Westwood Farm Community Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Reading for from 2 years 6 months up to school age, open 09:00 to 15:30, 5 days a week. £24.75 a session for 2 year olds (rising 3's), and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 1992, with 28 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Minimum 3 days a week, price list dated May 2026.
| Age | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 year olds (rising 3's)2y to 3y | £24.75Additionals | |
| 3 and 4 years olds3y to 4y | £22.00when available |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £15.00 Registration feepayable on receipt of your registration form, not refundable
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £8.00 to £9.00 a day Lunch club
- £10.00 Administration feeadded to your invoice when payment is overdue and referred to the
- £10.00 a week Additional chargeincurred until payment has been made
Funded hours
15 hours of government funding in the term after their third birthday; 2 year old funding; 30 hour funding; Tax free childcare.
Worth knowing. Any additional hours over and above 15 hours that are attended are payable. If you are entitled to 2 year old funding or 30 hour funding it is your responsibility to supply Westwood Farm Community Pre-School with your funding code before your child’s start date. Should you not supply Westwood Farm Community Pre-School with your funding code by the deadlines given, or re-validate your code in time, fees will be payable.
What childcare usually costs in West Berkshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in West Berkshire 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
RG31 6SLWhat 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, 8 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children skip into pre-school, separating from parents and carers with ease. They actively engage in the activities that staff have attractively set up and are keen to start their day of learning and play. Staff greet children warmly and engage in conversations about the children's activities at home and what they would like to do at pre-school today. As a result, children form positive and strong bonds with staff. Children freely explore the environment and ask for help or resources as and when needed. Staff skilfully challenge children to try tasks for themselves before helping them. For example, they encourage children to open the packaging in their lunch boxes, put on their coats and build towers by themselves. Subsequently, children demonstrate high levels of confidence and strong independence skills.
Managers and staff plan an ambitious curriculum that considers children's preferences and interests. Children benefit well from the plentiful opportunities staff provide for them to play outside. Staff have thoughtfully planned the outdoor area to allow children opportunities to develop their large-muscle movements and to get messy and engage in sensory play. Children relish the challenge of crossing the ladder bridge in the climbing area, as well as using foam as mortar when building walls with large toy bricks in the role-play building site. Staff provide highvisibility jackets, adding to the realism as children play. Children are happy, stimulated and challenged in their learning experiences at the pre-school.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to provide greater consistency when helping children to manage their behaviour.
- 8 July 2024Good
- 17 September 2018Good
- 13 January 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Westwood Farm Community Pre-School
- Meals
- Nappies
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 £24.75 a session 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.
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