Opening hours
8am to 6pm, throughout the year
Once Upon a Time Day Nurseries in Uxbridge
Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
Number of places
42 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
Hillingdon
About this day nursery
Once Upon a Time Day Nurseries provides a nurturing and deeply caring environment, dedicated to offering exceptional care for children and their families. The nursery focuses on supporting children from a young age through to their transition to primary school, fostering a strong sense of community and connection.
They emphasise an approach that encourages children's development in a multicultural society, incorporating cultural awareness into their curriculum. The nursery regularly shares updates on children's activities, celebrating events like Christmas parties and Halloween fun, and actively participates in charity initiatives.
They also highlight staff achievements and welcome new team members, showcasing a commitment to their dedicated team. The nursery aims to build strong links with local primary schools to ensure a smooth transition for children moving on from their care.
What it's like
Staff warmly greet children, who feel safe and secure due to low staff turnover. This enables them to fully participate in a wide range of learning activities. Children express joy when staff read to them, introducing new language and ideas, and all children make progress in their communication skills. Staff emphasise helping children express feelings, manage conflicts, and develop their natural curiosity about the world.
Pricing & funding
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Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Once Upon a Time Day Nurseries
Last inspected 7 January 2025
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 warmly greet children, who feel safe and secure due to low staff turnover. This enables them to fully participate in a wide range of learning activities. Children express joy when staff read to them, introducing new language and ideas, and all children make progress in their communication skills. Staff emphasise helping children express feelings, manage conflicts, and develop their natural curiosity about the world.
Inspector highlights
- Staff plan an ambitious curriculum that includes activities centred around a book of the week.
- Staff skilfully support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) through personalised programmes and effective use of additional funding.
- Children develop their understanding of size, weight, and measure through play and storytelling.
- Parent partnership is a key strength, with regular communication, activity sessions, and opportunities for home learning.
- Children benefit from nutritious meals, effective allergy systems, and learn self-care skills like putting on coats and changing shoes for outdoor play.
Areas to develop
- 1consider how to develop the curriculum to give children further opportunities to explore similarities and differences between people and communities
- 2develop programmes that promote children's oral health further
Inspection #10367426 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents report how they enjoyed the activity sessions and seeing how their children interact with others in the nursery.
They describe how the sessions helped younger siblings to settle when they later joined the nursery.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Staff skilfully support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Knowledgeable staff work together to identify emerging gaps in children's development quickly. They implement personalised programmes to help address children's additional needs. Leaders work closely with staff, external professionals and parents to successfully improve children's outcomes. They use additional funding effectively to enhance children's individual support. For example, leaders provide targeted training for staff and resources to further support children.
Outdoor space
Children squeal with delight as they chase each other in the garden, their faces flushed from the exercise. Staff teach children how to put on their own coats and change shoes in preparation for outdoor play.
Inspection history
Date: November 2006
- January 2025Good
- January 2025Good
- February 2019Outstanding
- February 2019Outstanding
- May 2016Good
- April 2016Good
- September 2010Outstanding
- November 2006Good
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