Hopscotch Nursery School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Oxted for babies from 10 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:30, 4 days a week. £92.50 a day for 2 years plus, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2017, with 28 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
48 weeks a year, minimum 2 days a week.
| Age | Full day | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-2 yearsbirth to 2y | £97.50Non-funded daily | £257.50With 30 Funded Hours £480.00With 30 Funded Hours £482.50With 15 Funded Hours £780.00Non-Funded Fees £805.00With 30 Funded Hours £872.50With 15 Funded Hours | |
| 2 years plus2y to 5y | £92.50Non-funded daily | £275.00With 30 Funded Hours £474.00With 15 Funded Hours £480.00With 30 Funded Hours £616.00With 30 Funded Hours £738.00With 15 Funded Hours £740.00Non-Funded Fees |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £100.00 Registration feenot refundable
- £150.00 Deposit
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
FEET (Free Early Education for eligible 2-year-olds), Universal Funding – 15 hours per week for all 3 and 4-year-olds, Working Parent Entitlement – up to 30 funded hours per week for eligible families, available for children aged 9 months+.
Worth knowing. Funding hours may be used between 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Monday to Thursday. Maximum of 7 funded hours per day. Parents/carers are required to fee-pay for the 10 non-funded weeks. A consumables charge applies to funded sessions.
What childcare usually costs in Surrey
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Surrey 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
RH8 9JJWhat 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, 31 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children thrive at this very welcoming setting. Leaders and managers are passionate about providing high-quality care and education for children and families. Children are provided with a wide range of activities and experiences to support their imagination and their communication skills. For example, children are highly engaged and motivated exploring items that float or sink. They learn about which items are heavier and explore how magnets work in water. Staff successfully encourage children's thinking skills by posing questions and supporting children's understanding of different concepts. Children demonstrate excellent attitudes to learning.
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are provided with personalised plans and individualised induction arrangements by staff to ensure they settle immediately. Staff successfully prioritise supporting children's language skills. Children who were nonverbal when they started, now use words and actions to communicate effectively. All children make strong progress. Staff positively praise children and encourage them, engaging with them in their play and showing them kindness and care. This supports children's high levels of emotional wellbeing very effectively. Children's behaviour is exemplary. Older children immediately help to set up for lunchtime, offering to fill the water jugs for their friends to have drinks. Staff successfully promote children's understanding of different religions and cultures. Children demonstrate that they are very inclusive and respectful of these.
Staff encourage children to play together very well. Children encourage and support their friends, inviting them to play and cheering them on during activities.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff's practice to enable them to identify when they could expand children's learning even further to support key skills and understanding.
- 31 July 2024Good
- 15 October 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Hopscotch Nursery School
- Nappies
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.
- Is £92.50 a day still the rate? 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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