The Garden House Nursery School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Worcester Park for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2003, with 42 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 hours, plus 2-year-old funding; 9 months and above from the term after they turn 9 months.
Worth knowing. Term-time only places: all hours are funded so there is no additional charge for non-funded hours, but a small charge for food and extra curricular classes applies. For full-year places funding is stretched over 50 weeks.
What childcare usually costs in Sutton
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Sutton 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
KT4 7ABWhat 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 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff work hard to keep children safe and happy. They supervise children well and give them spontaneous cuddles throughout the day. This promotes children's confidence and self-esteem. Staff encourage children to share their feelings and emotions. Staff use age-appropriate toys and books to help children to manage their behaviour positively. Staff give children early notice when there is a change in routine. They are good at using age-appropriate language to explain to children what happens next. Children respond positively to this and they behave well.
Staff have high expectations for children's learning. They follow a curriculum that helps to prepare children for their future education, such as developing their language skills. This has had a positive impact on children, including children who speak English as an additional language and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff encourage children to carry out manageable tasks for themselves at the earliest possible opportunity. This motivates children to do things such as put on their coats and shoes for outdoor play. Older children help staff to set the tables for mealtimes and tidy up when they finish playing. Children's independence skills are developing well.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to plan and implement group times that engage and fully support children's learning.
- 28 March 2024Good
- 11 June 2018Good
- 31 July 2017Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Garden House Nursery School
- What it costs
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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