Julia's Montessori Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A pre-school in Hampton for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:00 to 15:00, 5 days a week. £8.50 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2023. Open since 2002, with 28 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
We charge £8.50 an hour for any hours over the funded hours.
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
30 and 15 hours early education funding.
Worth knowing. Funded hours can be from 8.30am to 3pm daily. No charge for funded hours.
What childcare usually costs in Richmond upon Thames
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Richmond upon Thames 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
TW12 2EBWhat 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, 27 September 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and excited to come to the nursery. Staff greet them warmly, and they demonstrate through their behaviours and actions that they feel safe and secure. Children enjoy the interesting variety of carefully planned activities on offer. Staff know children well and use their ongoing assessments to ensure that they provide a curriculum that is both challenging and personalised to children's individual needs. Children make noticeable progress from their starting points and are ready for their next stages in learning.
Staff help children to understand the importance of showing respect for each other.
They model and highlight kind and caring behaviours throughout the nursery. Staff and children work together to devise their 'rainbow rules', which include being polite, looking after each other and sharing. Children respond well to the strategies staff use to support them in following these rules. For example, staff use the visual support of sand timers to help children to understand the importance of turn-taking and sharing with friends.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- be consistent when reinforcing behaviour expectations to ensure that children fully understand safe and socially acceptable ways to behave n further develop opportunities for children to develop their independence in the area of self-care.
- 27 September 2023Good
- 28 February 2018Good
- 17 June 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Julia's Montessori Nursery
- 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.
- Is £8.50 an hour 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.