Purley Pre School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Reading for from 2 years up to school age, open 07:30 to 15:15, 7 days a week. £5.00 a session for under 3’s, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2025. Open since 2023, with 28 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Term time only, 38 weeks a year.
| Age | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 3’sbirth to 3y | £5.00Breakfast Club Drop off Club £8.95Breakfast Club Drop off Club £24.90Afternoon or Morning, 3 hrs | |
| Over 3 years old3y to 5y | £8.00Breakfast Club Drop off Club £22.50Afternoon or Morning, 3 hrs |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £4.00 to £4.25 a session Lunch clubfor those not already attending the afternoon session
- £4.50 a session Breakfast Club Drop off Club
Funded hours
Up to 15 or 30 hours of funded early education and childcare over 38 weeks of the year for children aged 2, 3 and 4 years of age.
What childcare usually costs in West Berkshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in West Berkshire 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
RG31 6YGWhat 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, 12 September 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children demonstrate impressive levels of independence, confidence and resilience at this welcoming pre-school. From the outset, leaders and staff build warm, responsive relationships with children. They provide a stimulating, well-resourced learning environment, inside and outside, where children eagerly explore on their own, with friends and alongside enthusiastic staff. Each child's unique personalities and learning styles are recognised and celebrated. For example, while children play hide and seek with staff, they quietly slip under tables, helping one another to arrange chairs around them. They whisper, wondering if they will be discovered.
Staff play along and pretend they do not see them straight away, which makes the hiding children giggle and sparks laughter all around. This joyful atmosphere, where children can express themselves freely, nurtures positive behaviour and fosters a genuine love for learning.
Robust procedures for settling in new children help them quickly become involved in the fun activities. Highly skilled staff motivate these children to try new experiences. They provide impressive support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), those who receive additional funding and children who speak English as an additional language, enabling them to make continuous progress. Children also show compassion towards peers with complex needs, sensitively including them in their play. As a result, children thrive alongside one another and grow into self-assured and competent learners, which creates a truly respectful and nurturing place to be.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance staff's teaching skills further by fully establishing and monitoring effective, individualised coaching, training and mentoring programmes that consistently support children to make the best possible progress.
- 12 September 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
Still missing for Purley Pre School
- Meals
- 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 £5.00 a session 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.