Les Petites Etoiles Bilingual Montessori – Paddington
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 9 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 March 2023. Open since 2011, with 47 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 Westminster
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Westminster 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
W2 6HSWhat 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, 9 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enter nursery excitedly and staff greet them warmly with big smiles.
Children give them a hug and tell them about their journey to nursery or how their morning has been. Children are happy and settled in this welcoming nursery. All children's needs are met effectively, which is due to the staff, who are caring and exceptionally dedicated to the well-being of the children.
Children have a sense of pride in this nursery which provides a bilingual programme that supports children's language skills in French, English and
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consider how to develop children's peer play, to promote social skills and support children to resolve conflicts independently.
- 9 March 2023Good
- 19 April 2017Good
- 2 February 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Les Petites Etoiles Bilingual Montessori – Paddington
- 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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