St Nicholas Church Pre-School
GoodBirth to 8+Open for decades
A pre-school in Weston-Super-Mare for children from birth to 8+, open 08:50 to 14:50, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 1992, with 24 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in North Somerset
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in North 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
BS23 4UHWhat 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, 7 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children happily enter the friendly pre-school, keen to learn. They gain good independence, carrying their bags and finding their named pegs. Children have numerous opportunities throughout the day to practise self-care. For example, when children decide to play outside, they confidently find their coats and make good attempts to put them on independently.
There is a broad curriculum that provides children with opportunities across all areas of their learning. Attentive staff interact well with the children to help them build on previous learning. For example, they provide children with opportunities to build with wooden blocks before challenging them further to build with blocks that link together. Children create well, testing their ideas for example to build a dinosaur. They confidently talk about what they need and how to fix the pieces together to make the legs. Children demonstrate a positive attitude to their learning and show commitment to fulfilling their design.
Children develop good communication and language skills. They talk confidently about their creations, such as how they are making pig faces in the play dough.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- tighten arrangements to ensure that information is gathered from parents and other early years settings children attend n develop further the organisation of daily routines to enable children to continue their play uninterrupted.
- 7 March 2023Good
- 9 May 2018Good
- 6 July 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for St Nicholas Church Pre-School
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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