White Waltham Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A pre-school in Maidenhead for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:00 to 16:00, 5 days a week. £7.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in December 2021. Open since 2000, with 24 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
£7.00 per hour
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
2 year old funding (dependent on eligibility criteria); 3 & 4 year old universal 15 hours childcare funding (available to all); Up to 30 hours extended childcare funding (dependent on eligibility criteria).
What childcare usually costs in Windsor and Maidenhead
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Windsor and Maidenhead 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
SL6 3SHWhat 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, 9 December 2021 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy at this welcoming home-from-home nursery. They settle quickly and follow their own interests and ideas as they play. For example, children select the resources they need to build a tunnel for their toy vehicles. They demonstrate a positive attitude to learning and explore which cars travel down the ramp and through the tunnel the furthest.
Staff's expectations of children are high. They provide children with many opportunities to develop their physical skills. Children confidently ride scooters and balance bicycles and laugh with excitement as they race with their friends. They strengthen their muscles and demonstrate good control of their bodies as they climb up and over climbing equipment. Children focus intently and use pegs to carefully clip materials together to build their outside den. They show good imaginative skills, pretend to cook for staff and use a range of tools to whisk and transport sand onto plates.
Children learn about the nursery rules and boundaries and what is expected of them. For example, they know to wait for their turn to climb the steps of the climbing frame and understand that this is to help keep them safe. Staff are caring and attentive and place a strong focus on teaching children to share and use good manners.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- use what is known about children to plan more precisely and build on children's developing speech and vocabulary even further.
- 9 December 2021Good
- 17 November 2015Outstanding
- 24 March 2011Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for White Waltham Nursery
- 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
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 £7.00 an hour 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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