Toad Hall Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Wokingham for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £75.00 a day for under 3's, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2025. Open since 1994, with 122 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
5 days Mon-Fri 8am-6pm · £75.00 · £375.00 · £1625.00 · £73.00 · £1581.67
One published rate, dated September 2025. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
30hrs, 15hrs, 18hrs, 20hrs, 12hrs funded sessions listed.
Worth knowing. For children attending funded-only sessions: An optional consumables fee (on an opt-in/opt-out basis on a termly agreement) helps cover the cost of meals, nappies, wipes, and other consumables. If you choose to opt out, we kindly ask parents to provide: All meals (nut-free, in line with our packed lunch policy), Nappies, Wipes.
What childcare usually costs in Wokingham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Wokingham 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
RG41 4DSWhat 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.
- 14 January 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 2 September 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily and are keen to start their day. They enjoy their play and activities and confidently interact with staff. Staff respond with kindness to children, particularly those who need some extra support, and they provide cuddles and reassurance to babies and children. As a result, babies and children feel settled, safe and secure.
Staff have a good understanding of the curriculum and children's individual learning needs. They promote children's speech and language, such as through discussions, reading stories and singing songs. Babies and toddlers show they are learning the actions and words to familiar stories and songs. Staff are fully aware of children who may need extra help with their learning. This helps to promote all children's progress successfully. Overall, staff provide consistently good-quality interactions and support to children.
Staff implement consistent support for children's behaviour across the age groups.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop staff's teaching skills to help them extend children's skills and knowledge further n build on staff's organisation of routine times of the day, such as mealtimes, to manage these times more effectively.
- 2 September 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 13 July 2023Good
- 1 March 2023Inadequate
- 17 July 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 4 graded inspections.
Still missing for Toad Hall Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £75.00 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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