Tots First Academy
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Open a few years
A day nursery in Wembley for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2024. Open since 2022, with 36 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 or 30 hours.
What childcare usually costs in Brent
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Brent 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
HA0 3LQWhat 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, 10 September 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The provider creates a safe and nurturing environment. Children thrive and make good progress in their learning and development. Leaders carefully consider the skills that children need to develop and include these in the curriculum. For example, staff support children to develop independence. Children learn to put their coats and shoes on. They scrape their bowls after lunch and tidy away their cutlery.
Children develop an understanding of how to keep their bodies healthy. During lunchtime, staff talk to children about the effects that different food groups have on their body. For example, they explain that bread is a carbohydrate and will give children energy to play. Staff help children to stay active through regular yoga sessions and lots of well-planned physical activities in the garden.
Children follow the golden rules of the nursery very well. Staff help children to achieve this by regularly referring to these. They praise children warmly when they follow these rules. For example, children beam with pride as staff exclaim, 'Wow!
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff in how to develop children's early reading and writing skills consistently.
- 10 September 2024Good
- 25 October 2023Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Tots First Academy
- What it costs
- Meals
- 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.
- 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.