Tops Prince Rock
Good★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Plymouth for children from birth to 5, open 06:00 to 20:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2024. Open since 2018, with 42 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Plymouth
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Plymouth 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
PL4 9LDWhat 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, 1 October 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily and confidently. They enter the nursery waving a cheerful goodbye to their parents. Children are keen to greet their friends and staff and to explore the resources and activities on offer, demonstrating a positive attitude to learning. Staff plan and deliver an enjoyable curriculum that builds on children's interests. While babies practise tummy time to develop their core muscles, staff encourage them to look around and to reach for toys. Staff motivate toddlers to blow and pop bubbles and support the pre-school children to use mathematical language when measuring toys. Children make good progress, which helps to prepare them for later learning, including school.
Staff form warm and affectionate relationships with children and tailor the settlingin process to suit each child's needs, working closely with parents. Staff remind children to share and take turns and they give children lots of praise, which helps to build the children's self-confidence. Children are kind and play well together. For example, toddlers offer the bubble wands to their friends and invite them to have a go. Pre-school children request a turn with the toys when their friends have finished playing with them and wait patiently until the toys become available.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review and develop the deployment of staff in the baby and toddler rooms at busier times in the day to provide more consistent and targeted support for children's learning needs n support staff to engage and challenge the older and more able pre-school children during group activities to extend their learning further.
- 1 October 2024Good
- 8 March 2024Needs improvement
- 25 September 2023Inadequate
- 16 January 2019Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 4 graded inspections.
Still missing for Tops Prince Rock
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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.
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