Budding Learners
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Kingsbury for babies from 6 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 January 2023. Open since 2005, with 63 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Provides free entitlement for 3-4 year olds.
What childcare usually costs in Brent
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Brent 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
NW9 8QGWhat 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, 25 January 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are warmly welcomed into this nurturing nursery each day. There is an effective key-person system in place, and this helps to ensure children's individual needs are well met. Children know the nursery routines well and on arrival confidently search for their name pegs to place their hats, coats and bags. They happily join their friends to chat and play. Children sit together for circle time and sing songs to greet each other, waiting their turn to be introduced. They enjoy selecting their favourite nursery rhymes and listen before enthusiastically following the actions of the song. Children enjoy playing and interacting together. For example, they laugh and have fun as they act out the story 'We're Going on a Bear
Children behave well and have a good attitude to learning. Staff have high expectations of the children and provide encouragement. Children show curiosity and are intrigued to explore various root vegetables as part of a planned activity.
Staff invite the children to smell newly peeled vegetables and explore the different textures. This helps the children learn about vegetables. For example, children can confidently identify and talk about the texture of beetroot, turmeric and cassava.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance planning to ensure it takes into account how to sustain children's interests within the baby room n reinforce the use of mathematical language in all areas of the nursery so that children continue to develop the necessary building blocks to excel in mathematics.
- 25 January 2023Good
- 5 May 2017Good
- 2 April 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Budding Learners
- What it costs
- 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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