Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School

58-61 St Michael's Street, London W2 1QR
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9.7 48 Reviews
  • Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School, London
Rated Good by Ofsted (June 2017), Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School provides childcare and education to children from birth to 5 years old.

The Nursery is just off the Edgware Road, close to the tube. It's a large purpose-built setting with two gardens, one for toddlers and pre-schoolers and one for babies.

The experienced staff have set up the Nursery as a free-flowing educational space. Every day is different! The children enjoy gardening and getting messy in the mud kitchen, rounders, yoga, science experiments like ‘Sink or Float’, dialogic reading, and more.

A dedicated chef prepares all meals and snacks using recipes from LEYF’s nutritious menu.

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Care Provided by Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Voluntary / Not for Profit Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Beverley Jean-Pierre (Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 18
  • Registered Charity Number
  • 299686
  • Total Places for Children
  • 62
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 0 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 08:00-18:00
    Tuesday 08:00-18:00
    Wednesday 08:00-18:00
    Thursday 08:00-18:00
    Friday 08:00-18:00
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays & Christmas

Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School Reviews (48)

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Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School has a Review Score of 9.7 (9.718) out of 10, based on 21 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School has 48 reviews.

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Review from Alex N (Father of Child) published on 2 October 2023
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Our daughter has attended from 12 months old and we are so grateful to the wonderful team who care for all the children as their own. The outdoor space in central London is fantastic and well-maintained and all the children have a connection with their teachers and look so happy. Our daughter is always
happy to attend and is never hungry on collection. The updates via the parent portal is great too. We think there should be a little more community interaction as there is limited parent-to-parent communication.

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Review from S B (Mother of Child) published on 25 May 2021
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My children attend this nursery, they seem very happy there. The staff are lovely, caring and fun. My children have improved speaking, listening, sharing and confidence since they started. I don't hesitate to raise my concerns if i have any which I know are taken seriously. The management of the nursery
are excellent they know each child very well and have been very supportive in my childrens development. They also have a big garden which my chiidren enjoy. I highly recommend Micky star.

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Review from Mei T (Mother of Child) published on 8 August 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My son and daughter both went to Micky Star since they were 1 year old. They were and still are very happy to go to nursery every morning and most days they just go into the nursery forgetting to say goodbye to us. Food is very good. Staff genuinely know the children. The outdoor garden allows the children
to spend a lot of time outside, particularly in the summer.

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Review from Syed H (Father of Child) published on 13 June 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My son has been attending Micky Star since he turned 3. I believe he sees the staff and children kind of like an extended family and that's why we continue to be content and happy leaving him there each day. He is always really keen to get to nursery and play with his classmates and really enjoys all
the activities prepared by the staff.

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Review from Leilah H (Mother of Child) published on 13 June 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

The staff truly cares about the children. My son is so happy to go to nursery every day. My son has started part-time when he was 5 months old and full-time since 8 months old.
The rooms are spacious. The sleeping room for babies and a separate room for meals are really valuable.
The large outdoor
is also extremely valuable!

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Review from Vanessa B (Mother of Child) published on 10 June 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My daughter started at Micky Star 6 months ago. She enjoys it! She gets along very well with the teachers and is always happy to come in, which is the most important as they spent 70% of their time.
The teachers are nice and very welcoming with both children and parents.
However, as a parent, I feel
there is some area of improvement. Most of the time, I pick up my daughter very dirty because they paint, they play with sand, they enjoy the garden, obviously, babies are messy but I would expect the children to wear aprons when they paint, for example, or make sure they don’t go outside when the playground is wet and muddy! It’s frustrating to pick up your child with stains all over the clothes - stains that most of the time remains after the wash.
I also noticed an important turnover in terms of teachers those days. People are leaving without notice.
Because nurseries are very expensive in London, I do have very high expectations.
I would also appreciate an opening hour extending to 7pm.

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Review from Tessa W (Mother of Child) published on 10 June 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Excellent nursery with kind caring staff and hands-on management.
My son has been very happy there for 3 years and particularly enjoys the garden area.
Activities are interesting and varied and often messy which is great.

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Review from M S (Father of Child) published on 7 June 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My daughter is having so much fun here.


Outdoor space is huge, even though the nursery location is in the city where space is a premium.


The staff are very friendly and helpful.


Food is halal. I don’t need to worry, especially as I am very particular about this.


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Review from Sharmin B (Mother of Child) published on 7 June 2019
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

This is a fantastic nursery, which my son has been attending since he was 7 months. He loves the open garden space this nursery has to offer. They do lots of great educational projects with the children, helping the children expand on their vocabulary and overall understanding of the world. Also, the
staff are all very friendly and make me, as a mother, feel very happy to leave my child in their care. They give detailed feedback at the end of each day. You can really see that the staff are very caring, as they always have lots of wonderful things to say about the children. I would recommend this nursery to all parents.

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Review from S A (Mother of Child) published on 15 June 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

We are very happy with the staff and the nursery premises. The outdoor space is a great bonus! We are extremely happy with her keyworker! The food is varied from meat, veg, fish! She comes home with different words, musical songs, dances that she has learnt during the day. Excellent overall.

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Review from Karen LH (Mother of Child) published on 15 June 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

This nursery is truly amazing. The facilities are great: over 3 floors with daylight and with a huge garden where there is a trampoline and little cars. It is well run by the manager. All the people working there are extremely friendly, loving and accommodating e.g. they are understanding when you arrive
late. The food is cooked on site and they really help with weaning and they are respectful of food allergies. My care person did an extremely good job with my eldest and takes the best of care of my youngest. They really helped my youngest to crawl and he is now cruising. With my eldest, they really encouraged his development of language and potty trained him. I am really impressed by the observation folder they keep on each child. When I do the drop-off, the rooms look so much fun, with little toy stations laid out across the room (E.g. sand, animals or tunnels). It is a bit far from my place but for me, it is totally worth walking for 20 min every day.

