Prime Time 3
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Birmingham for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2023. Open since 2023, with 52 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 Hours Disadvantage Funding; 15 Hours Funding for 2-Year-Olds (Eligible Families); Universal 15 Hours Funding (Ages 3–4); 30 Hours Funding (Working Families) for children aged 9 months - 4 years; EYPP; DAF.
Worth knowing. Prime Time Nurseries does not require parents to purchase additional hours, meals, snacks or services as a condition of accessing a funded place. Additional sessions, snacks and meals are optional and priced separately; all prices for additional sessions, snacks, and meals will be clearly explained during your nursery viewing, sign up and when completing the nursery agreement and contract.
What childcare usually costs in Birmingham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Birmingham 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
B36 8LNWhat 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, 9 August 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are confident at this nursery. They explore the environment with familiarity and follow well-established routines. Older children take part in creating their own passport as part of a summer holiday themed activity. They draw themselves and describe the clothes they are wearing in the picture. They talk about the things they need to go on holiday and confidently suggest ideas such as sun hats and sun cream. Children talk about these items keeping them safe in the sun and stopping them from burning. Staff build on children's knowledge and talk to them about using a passport to go through security when going on an aeroplane. Children recall places they have been on holiday and talk about building sandcastles and going in the 'cold' sea.
Babies and toddlers show interest as they explore the texture of oats. They use spoons and other equipment to repeatedly fill pots with oats and watch them fall as they tip the oats out again. They develop their hand-eye coordination as they hold dolls and carefully collect oats on a spoon to feed them. Children say they are
'feeding the baby' and watch as the oats fall into the doll's mouth from the spoon.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the key-person system to ensure staff know their key children's learning targets when children transition to new rooms n focus staff training more precisely to help staff understand the development stages of the age of children they work with.
- 9 August 2023Good
Still missing for Prime Time 3
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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