Les Petites Etoiles Bilingual Montessori – Angel
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 9 months up to school age, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 February 2024. Open since 2000, with 26 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
From 9-month-old, eligibility for 30 funded hours requires that both parents: • Work a minimum of 16 hours per week. • Earn under £100k. From 3-year-old, we can offer 15 funded hours.
Worth knowing. Funded English-Only Programme is 38 weeks (Term-time only). Lunch available at a voluntary additional cost of £5 per day. No registration fee, joining fee or first month's fee for the Funded English-only programme.
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 2XUWhat 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.
- 3 March 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 13 February 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff at the nursery have high expectations of the children. They teach them to carefully select activities that they want to try. Staff create a calm environment for children to focus and concentrate. They role model perseverance and how to complete tasks. Children have time to practise new skills as well having a go at new ones. Staff understand the importance of repeating tasks to build on skills.
Staff want children to be open to trying ambitious new tasks. Children are eager to have a go, they have positive attitudes to learning.
Staff speak three languages at the nursery, English, French and Mandarin. They have positive and warm interactions with the children. Staff teach new vocabulary and introduce more complex sentences to children. Children rapidly gain communication skills in both their home and other languages. Children are skilled communicators who develop fluency at ambitious levels.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- further develop how staff consider the support that children need to join in and concentrate in focused activities at the highest levels.
- 13 February 2024Good
- 16 March 2018Outstanding
- 29 July 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Les Petites Etoiles Bilingual Montessori – Angel
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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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