Panda Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Oxted for from 1 year 7 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £9.80 an hour for explorers Room, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2022. Open since 2012, with 74 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
The cost for any additional hours which you choose to purchase outside of your funding entitlement is: Explorers Room – £9.80 per hour, Adventurers Room – £9.80 for 2-year-olds turning 3 years and £9.00 for 3 – 4-year-olds per hour.
One published rate, dated September 2026. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
15/30 hours funding a week over 38 weeks, stretched over 43 weeks; Early Learning for 2 year olds funding, EYPP and Deprivation Funding.
Worth knowing. Nursery package contribution per session (e.g. £3 morning, £3 afternoon, £5 pre-school day, £7 full day) plus food charges; no mandatory charges; no administration fees for funding-only children; can opt out of Nursery package with terms notice.
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
RH8 0DGWhat 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, 21 September 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children benefit from a well-organised environment, indoors and outside, which motivates their play and learning. For example, younger children pretend to mow the grass as they talk about 'cutting it shorter'. They sit with their friends to talk about how 'hard using the lawn mower can be'. Children develop high levels of independence. They routinely attempt age-appropriate tasks for themselves. For example, younger children try to put their coats on as they go outside. They persist at these new tasks and show immense pride in their new achievements. Staff praise children and help them to develop a can-do attitude when trying new things.
Children develop strong friendships with their peers, they enjoy playing together and behave well. They understand the rules and boundaries of the nursery and routinely follow these, listening and responding to staff well. Children demonstrate that they feel happy, safe and develop good levels of confidence and self-esteem.
This helps them to develop the emotional resilience they need for future learning well.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- embed the curriculum intent and enable staff to have a clear focus on how they plan and tailor learning for children more precisely, particularly when supporting their speaking skills n build on partnerships with parents to ensure that all parents are supported to fully contribute to their children's learning and development.
- 21 September 2022Good
- 4 April 2022Inadequate
- 26 September 2016Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
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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 £9.80 an hour 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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