Twinkle Stars Montessori Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A pre-school in Barnet for from 1 year 6 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 17:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in May 2024. Open since 2016, with 33 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 Hours Funding, 30 Hours Funding, Tax-Free Childcare, Childcare Vouchers. Funding for eligible 1, 2, 3, and 4-year-olds is available.
Worth knowing. The Early Years Entitlement provides up to 15 or 30 funded hours over 38 weeks per academic year. Funding is applied across your child’s sessions and deducted from your invoice accordingly.
What childcare usually costs in Barnet
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Barnet 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
EN5 1JEWhat 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, 21 May 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children have formed strong bonds with the caring and friendly staff, who welcome them into the nursery. Their self-care and independence skills are demonstrated as soon as they enter, when they change their shoes, take off their coats and wash their hands by themselves. Children thoroughly engage in the experiences that staff provide for them. The ambitious curriculum has a clear focus on helping children learn key skills and knowledge needed for future learning.
There are a wide range of techniques that children independently use to manage their own behaviour and emotions. Children are very well behaved in the nursery and are respectful of each other and the rules of the nursery. For example, when two children both want a turn with the same toy they reach for the green timer and use this to negotiate when it is time to share. They happily wait their turn and carry on playing together.
Children are confident learners and take pride in their achievements. They demonstrate a strong sense of self-awareness. For instance, when a child wants someone to play with, they take the 'peace rose' to a group of children.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review and improve the organisation of tidy-up routines, so that children's learning and play experiences are not unnecessarily interrupted.
- 21 May 2024Good
- 6 June 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Twinkle Stars Montessori Nursery
- What it costs
- 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.
- 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.