Cotswold Preschool & Nursery is a non-profit, community-based preschool on Colesbury Street in Bishopdale, Christchurch. It opened in 1967 and has served local children for more than 50 years. It has both a nursery and a preschool, and it is peanut butter friendly. The centre has a large outdoor area, and each child has a personal profile book that records their progress from the first day.
As at 2026, fees are $7.00 an hour, or $245 for a full week of 35 hours and $280 for 40 hours. The centre says it offers 24 free hours a week for children aged three and over who attend six hours a day, four days a week, and that families may be eligible for a WINZ childcare subsidy. Parents who have written about the centre say the teachers were supportive of children with particular needs, that children were ready for school after the transition activities, and that the environmental education was strong. One parent describes it as family-oriented, with the staff as friends as well as educators. On Open Locally's figures there are seven other childcare listings within 1 km, and the nearest are Angela's In-Home Childcare and two Pumanawa Early Learning Centre listings, each 0.4 to 0.5 km away. For a Bishopdale family looking for a long-established non-profit preschool, the centre's history and its free hours are the practical reasons to look at it.