Wem Playmates Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Shrewsbury for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 8am to 6pm. £37.00 a day for busy Beehive, Penguin Paradise & Lion’s, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2024. Open since 2012, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
49 weeks a year, price list dated April 2025.
| Age | Full day | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Busy Beehive, Penguin Paradise & Lion’s | £37.00All-Day 3 (9.00 - 16.00) £43.00All-Day (9.00 – 17.00) or All-Day 1 (8.00 - 16.00) £49.00Extened All-day (8.00-17.00) £55.00Exteneded All-day (8.00 - 18.00) | £18.00Afternoon 1 (13.00 - 16.00), 3 hrs £22.00Morning 2 (9.00 - 13.00), 4 hrs £24.00Afternoon 2 (13.00 - 17.00), 4 hrs £28.00Morning 1 (8.00 - 13.00), 5 hrs | |
| Crawling Caterpillars | £41.00All day 2 (9.00 - 16.00) £46.00All day 1 (08.00 - 16.00) or All day 3 (9.00 - 17.00) £53.00Extended All-Day (8.00 - 17.00) £59.00Extended All-Day (8.00 - 18.00) | £20.00Afternoon 1 (13.00 - 16.00), 3 hrs £24.00Morning 2 (9.00 - 13.00), 4 hrs £26.00Afternoon 2 (13.00 - 17.00), 4 hrs £30.00Morning 1 (8.00 - 13.00), 5 hrs |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £2.85 Lunches
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
24U funding 15 & 30 hours funding available for children from 9mths to 5years.
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
SY4 5JXWhat 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, 20 May 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The manager makes full use of the outdoors to deliver their curriculum. Children relish the opportunities for the play experiences within the nursery outdoor premises and their woodland play area. Staff plan purposeful activies based on children's recent play interests to support their learning. Toddlers eagerly observe and discuss the changes in the wormery they have recently helped to build. They use their understanding of shapes as they gather natural resources to create faces.
Children show high levels of motivation, particularly while they play outdoors.
The manager provides children with a wide range of opportunities to be physically active and to develop their muscle strength. Babies climb in and out of the large sand pit and develop their confidence to balance as they travel across a wide beam. Pre-school children can attend swimming lessons and dance sessions.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- revise the curriculum so that this precisely identifies the knowledge and skills the children need to gain as they progress n increase the monitoring of the quality of teaching and learning to ensure that staff provide children with the highest quality of education throughout the nursery.
- 20 May 2024Good
- 24 August 2018Good
- 8 July 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Wem Playmates Nursery
- 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.
- Is £37.00 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.
- 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.