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Sutherland Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
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4.6(21 parent reviews) ·384 Ewell Road, Surbiton, KT6 7BB · Kingston upon Thames
Number of places
72 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
Kingston upon Thames

About this day nursery

Sutherland Day Nursery in Surbiton, Surrey, registered in 2008, operates from a purpose-built building. The nursery provides full-day care for children aged 0 to 5, open weekdays from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm all year round.

The setting has a strong focus on establishing positive relationships with families, using a clear settling-in procedure to support children’s individual learning needs. A strong key-person system is in place, helping children to feel safe and secure.

The nursery emphasizes celebrating cultural and diverse backgrounds, with staff speaking various languages and engaging children and parents in cultural celebrations such as Diwali, Ramadan, Christmas, and Lunar New Year. The leadership team is committed to continuous improvement, ensuring staff have regular training and support from external agencies to create tailored learning plans for individual children.

What it's like

The nursery ensures positive relationships with families are quickly established, supporting staff in planning a child-centred approach to learning. The effective key-person system and strong bonds formed by staff enable children to feel safe and secure. Staff encourage children's independence and teamwork, with children responding well to instructions and participating in tidying activities. Staff also effectively support children's imaginative play and language development.

Child-centred learningCultural celebrationsStrong family relationshipsEffective key-person system

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 6:30 pm

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2008

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Sutherland Day Nursery

Last inspected 7 January 2025

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

The nursery ensures positive relationships with families are quickly established, supporting staff in planning a child-centred approach to learning. The effective key-person system and strong bonds formed by staff enable children to feel safe and secure. Staff encourage children's independence and teamwork, with children responding well to instructions and participating in tidying activities. Staff also effectively support children's imaginative play and language development.

Inspector highlights

  • The nursery ensures that positive relationships with families are quickly established, using a clear settling-in procedure and children's starting points to support a child-centred approach to learning.
  • Staff encourage children's independence and teamwork, with children responding well to instructions and participating in tidying and collecting activities.
  • Staff effectively support children's imaginative play and language development, with babies enjoying role-play cooking and older children role-playing as doctors using stethoscopes.
  • The nursery places a significant emphasis on celebrating children's cultural and diverse backgrounds, with staff speaking multiple languages and engaging families in various religious festivals.
  • Children enjoy a range of planned activities, including painting and making play dough.
  • Staff support children well in understanding number concepts, using counting exercises during transitions and demonstrating one-to-one correspondence.
  • Parents are happy with the nursery's "home-from-home" feel and feel supported by the advice provided on managing their children's sleeping, eating, and behaviour.
  • The leadership team has a clear vision for moving forward, prioritising staff training and utilizing external agencies for individual learning plans.

Areas to develop

  • 1Children's access to space and opportunity to consolidate learning is sometimes hampered by the organisation and number of resources in some rooms.
  • 2Staff do not always make their expectations for children's behaviour clear, specifically regarding the safe use of an indoor climbing frame and turn-taking during group times.
  • 3Support staff to ensure they make their expectations of safe and suitable ways to behave clear to children.
  • 4Consider ways to organise resources, activities and equipment more effectively to ensure children can better navigate their environment and fully access and consolidate all learning opportunities.
Inspection #10371449 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

EAL / language support

The nursery places great emphasis on celebrating children's cultural and diverse backgrounds. Staff speak to children in a range of languages alongside English, and engage children and their parents in cultural celebrations.

Parent Reviews of Sutherland Day Nursery

4.6
(21)
Nikoleta Parvanova
5 months ago

The team really cares about each child 's development and needs. The management team and the staff goes above and beyond to provide best care possible for each child. Very efficient, supportive and friendly.The nursery is very well equipped with what all children need. Thank you!

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Desislava Ivanova
2 years ago

Sutherland Day Nursery is a great environment for any baby/toddler to start their education path. My baby is always happy and smiling when she attends. Everyone is very professional, caring and friendly. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for all your hard work, love, support, dedication and for creating a happy and nurturing environment for our little ones ❤️ ♥️ ❤️

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Bushra Javed
5 years ago

Sutherland Nursery has been a great nursery for my daughter. She started going there a year ago and has settled so well. The staff are very welcoming and friendly. The nursery has amazing setting, they do lovely activities which promotes interesting approach towards learning. This has been great for my daughters learning. Would highly recommend this nursery!

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Cheng Liu
2 years ago

Sutherland has been a great nursery! Our son really enjoyed his time there, but he had to leave due to relocation. The highlight was the staff who were very kind and sweet. My son settled very well after a couple of weeks. He often wanted a morning cuddle from the staff with a smile on his face when I dropped him off in the morning. They did lots of fun activities, like making cards, costume party, celebration for national book day and sensory activities. The management team is very responsive. When I asked about the dietary plan and requested more meals with meat/fish, they acted in a few days to increase to 4 days/week with meat/fish. We also like their onsite kitchen so all the food could be prepared freshly for our son :) Their financial manager Julia is very friendly and helpful. She usually replies my email promptly with detailed answers. When my son needed to leave after giving notice, they made some adaptation for our schedule and waived some of the fee. That was very appreciated! We were a bit shocked by the 48hr quarantine policy regardless of the child's illness. That was challenging for us as two full-time working parents, but the manager said that policy will be reviewed in the future. Overall, our experience with Sutherland was great!

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Aimee Lindsell
5 years ago

My child has been attending Sutherland for over a year and absolutely loves it. Staff are friendly and warm and look after her very well. Their activities are educational and fun and the nursery has a great set up with lots of engaging resources. Communication during the day is excellent so I'm aware of what my child is up to. Highly recommended!

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Inspection history

Date: February 2009

  • January 2025Good
  • December 2019Good
  • March 2014Outstanding
  • February 2009Good

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