St. Joseph's RC Pre School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A pre-school in Derby for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 16:30, 5 days a week. £6.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 1996, with 28 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|
| All ages | £6.00Additional hours above the free entitlement £7.00from 1st September 2026 |
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours Early Years funding, 2 year old Flying starts for 15hours.
Worth knowing. Funded hours are free of charge; additional hours above the free entitlement are charged at £6.00 per hour (rising to £7 per hour from 1st September 2026). Breakfast and snack tea during addition hours are charged at 75p each.
What childcare usually costs in Derby
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Derby 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
DE23 6SBWhat 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, 13 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and safe and settle quickly at pre-school. They form positive relationships with their key person and other staff. Staff show genuine care for children's well-being. All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), build trusting relationships with staff. Consequently, they approach staff freely for cuddles. Children follow an age-appropriate and progressive curriculum. The environment enables them to lead their play. For example, children find boxes to build a train, and staff challenge them to make the track.
Children develop positive attitudes to learning, and the skilled staff have high expectations of them. Children take part in a range of interesting activities. For instance, the youngest children enjoy splashing in puddles as staff model new vocabulary to describe the noise of the water. Older children count the pieces of fruit they have for snack and point to the correct numeral to represent the number they have counted.
Children behave well and understand the rules that they need to follow. Staff recognise things that trigger children's behaviour and use distraction techniques effectively. As a result, children are engaged in play and cooperate with each other.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to recognise how to provide more challenge and extend children's knowledge and learning further n use what is known about children's abilities to plan adult-led activities more precisely in order to maintain all children's engagement.
- 13 March 2023Good
- 6 April 2017Good
- 27 January 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for St. Joseph's RC 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.