Early Learning Years Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:30, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2002, with 63 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Government-funded childcare, including the 9-month funding for eligible working parents from September 2024.
Worth knowing. If you attend only for your funded hours, your monthly invoice will be £0.00 — we don’t charge any additional consumables or extra fees.
What childcare usually costs in Barnet
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Barnet 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
N3 1QNWhat 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, 17 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and thrive in this nursery. Staff and leaders create a nurturing environment, where they celebrate diversity. Staff carefully plan an ambitious curriculum to support children to continuously develop their learning as they move through the nursery. This means that all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make good progress and are ready for the next stage in their education journey.
Staff plan trips in response to children's interests. This helps children to develop an awareness of the world beyond the nursery and their homes. For example, toddlers take a walk to look at different forms of transport as some children show an interest in cars. Staff ensure that they undertake thorough risk assessments of the places children visit shortly before they go. This supports staff to be alert to any possible new challenges or risks in the environment, which helps them to keep children safe.
Children behave well. Staff are caring and playful with children. They know children well and support them with cuddles when needed for reassurance. Staff encourage children to talk about their emotions and to think of ways to help their friends if they say they are feeling sad or angry.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to consistently further develop children's thinking and language skills, such as, by using open-ended questions n extend children's communication skills even further, for example, by explaining the meaning of new vocabulary when it is introduced.
- 17 July 2024Good
- 6 March 2024Inadequate
- 7 March 2019Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Early Learning Years Nursery
- What it costs
- 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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