Belmont Day Nursery Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Ilford for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2022. Open since 2005, with 93 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Free funded 15 hour and 30 hour childcare places.
What childcare usually costs in Redbridge
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Redbridge 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
IG1 1YWWhat 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, 10 November 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children demonstrate they are happy at this warm and welcoming nursery. The staff are kind and provide a calm and nurturing environment, which helps children feel safe and secure. Staff use children's home languages to communicate with them, to support their understanding. Children settle in quickly and become confident learners. For example, toddlers move around the nursery independently to explore the good range of toys and activities on offer. Adults are vigilant and at hand to support their learning as they play. For instance, children learn about emergency vehicles, and that an ambulance takes sick people to the hospital.
Adult-led activities take into account children's interests and what they need to learn next. For instance, they are fascinated to watch the demonstration of an activity about floating and sinking. They show excitement as they have a go experimenting with different objects. As a result, they develop positive attitudes to learning. Children concentrate and have fun as they create puppets from art and craft materials. They proudly show off their models to adults who praise them in return. This boosts their self-confidence. Children behave very well. They listen attentively and wait patiently to take turns. They cooperate and play respectfully with each other.
Children enjoy, listen and join in with actions to familiar songs and rhymes. This promotes their language skills. They foster a love for reading from an early age and eagerly choose books from the shelves, browsing through them with interest. Staff use circle time for structured, shared reading. However, on occasion, the circle time is not managed effectively and hence becomes a little chaotic. This leads to children becoming distracted, so not all children benefit. Overall, staff plan a welldesigned curriculum across all areas of learning. Leaders have an effective assessment and monitoring process, and this ensures children make progress.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- evaluate the organisation of circle time to ensure all children benefit from shared story time n embed the teaching of mathematics within the curriculum, particularly for older children.
- 10 November 2022Good
- 9 December 2016Good
- 23 April 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Belmont Day Nursery Ltd
- What it costs
- Meals
- 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.
- 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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