to ensure that each child has a named person to take responsibility for their learning and daily wellbeing. They tailor settling-in procedures to the individual needs of each child and their family. Staff plan and deliver an interesting and varied curriculum to support children's learning. Activities are rooted in children's interests and support them well as they prepare for starting school. Children enjoy playing outdoors. They develop their physical skills in the enclosed garden, and are helped to understand safe practices.
Staff engage in the children's play and learning. They support children in purposeful play. Staff chat to the children as they work and promote their developing communication and language skills. Children behave well and play harmoniously together. Any incidents of unwanted behaviour are managed gently and calmly by staff. Children are familiar with the consistent routines. They know what happens next at any point in the day. Staff are good at ensuring that all children are fully included in the routines and activities of the day. Children enthusiastically help to tidy away before moving on to the next part of the day.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to consistently provide the older and most-able children with sufficient challenge and consider the resources they provide to promote this n give children time to complete activities to their own satisfaction and notice of when activities need to change.
- 15 May 2024Good
- 20 June 2018Good
- 4 December 2017Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Playlanders Playgroup (St Georges Church Hall)
- What it costs
- 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.
- What does it cost, all in? 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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