Matilda Community Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for from 1 year up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £69.25 a day for 2 +, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2024. Open since 1992, with 16 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Full day | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 2sbirth to 2y | – | £7.42under 2s | |
| 1 year olds12m to 2y | £74.251 year olds | – | |
| Over 2s2y to 5y | £69.252 + | £6.92over 2s |
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours of funded childcare for eligible families.
Worth knowing. These hours are provided free of charge during term time only and are not stretched across the year.
What childcare usually costs in Tower Hamlets
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Tower Hamlets 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
E1W 1LQWhat 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, 4 April 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Nurturing staff greet the children warmly at this welcoming nursery. They understand their role as key persons well and support children to form strong attachments. This helps children to feel happy and settled to engage in the wide range of activities on offer. Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour.
They support children to learn about empathy and respect. For example, staff support children to understand how their actions can affect others and develop their understanding of different emotions. This helps children to demonstrate good manners and behave well.
Leaders and staff promote the curriculum for communication and language development well. Staff read stories, talk and sing to children frequently. They expose children to new vocabulary. Staff use pictures, story props and actions to help children understand the meaning of new vocabulary. In addition, staff encourage children to use simple phrases to answer questions instead of single words. This ensures that all children become confident communicators. Leaders and staff implement a child-centred curriculum. They adapt the curriculum to allow children to make progress at their own individual pace. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported well by staff. The ambitious curriculum helps all children to make good progress from their starting points and prepares them well for school.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- maximise opportunities for children to take appropriate risks and challenges to enhance their physical resilience skills further.
- 4 April 2024Good
- 10 April 2018Good
- 3 May 2017Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Matilda Community Day Nursery
- Waiting list
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 £69.25 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.
- 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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