Little Oaks Children's Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Leatherhead for babies from 3 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2015, with 83 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 hours Working parents entitlement.
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
KT22 7HHWhat 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, 14 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are confident, happy, emotionally secure and enjoying their learning. They are developing good skills for their future. Children behave extremely well and are highly motivated, excitedly joining in with whole-group activities. For example, when asked, children immediately go to the carpet for circle time and eagerly participate in a range of puppet-based songs and action rhymes. Children develop a love of books and stories. They excitedly share their own books, such as
'Postman Bear', talking about his birthday pie and comparing the story to their own experiences.
The caring, family atmosphere which staff create enables children to feel very safe and secure. Children develop extremely strong attachments with their key person.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to help them understand when to give older children freedom to make choices and decisions for themselves in their learning n enhance current monitoring and staff observations so that these focus more specifically on raising the quality of teaching to a consistently high level.
- 14 March 2023Good
- 29 June 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Oaks Children's Nursery
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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