Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Islington for babies from 6 months up to 5 year olds, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 June 2023. Open since 2004, with 81 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 hours of free childcare per week during term time – that’s a generous 1,140 hours per year – simply by using your working entitlement code.
What childcare usually costs in Islington
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Islington 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
N1 0UHWhat 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 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff enthusiastically greet children, babies and parents when they arrive. Parents and children enjoy the walk through the delightful and serene gardens to the playrooms. Staff provide a nurturing and stimulating environment. Staff have high expectations of children. They support babies to communicate and help to develop their language skills. For example, babies gaze, make facial expressions and use gestures to communicate. Staff encourage babies to use single words and understand simple instructions. Children are well behaved and kind to each other.
Babies and children develop a sense of self as they interact with each other and staff. They learn about the wider world, for example, they celebrate different festivals. They taste new foods and handle cultural artefacts made by different communities. Staff invite all parents to share their ways of life and cultures to help enrich the experiences children are offered. Children negotiate space and obstacles safely, taking care not to bump into their friends. They walk, run and ride wheeled toys in the well-resourced garden. Babies explore their surroundings such as the sandpit, and they learn through their senses as they touch and handle the sand.
Babies have lots of opportunities to feed themselves. They use their fine and gross motor skills as they develop confidence and independence.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- further develop staff's understanding of the curriculum to ensure consistency in the delivery of how staff support children's learning.
- 27 June 2023Good
- 23 March 2018Outstanding
- 27 May 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre
- What it costs
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.
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