Woodchester Playgroup
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A pre-school in Stroud for from 2 years 9 months up to school age, open 09:00 to 15:00, 5 days a week. £7.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 1993, with 24 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Woodchester Playgroup charges an hourly rate of £7.00.
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
Early Years Free Entitlement funding for three and four year olds, 15 or 30 free hours a week.
Worth knowing. Should your child attend more than their eligible hours a week you will be invoiced for the shortfall.
What childcare usually costs in Gloucestershire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Gloucestershire 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
GL5 5PDWhat 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, 14 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy to attend the welcoming setting. They are familiar with the setting's routines and form secure relationships with the kind and caring staff.
Children behave well. They develop good listening and attention skills as they sit together for morning 'talk time'. Children confidently greet staff who call their name. Older children volunteer to count the names listed on the registration display. They accurately recognise numbers and eagerly share their ideas with their peers. For example, children explain '16 is a one and a six'. Children engage in discussions with staff about the weather. Young children make links as they match their ideas with a picture card and recognise that it is both sunny and cloudy.
Children experience a broad curriculum that supports their individual interests.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance opportunities to develop children's understanding and respect for different families and communities beyond their own n strengthen partnerships with parents to better inform them of children's individual next steps, to support them to continue and share children's learning at home.
- 14 March 2023Good
- 13 July 2017Good
- 30 September 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Woodchester Playgroup
- 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.