The Home Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Boston for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £4.00 an hour for 4-11 year olds, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2024. Open since 2016, with 154 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4-11 year olds4y to 5y | £5.50term-time only £10.00term-time only £15.00Holiday Club half day, 4 hrs | £4.00Holiday Club additional hours |
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £0.50 a session Consumables
- £0.50 a session Enhanced Activities
- £1.00 a session Snacks
Funded hours
Eligible children aged 9 months to 3 years may access between 12 and 15 hours of FUNDED childcare per week. All 3-4 year olds are entitled to between 12 and 15 hours of FUNDED childcare per week. 30 Hours funded childcare is also available for eligible 3-4 year olds.
Worth knowing. An additional service fee is applied for snacks, toothbrushes and paste, facial/hand wet wipes, water bottles, sun cream and enhanced activities. Parents may opt out of additional services.
What childcare usually costs in Lincolnshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lincolnshire 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
PE21 8SPWhat 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, 20 May 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are encouraged to manage their self-care skills. For example, when children in the toddler room receive a wet wipe to clean their face and they say that they cannot do it, staff ask them to try first and then offer help if needed.
Children learn how to take care of their personal belongings, helping them to learn skills in preparation for school. For example, in the toddler room, children are asked to put the food they do not want in their lunch boxes when they have finished. In the pre-school room, staff ask children to look after their bags, such as to put them on pegs in the garden in preparation for when they go home.
Children show excitement to play team games. For example, pre-school children smile with staff and their peers when they are asked by staff to take it in turns to count while their peers hide from them in the garden. Children crouch behind apparatus and excitedly anticipate when they will be found. Children are supported to develop their thinking skills. For instance, in the toddler room, staff ask children questions and give them time to respond. In the baby room, staff sing songs with children and provide opportunities for them to listen to stories. This helps to develop their early speaking skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff in the baby room to implement agreed strategies to help children who speak English as an additional language, to understand daily routines n develop staff's interactions with children in the toddler room so they are consistent in managing children's behaviour.
- 20 May 2024Good
- 26 September 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Home Nursery
- 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.
- Is £4.00 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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