Rainbow Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Frome for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £50.40 a session, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2022. Open since 2008, with 44 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year, price list dated April 2026.
| Age | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| All ages | £50.409am-3pm, 6 hrs £58.809am-4pm or 8am-3pm, 7 hrs £67.209am-5pm or 8am-4pm, 8 hrs £75.608am-5pm or 9am-6pm, 9 hrs £84.008am-6pm, 10 hrs |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £2.00 a day Teachildren who are booked in after 4pm
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £0.80 a session Activities packagefunded sessions, includes cooking, gardening, events, celebration gifts
- £1.00 a day snacksfunded sessions
- £1.00 a session IT packagefunded sessions
- £3.00 a session Additional services fee totalfunded sessions
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours a week Government Funded Sessions.
Worth knowing. Additional services fee of £3 per session applies to funded sessions; parents can opt out by contacting the office.
What childcare usually costs in Somerset
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Somerset 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
BA11 1QRWhat 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, 10 March 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily and are ready to play and learn. They benefit from the welcoming environment and share warm and close relationships with staff and one another. Children are eager to explore, whether they are playing with conkers or finding out what happens when they use water and brushes to paint the wall outside. Children enjoy a wide range of interesting activities and experience a broad curriculum. Children's behaviour is good. They take it in turns to climb a step ladder to play in the playhouse or use the slide. They patiently wait their turn for the swing. Parents are very complimentary about the staff and what they provide at the nursery. They appreciate the good communication and comment that their children are making good progress and have grown in confidence.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursery has remained open. Managers and leaders maintained good contact with the families of those children not attending. They provided seeds for the families and had a growing competition.
They had a 'bake off', where parents posted pictures of the bakes they had made at home with their children. They provided videos of the staff reading stories to help children feel included.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide more opportunities for children to count and use numbers, particularly in everyday routines n support staff to develop further strategies to engage children more consistently in adult-led group activities.
- 10 March 2022Good
- 20 September 2016Good
- 22 November 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Rainbow Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £50.40 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.
- 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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