The Beaconsfield Day Nursery and Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 5Open a few years
A day nursery in Beaconsfield for children from birth to 5, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2022, with 54 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 Buckinghamshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Buckinghamshire 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
HP9 1RDWhat 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.
- 29 January 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
- 26 January 2024 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
- 9 October 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 12 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff are friendly, kind and nurturing. As children and parents arrive, staff greet them with warmth and enthusiasm, helping children to settle quickly. Leaders and staff have high expectations for all children. They have developed a curriculum that focuses on providing children with a wide range of opportunities and experiences within their local community to help enhance their understanding of the wider world. Children of all ages take part in regular outings. Older children enjoy trips to the local care home and staff take children to deliver food to the nearby food bank and on walks to the shops and train station. Children learn about other cultures.
For example, staff invite parents into the nursery to share baking, songs and stories from their own heritage with the children. This helps all children to feel welcome and valued at the nursery.
Leaders have taken swift action to address the weaknesses raised at the last inspection. All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), enjoy a wide range of activities that ignite their curiosity and imagination. Children thoroughly enjoy being outside where they build on their physical skills and strength. They run, jump and climb and show high levels of perseverance as they practise these skills. Children take part wholeheartedly in the daily yoga sessions and are motivated to persevere with challenging movements such as hopping and balancing. Staff set clear expectations for behaviour and children behave well. Staff model how to treat others with respect and help children understand the consequences of their actions upon others. Children show kindness towards each other and an awareness of their own emotions.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff's skills in recognising when and how to adapt activities to further extend individual children's learning and development.
- 12 July 2024Good
- 5 September 2023Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Beaconsfield Day Nursery and Pre-School
- What it costs
- 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
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.
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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