The Study Nursery

Weekly sensory storytelling for babies and a large garden give The Study Nursery in New Malden a recognisable character. Children progress through bird-named rooms, with care beginning at nine months and continuing to age five. No Ofsted inspection has been published for this setting yet.

Term-time and full-year attendance are both offered, with different minimum booking commitments.

Rooms and Ages

Robins Room, for nine to 16 months, centres on sensory discovery, early communication and movement, with naps and feeds organised around home routines. Wrens Room covers 16 to 24 months and gives increasingly mobile children a spacious setting for language, physical exploration and self-help skills.

For two- to three-year-olds, Sparrows Room combines construction, pretend play and early number work with support for toilet training. Owls, for three- to four-year-olds, introduces more structured learning alongside children’s own choices. Puffins, for preschool children aged four and over, emphasises early reading, number skills and managing everyday routines before school.

Learning and Activities

The Early Years Foundation Stage provides the framework for learning through play, including language, physical development and early literacy. Alongside it, adults use questions and conversation to extend children’s thinking, while observations help shape their next steps.

Debutots brings weekly storytelling, music and imaginative play to Robins Room and Wrens Room. In Owls, weekly French or Spanish uses games, songs and stories; music sessions introduce rhythm through drums, claves and shaker eggs. These give children different ways to participate beyond spoken conversation.

Each child has a key person, providing a consistent relationship between home and nursery. Parents receive communication through the Famly app and consultations. In Sparrows, All About Me uses family photographs shared through the app as starting points for children to talk with friends.

Support for SEND and children learning English as an additional language forms part of developmental observation and assessment. Room moves take account of readiness: the transition from Wrens to Sparrows usually happens in the term after a child turns two.

An in-house chef cooks fresh food daily, and the nursery’s dietary policy involves planning individual requirements and allergies with parents.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is 57 Thetford Road, New Malden, KT3 5DP. Opening hours are 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, across 51 weeks. Full-year bookings require at least three full days each week; term-time bookings require five. Bank holidays, Christmas and staff-training days bring closures.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funding includes the universal 15-hour entitlement for eligible three- and four-year-olds, working-family funding and funding from nine months subject to eligibility. For three- and four-year-olds, entitlement can be taken across 38 term-time weeks or stretched across 51 weeks.

Food and extra consumables for non-funded hours are included in the quoted fees; parents supply named sun cream. Funded hours exclude food and consumables, with separate daily charges for older children and no daily food or consumables charge for under-twos. Fully funded places have no registration fee or deposit; other bookings carry both. Current prices come in the nursery’s written quotation.

The nursery describes a relationship with Westbury School. Attendance does not guarantee a school place.

• Weekly commitment. Full-year attendance starts at three full days; term-time attendance requires five. This is a substantial booking commitment.
• Baby-room visit. Individual tours can be booked online. Ask how Robins Room manages sleep alongside feeding and active play, and how many babies share the room.
• Allergy planning. Individual dietary arrangements are part of the food policy. Confirm current practice for your child’s allergy before joining.

The Study Nursery suits families seeking either full-year attendance across at least three days or a five-day term-time pattern. Its room progression, weekly Debutots sessions and language activities offer concrete points of interest; the booking commitment deserves equal weight in the decision.