Opening hours
7:30 am to 6:30 pm, Monday to Friday, 51 weeks a year
Toad Hall Nursery Crawley
Ofsted: Expected standard·
4.0(4 parent reviews)
·117 Ifield Road, Crawley, RH11 7BP · West Sussex
Number of places
76 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Mar 2026
Local authority
West Sussex
About this day nursery
Toad Hall Nursery Crawley, established in 2024, is a childcare setting for children aged 0–4 years. It operates Monday to Friday, from 8:00 to 18:00, all year round, and follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum.
The nursery places a high priority on children's welfare and wellbeing, ensuring staff are warm, responsive, and attentive. They adopt a caring key-person approach, getting to know each child's background and routines to promote emotional security and successful settling.
Children enthusiastically engage in activities and demonstrate a strong sense of belonging, benefiting from a broad and ambitious curriculum. Leaders are dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for children and actively promote physical activity both indoors and outdoors.
They skilfully plan play experiences based on children's interests and developmental stages, ensuring children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make consistent progress. The setting's approach to SEND involves close collaboration with parents, carers, and external professionals, ensuring targeted support plans are in place.
While children with SEND make positive progress, leaders are working to ensure all staff are fully aware of individual children's precise targets.
What it's like
Children arrive eager to start their day, with babies reaching out to welcoming staff and older children quickly engaging in activities and greeting friends. Children show genuine happiness to attend and feel a strong sense of belonging. Staff personalise care, routines, and support by getting to know individual children and their families in-depth, building warm and sensitive bonds. Leaders emphasise the importance of children's attendance to maintain consistent relationships and support emotional wellbeing. Children benefit from a broad, ambitious curriculum and make steady progress from their starting progress.
High priority on welfareWarm, responsive staffKey-person approachBroad curriculumStrong sense of belongingDedicated leaders
Pricing & funding
Fees are structured by age bands for children aged 0-2 years, 2-3 years, and non-funded 3-5 years. The nursery offers full-day sessions and half-day morning or afternoon sessions, with discounted rates available for children attending full time.
Funding accepted
15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Good to know
- Registration fee and a deposit of one week's fees are required to secure a place, except for funded-only places.
- Normal charges apply on Bank Holidays when the nursery is closed.
- The nursery is closed between Christmas and the New Year.
- Discounted full-day rates apply to children attending full time.
- Optional fees apply per funded hour for food and consumables, with discounts for full-time children.
Key facts
Session types
Full day, Half day (morning), Half day (afternoon)
Age range
Birth to 60 months
Term time / All Year
All_year
Established
2024
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Expected standard
Last inspected Mar 2026
Grade summary
Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.
Category grades
AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Toad Hall Nursery Crawley
Last inspected 18 March 2026
What it's like to attend
Children arrive eager to start their day, with babies reaching out to welcoming staff and older children quickly engaging in activities and greeting friends. Children show genuine happiness to attend and feel a strong sense of belonging. Staff personalise care, routines, and support by getting to know individual children and their families in-depth, building warm and sensitive bonds. Leaders emphasise the importance of children's attendance to maintain consistent relationships and support emotional wellbeing. Children benefit from a broad, ambitious curriculum and make steady progress from their starting progress.
Inspector highlights
- Children's welfare and wellbeing is of high priority and is the foundation of children's experiences.
- Staff are consistently warm, responsive and attentive, establishing a caring key-person approach that is thoughtfully tailored to each child.
- Children develop close relationships with staff, confidently seeking them out for play, comfort and praise.
- Children, including those who face barriers to their learning, generally achieve well from their individual starting points.
- Leaders are passionate about their roles and are dedicated to promoting the best outcomes for children.
- Children demonstrate genuine happiness to attend and have an embedded sense of belonging.
Areas to develop
- 1Leaders should ensure all staff are fully aware of precise strategies and bespoke targets, to consistently support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities to make the very best progress possible.
- 2Leaders should support staff to give consistent messages to children about behavioural expectations.
Inspection #2789383 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make steady progress. Leaders and staff use their knowledge of individual children to promptly identify any learning gaps. Staff with lead responsibility for inclusion work with other staff, parents, carers, and external professionals, ensuring targeted plans with specific strategies and bespoke targets to support ongoing learning and development. Despite some inconsistency in staff awareness of precise targets, children with SEND make positive progress and leaders claim and monitor additional funding effectively.
Outdoor space
Children have abundant opportunities to be physically active, both indoors and outside. Young children delight in parachute games and ride-on toys, while older children eagerly access the outdoors, manoeuvring their bodies and practising balance on obstacle courses. This supports children's muscle development and promotes healthy habits for life.
Parent Reviews of Toad Hall Nursery Crawley
4.0
(4)
Ina Roe
a year ago
This Nursey exceeds high expectations! My little one (3 years) has been here for nearly a month and I’m so impressed. The management / childcare stuff are amazing! Also to mention the Chef here is very friendly and makes great healthy food for my little one with dietary requirements. Very professional, secure and looked after. Words can’t explain how happy and how at ease I feel about this nursery. My little one loves it here. Toad Hall Nursery is by far a 10/10! Thank you Toad Hall.
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Valeria Butculescu
a year ago
This child care nursery is amazing! My little one (2years old) is enjoying the nursery for 1 month and I’m so impressed. All stuff is amazing, very professional, and passionate! Also I want to say big thank you to Leila , Nicola and Ami for support and patience that they offer to us!
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Sher Khan
8 months ago
Don’t let your children visit the utter negligence that unfolds here. Take your children out and fund a new nursery. Rude staff who want a easy life. Place needs investigation asap
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Uju Emelife
a year ago
Very exceptional nursery. I enjoy the care and attention my little boy receives there. Staff are very intentional when looking after him.
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Inspection history
Most recent inspection
18 March 2026
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
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About the setting
Toad Hall Nursery Crawley was registered on 12/06/2024. It is based at 117 Ifield Road, Crawley, RH11 7BP and is a childcare on non-domestic premises type of setting. The registered person is Careroom Limited. The nursery is registered on the Early Years Register and the Childcare Register.
- URN
- 2789383
- Registered person
- Careroom Limited
- Day care type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
- Register
- Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
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