Rattlesden Preschool
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A pre-school in Rattlesden for babies from 9 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:15 to 15:15, 5 days a week. £51.00 a day for 9m-2yo, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2023. Open since 2023, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9m-2yo | £51.00All Day | £8.50Breakfast Club, 1 hrs £25.50AM or Lunch & PM, 3 hrs £34.00AM & Lunch, 4 hrs |
Funded hours
Government funding is available for some children from the term after they turn 9 months and for all from the term after they are 3.
What childcare usually costs in Suffolk
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Suffolk 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
IP30 0RJWhat 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.
- 26 May 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 24 May 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive at the pre-school happily and readily go off to find their friends.
They benefit from interesting resources that promote their natural instincts to discover and explore. Staff plan and provide an interesting range of activities, both indoors and outside, that promotes all areas of learning. They pay good attention to planning for outdoors, helping to ensure that those children who learn best from being outside can do so. Children develop the key skills needed to be ready for the next stage of their learning, such as moving on to school. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well, helping to ensure that they make good progress.
When working in small groups, children listen and concentrate well. They are encouraged to snip with scissors as they create their own story books. Staff promote children's communication and language skills well. They provide a running commentary as children work and play. Children develop their physical skills in the well-resourced garden. Staff encourage children to count how many steps they take as they play a popular game together. Children are supported to understand the importance of their personal health needs, such as putting on sun hats when playing outdoors.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop staff skills, so that they extend children's learning and enable them to participate at their own level n improve the organisation of times when all children are sitting together, to support them in developing their ability to listen attentively and concentrate n review the organisation of routine activities, such as snack time, to ensure that children continue to enjoy a good standard of teaching and learning.
- 24 May 2023Good
Still missing for Rattlesden Preschool
- 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 £51.00 a day 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.