Miss Daisy's Nursery School Brook Green

Ice experiments, an outdoor role-play café and Spanish songs give Brook Green a recognisable character. At its June 2025 inspection, Ofsted rated Miss Daisy's Nursery School Brook Green Outstanding and found safeguarding effective, with children making rapid progress across the curriculum. The strength of that judgement lies in the everyday examples beneath it: adults extended children's questions, supported conversation and helped children work together.

Based at Chinese Church In London on Brook Green, the nursery accepts children aged 24 to 60 months. Its term-time attendance options include mornings, afternoons and full days. This is an offer for families whose childcare arrangements can work around nursery terms and an early Friday finish.

Learning and Activities

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) provides the framework for learning and care: children's play develops language, physical skills and understanding, alongside preparation for later learning. Enrichment sits alongside that foundation rather than replacing it.

In June 2025, an investigation into differently shaped ice cubes became a conversation about melting. Adults used the children's curiosity to introduce prediction and discussion, rather than simply supplying an answer. Elsewhere, a light board supported pretend medical play, with children using vocabulary about examining skeletons. These examples show how resources can give children something substantial to talk about.

Spanish stories and songs were also part of nursery life in June 2025, drawing on staff members' language skills. Parents were invited to read in their home language or contribute their knowledge and interests. For a child, this makes language something shared through people and stories, rather than confined to a separate lesson.

Brook Green's enrichment menu includes the group-wide programmes Little Kickers, Studio Cultivate, Blueberry Music, Tarka Sports and Eco Forest School. These are optional activities alongside the EYFS; children who do not participate continue with EYFS learning during those sessions. That distinction matters when choosing an attendance package, because enrichment and core nursery education are separate parts of the offer.

Outdoor and Community Life

In June 2025, the outdoor role-play café brought cooperation and conversation together. Children prepared pretend tea using lemon and mint, then explained their work to adults. The activity gave them a reason to collaborate, describe a process and speak to someone beyond their play group.

Growing food added another kind of responsibility. During the same month, children tended tomatoes and peas planted in a nature class. Friday cycling and scooting were encouraged, with road-safety learning taking place in the playground. Outdoor activity therefore included both caring for living things and practising useful everyday skills.

International Day was being prepared in June 2025, with families invited to contribute food and cultural dress. Books and toys also represented different backgrounds. The event belongs to that inspection period, but it provides a concrete example of how family experience entered nursery life.

In June 2025, Ofsted found that staff adapted learning to individual needs, arranged speech and language support promptly and involved parents and caregivers in regular meetings, helping children with additional learning needs make rapid progress. For families weighing support, the useful detail is the combination of specialist involvement and discussion with the adults who know the child outside nursery.

Familiar songs helped children move between activities in June 2025. When minor disagreements arose, adults encouraged children to consider their own feelings and those of others. This made transitions and behaviour part of the learning day, with language used to explain what was happening and what another child might need.

Staff preparation also had a practical rhythm at that time: tailored training was accompanied by daily reflection together. The value for parents is the connection between staff development and the situations children encounter, rather than a list of qualifications detached from practice.

Food and nursery supplies have separate charges, including meals, snacks and consumables. For children using funded hours, those extras are voluntary and parents can decline any or all of them. Families comparing packages should distinguish the childcare entitlement from the additional services attached to it.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is Chinese Church In London, 69-71 Brook Green, London W6 7BE. Attendance is during term time, with closure in school holidays, so the nursery timetable needs to fit alongside a family's holiday arrangements.

Morning sessions run from 8.30am to noon, afternoons from noon to 3.30pm, and full days from 8.30am to 3.30pm. Monday opening is later, at 8.45am, and Friday closing is 12.30pm. Those exceptions matter: the standard full-day window does not apply unchanged throughout the week.

Booking combinations start with five mornings and extend through packages adding one, two, three or four afternoons. This gives families a progression from morning attendance to a week containing longer days, rather than a choice limited to full days throughout.

Funding and Paid Extras

Brook Green offers 15-hour and 30-hour funded options for eligible children, alongside privately paid childcare. Funded childcare itself carries no charge; the funded packages separate additional hours and voluntary extras from the entitlement. Term-time attendance remains the basis of the nursery's offer.

Meals and snacks are charged separately, as are nursery consumables, including crafting and educational materials. During funded hours, charges for these items and enrichment are voluntary, with an option to decline them. Optional enrichment complements EYFS learning; children who do not participate continue with EYFS education during those sessions.

A non-refundable registration charge and a deposit apply outside funded-entitlement-only attendance; neither is required for children accessing only their funded entitlement. The deposit is refundable when the required leaving notice is given. Current prices come in the nursery's written quotation, and payment is requested before each term begins.

• Monday and Friday arrangements. Monday begins at 8.45am and Friday ends at 12.30pm. Work and collection plans need to accommodate both exceptions, even when choosing a package with full days.
• The five-morning starting point. Booking combinations pair five mornings with different numbers of afternoons. At a visit, discuss how that pattern would work for your child's settling and the move towards longer days.
• Optional enrichment and funded extras. The funded offer separates childcare from voluntary food, supplies and enrichment charges. Ask for a written breakdown showing the sessions and extras you intend to use, including how opting out would work for your child.

Brook Green merits serious consideration for families seeking term-time morning attendance or a combination of mornings and longer days. Its June 2025 Outstanding judgement is supported by concrete examples of conversation, investigation and individual support, rather than an impressive label alone.

The practical fit is equally clear. Five-morning packages, optional enrichment and shorter Fridays shape the choice. Families whose routines accommodate those arrangements have a nursery with a substantial inspection endorsement and a day built around children's questions, language and shared activity.