Full-day nursery in Great Baddow, Essex
St Mary's Playschool
Church Centre, The Chase, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, CM2 7JU · Getting there
Is it good?
Read the Ofsted reportOfsted inspection, before November 2025
Good
- Quality of educationGood
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Leadership and managementGood
- SafeguardingEffective
What does this mean?
This grade is from before November 2025, when Ofsted replaced single grades with report cards. The nursery's next inspection will give a report card, with a separate grade for each area instead of one overall grade.
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Fees
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Hours and ages
Opening hours and ages: not published yet.
Getting there
Church Centre, The Chase, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, CM2 7JU · More nurseries in CM2
Buses
16 bus stops within 400 m, including Church, Snelling Grove and The Spires.
Parks and playgrounds
- Baddow Hall Park4 min walk
- Great Baddow Recreation Ground & Noakes Place6 min walk
- Pontlands Park9 min walk
- Meadgate Fields Open Space11 min walk
- Playground4 min walk
- Playground9 min walk
NaPTAN, Department for Transport, checked 13 November 2026 · © OpenStreetMap contributors, checked 13 November 2026. Walking times are rough, from straight-line distance.
Places and next steps
Spaces: not published yet. Nurseries often fill months ahead, so ask early.
In Essex there are about 2.9 children under 5 for every registered nursery place. Places are how many children nurseries may care for, not free spaces, so this is a guide to demand. Source: ONS Census 2021.
What parents say
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St Mary's Playschool is a full-day nursery at Church Centre, The Chase, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, CM2 7JU, in Great Baddow, Essex. It is registered for 78 children. Ofsted rated it Good at its inspection in January 2023, before report cards replaced single grades in November 2025. It has a Google rating of 5.0 from 34 reviews (November 2026).
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| St Mary's PlayschoolThis nursery | Good | not shared yet | not shared yet | not shared yet | This nursery |
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| Springboard Pre-SchoolSessional pre-school | Good | not shared yet | not shared yet | not shared yet | 1.3 miles |
A dash means the nursery hasn't published it yet. Distances are in a straight line.
Nearby areas
Schools nearby
- Octavia House Schools, Essex ages 5–16 0.1 miles
- Baddow Hall Infant School Primaryages 5–7Ofsted: Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Goodinspected February 2025 0.2 miles
- Baddow Hall Junior School Primaryages 7–11Ofsted: Standards maintainedinspected October 2024 0.2 miles
- Larkrise Primary School Primaryages 4–11Ofsted: Goodinspected June 2024 0.5 miles
- Woodcroft Nursery School Nurseryages 2–5has a nursery classOfsted: School remains Goodinspected May 2023 0.5 miles
- Meadgate Primary School Primaryages 4–11Ofsted: Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstandinginspected November 2024 0.7 miles
- Beehive Lane Community Primary School Primaryages 4–11Ofsted: Report cardinspected July 2026 1.0 miles
- Moulsham Infant School Primaryages 4–7Ofsted: School remains Goodinspected April 2023 1.4 miles
Straight-line distances. Places depend on each school's admissions rules. From the Department for Education and Ofsted.
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What is St Mary's Playschool's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted rated St Mary's Playschool Good at its inspection on 25 January 2023, before report cards replaced single grades in November 2025.
How many children can St Mary's Playschool take?
St Mary's Playschool is registered with Ofsted for up to 78 children at any one time.
How do I contact St Mary's Playschool?
You can call 01245 471683 and visit www.stmarysplayschool.co.uk.
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About this information
- Registration and inspections: Ofsted · 30 June 2026
- Rating and review themes: Google · 4 November 2026
- Schools: DfE Get Information about Schools · 4 November 2026
- Contains Ofsted data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains Department for Education data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains Ofsted data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.
- Contains Department for Transport NaPTAN data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Source: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Last checked 4 November 2026 · Ofsted URN 650135 · Plain-text version · Report a mistake
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