The West Finchley Day Nursery

181 Nether Street, London N3 1NR
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9.4 25 Reviews
  • The West Finchley Day Nursery, London
The West Finchley Preschool and nursery opened in September 2020. The nursery has been designed to provide a spacious, warm and stimulating environment for children aged three months to four-years-old, 11 months.

The rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows providing a bright and inviting environment with lots of natural light.

As well as having 7 spacious rooms they also have an on-sight library which all age groups benefit from and a sensory room with fixed equipment which includes a bubble tube, projections on the walls, mirror balls and coloured LED lighting to promote sensory development for under 2s.

Providing lots of outdoor space with most of the rooms having balconies for the children to free flow between as well as 3 spacious gardens for babies, toddlers and the over 2s children can enjoy a wide range of activities outside.

The nursery's specialist curriculum covers music, performing arts, early years and discovery and technology with purpose-built studios for each specialist area. They support the children's individual needs, talents, abilities and interests which encourages them to explore, discover create and learn.

Parents have access to their children’s learning through an online system and are able to view and contribute to observations and assessments of their children.

They provide nutritious, organic nursery cooked meals. The menu rotates over four weeks and were designed by a nutritionist. The nursery chef has an innovative approach to the meals he cooks and is an expert at cooking sugar and salt-free meals that look and taste amazing.

The West Finchley Preschool and nursery uses cutting-edge technology to support the nursery functions. Entry to the nursery is gained through biometric fingerprint recognition to ensure the children’s safety.

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Care Provided by The West Finchley Day Nursery

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Privately Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Donna Shepherd-Gill (Nursery Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 22
  • Total Places for Children
  • 96
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 4 years 11 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:00-19:00
    Tuesday 07:00-19:00
    Wednesday 07:00-19:00
    Thursday 07:00-19:00
    Friday 07:00-19:00
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays & 1 week at Christmas

Funding & Fees Guide for The West Finchley Day Nursery

  • Fees avaiable with enquiry pack

The West Finchley Day Nursery Reviews (25)

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9.4

The West Finchley Day Nursery has a Review Score of 9.4 (9.429) out of 10, based on 10 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time The West Finchley Day Nursery has 25 reviews.

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Review from S B (Mother of Child) published on 9 July 2021
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

After viewing many nurseries in the area and surrounding areas, I visited The West Finchley Preschool prior to their official opening. The principal was exceptionally warm and welcoming, and spent over an hour showing us around the nursery. No other visit I had was as reassuring and detailed. She provided
a great amount of insight into the nursery's ethos and day to day routines. My daughter settled exceptionally quickly, transitioned to the toddler class, and I have seen her progress week by week. I am amazed by what she learns and how much she is able to tell me about her day. She enjoys the activities, food and her nursery teachers. All the staff have been exceptionally friendly, and have created a safe and nurturing environment. The nursery maintain constant communication with parents, especially over email, and are very easy to speak with in person. They were very reassuring during lockdown. I have no worries when I drop my daughter in the morning.

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Review from Sejal S (Mother of Child) published on 1 July 2021
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My youngest has been attending here since it opened last year, the nursery have been very accommodating over the last year. The staff are super friendly. My daughter has developed so much in the last year. She was 2.5 when she started and had only been to nursery for a week prior to lockdown and so
I was nervous but she settled in immediately and loved it from the first day. She is always happy and smiling. Singing and dancing and enjoys being at nursery.

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Review from Steven T (Father of Child) published on 1 July 2021
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My boy is very happy here. He has made a lot of friends and learns a lot here. The nursery provide very good and active music and a multimedia learning channel. The staff are very caring for the children.

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Review from L P (Mother of Child) published on 1 July 2021
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

My toddlers are extremely happy and settled at this nursery. They are so excited to go there for their sessions and absolutely full of fun and stories when they get home. They rave about the food, and love talking about their friends and teachers there. They often come home with interesting things they've
made, like cards, drawings, bath bombs and cakes, and really enjoy the music lessons, which inspire them to think about the world in completely different ways. The nursery is flexible and helpful with questions. Everyone is always friendly at drop-off and pick-up and the staff respond to questions helpfully and attentively. As a parent, I don't think I could really ask for more.

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Review from Ollie J (Father of Child) published on 25 June 2021
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

We sent our first child to West Finchley Preschool so, like many parents, didn't really know what to expect and were a little nervous about our daughter being cared for by other people and not us. We had nothing to worry about. The communication we have experienced with the team has been really great
- they constantly update us on our daughter's progress throughout the day. She has a healthy, varied diet at nursery and she seems to have already built great relationships with the staff in the baby and toddler room (who are really great.) We feel she is totally secure and she seems really happy there.

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Current Review Score: 9.4 (9.429)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.4 (9.429) out of 10 for The West Finchley Day Nursery is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 10 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.5 out of 5 from 10 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 4.908 for The West Finchley Day Nursery is calculated as follows: ( (109 Excellents x 5) + (11 Goods x 4) ) ÷ 120 Ratings = 4.908

  • 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 4.521 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for The West Finchley Day Nursery is based on 10 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 96 number of registered child places is 19.2. 10 Positive Reviews ÷ 19.2 = 0.521

  • 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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Donna

Donna Shepherd-Gill

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Donna brings wealth of experience in the early years sector having been within it for over 29 years. Donna aims to make a positive change to the future generation, building all children’s confidence and self -esteem throughout their time at our nursery and to prepare them for their transition to school.


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