Blackshaw Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for from 1 year up to school age, open 07:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £2100.00 a month for 1-2 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2023. Open since 1992, with 58 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
52 weeks a year, price list dated September 2025.
| Age | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1-2 years12m to 2y | £2100.001-2 years | |
| 2-3 years2y to 3y | £1680.002-3 years | |
| 3-5 years3y to 5y | £1365.003-5 years |
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
9-23 months, 2 years, 3 and 4 year olds.
Worth knowing. The nursery allows full time children to attend for 45 hours per week, therefore the additional hours are charged on a monthly basis at the rate applicable for your child’s age category.
What childcare usually costs in Wandsworth
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Wandsworth 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
SW17 0BZWhat 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, 19 October 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children excitedly and enthusiastically walk into the nursery where they are greeted by familiar faces of the long-standing staff team. Staff provide a range of opportunities and experiences that are centred around children's interests, such as dinosaur play and well-loved puzzles. Following on from a recent visit in the community to a local market, a pop-up shopping experience has also been created.
This helps children to relive the experience and cement their new knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
Staff and children enjoy singing. Staff provide lots of opportunities to bring songs to life with actions and props. Children excitedly shout out the next line of favourite songs and giggle when staff change the tone or pitch of the song. This helps children to extend their vocabulary. Children, including those who speak English as an additional language, make good progress with their language development.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to provide further opportunities for children to develop their independence and self-help skills - strengthen planning to ensure children's individual interests and needs are fully catered for and they make the best possible progress in their learning.
- 19 October 2023Good
- 26 October 2017Good
- 22 April 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Blackshaw Nursery
- Meals
- Nappies
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 £2100.00 a month 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.
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