Rainbow Pre-School & Extended Services
OutstandingTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Biggleswade for from 2 years up to school age, open 07:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in November 2022. Open since 2014, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
What childcare usually costs in Central Bedfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Central Bedfordshire 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
SG18 0LYWhat 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, 7 November 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children flourish in this nurturing learning environment. They start their day spending quality time with their key person, sharing experiences from home. They learn to recognise the days of the week and their names. Children and families form strong bonds with practitioners, enabling them to feel extremely safe and secure.
The deeply embedded curriculum excites and motivates children. Staff provide excellent teaching and learning opportunities. For example, children learn to use real-life equipment in the home corner. They enthusiastically count Brussels sprouts and chop up courgettes to make soup. Children use their senses as they explore what happens to fruit-flavoured tea bags as they add water to them in the outside kitchen area. Opportunities to develop physical skills are in abundance.
Children enjoy the wide range of climbing equipment and race trikes around the playground.
- 7 November 2022Outstanding
- 24 January 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Rainbow Pre-School & Extended Services
- What it costs
- 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Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date.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.
- 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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