Rock A Tots (UK) Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Plymouth for babies from 4 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2024. Open since 2020, with 79 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Government funding for eligible 9-month-olds, 2-year-olds, and 3- to 4-year-old children.
Worth knowing. Funding offered on a year-round stretched basis, approximately 22 funded hours per week for 51 weeks per year. Parents must apply in the term before it's due to begin and reconfirm eligibility every 3 months. Optional meals and consumables fee charged per funded hour attended.
What childcare usually costs in Plymouth
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Plymouth 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
PL5 3DEWhat 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.
- 17 February 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 9 August 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children show that they feel safe and secure. They put their arms out to staff when they arrive in the morning and enter with big smiles. All children enjoy positive relationships with kind and attentive staff. Pre-school children are polite and respectful. They tell each other 'sharing is caring'. Toddlers learn good manners from staff and say 'please' when they ask for something. Staff teach babies how to say 'thank you' by using hand signs. Babies copy these and use them when communicating with staff.
There is a well-designed curriculum that successfully builds on children's personal, social and emotional development. Children gain a wider understanding of their emotions and other people's feelings. For example, pre-school children look at
'emotion pebbles' to help explain how they feel. Staff provide meditation sessions and 'sound baths' for pre-school children to help promote good mental health. As a result, staff notice that these children learn to self-regulate their emotions.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- manage group activities to keep all toddlers focused, so they can extend their learning further n develop staff's knowledge and understanding of how to develop all toddlers'
communication and language skills, so toddlers can learn new vocabulary and communicate effectively.
- 9 August 2024Good
- 4 August 2021Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Rock A Tots (UK) Ltd
- 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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