Southern Cross Pre-school
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A pre-school in Brighton for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:00 to 15:30, 5 days a week. £6.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 1992, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
£6 per hour, see session times below:
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Funded 2 year olds, Funded 3 & 4 year olds, 30 hour funding.
Worth knowing. If a lunch session is added onto the morning session it is not funded, however there is no charge if child attends all day. Any additional sessions beyond the funding hours will be charged at our normal hourly rate.
What childcare usually costs in Brighton and Hove
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Brighton and Hove 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
BN41 1GUWhat 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, 27 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children show that they feel happy and safe at the pre-school by exploring the environment with confidence. For example, they ask adults for help with tape and scissors as they construct with large cardboard boxes. Children demonstrate some understanding of the rules of the pre-school. For example, when talking about the rule 'to be helpful', one child explains how he helps his friend by supporting him to put his shoes on.
Children's independence is promoted at every opportunity. For example, staff use strategies, such as visual instructions, that children follow to help them wash their hands ready for snack. Children are encouraged to use tools, such as tongs, to serve themselves, and they excitedly read the displayed numbers to guide them on how many pieces of fruit to choose.
Children develop their literacy and mathematical skills during outdoor activities. For example, they complete bug hunts, learning to record how many of each bug they find. Children delight in finding caterpillar eggs on plants. They recognise these and happily talk about the 'Hungry Caterpillar' story that they are familiar with. This shows that children are able to link their previous learning to activities within the environment.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to implement consistent expectations for behaviour to help children understand the rules n organise planned transitions between activities more effectively, to help minimise interruptions to children's learning.
- 27 March 2023Good
- 27 April 2017Good
- 10 June 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Southern Cross Pre-school
- 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 £6.00 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.
- 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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