The Old Station Nursery – Tressillian Road
Good★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2024. Open since 1998, with 94 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Lewisham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Lewisham 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
SE4 1YAWhat 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.
- 26 May 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 7 August 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders have worked hard to improve the quality of learning experiences and staff's interactions with children. They have revised the curriculum and introduced cooking and planting activities to help children gain essential skills for future education and life. All children, including those identified as needing extra support with their learning, make good progress across all areas of learning. Children are motivated to explore and learn through play.
Staff work extremely well with parents to help identify and meet children's individual needs. Children separate from their parents with ease once they arrive at the setting, eager and ready to play and learn. Staff build secure and trusting relationships with children. They create a calm and nurturing environment where children demonstrate that they feel happy and content. For example, babies remain calm in their learning environment, seek out familiar adults when they need reassurance, and staff respond to their needs attentively.
Children excitedly make independent choices in their play. Staff set high expectations for children's learning and behaviour. They organise the learning areas well and plan activities that capture children's interest and imagination. Staff working with babies report that recent training on how to stimulate babies' learning has helped them to alter the activities and environment to meet the babies' needs.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- improve oversight of the teaching and learning across the nursery to ensure that all staff are confident to deliver planned learning activities as intended n enhance staff's understanding of how to help older children to learn to selfregulate and successfully manage minor disagreements that arise during their play to help minimise disruptions to their learning.
- 7 August 2024Good
- 20 September 2023Needs improvement
- 30 March 2023Inadequate
- 23 April 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 4 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Old Station Nursery – Tressillian Road
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? 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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