Storybook Sunningdale
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Sunningdale for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2024. Open since 2012, with 78 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 childcare for eligible families. From September 2025, children from 9 months old in England with working parents can receive up to 30 hours of free childcare per week over 38 weeks, a total of 1,140 hours per year if eligible.
Worth knowing. In order to qualify for this funding, both parents must be working (or one parent in the case of single parent families) and earning under £100,000 per year. Funding can start from the term after your child reaches 9 months of age. All three year olds are eligible for 15 hours of funding from the term after their third birthday unless they already receive the 30 hours of working parents funding.
What childcare usually costs in Windsor and Maidenhead
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Windsor and Maidenhead 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
SL5 0NJWhat 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 August 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are lovingly greeted by staff, who are sincerely happy to see them. This helps the children feel welcome, and they quickly focus on their chosen activity.
Staff are considerate, and they offer gentle encouragement for the youngest children who are new and find the initial separation from parents challenging. This supports their personal, social and emotional development well, and they feel safe and secure in their environment. Relationships among children and staff are respectful. Staff encourage children to play amicably together. As a result, children display positive behaviour towards each other.
Children benefit from a broad and interesting range of activities that is planned effectively to promote their learning well. For example, while playing outside, staff support children to wait their turn as they line up to go on a slide. The staff promote children's role play well by discussing with them the make-believe crocodile that is waiting for them in the water at the bottom of the slide. Staff join in with children's role play and tell them that they must avoid the crocodile and move quickly as they line back up to wait their turn. Children are excited, and they laugh and rush to get back to the safety of the line with their friends. The staff ask the children if they can see any other animals in the water. They pretend that they see a hippopotamus and a fish. The staff encourage children to be expressive and creative in their imaginative play.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide further support, coaching and training for staff to fully embed their understanding of the intended curriculum n enhance the support for children to develop their independence.
- 13 August 2024Good
- 25 July 2019Outstanding
- 12 September 2012Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Storybook Sunningdale
- What it costs
- 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
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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