Twyford Tots Nursery
Good★ 4.3 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Shrewsbury for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2023. Open since 1993, with 97 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 Shropshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Shropshire 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
SY3 7NPWhat 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, 3 May 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are personally greeted by their key person as they enter this warm and nurturing setting. This helps them to feel safe and loved. Children settle well into nursery and make positive attachments to their key person. Staff consider personal, social and emotional development to be a priority for children. For example, they provide children with effective transition sessions when they start at the nursery and as they move between rooms. Children behave well due to the supportive staff who take time to teach children about feelings. If children behave in an unkind way to others, this is quickly dealt with by staff. They teach children to consider the feelings of their friends, and staff use distraction to divert children's behaviour.
Staff have high expectations for children, particularly when it comes to developing independence. Children, including babies, are taught how to feed themselves. They learn how to pour their own drinks and, as they get older, they attend to their own toileting needs. Children are happy and confident. They make choices about where they would like to play. Children explore light and dark in the sensory room, shining torches on the walls and ceiling. Children are excited as staff show them how to make shadow puppets.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen teaching to help accelerate children's outcomes even further, specifically children's mathematical development n strengthen supervision systems so that staff receive focused and highly effective feedback, providing them with specific targets for improvement to help improve teaching further.
- 3 May 2023Good
- 12 October 2017Good
- 24 May 2017Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Twyford Tots Nursery
- 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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