Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open a few years
A day nursery in Stevenage for from 1 year 6 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2022, with 51 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Funded early education places will be available for eligible children from just 9 months old; up to 30 funded hours per week — either term-time or stretched year-round; Term Time (38 weeks): 15 or 30 funded hours each week; Stretched (50 weeks): 11 hours 24 minutes (if eligible for 15 hours) or 22 hours 48 minutes (if eligible for 30 hours) each week.
Worth knowing. Funded hours do not include the cost of meals. If your child attends during breakfast, lunch, or tea, there is a small daily charge for freshly prepared meals, snacks, and drinks. We ask for a small monthly consumables charge... This contribution is not compulsory for families who are only accessing funded hours. For 30-hour places, you must reconfirm your details every 3 months through your Government Gateway account. If this is not done, your funding may lapse, and sessions will be charged at.
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
SG1 3QAWhat Ofsted said
Last inspected on 7 June 2024.
Good
Ofsted's expected standard. Most settings in England are rated Good.
Still missing for Priory Nursery, Stevenage Old Town
- 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Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date.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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