The Beeches Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Walsall for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £8.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 2000, with 35 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Any extra hours requested will be charged at the hourly rate of: £8.00 ph
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
15 hours (AM 9.00am – 12.00pm, PM 1.00pm – 4.00pm) and 30 hours (8.00am – 6.00pm over 3 days); all 3- and 4-year-olds entitled to 15 hours; 2-year-olds of non-working parents may be eligible for 15 hours; working parents of children aged 9 months and above may be eligible for 30 hours.
Worth knowing. Funding does not cover the cost of snacks or meals; therefore, parents are asked to provide snacks (15 hours), and snacks and meals for 30 hour funded sessions. Any extra hours requested will be charged at the hourly rate of: £8.00 ph. Your child will be offered a morning or afternoon place. Consideration of parents preferred days are based on availability.
What childcare usually costs in Walsall
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Walsall 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
WS2 7DXWhat 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, 26 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and form strong relationships with adults and other children at this nursery. Caring, sensitive staff nurture children as they play alongside them.
Babies seek cuddles and reassurance from their key person. Toddlers investigate the water-play activity with confidence. They giggle as they splash and pat the water in the large tray. Older children play alongside their friends. They work together to build a tall tower of large bricks. They take it in turns to pass coloured buttons to each other and thread them onto laces.
Children's early language and literacy development is encouraged. Babies develop a love of books as they snuggle up with staff to look at a favourite picture book.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - support staff to provide more opportunities for children to build on their independence and to do more things for themselves n support less-experienced staff to fully understand how to extend learning and challenge children as they play.
- 26 June 2023Good
- 14 November 2017Good
- 24 September 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Beeches Day Nursery
- 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 £8.00 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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