St George's Pre-School (Taunton)
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Taunton for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:00 to 15:30, 5 days a week. £7.00 an hour for 2 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2022. Open since 2014, with 24 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 years2y to 3y | £7.002 year olds | |
| 3-4 years3y to 4y | £6.253-4 year olds |
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Children from 9 months old may be eligible for up to 30 funded hours per week through the Working Family Entitlement. All children become entitled to 15 funded hours from the term after their 3rd birthday. We are eligible to accept those qualifying children in receipt of 2 year old funding.
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
TA1 3NRWhat 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 November 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and settled and have positive relationships with their key person. Staff know children very well and plan the personalised curriculum based on their next steps in learning. The setting works with parents to find out about children's interests and use this to inform planning and the activities they provide.
Staff identify if a child may need additional support from the outset, and they work very well with families and external agencies to ensure that children make good progress in their learning and development. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported with individual learning activities, which support their next steps in learning.
Children demonstrate good levels of engagement and enjoyment from the range of activities on offer. For example, children enjoy listening to stories. Staff read familiar stories, and children delight in calling out key words and learning the meaning of words, such as 'attitude.' Staff and children discuss the character's feelings and learn to name emotions.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - support children to develop their mark-making skills further n strengthen the quality of interactions between staff and children to develop their speaking and listening skills even more.
- 28 November 2022Good
- 8 February 2017Outstanding
- 9 September 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for St George's Pre-School (Taunton)
- 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 £7.00 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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