Wise Owls Nursery School
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Brighton for babies from 9 months up to school age, open 08:15 to 16:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2025. Open since 2015, with 28 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
From September 2025, eligible working parents of children aged nine months up to school age can access up to 30 hours a week, for 38 weeks of the year. As Wise Owls is open for 47.5 weeks of the year we stretch your entitlement across the year. The means we can offer a maximum of either 12 funded hours or 24 funded hours a week.
Worth knowing. From the term after your child turns 3 years old, we may ask for a voluntary parental contribution towards funded hours to help cover costs not met by government funding.
What childcare usually costs in Brighton and Hove
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Brighton and Hove 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
BN2 3HFWhat 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.
- 22 July 2026 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 8 April 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are excited to arrive at this friendly nursery. Staff warmly greet them and demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting their emotional well-being. For example, staff offer bespoke settling-in sessions that are tailored to each family's needs. Staff work hard to ensure that they build up strong bonds with children and babies. Parents appreciate home visits and staff finding out more about children's lives before they start at the nursery. This helps children to feel comfort when away from a parent for the first time. Older children quickly learn the names of the staff, and babies reach out for a cuddle from their familiar key person.
All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make strong progress from their starting points. Leaders work tirelessly to ensure that outside agencies provide targeted support for children who need it the most. Staff provide books and learn key phrases in children's home languages. This helps children to feel valued and fosters a sense of belonging.
Staff are kind and gentle, and they are excellent role models for children and babies. They show respect at all times, which positively influences the way children treat each other and the resources. Children are polite, kind and very well behaved.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to recognise when to provide individual children with the support they need to engage in play and activities.
- 8 April 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 19 September 2019Good
- 1 August 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Wise Owls Nursery School
- What it costs
- 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.
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