Rainbow Kabin Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A pre-school in Oldham for from 2 years up to school age, open 09:00 to 15:45, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2023. Open since 1994, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 hour funded places, split over 5 days; 30 hour funded places offered as 9am - 3pm, Monday to Friday.
Worth knowing. Parents are asked to provide a packed lunch for 30 hour funded places.
What childcare usually costs in Oldham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Oldham 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
OL9 6NNWhat 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.
- 31 March 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 18 April 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children cannot wait to get inside the pre-school when they arrive. They settle quickly and are keen to engage with the positive staff. Children beam with pride as hear their name in the 'hello' song. Staff know their key children well and interact positively with them. As children become interested in their shadows, staff join in and make large hand movements to show children their moving shadows. Children are happy and feel safe.
Children engage positively and concentrate for long periods of time as they play in the well-planned indoor and outdoor areas. They enthusiastically say 'the flowers are so beautiful' as they explore the wide range of exciting resources on offer.
Children develop their problem-solving skills and resilience as they find different ways of removing the toy animals that are trapped in ice. Children make connections in their learning. For example, as children look at books, they run to find the toy animals that match the animals in the pictures. All children are developing positive attitudes to learning and making good progress.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff's understanding of how to adapt their practice in the moment, to help children make the highest levels of progress.
- 18 April 2023Good
- 1 July 2019Good
- 10 June 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Rainbow Kabin Pre-School
- 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.