Alpha Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for children from birth to 8+, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £90.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2004, with 45 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £90.008am – 6pm | £62.00Half Day (8am – 1pm) or (1pm – 6pm), 5 hrs | £20.00 |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £1.00 per 15 minutes charge for lateness after 6.00pmevery minute lateness after 6.00pm
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £9.00 a session Additional Service Chargeper funded session
- £9.00 a session additional servicesstretched offer over 2 sessions (11 hours) per week
- £9.00 a session service chargeterm time funded only places over 3 sessions
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours, plus 2-year-old funding.
Worth knowing. Additional service charge of £9.00 per funded session (not mandatory); funded places term time only (38 weeks) or stretched to 11 or 22 hours per week all year round.
What childcare usually costs in Croydon
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Croydon 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
SE25 5EWWhat 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, 12 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enjoy their time at the nursery. They are greeted by friendly, warm and attentive staff, who take time to listen and speak to them as they arrive. For example, staff speak with children about what they have seen before arriving at nursery. Parents are warmly welcomed by leaders as they arrive. They receive reassurance from staff as their children settle in. Staff give lots of cuddles to new children during activities. They are good role models. Staff help children to respect each other's feelings and understand the importance of sharing. This encourages children to interact well with their peers and staff.
Staff provide well-sequenced activities. For example, babies enjoy singing and dance time. This helps to develop their early language and social skills. Older children sit nicely during story time and happily take part in discussions. They have lots of opportunities to develop counting skills through singing number rhymes.
Older children have opportunities to visit the local shops. This helps them to understand more about their local communities.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff in the baby room to develop a greater understanding of how to promote children's communication and language skills n use information from the monitoring of staff supervisions and practice to further their professional development more precisely.
- 12 June 2024Good
- 14 August 2018Good
- 23 June 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Alpha Day Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- 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 £90.00 a day 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.