St. Peter's Pre-School, Stafford
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Stafford for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2023. Open since 2004, with 51 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 or 30 hours of funded early education and childcare, depending on their child’s age and individual circumstances. From 2026, the available entitlements include funded places for eligible working parents from 9 months of age, funded places for eligible 2-year-olds, and the universal 15-hour entitlement for all eligible 3- and 4-year-olds.
Worth knowing. Funded hours are generally available for up to 38 weeks of the year. Funded sessions are available between 8:00am and 6:00pm, Monday to Friday, subject to availability. Meals are not included within funded childcare hours and are charged separately.
What childcare usually costs in Staffordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Staffordshire 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
ST17 9DHWhat 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 July 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff provide children with friendly, nurturing interactions. Babies and children form close bonds with staff and show they feel happy and safe in their care. Children know when they need to seek comfort from the staff, who are always close by to provide a cuddle or kind word.
Staff organise the learning environment well to motivate children to play and explore. They place a strong focus on children's physical development. Children benefit from the large, well-resourced spaces, both indoors and outdoors. Babies confidently travel around and build their muscle strength, as they pull themselves up to stand at various pieces of equipment. Staff encourage babies to stand and hold onto a rail so they can see themselves in a mirror. Older children thoroughly enjoy the opportunities to increase their heart rates as they use a wide range of equipment to travel around the playground.
Staff have high expectations for children and help them to understand the rules and boundaries. Pre-school children explain the reason for the rules, such as sharing toys and getting a sand timer so they know when it is their turn. All children make good progress and staff help them to gain the skills they need in readiness for school.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- extend the monitoring of staff practice to identify where they need further support to enhance their teaching n refine the curriculum for older children so this identifies fully how to help children to build on what they already know and can do.
- 27 July 2023Good
- 12 October 2022Needs improvement
- 13 October 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for St. Peter's Pre-School, Stafford
- What it costs
- 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.
- What does it cost, all in? 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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