Sapphires Nursery School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in East Molesey for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. £125.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2023. Open since 2015, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Our daily rate is £125 , with a minimum attendance of three days per week .
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
From September 2025 , eligible working parents of children aged 9 months to 3 years can receive up to 30 hours of funded childcare , with all 3- and 4-year-olds continuing to receive 15 universal hours .
Worth knowing. SNS, as a year-round nursery, stretches funded hours evenly across 51 weeks , ensuring children benefit from consistent routines and seamless care. Funded children also receive our Funding Supplement Package , which covers meals, consumables, enhanced activities and developmental feedback.
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
KT8 0STWhat 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.
- 8 January 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 6 October 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children demonstrate that they feel safe and happy during their time at the nursery. They form close, secure attachments to the nurturing staff team. Staff provide an individualised approach to settling children into the nursery. This helps children to quickly feel comfortable in the environment. Children's behaviour is good. They treat their friends with kindness and respect, sharing and taking turns with the resources. Children engage in gardening projects and learn to plant, grow and harvest vegetables. Staff take the children on regular outings into the local community. For instance, they visit the nearby church and take part in naturebased activities in local woodland. This helps children develop a love of the natural world and feel part of the community.
Leaders and staff have high expectations for what they want children to learn to help prepare them for the next stage in their education. Staff focus on developing children's independence and embed opportunities for children to practise their skills throughout the day. For instance, children help to lay the table at mealtimes, take bedsheets off the sleep mats and blow their own noses. Children develop their physical skills and are confident and resilient learners. They demonstrate a willingness to take risks during their play, such as when they climb up the climbing wall and balance on logs.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the organisation of meal time routines to ensure that children are not waiting for long periods of time n support less experienced staff to develop their interactions with children to ensure that their communication and language development is promoted even further.
- 6 October 2023Good
- 21 February 2018Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Sapphires Nursery School
- 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 £125.00 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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