Montessori Garden Nursery School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 months up to school age, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2016, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Funded places for 9 months to 4 year olds are available please contact us for details. 9 months to 4 year olds qualify for universal government funding and may also qualify for extended government funding.
Worth knowing. Subject to availability, State Funded Parents relying on funded only places can access their funded hours equally divided into 5days of the week, no registration fee and £50 deposit.
What childcare usually costs in Camden
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Camden 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
NW5 2BPWhat 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.
- 19 September 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 31 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy at this friendly, welcoming nursery. They show they enjoy growing and learning together. Leaders and staff have devised a broad curriculum.
They plan activities that develop children's curiosity and support their wider development. For example, children participate in regular cooking and yoga activities.
Children explore across the indoor and outdoor areas with confidence. Children learn routines to help them be independent. This includes the very youngest children. They help with serving their own lunch. Staff teach children to be responsible for the tidiness of different learning areas. Older babies neatly put toys away after they finish playing with them.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen existing systems for sharing important information about individual children with staff so all staff understand the agreed approaches for supporting individual children n continue to train, support and coach staff to build the strong, cohesive team that leaders envision.
- 31 March 2023Good
- 5 April 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Montessori Garden Nursery School
- 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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