Blue Nest Montessori School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Harrow for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2015, with 109 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours funded childcare.
Worth knowing. Funded hours are a term-time entitlement, applied to your booked sessions.
What childcare usually costs in Harrow
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Harrow 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
HA2 6BDWhat 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, 9 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive at nursery eager to start their day. Staff greet parents and children warmly and engage them in conversations. They know children extremely well and use the opportunity to discuss with them what children did previously after nursery, or if they are hungry and what they may like to eat for breakfast. This helps children to feel valued and their behaviour is good. There are suitable security systems in place, which staff, parents and visitors follow to help keep children safe.
Key persons discuss children's progress with parents and devise clear next steps for children's development. Overall, they plan activities well and present them creatively to link to children's interests. Staff make observations, take photos and share information with parents via an online app. Parents enjoy opportunities to come into the nursery for activities, for example linked to Mother's Day and
Father's Day, and to celebrate their children moving on to the next stage in their learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- plan and adapt activities to ensure that all children remain actively engaged in their learning n support staff to help quieter children to participate in activities.
- 9 July 2024Good
- 25 October 2018Good
- 5 January 2018Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Blue Nest Montessori School
- 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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