The Old Station Nursery St Neots
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in St. Neots for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 2007, with 47 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours of funded childcare, for children aged 9 months to 4 years.
Worth knowing. Each provider may calculate your funding on either a term-time only or an all-year-round basis. The providers cannot exceed the funded offer of 15 hours – 570 hours per year and 30 hours – 1140 hours per year.
What childcare usually costs in Cambridgeshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Cambridgeshire 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
PE19 1LQWhat 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, 30 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children settle quickly in this welcoming setting. They form warm bonds with staff and arrive eager to explore the day's activities. Staff have high expectations for every child and use their observations and assessments to plan targeted learning opportunities. Children make good progress from their starting points. They are eager to join in with activities and show curiosity in novel objects. Children are keen to learn about the natural world and explore different gardening tools as they help staff to plant and water the flowers. Children are helpful and learn how to take care of the resources and toys on offer. For instance, they help staff to pick up spilled pencils. Children say 'please' and 'thank you' and are supported by staff who are good role models.
Children play cooperatively and develop their social skills. They play a bat and ball game with their friends and take turns to put toy food into a miniature trolley while playing shops. Children enjoy a range of creative resources and practise their small motor skills. They squeeze and squash clay and help themselves to paper and pens. Children develop their small hand muscles and experiment with using different tools and making marks. This helps to support their future writing skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen arrangements for self-evaluation to generate sharply targeted plans for further improvements that make the most difference to children, families and staff n support staff to refine how they use language when singing songs and holding conversations to build on children's listening, understanding and speaking skills.
- 30 June 2023Good
- 25 October 2017Outstanding
- 21 March 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Old Station Nursery St Neots
- 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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