Opening hours
7.30am to 7pm, Monday to Friday
Magic Roundabout Nurseries in London (SE17)
Ofsted: Outstanding
(Dec 2024)
Number of places
105 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2024
Local authority
Southwark
About this day nursery
Magic Roundabout Nurseries Ltd. is dedicated to providing a secure and nurturing environment where children can play, explore, and be inspired. The nursery group emphasises a child-centred curriculum and prides itself on a team of highly skilled, devoted, and passionate educators.
They actively encourage parental involvement in a child's development, offering various opportunities such as home observations, parent-led activities, and workshops covering topics like paediatric first aid, sleep, open-ended play, yoga with children, and dental hygiene. The nursery also facilitates child development meetings with key persons every four months to discuss learning progress and encourages ongoing parental input.
To keep parents informed, they utilise the Famly Parent App, which provides access to a child’s learning journey and daily updates. Magic Roundabout Nurseries also organises regular children's events throughout the year, including graduation days, World Book Day, and multicultural celebrations, all designed to create positive experiences and strengthen relationships between practitioners and children.
The nursery is part of a larger group with multiple locations, including Bristol, Docklands, Ilkeston, Kennington, Lenton, Stockwell, and Walthamstow.
Our ethos
Magic Roundabout Nurseries Ltd. emphasises a child-centred curriculum and is dedicated to providing a secure and nurturing environment where children can play, explore, and be inspired. They actively encourage parental involvement through observations, activities, and workshops, and facilitate regular child development meetings to discuss learning progress.
What it's like
Leaders and staff create a nurturing and home-from-home environment that excites children to attend nursery, helping them form secure attachments and develop positive attitudes to their learning. Staff model exemplary behaviour, using core texts to help children explore their emotions and develop emotional awareness and self-regulation skills. Staff demonstrate an exceptional knowledge of each child's interests and next steps in learning, expertly using this understanding to plan engaging and purposeful learning experiences.
Child-centred curriculumHighly skilled teamStrong parental involvementRegular educational workshops and eventsUtilises Famly Parent App
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
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Term time / All Year
All Year
Established
2004
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Magic Roundabout Nurseries
Last inspected 16 December 2024
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
What it's like to attend
Leaders and staff create a nurturing and home-from-home environment that excites children to attend nursery, helping them form secure attachments and develop positive attitudes to their learning. Staff model exemplary behaviour, using core texts to help children explore their emotions and develop emotional awareness and self-regulation skills. Staff demonstrate an exceptional knowledge of each child's interests and next steps in learning, expertly using this understanding to plan engaging and purposeful learning experiences.
Inspector highlights
- The curriculum is carefully designed to develop key knowledge and skills across all areas of learning in a clear, sequential manner.
- Leaders and staff skilfully integrate cooking activities into the curriculum to promote children's fine motor skills, problem-solving and mathematical concepts.
- Staff provide exceptional nature-based learning opportunities, which allow children to explore the natural world.
- Staff expertly support children's physical skill development, ensuring that they make excellent progress.
- Staff build strong partnerships with parents, celebrating their backgrounds and cultures.
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Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are exceptionally well supported. Leaders collaborate with external professionals to provide tailored support. They regularly review children's individual plans, in partnership with parents, and provide ongoing staff development to ensure children with SEND make continuous progress.
Outdoor space
Younger children and babies benefit from outdoor areas designed to meet their developmental needs. These areas feature rock climbing stations and a variety of bicycles suited to different stages of physical growth, including balance bicycles and tricycles.
Parent Reviews of Magic Roundabout Nurseries
4.6
(44)
Natacha Maria Sardinha
8 months ago
Claudia has enjoyed being taken care of by the wonderful carers at Magic Roundabout Nursery. We are very happy with the support and learning environment provided to our child. The carers are all attentive and dedicated and ensured Claudia was well taken care of and had various activities planned every day. The staff’s warmth and personal attention supported multiple crucial areas of Claudia’s development; from making friends, singing, reading, learning numbers and letters. We have always received updates on what was taking place at the nursery and felt deeply involved every step of the way. We’re deeply grateful for the love, encouragement, and patience everyone at Magic Roundabout Nursery has shown our family. Claudia has evolved into a confident child who is now excited to go to school. We would wholeheartedly recommend this nursery to any parent looking for an outstanding early years’ experience.
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Mia Foster
9 months ago
I would never recommend this nursery. Shortly after starting, my daughter became unwell, and I later discovered other children had similar health issues. This makes me question whether proper health and safety procedures are being followed at all. Even worse, one staff member appeared more interested in acting like a social media influencer than looking after children. Shockingly, she took a photo of my daughter without my consent and posted it online. This is completely unprofessional, a serious breach of trust, and entirely unacceptable. I have withdrawn my daughter from the nursery and will be reporting these issues further. Parents deserve far better than this.
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Rhoda Dumi
10 months ago
My little one was barely 8 months old when she attended. I can say honestly that she was well taken care of. Her growth was amazing within the time she spent. Sadly we had to move out of London. If we ever come back to London again. We will surely use same nursery. Thank you to the entire team. Much love from Princess.
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Santiago Dominguez
a year ago
Fully recommend it :) we had our kid at MRN Kennington for 2+ years and we feel so lucky to have had such a good experience. The staff, from management to the rooms, have always been very attentive, making sure we understood the development of our kid, how they were developing and how we could tackle the challenges we were facing. And our kid was also very happy to go in... running into their room the moment they were inside the nursery. We were also lucky to meet a lot of parents that have helped us built a community for our little person.
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Rebecca Quayson
a year ago
Baby Z started the nursery when he was 12 two weeks. The nursery have being an absolutely amazing in the way they care for the children they treat their kids as their own parents are staff are like Family. Communication between the parents is amazing. We also get to know what is happening on the app I feel that my child is safe in the nursery. Since Baby Z has moved to the pre toddlers room he so much happier The outdoor area and the actives they do is wonderful every child is engaged in the activities. What’s great about the nursery is they take the little ones on trips which helps their development because they see more of the world. I definitely recommend this nursery
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Inspection history
Improved from Good → Outstanding in 2024
Date: May 2013
- December 2024Outstanding
- January 2019Good
- July 2016Good
- January 2016Inadequate
- July 2014Good
- January 2014Good
- May 2013Requires improvement
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