Bright Horizons Norfolk Lodge Montessori Day Nursery
GoodBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Barnet for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2016, with 148 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Hertfordshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Hertfordshire 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
EN5 4RPWhat 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.
- 14 September 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 11 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders and managers have careful oversight of the curriculum. They fully understand what children need to learn and why they need to learn it. They thoroughly support staff to provide an interesting and engaging range of activities and experiences. Staff welcome children warmly, and help them feel at home in the nursery. Children show that they feel safe as they seek help from their trusted adults at any time they are unsure. Staff are positive role models and they use encouraging language and gentle reminders to support children to behave well overall.
Children thoroughly enjoy time outdoors in the exciting nursery garden where they have wonderful opportunities to explore the world around them. Children are fascinated by the world around them and are encouraged to explore and understand the features of creatures that they find in woodland. Staff and children enthusiastically discuss the number of legs on a beetle and examine this carefully through a bug viewer. As the children explore worms and slugs, staff encourage children to handle these animals with care, reminding them to be gentle to living creatures. Staff help children explore the language around the animals. For example, they introduce words to describe the animals which children then copy.
Children describe the worm as soft and the slug as slimy and sticky.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop further the curriculum for personal, social and emotional development, to help all children better understand the impact of their behaviour on others, particularly when this interrupts other children's learning n help staff to more consistently recognise when to adapt activities to sustain children's attention more successfully.
- 11 July 2024Good
- 4 January 2024Needs improvement
- 12 January 2018Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Bright Horizons Norfolk Lodge Montessori Day Nursery
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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
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