Whitegrove Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Bracknell for from 1 year 6 months up to school age, open 09:00 to 17:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2024. Open since 2014, with 40 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 & 30 Hours.
Worth knowing. Funding can only be used between 9:00am – 3:00pm. 15 hours = 5 sessions, 30 hours = 10 sessions. Lunch club may be included, but extra charges apply if hours are exceeded. £1.25 per session snacks and enhancements charged termly for funded children.
What childcare usually costs in Bracknell Forest
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bracknell Forest 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
RG42 3JPWhat 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, 15 October 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and enjoy their time at the pre-school. They show they feel safe and are confident in the care of the dedicated staff team. Children demonstrate that they are eager to play and that they enjoy the activities on offer. For example, children have fun as they dress up and play imaginatively with dolls and kitchen sets. Children have many opportunities to explore with media and materials, which in turn helps to build their hand-eye coordination and muscles in their hands ready for writing. For instance, children enjoy creating pictures from stickers and creating patterns and marks with the dough and sand. Staff support children's communication skills well overall, through consistent dialogue.
Children benefit from the effective key-person arrangements that are maintained to ensure that all children receive the support and care needed to help them succeed in learning. Children have many opportunities to do things for themselves, such as wiping their own noses and washing up plates and cups after snack times. This gives them responsibilities that helps to build on their self-confidence and selfesteem. Staff offer children a good amount of praise when playing and exploring.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to understand the importance of giving children the time they need to think about, and answer, questions to enable them to speculate, test their ideas and challenge their thinking n build on staff's awareness of providing consistent guidance to children to further support their understanding of expectations for their behaviour.
- 15 October 2024Good
- 27 February 2019Good
- 11 July 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Whitegrove Pre-School
- What it costs
- 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.
- What does it cost, all in? 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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