Puddleducks Under Fives Ltd
GoodBirth to 5Open a few years
A day nursery in Telford for children from birth to 5, open 08:45 to 14:45, 5 days a week. £42.00 a day. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2023. Open since 2022, with 26 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £42.00 | £21.00Morning, 3 hrs |
Where this came from
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What childcare usually costs in Telford and Wrekin
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Telford and Wrekin 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
TF4 2PRWhat 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 October 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and generally settled. They enjoy their time at the setting. Staff use children's interests and their next steps to help plan a range of stimulating activities. This helps to ensure all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), thrive at the setting. Children enjoy their time outside. They use a range of different movements as they climb and balance on the play equipment. Children work well together. For instance, they help each other make it across the obstacle course. Children regularly seek out staff when they are in need of assistance. Staff share key information with other settings children are due to attend. This helps to ensure children receive consistency in their care and/or learning.
Children are provided with lots of opportunities to test out their ideas and make predictions. They enjoy the cause and effect as they add different materials together to make their own play dough. Staff have lots of discussions with the children about what else they need to add when the mixture is 'too watery'. They also encourage children to use a range of their senses as they add different smells and spices to the mixture. Children show lots of concentration as they play. For instance, when they stack using the blocks or when they are attempting to fit puzzle pieces together. Staff are on hand to assist the children where required.
Children enjoy sensory activities, such as paint play. They use the different brushes and their fingers to explore the paint. That said, staff are not consistent with how they manage children's behaviour. This does not support all children to start to understand right from wrong.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - support staff to manage children's behaviour in a consistent manner, to help children understand right from wrong n review and strengthen the arrangements for how staff settle children to further promote children's well-being n enhance the organisation of activities, to enable all children to become fully submerged in the learning experiences on offer.
- 9 October 2023Good
- 8 June 2023Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Puddleducks Under Fives Ltd
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £42.00 a day still the rate? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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.
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