Notting Hill Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Axbridge for children from birth to 8+, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2001, with 52 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Eligible working parents of children aged between 9 month and 4 years are entitled to 30hrs of childcare support each week. This entitlement may be 'stretched' over the whole year.
Worth knowing. Additional hours are charged at £8.50 per hour and there is a voluntary daily charge of £15 towards the cost of those services not included in the Early Years Entitlement.
What childcare usually costs in Somerset
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Somerset 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
BS26 2JUWhat 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, 22 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children receive a warm and friendly welcome when they arrive at this nursery.
Staff develop strong bonds with children. This helps the children to feel safe, relaxed and brave enough to explore. Staff take time to get to know children's likes, dislikes and routines. They work with parents to find out what their children can already do to help them plan what they need to learn next. They provide activities that they feel the children will learn from and enjoy. They share these activities with parents and encourage them to do them at home. This helps children to develop new skills and make progress.
Children enjoy spending time in the well-equipped outdoor area. Children learn to climb and walk on planks, ride bicycles and swing on the tyre swing. This develops their larger muscles and balancing skills. They play in the mud kitchen, experimenting with herbal tea bags and watching what happens when they add water. This develops their levels of curiosity and love of learning. Staff take children on walks in the woods where they look at the natural environment and learn to decide which activities are safe. This teaches children about the wider world around them and supports them to learn how to risk assess.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consider the length of time that children are expected to sit and listen during adult-led activities to help children to remain engaged and focused n review staff organisation during transition times to maximise children's learning time.
- 22 March 2023Good
- 17 August 2017Good
- 29 May 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Notting Hill Nursery
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- 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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