The Slade Early Years Centre and Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Oxford for babies from 6 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2024. Open since 2004, with 22 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Funded places for two to four year olds.
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
OX3 8QQWhat 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, 23 May 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff have created a safe, stimulating and welcoming environment in which children of all ages thrive. Staff adapt settling-in arrangements to the individual needs of children, and their families. This helps ensure children feel confident to join the
'nursery family'. This focus on making sure children feel safe and secure helps ensure children are ready to start learning and exploring right from the start.
Children behave well for their age. Staff are good role models. They lead by example by being kind, courteous and helpful. Children learn from this to be these things too.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop further staff's skills and confidence in delivering some aspects of the curriculum for physical development n enhance arrangements to precisely tailor support for individual staff to continually develop their practice.
- 23 May 2024Good
- 29 August 2018Good
- 25 July 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Slade Early Years Centre and Day Nursery
- 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Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date.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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.