Red Room Pre-School Annex
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Radstock for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 07:45 to 16:30, 5 days a week. £7.85 an hour for 2-year-olds, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2025. Open since 2005, with 23 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-year-olds2y to 3y | – | £7.852-year-olds | |
| 3-4-year-olds3y to 4y | – | £5.953-4-year-olds | |
| All ages | £6.20Full Breakfast Club | – |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £3.10 a session Short Breakfast Club Session
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Funded places for eligible children from the age of 2 years, 15 or 30 hours of funded childcare.
Worth knowing. Early years funding cannot be used towards the cost of Breakfast Club.
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
BA3 4LLWhat 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, 9 September 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children happily arrive at this pre-school. They build good bonds with staff and new children settle easily. Staff are caring and respond to children's needs and interests with enthusiasm, supporting their well-being very effectively. Parents say that the pre-school is a very nurturing environment for the children. Children develop their social skills and start to build friendships. Older boys imaginatively play together, discussing their ideas and cooperating well as they scoop up and transfer sand with a digger and then dump this in the toy truck. Younger girls start to independently share items and interact with each other as they play with dough.
Staff form their curriculum carefully, focusing this on children's learning needs and interests. Staff promote children's literacy development very effectively. Children learn to recognise and find their labelled name tag when they arrive and their 'pen box'. Children choose a book to take home to share with parents and story time inspires children's interest in books. Staff skilfully use associated activities to build children's skills in other aspects. For example, older children discuss their families proudly, including baby siblings. They make marks and draw suitable shapes to form pictures of them, prompted by staff's reading them a story about families.
Children explore making marks in other interesting ways. Staff thoughtfully set out resources to inspire them as they play. Children create treasure maps in the pirate ship outside and use these in their imaginative play. Children are developing into confident, independent learners and gaining useful skills in readiness for the next stage of their education.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consistently adapt teaching and support, to ensure children's continued engagement and learning and develop their skills as high as possible n more clearly outline and implement support for new staff and those new to their role, following the curriculum more carefully and providing consistently highquality experiences for children.
- 9 September 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 20 January 2020Outstanding
- 3 December 2015Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Red Room Pre-School Annex
- 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 £7.85 an hour 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.