St Augustine's Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A pre-school in London for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:00 to 15:00, 5 days a week. £100.00 a week, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2023. Open since 1994, with 24 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|
| All ages | £100.0015 hours £200.0030 hours |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £30.00 Deposit (2 year old with additional Gov. Support places)refundable
- £50.00 Depositrefundable
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15/30 hours places for eligible children: families with additional Government Support, working parents, all 3&4 years olds (from the term after the child's 3rd birthday).
Worth knowing. If you are not eligible, or are only eligible for 15 hours but would like your child to attend 30 hours, our fees are: 15 hours: £100/week; 30 hours: £200/week. Note that eligibility to funded hours take place the term after the child's birthday. There is no charge for school holidays, when nursery is closed. Concessions are not made for absences or Inset days.
What childcare usually costs in Islington
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Islington 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
N5 2DRWhat 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, 28 June 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children happily come into nursery and quickly leave their parents. Staff are warm, welcoming and very caring to children who find separation from their parents a little harder. Children are eager to engage in the well-prepared and varied activities with their friends. They have a growing independence and are able to access resources in the well-planned environment. Staff have high expectations of children. They teach children to do things for themselves and encourage them to tidy up.
Children are highly motivated in the garden area. Staff encourage children to take part in sports sessions to develop their physical skills. Children practise jumping in hoops, throwing balls and working together. Staff adapt tasks to challenge children's physical skills, such as jumping from hoop to hoop. They support and praise younger and less-experienced children. For example, staff notice children who are finding it hard to wait for their turn and they help them to wait and get their turn quickly.
Staff offer children a language-rich environment and promote their communication through a range of ways, such as singing, rhymes and role-play opportunities.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- embed a range of strategies to support children's understanding and transitions, to make them more predictable, particularly for children with SEND.
- 28 June 2023Good
- 29 November 2017Good
- 21 April 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for St Augustine's Nursery
- 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.
- Is £100.00 a week 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.