The Nursery
OutstandingTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Oxford for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 17:00, 5 days a week. £85.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2016, with 24 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Additional sessions may be purchased, space permitting, at a daily rate of £85.00
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
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Funded hours
Up to 11 hours 30 minutes of funded childcare per week (equivalent to 15 hours per week stretched over 50 weeks).
Worth knowing. Funded sessions are completely free, with no additional cost or administrative fees. All funded places are subject to availability. Funded childcare can be taken on any two days, Monday to Friday at the following times: Day One – 8am to 5pm, Day Two – 8am to 10:30am. Parents may choose to extend the second funded day to a full day, although this is entirely optional. If this option is chosen, an additional charge will apply: £66.00 for 2‑year‑olds and £78.00 for children aged 3–4.
What childcare usually costs in Oxfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Oxfordshire 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
OX2 7ATWhat 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 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive at this inspirational nursery highly motivated and with a positive attitude to their learning. Children and their families build strong and meaningful bonds with the nursery staff. These begin before children start nursery. Through a programme of highly effective home visits and settling-in sessions, staff and children build trusting relationships. This sense of belonging continues to grow and develop, due to the care and kindness staff continue to show.
All children thrive at the nursery and show intense concentration in the array of fascinating learning opportunities available for them. Staff have high expectations for what children can achieve. They engage with them through thoughtful questioning that challenges children to think and use their own ideas. Staff are highly skilled in supporting children's communication and language development, including for those who speak English as an additional language. Staff provide daily small-group language activities and are consistent in engaging children in meaningful back-and-forth conversations. Staff continually introduce new words as children play. For example, when children were painting, staff introduced and explained the meaning of symmetrical, in relation to their butterfly paintings. Staff ask thought-provoking questions, allowing children plenty of time to think deeply before they respond. Staff provide excellent mathematical opportunities. They include frequent counting and number recognition opportunities as part of the daily routines and older children are competent in simple adding and subtracting. For example, at snack time, children calculate how many more pieces of fruit they can take to equal the number represented on the board.
Older children begin to understand and recognise feelings and emotions. This is because staff support all children to learn how to regulate these emotions through their curriculum design. For example, during a story, children are able to explain how the term, 'feeling a little bit blue,' means people can, 'feel a bit sad.'
- 27 June 2024Outstanding
- 20 August 2018Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
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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 £85.00 a day 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.
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