Thames Tiddlers Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.1 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £91.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 2010, with 42 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Term time only, 38 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | Session | Weekly | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 9 monthsbirth to 9m | £70.00For Non-Funded Children only | – | – | – | |
| All ages | £91.00Daily Placement | £51.00Afternoon without lunch, 5 hrs £54.00Morning with breakfast and lunch, 5 hrs | £182.002 days per week £273.003 days per week £364.004 days per week £455.005 days per week | £789.332 days per week £1184.003 days per week |
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £9.50 All additional lunches
- £9.50 an hour Any additional hours
- £11.00 an hour Any ad hoc hours
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £5.00 to £9.50 a half day Voluntary lunch and consumable chargeRelevant to the funded places
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Two-year entitlement and the 15 and 30 hour funded places for children 9 months and older.
Worth knowing. Voluntary lunch and consumable charge: £9.50 per day and £5.00 per half day for the 38 weeks of the year. (Relevant to the funded places).
What childcare usually costs in Greenwich
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Greenwich 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
SE18 4LDWhat 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.
- 30 October 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 22 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children settle well. Staff create a warm and caring atmosphere. Young children engage as staff talk to them enthusiastically. Older children express their confidence as they ask questions and speak to staff. This demonstrates that children feel secure. Children have a wealth of opportunities to develop their physical skills through active play. They delight in running and riding bicycles and pushing diggers outdoors. Children enjoy regular sessions at the nursery's forest school as they manage risks, for instance as they climb trees. Babies enjoy developing their physical skills as they climb to slide down the wooden slide, others gain confidence using push-along toys to practise waking in the enclosed garden.
Children develop a range of skills and knowledge through play. They use a range of tools to make volcanoes and moons from clay. Adults teach children how to manage their own risks through discussions. Adults have high expectations of children and their abilities. They attentively encourage children to keep trying and support them to use their developing language to resolve minor conflicts. Children behave well. They are supported well to become independent; for example, children remove shoes to play in the indoor sandpit and serve their own meals.
Children with English as an additional language and special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported very well by staff.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- further help children to develop the emotional literacy they need to express themselves and to understand the emotions of others.
- 22 March 2023Good
- 21 June 2017Good
- 6 February 2017Inadequate
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Thames Tiddlers Nursery
- Meals
- Nappies
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 £91.00 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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