Shine Bright Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open a few years
A day nursery in Swindon for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £7.00 an hour for under 3, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in January 2025. Open since 2024, with 200 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
50 weeks a year.
| Age | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 3birth to 3y | £7.00Children aged under 3 | |
| Over 33y to 5y | £6.00Children aged over 3 |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £1.00 a day Optional nappy fee
- £2.50 Optional hot lunch or hot dinner
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Nursery Education funding with options of 30 hours per week, or stretched over 51 weeks.
Worth knowing. No consumable fees or top-ups.
What childcare usually costs in Swindon
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Swindon 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
SN5 7XFWhat 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, 28 January 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive excited for their day at nursery. Familiar staff greet children and lead them to their playrooms ready for their day. The provider welcomes families with enthusiasm, offering support where needed and making time for parents to talk and share any information about their children. Parents leave their children knowing they are safe, secure and well supported.
The provider and staff create and implement a broad, highly inclusive curriculum that meets the needs of all children in the nursery. Staff focus on ensuring that all children are safe and secure, alongside providing them with an environment that is rich with language. Staff consistently talk to young children, providing them with a narrative for their play and valuing their interactions. Older children are confident in exploring their environment. Staff are proactive at engaging children in meaningful learning. For example, children develop their small physical skills when they scoop spaghetti into different-sized containers. Staff weave mathematical concepts into play when they talk to children about long and short and the different colours of spaghetti.
Children learn about hygiene and self-care from an early age. Staff support the youngest children to wash their hands before meals to clean away the 'germs'.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- adapt adult-led activities to meet the needs of all children, to enable children time to think and engage successfully with learning n support staff to help children to engage with resources purposefully and adapt the environment to enable children to fully concentrate.
- 28 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
Still missing for Shine Bright Nursery
- Youngest age taken
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 £7.00 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.