Rise and Shine Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Luton for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 08:30 to 16:00, 5 days a week. £6.50 an hour for 2 Year olds, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2023. Open since 2014, with 70 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Term time only, 38 weeks a year.
| Age | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Year olds2y to 3y | £6.50Per 1-Hour | |
| 3 Year olds (additional hours)3y to 4y | £5.75Per 1-Hour |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £3.00 a session 3 Year Olds
- £3.00 a session Early Bird
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 hour funded places, 'Time for 2's' funding, 30 hours of free childcare or early education for 38 weeks.
Worth knowing. Snack payment is £1 a week, taken at the beginning of each term. All 30-hour children will need to be provided with a healthy and nutritional packed lunch.
What childcare usually costs in Luton
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Luton 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
LU3 1AXWhat 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, 18 October 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff help children to settle for their day and enthusiastically greet them. Children instinctively know where to put their coats and quickly become engaged in their learning. Staff support children in their chosen activity. They provide role-play areas that encourage children to engage in imaginary play. Children and staff constantly share ideas and talk about their play. For example, when they are playing 'doctors', staff introduce ideas about stethoscopes and how they help doctors to listen to a heartbeat. Children use a breadth of language to describe the things they are doing in their play.
Staff have established good relationships with the children. They are nurturing and support learning well. Children show good levels of attention as they play. Younger children have fun creating hedgehogs. They stick on paper and use paint to create their own hedgehog design. Older children use their fingers to paint leaves on a tree. Staff help children to recall previous learning. Children talk about the colour of the leaves turning red, orange, brown and yellow, and they explain that these are
'the colours of autumn'. All children make good progress in their development, including those with additional needs. They show positive attitudes to their learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review the organisation of large group times so that all children can become deeply engaged in the rich learning opportunities during this time as they do at other times of the day.
- 18 October 2023Good
- 4 December 2018Outstanding
- 12 April 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Rise and Shine Day Nursery
- Nappies
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 £6.50 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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