We welcome children from three months to five years.
Your child can join Little Agnes at any time during the year if places are available. Please note that places in older groups are generally filled by babies who have attended Little Agnes Nursery in the previous months and years.
Please contact us to arrange a show around. During this time we can explain our enrolment process.
Staff qualifications range from Qualified Teacher Status, Early Years Professional Status and Montessori Teacher to the more caring based qualifications. The majority of staff have a NVQ Level 3 in Childcare.
All our team are also first aid qualified and hold varies certificates such as safeguarding, safe sleeping and EYFS.
Ofsted visited our premises before opening and have conducted formal inspection on the 29th July 2023. For more information on the report please see our testimonial and Ofsted section of the website.
Please contact us to discuss fees.
There is no adjacent outdoor space but a private courtyard from the nursery is leading to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and the site has also easy access to many green spaces that we will use daily. (See map)
All children leave the nursery at least once a day on planned outings. For more information please see our "Outdoor Learning" section in "Our Nursery".
We do have a waiting list for children who are under 3 months old and those for which we could not offer a place. Each year group will have a separate waiting list on a first-arrived first-served basis.
If your child is under 3 months old and you wish to go on the waiting list please contact us.
Yes your child can start at anytime during the year. If places are still available we will offer them to parents on the waiting list first.
We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Please note that we want to make sure that all new children are given proper attention. Therefore we will limit their number at any given time and your child may not be able to join us at the exact date you wish to. Please get in touch with the manager should any problem arise.
We offer five settling sessions over two weeks, free of charge, prior to the child's official start date. During this time, you will get to meet your child’s keyworker and the rest of the team; both you and the key worker will go over the daily routine where you will be able to discuss in depth your child’s needs, sleeping patterns, dietary needs (i.e. allergies) and anything specific to your child’s requirements.
The change of class is made according to the movement in the other groups. We look at the ages of the children during the year, and then can see what age range each class will have. Sometimes children move up together a class, but sometimes they will have two years in the same room – it depends on the overall age profile of the children in the nursery.
We accept children who do not speak English and/or French. Whatever the family’s circumstances we will forge a partnership with you to make sure your child adapts well to his/her new environment. We will need as much information as possible about your child and his / her routines at home.
It is very important for us to understand your child in order to help him to get more familiar with new people and new words. Knowing a few words from your mother tongue will be invaluable in case your child faces difficulties.
You child may not speak French or English immediately but he / she will understand much more quickly. Each child learns at their own pace and therefore we will adapt to them. There is no deadline to speak a language. We are not saying all children will be perfectly bilingual but when they leave Little Agnes at 5 they will be perfectly fluent and understand all conversations that are age-appropriate.