Fun Kids Nurseries
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Harrow for babies from 9 months up to school age, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 June 2024. Open since 2018, with 54 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Up to 15 or 30 hours of free nursery education (depending on eligibility) per week during school terms, up to 38 weeks per year.
Worth knowing. As a private nursery, we do not offer funded-only places. Please note that additional hours beyond the funded ones are chargeable.
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
HA1 1TXWhat 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.
- 2 March 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
- 27 October 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 25 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Parents say how happy their children are to come to nursery. They describe how staff welcome their child in, asking about their morning. For example, staff ask if they have walked to nursery or come by car. They know children's routines well and use conversations to support their move from home into the nursery.
Children come together to start their day with singing, listening to a favourite story, and discussing how they are feeling. Staff give children time to talk about their personal experiences or emotions linked to the story. Children behave very well.
Older children share toys and take turns, with minimal support from staff. Children who require additional help or children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are quickly identified. Staff attend training and quickly begin to use specific interventions to support children's attention. Staff track children's development well to ensure that they make progress.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- monitor the impact of the changes made to planning, to ensure systems are in place for ongoing reflection and improvement n give children the time they need to answer questions to extend back-and-forth interactions.
- 25 June 2024Good
- 17 July 2023Needs improvement
- 1 February 2023Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Fun Kids Nurseries
- 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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