South Nutfield Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Redhill for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 15:00, 4 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2013, with 26 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
FEET funding to 2 year olds, Universal 15 hours for 3 and 4 year olds, Working Parent Entitlement for 2, 3 and 4 year olds up to 30 funded hours per week.
Worth knowing. Funded hours available between 9 am and 3 pm, Monday to Friday, term time only; open 38 weeks of the year; no stretched funding option currently.
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
RH1 4JJWhat 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, 19 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily and eager to learn. Staff greet children at the door and warmly welcome them into the setting. Children know the routine well. They find the building block with their name on it and wait their turn to add it to the stack of other named blocks. Staff count how many blocks there are with the children to see how many children are present. Parents come into the setting with their children and help them to find their photo and choose where to hang up their coat and bag. Children settle quickly into the activities staff have organised. For example, some children role play with each other while others draw pictures.
Children confidently talk to adults and share the pictures they have drawn.
Staff provide children with plenty of opportunities to be physically active. For example, they set up small obstacle courses and support children to balance and negotiate their space. Staff remind children to put their arms out to the side to help them balance as they walk along low-level beams. Staff provide children with praise and encouragement. When children get to the end of the beams, they jump off, and one child says, 'Ta-da, I did it!' Staff encourage children to think about risks.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help staff to identify how to adapt the support they give to promote the communication and language of children at different developmental levels n support staff to identify opportunities during children's play to enhance their learning and development even further.
- 19 March 2024Good
- 20 April 2023Needs improvement
- 25 September 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for South Nutfield Pre-School
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
- 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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