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A Perfect Start

Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2024)
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3.0(8 parent reviews)
·St. James Church Centre, Stanley Avenue, WEMBLEY, HA0 4JB · Brent
Number of places
30 places
Age range
2–3 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2024
Local authority
Brent

About this day nursery

A Perfect Start Nursery, located in Wembley, aims to provide a nurturing 'home from home' environment where every child feels valued as an individual. Their philosophy revolves around supporting each child's unique developmental journey, fostering independence, positivity, and confidence.

The nursery is committed to delivering high-quality childcare and education, with a curriculum that is tailored to each child's needs and interests. Emphasising strong partnerships with families, A Perfect Start focuses on creating a happy, healthy, safe, and secure setting.

The nursery also offers personalised settling-in sessions to ease the transition for children and their parents, acknowledging the diverse needs of each family. They welcome children and staff from all ethnic origins and cultural and religious backgrounds, operating on a first-come, first-served admission basis while adhering to Ofsted's staff ratio requirements.

They are open 38 weeks a year.

Our ethos

A Perfect Start Nursery's philosophy centres on supporting each child's unique developmental journey within a nurturing 'home from home' environment. They focus on fostering independence, positivity, and confidence, tailoring their curriculum to individual needs and interests while emphasising strong partnerships with families.

What it's like

Staff implement an ambitious curriculum in a safe, secure and stimulating environment where children feel confident to investigate resources and become independent learners. Staff tailor settling-in sessions to meet children's and families' individual needs, forming strong relationships so children are happy, confident and eager to learn. Parents receive good communication and cannot speak highly enough about the nurturing staff.

Home from home environmentIndividualised curriculumOfsted registeredPersonalised settling-in sessions

Pricing & funding

The nursery offers full-day, morning, and afternoon sessions for children aged 9 months to over 4 years. Fees are determined by age bands and calculated based on the actual number of days in each month. Funded places are available with optional monthly contributions for consumables and activities.

Funding accepted

15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
  • Full day session (9 months to 2 years)£70 / day
  • Morning session (9 months to 2 years)£42 / day
  • Afternoon session (9 months to 2 years)£42 / day
  • Additional hour (9 months to 2 years)£15 / hour
  • Full day session (2 to 3 years)£60 / day

Good to know

  • Monthly fees are calculated by multiplying the daily rate by the number of days in the month.
  • Additional hours outside standard session times are charged at an age-specific hourly rate.
  • An optional monthly consumables and activities fee applies to funded places, except during August.

Key facts

Opening hours

09:00 - 15:00

Age range

9 months to 4+ years

Term time / All Year

Term Time

Session types

Full day, Morning, Afternoon

Established

2011

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for A Perfect Start

Last inspected 5 September 2024 · Anahita Aderianwalla

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Staff implement an ambitious curriculum in a safe, secure and stimulating environment where children feel confident to investigate resources and become independent learners. Staff tailor settling-in sessions to meet children's and families' individual needs, forming strong relationships so children are happy, confident and eager to learn. Parents receive good communication and cannot speak highly enough about the nurturing staff.

Inspector highlights

  • Ambitious curriculum with focus on well-being and communication and language.
  • Safe, secure and stimulating environment that promotes independence.
  • Tailored settling-in sessions and strong staff–child relationships.
  • Effective monitoring; SENCo works closely with staff and outside agencies to help children catch up.
  • Strong partnerships with parents and good communication.

Areas to develop

  • 1consider how to adapt teaching during large-group times for children who are not yet ready to take part
  • 2support staff in consistently helping older children to understand about cause and effect, to extend their knowledge and understanding of the wider world.
Inspection #10351585 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The special educational needs coordinator works closely with staff and outside agencies to help children quickly catch up; staff quickly notice gaps in development and seek early help when needed.

Parent Reviews of A Perfect Start

3.0
(8)
Purvisha Kishore
8 months ago

A Perfect Start Nursery is very bad 👎 don't go to this Nursery for placement or for your child admission. I went to this Nursery for placement and I did one mistake like she told to fill up form and by mistake in month I put August instead of September and she said you are not ready for this job and still she accepted but now I don't want to go this Nursery for placement or job. And everyone makes a mistake and prime minister makes a mistake so that doesn't mean they say like that. And even I'm 💯 sure that this Nursery manager made mistake many times. Please don't go to this Nursery ever very bad Nursery in Wembley and name is A Perfect Start Nursery

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Hindiya
a year ago

Worst nursery ever and I highly recommend not to bring your child here. The head teacher very unprofessional and has lied to my daughter’s social worker previously. She’s also racist she has told me to take off my headscarf before which made me feel very uncomfortable. She also treated my daughter very differently just because she has autism. I truly do not recommend it at all. Please don’t take your children here. Also the head teacher was so happy to get rid of us easily telling me to sign up to dawn nursery because my daughter has autism. And dawn nursery actually treated my daughter very very well. So highly recommend sign up your children to dawn nursery. And they didn’t treat Amelia differently.

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Tímea Tar
a year ago

The staff totally racist. My son was not happy there and cried every day. They sent him to therapist because of language difficulties and some other concerns they had, but the doctors said he was totally appropriate at his age. They expected fluent English however we just arrived in the country. Never felt they like children. Now he is excellent in school.

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Kowsh Jegan
3 years ago

This place is utterly horrible don’t send your child here, I used to be in that hell hold and it was horrible, racism and partiality was a lot in that place. Many gudjaratis used to go their and they only care for them. When I was younger going to that school they used to teach necessary rhymes I was sent at the back and their was one gudjarati girl at the front, I was young at this time and I pulled her hair , the teachers saw it happen and they called my parents in, my parents know their schemes and tricks, they stated that other children used to beat me and they do nothing but knowingly ignored it, how much they argue , my parents couldn’t let that behaviour happen , they support her cause she was gudjarati. They do this a lot . Very very very racist.z don’t send your child here, they deserve to go out of bussiness for being rude to young children complain a lot and racism .

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justin barber
2 years ago

It Is a lovely and very friendly nursery. staff is very professional,loving and caring ... my baby is always very happy and smiling stimulated by many activities.

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Inspection history

Date: September 2013

  • September 2024Good
  • September 2018Outstanding
  • October 2017Good
  • March 2017Inadequate
  • June 2016Good
  • September 2013Requires improvement

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