Lets Explore Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Horley for children from birth to 5, open 07:00 to 19:00, 5 days a week. £56.70 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2022. Open since 2019, with 110 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year, price list dated 2025.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | Weekly | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 4birth to 4y | – | £6.95MON-FRI TERM TIME £8.75SAT & SUN | – | – | – | |
| 4 & over4y to 5y | – | £8.50MON-FRI TERM TIME £9.75SAT & SUN | – | – | – | |
| All ages | £56.70School day (9am - 3pm) £94.508am-6pm | £47.25Half day (8am-1pm) or (1pm-6pm), 5 hrs | £9.80Additional hours | £448.88Includes 5% full time discount | £9.80Early start (7am - 8am) or Late Pick-up (6pm – 7pm) |
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £4.35 a day supplement daily charge for the funded hours - Half Dayincludes meals, snacks and extracurricular activities
- £5.21 a day supplement daily charge for the funded hours - School dayincludes meals, snacks and extracurricular activities
- £8.70 a day supplement daily charge for the funded hours - Full Dayincludes meals, snacks and extracurricular activities
Discounts
- 5% 5% full time discount
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Government nursery funding, 30 hours free childcare, tax-free childcare, and FEET Funding for eligible two year olds from Surrey County Council.
Worth knowing. The prices above include the supplement daily charge for the funded hours £4.35, £5.21 and £8.70 for Half Day, School day and Full Day sessions respectively. Additional services that are not delivered as a part of the governments funded hours are charged as a daily supplement. These additional services are meals, snacks and extracurricular activities. The supplement fee is non-obligitory and should you have any concerns about this charge please speak to the nursery manager.
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
RH6 7HJWhat 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.
- 2 April 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 23 November 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children thoroughly enjoy their time at this nursery. They separate easily from their parents when they arrive. Children have warm and trusting relationships with staff, who are attentive, supportive and caring. This helps children to feel safe and secure in the environment.
Children have positive attitudes to learning. They become highly engaged in the activities provided. The curriculum is based on children's interests and developmental stages. For example, babies develop their communication and language skills and link their own home experiences, such as when pretending to make cups of tea. Toddlers are curious and show a positive attitude to learning as they explore creative activities. They giggle with delight as they step in paint to make footprints on large pieces of paper, eagerly describing the colour, size and shape of the footprints they make. Pre-school children demonstrate increasing levels of independence and creativity. They use a variety of tools and materials and persevere for long periods of time as they construct different types of houses that are able to withstand the 'big, bad wolf'. All children make good progress.
Children are well behaved and enjoy the company of others. They learn to play together, share, take turns and think about the feelings of their friends. Staff are very positive role models for children. They are respectful and provide plenty of praise and encouragement, helping to raise children's confidence and self-esteem.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the use of supervision, support and focused training for all staff, to help raise the quality of teaching to a consistently higher level n increase the opportunities that babies have indoors to move in different ways, to support their gross motor development even more consistently.
- 23 November 2022Good
- 19 January 2022Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Lets Explore Day Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- 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 £56.70 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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