The Enchanted Castle (Day Nursery) Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in London for children from birth to 5, open 07:45 to 18:15, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2024. Open since 2003, with 130 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
We offer free 15 hour and 30 hour childcare to those who are eligible.
What childcare usually costs in Newham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Newham 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
E6 2LWWhat 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 November 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff provide warm and consistent care at this welcoming nursery. Children thrive as they develop self-assurance and positive relationships with staff. Staff interact calmly and sensitively with children, reinforcing simple behaviour boundaries.
Children gain the skills they need to manage their feelings in their own way and are well behaved. The support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is good. Children enjoy playing outdoors. They are fascinated about the world around them as they explore the well-resourced garden. For example, they develop their imagination as they play pretend shops in the wooden play house.
Children enjoy the fun of swooping up and away on the safe and secure play apparatus. They develop their fine motor skills, such as when they grip the handlebars of small wheeled toys. They also extend their balance and coordination as they ride the wheeled toys. Children laugh and giggle as they play with the water fountain and collect water in jugs. They watch as they pour the water down the funnel into the bucket at the bottom. This helps support children's mathematical understanding of weight and measure and of the science of how the water trickles down the tubes.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to implement a wider range of the areas of learning during their interactions with children, to support their learning fully.
- place a sharper focus on ensuring all parents are made aware of their child's next steps in learning.
- 28 November 2024Good
- 6 August 2024Inadequate
- 26 February 2020Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Enchanted Castle (Day Nursery) Ltd
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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