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Review from Zoe D (Mother of Child) published on 25 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Extremely happy with Micky Star. My now 13 month old started almost three months ago. Within a couple of weeks, she loved it and was waving me out of the door. She’s excited when we get there which says it all. They seem to do a lot of sensory play and the staff make a real effort to connect with the
children. The outside space is amazing and means the children get a lot of fresh air every day which is rare for a nursery so central. I looked at a number of nurseries before deciding and although Micky Star may not be the most modern, it had in my opinion the most homely feel, fresh food made on site, a separate sleep room and outside space which few did. Now my daughter’s been there a while I’m also very impressed with the friendly, home like atmosphere. Very happy with my decision.

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Review from Jayanthi A (Mother of Child) published on 25 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Micky Star is a wonderful nursery, where children and parents are embraced as part of community/family and children thrive. It has an amazing large outdoor space which is rare for a central London nursery.
The staff are welcoming and have such tenderness and caring when dealing with both children
and parents. My daughter has really become very independent since attending the setting. At drop off, she kisses me goodbye and skips through the nursery classroom door and doesn’t look back.
The learning is open-ended and children are free to explore their curiosity, my child’s interest were taken into account for her individual learning, which I believe has propelled her to be such a curious and inquisitive being.


The food is healthy and the food cooked on site by their own chef.

This is a wonderful nursery, with staff who honestly are caring, loving and supportive to the children and even parents who attend.


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Review from Val P (Mother of Child) published on 25 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

This nursery is in a very good area. Great garden and play area for kids. I had my ups and downs with this nursery, though certain staff are reasons why I kept my daughter here. Key worker made her experience better and me, more relaxed and sure of my daughter's safety.

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Review from Nat S (Mother of Child) published on 25 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

As a mother, I needed to make sure my daughter would be in good hands. That is exactly the feeling I got from the first time I visited the nursery.
The staff is friendly and like one parent said in another review, they seem to know all the children, even if they don't take care of them directly.
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daughter took a bit of time to adapt herself to the new environment and in my view, the staff helped her all along the way. She has since moved to another room, and the new key person seems to be very nice as well.
I love how they invite the parents to enjoy with their children some of the activities organised by the nursery, i.e, last Friday they had a Royal Wedding party, and all the kids were adorably dressed as princes and princesses.
The only criticism I can make is related to the food. They give them very often couscous and breadsticks which in my view don't have much of a nutritional value. Also sometimes they serve the kids the same protein twice in a row.

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Review from Jayne J (Mother of Child) published on 25 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

It didn't take long for my son to settle into the baby room and now he loves going to nursery. He gets excited on the way in and he gets to do activities we don't do at home. He is extremely sociable, happy meeting new children and adults, eats a varied diet and seems to really benefit from going to
Micky Star Community Nursery. I am very happy with the nursery. the staff are kind and take an individual approach.

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Review from Vi C (Mother of Child) published on 25 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My child is very happy going to the nursery every day despite the fact that he does not speak yet.
I do not have feedback from him but he does want to stay longer at the nursery every day when I go to pick him up.
There is a close relationship with the key person who tries to meet the needs of my
child and all the staff are kind and friendly.
Apart from the friendly environment, the outdoors area is the real asset for this nursery in the middle of Paddington.
I recommend this nursery.

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Review from Carla R (Mother of Child) published on 17 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My daughter has been happy at Micky Star for the past year, first in the babies’ room and now on the second year room. She enjoys it, has an ample range of activities and is well taken care of by the staff.


Quality of briefings and child knowledge depends on staff. Use of technology and communications

could be improved as it would facilitate managing childcare in the modern world. More regular formal briefings scheduled with appropriate time would make parents feel more involved.

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Review from Anais V (Mother of Child) published on 17 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Micky Star Nursery is the most amazing nursery we have found in our area. Unlike other nurseries, they have an amazing garden! The staff are really nice, always in a good mood and happy to be at work.
My children are attached to their key person and to other members of the team. They are always so
happy when they arrive, no tears, only big smiles. My eldest would like to go to nursery at the weekend! I know they are happy and in good hands and this is the most important for me.

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Review from Ben B (Father of Child) published on 17 May 2018
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Great staff and children are very happy there! Food appears to be good or at least our daughter is eating well and is eager to go to nursery in the morning!

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Current Review Score: 9.7 (9.718)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.7 (9.718) out of 10 for Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.7 out of 5 from 21 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 21 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.718 for Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School is calculated as follows: ( (189 Excellents x 5) + (56 Goods x 4) + (6 Satisfactorys x 3) + (1 Poors x 2) ) ÷ 252 Ratings = 4.718

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Micky Star Nursery & Pre-School is based on 21 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 62 number of registered child places is 12.4, which has been reached with 21 Positive reviews. Points = 1

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Beverly

Beverly

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Joined: 1995

Hello, my name is Beverley and I've been the manager of Micky Star since 2009 and have worked for LEYF since 1995.


Our family-friendly nursery is warm and welcoming, and a real part of the local community. Parents particularly like how we celebrate current events and include the whole family. We have lovely large and spacious rooms, and a fabulous outdoor space, which includes a new covered learning area.


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