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Golders Hill Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Aug 2025)
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5.0(4 parent reviews) ·666 Finchley Road, London, NW11 7NT · Barnet
Number of places
108 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Aug 2025
Local authority
Barnet

About this day nursery

Golders Hill Day Nursery, located in Golders Green, London, welcomes children aged 6 months to 4 years. The nursery operates weekdays from 8am to 6pm, 51 weeks a year, offering a full-time childcare solution.

Committed to nurturing every child's journey, the nursery fosters a calm and welcoming atmosphere where children are encouraged to be curious, capable, and full of potential. The approach emphasises gentle care, strong relationships, and stimulating indoor and outdoor environments designed to build confidence, independence, and a love for learning.

GHDN also provides nutritious home-style meals cooked on-site and offers daily outdoor play. Families are invited to open days to experience the unique setting, meet dedicated educators, and learn about the individualised care provided.

The nursery also mentions the availability of funded hours, and convenient drop-off and pick-up parking.

Our ethos

Golders Hill Day Nursery is committed to nurturing every child's journey by fostering a calm and welcoming atmosphere. Their approach emphasises gentle care, strong relationships, and stimulating indoor and outdoor environments designed to build confidence, independence, and a love for learning.

What it's like

Children and parents are warmly greeted by staff, who take time to understand individual needs. Children are happy and feel safe, ready to learn. Staff are good role models and help children understand expectations and behave well, using resources like 'The Colour Monster' book to support emotional development.

Full-time careHome-style mealsOutdoor playFunded hours available

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday - Friday, 8am - 6pm, 51 weeks a year

Food

Nutritious home-style meals cooked on site

Age range

6 months to 4 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Golders Hill Day Nursery

Last inspected 5 August 2025 · Jacqueline Halpin

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

Children and parents are warmly greeted by staff, who take time to understand individual needs. Children are happy and feel safe, ready to learn. Staff are good role models and help children understand expectations and behave well, using resources like 'The Colour Monster' book to support emotional development.

Inspector highlights

  • Children and parents are warmly greeted by leaders and staff each day on arrival.
  • Leaders and staff share the curriculum expectations and how they assess and plan for each child.
  • Staff support children's language skills well.
  • Staff help children to be curious in their learning and extend their understanding through exploration.
  • Staff teach children to learn how to keep their bodies healthy and be independent.

Areas to develop

  • 1review and adapt the organisation of activities outdoors to help children to remain fully focused and highly engaged with the learning taking place, in particular for babies
  • 2provide even more opportunities for children to expand their enjoyment of reading outdoors, to further children's literacy skills.
Inspection #10395622 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Every child, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make progress. Staff spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND.

Outdoor space

As children paint outdoors, they learn to mix colours and swirl paint on a large cotton canvas. In the garden, children can run, jump, manoeuvre cars and balance on boards. However, there are less opportunities for babies to enjoy a range of play opportunities, which sometimes hinders the joy and engagement in outdoor play.

Parent Reviews of Golders Hill Day Nursery

5.0
(4)
Ethan
6 months ago

Truly wonderful and special nursery. The staff are extremely warm, genuine and professional, and attend to our child with beautiful devotion and care. Feels like a rare environment and oasis of kindness and thoughtfulness where the children thrive. A true privilege to find Golders Hill Nursery, we are so grateful for the best non-parenting parenting you will find anywhere. Large modern space with oodles of room for kids to run around, great variety of activities from painting to sandpits, true regard for healthy food, outdoor play and a philosophy of love and care. Did I mention the loveliest people. Japanese influence, fantastic quality and a standard well above UK norms. Ofsted marked them down on some technicality which is truly mental when you experience this place, so we lucked out with small class sizes, it feels like one-on-one play with my child for 8-10 hours a day with playful carers he adores. Now Ofsted got their marbles back so this marvelous secret in GG is out. Our child comes home every day buzzing with life, happily tuckered out after a day full of joy. Keep up the amazing atmosphere and values. We are forever grateful. Thank you.

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Abigail Golban
7 months ago

My daughter attended this nursery and was in Oceans classroom. Her teachers were outstanding, particularly her key person Emi. They were all so kind and caring with her and had a very gentle approach. My daughter looked forward to going into nursery, and all of the activities were considered and well planned. They spent a lot of time outside and I really enjoyed seeing the weekly update of photos uploaded at the end of the week. Jane Densham was a pleasure to engage with. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend GHDN to friends and family.

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Artem Bakulin
a year ago

I found this to be a very nice nursery. My son attended the pre-school group and really enjoyed his time there. Compared to other places, it felt more relaxed and less busy, which suited him very well. The outdoor area is huge, and the children spend more time outside than in most other settings. The staff are very kind and helpful. Thank you for taking such good care of Luca :)

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Kate Bergman
a year ago

Lovely nursery , kind and supportive staff.

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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Good in 2025

Date: March 2025

  • August 2025Good
  • March 2025Inadequate

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