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All Year
MEplace Big in Battersea, London, is a bright and welcoming nursery located within the iconic Battersea Power Station development. It offers a cosy and intimate space designed with modern, airy aesthetics and features familiar MEplace visuals and dedicated learning zones.
The nursery focuses on a play-based, holistic educational journey, nurturing children's physical and mental well-being from an early age. The curriculum incorporates extensive outdoor learning opportunities, utilising the nearby Battersea Park, and includes regular educational visits to museums, farms, and galleries to enrich topic-based learning.
Safety is a top priority, with thorough risk assessments conducted for all outings. MEplace Big emphasises developing curiosity, confidence, and self-concept in young learners.
The facility prioritises cleanliness and hygiene, uses non-toxic eco-friendly resources, and ensures maximum natural light. While the Battersea site is newly developed, the MEplace team is available to answer questions and introduce their experienced and caring teachers.
The nursery offers various monthly membership options to suit different needs, with separate fee structures for unfunded and funded places across different age groups (1-2s, 2-3s, and 4-5s).
Our ethos
We understand the importance of a play-based, holistic educational journey, which nurtures physical and mental health in the early years. We’re supporting our young learners to develop their curiosity, confidence and self-concept, helping them to love their ME!
What it's like
Staff plan exciting experiences that children thrive on. Children demonstrate confidence and independence as they change into their indoor shoes and put their belongings away as they arrive, while being greeted by friendly staff. Children have developed close relationships with their key adults, who are dedicated to offering all children unique experiences based on their current stage of development, enabling them to build on their prior skills and knowledge and make good progress.
Fees are charged as monthly memberships for either full-time or part-time schedules of two, three, or four full days per week. These standard rates apply to children aged one to five years old, with funded rates detailed separately.
Funding accepted
Good to know
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 21 August 2024 · Honufa Begum
What it's like to attend
Staff plan exciting experiences that children thrive on. Children demonstrate confidence and independence as they change into their indoor shoes and put their belongings away as they arrive, while being greeted by friendly staff. Children have developed close relationships with their key adults, who are dedicated to offering all children unique experiences based on their current stage of development, enabling them to build on their prior skills and knowledge and make good progress.
Inspector highlights
Areas to develop
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents are highly complimentary about the leaders and staff.
They value the up-to-date feedback and communication they receive from the staff regarding their children's learning and development.
Inclusion & environment
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are identified quickly and well supported by staff working closely with parents and external professionals. This ensures children with SEND make good progress. For example, children who were using single words to communicate when they started at the nursery are now communicating confidently using simple sentences.
The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.
We have been with meplace for past 1.5 years, and love it.
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Most recent inspection
21 August 2024
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
View full Ofsted reportMEplace Big registered in 2022. The nursery is located near Hackney Wick, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The nursery opens Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6.30pm, for 51 weeks of the year. The nursery employs 25 members of staff; 15 hold appropriate early years qualifications, including two with QTS, two with Level 7, three with Level 6, three with Level 3, and one with Level 2. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.
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