Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Harrow
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Harrow for babies from 9 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2022. Open since 2020, with 103 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Eligible families can access 15 or 30 hours funded childcare and may also use Tax-Free Childcare.
Worth knowing. Additional charges apply for meals, consumables (such as nappies, wipes, and sunscreen), trips, and any extra hours beyond the funded entitlement.
What childcare usually costs in Harrow
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Harrow 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
HA1 2LSWhat 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, 28 March 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children enjoy coming to this nursery. Staff greet them warmly at the door each morning. Staff take the time to talk to each parent when children arrive. This means that the transition between home and nursery is easy for children. Staff build trusting relationships with children. Children approach them for comfort, reassurance or to enthusiastically share their ideas.
Since the last inspection, the manager has worked tirelessly to make all the necessary improvements so that every child gets a good start in life. The manager has designed a clear and systematic programme of learning. Staff carefully consider how they can plan activities that support children in achieving their next steps. This means that children make good progress.
Staff have high expectations of each child. They meet each child's individual needs well. Children speak a rich variety of languages. Staff support children by communicating with them in their home language where appropriate and supporting them to learn English.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to develop their responses to children's comments and their questioning techniques, to move learning on.
- 28 March 2022Good
- 4 October 2021Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Harrow
- What it costs
- Meals
- 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.
- 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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