Kindred Teddington Nursery and Pre-school

A detached house, a rear studio extension and gardens for each room give Kindred Teddington a recognisable character. Opposite Udney Hall Gardens, this nursery puts outdoor choice into the everyday routine: children can move between their room and its garden, while babies have a sheltered outdoor area of their own. The practical benefit is straightforward. Outdoor play need not wait for a whole-group outing.

Children can attend from 3 months to 5 years, with 54 places in total. At its April 2023 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good. That judgement provides a dated assessment of quality; the current outdoor arrangements and gradual settling process give families concrete features to weigh alongside it.

Full-day, morning and afternoon bookings sit alongside all-year and term-time attendance. The differences matter for families balancing working hours, shorter nursery days and school holidays.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage sets the requirements for children's learning, development and care, so play supports communication, physical skills and growing independence. It is the shared foundation for nursery education. At Teddington, the current day combines activities led by adults with play directed by children, circle time and access to the gardens.

Yoga and French add different experiences, while cooking and gardening give children practical things to do and explore. Crafted Tales and Boogie Mites are also enrichment activities. Their presence adds to the choice of experiences, although the useful decision for parents is how those activities fit their child's age and attendance pattern.

In April 2023, babies heard action words during play with materials they could manipulate, while older children discussed sensory balls using the planet names Mercury and Venus. Vocabulary grew from what children were handling and noticing. Making play dough from a recipe also brought questioning and mathematics into a practical task, rather than treating them as separate lessons.

There was a limitation in April 2023: older children sometimes had too little opportunity to develop their own ideas or decide how to explore an activity. That matters alongside today's mixture of adult-led and child-led play. The balance between a planned task and a child's own direction deserves attention.

Outdoor and Community Life

The sandpit and planting area give older children different reasons to spend time outside, from sensory exploration to watching living things grow. A sheltered baby garden offers a separate outdoor setting for the youngest children. Each room has garden access, making the outdoor environment part of ordinary play rather than an occasional extra.

Udney Hall Gardens sits immediately opposite the nursery. Community involvement includes participation in the local village fair each year, as well as outings into the surrounding area. These are useful opportunities for children to experience life beyond the nursery, with no fixed outing frequency implied.

Relationships and Communication

Settling follows a gradual sequence across three days. The first visit lasts an hour with a parent present, including paperwork and the All About Me book; the next visit is an hour apart from the parent, followed by a three-hour stay to experience more of the routine. The sequence can be extended or adapted. That flexibility matters more than treating the timetable as a deadline for becoming comfortable.

Family events usually take place twice per term. Parents and siblings can join seasonal parties, while Mother's Day and Father's Day activities and a week-long Christmas celebration, including card workshops, create other points of contact. These occasions give families ways to take part beyond routine handovers.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At the April 2023 inspection, Ofsted found safeguarding effective and children with special educational needs and/or disabilities making progress, with the SENCO discussing needs with parents and seeking advice from external agencies. The practical mechanism was collaboration around the individual child, including contact with the local authority.

In April 2023, opportunities to use children's home languages during play were inconsistent. Leaders recognised the need to strengthen this. Families raising a child with another home language should give this issue weight, rather than assuming that general language activities answer it.

Nap and quieter periods form part of the current routine for younger children. Meals are cooked daily at the nursery by its on-site chef, using an accredited menu. Food therefore sits within the nursery day rather than requiring families to organise every meal separately.

Sessions and Attendance

The address is 8 Langham Road, Teddington, TW11 9HQ. Full Day bookings run from 7.30am to 6pm, Morning from 7.30am to 1pm, and Afternoon from 1pm to 6pm. These are actual booking patterns, so parents can compare shorter sessions with a full day.

All-year attendance covers 51 weeks, while the term-time offer covers 38 weeks. Christmas closure and bank holidays also need to fit the family's childcare arrangements. The distinction between the two calendars is substantial: term-time attendance changes holiday coverage as well as the billing pattern.

Getting There

Teddington Station is a 10 minute walk from the nursery. Parking arrangements include limited driveway space for brief access and free street parking outside, giving families alternatives to travelling entirely by car.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare includes the 30-hour entitlement for eligible working families from the relevant term after a child reaches 9 months, and the 15-hour entitlement from the relevant term after the third birthday. Funding can be used with term-time attendance or stretched across the all-year calendar; stretching spreads the entitlement rather than increasing it.

Funded sessions carry separate charges for meals and snacks, non-food consumables and activities. Families who do not want consumables alongside funded hours must follow the Nursery Consumables Policy and notify the nursery in writing; this is a defined process rather than an assumption that every charge applies identically to every family.

Current prices come in the nursery's written quotation. The Teddington fees information gives the charge categories, which should be read alongside the chosen attendance pattern.

• Morning start time. Opening information gives both 7.30am and 8am, although the full-day and morning bookings start at 7.30am. Confirm the opening arrangement for your intended days before relying on an early start.
• Children's choices and home languages. April 2023 improvement points concerned older children's control over learning and opportunities to use home languages. On a visit, ask how current activities address both, especially for a multilingual child.
• Enrichment and settling. Crafted Tales and Boogie Mites are part of the enrichment offer, and the settling sequence can be extended. Use the one-to-one visit to discuss what these activities involve for your child's age and how settling would be adapted to their needs.
• Funded-session extras. Food, non-food items and activities are charged separately during funded sessions. Request a written quotation for your chosen calendar and booking pattern, including the consumables process if you want to decline them.

Kindred Teddington suits families seeking either full-day attendance or shorter morning and afternoon sessions, with a choice between term-time and all-year care. Room-by-room garden access, a sheltered outdoor area for babies and an adaptable settling sequence are its clearest practical attractions.

The April 2023 Good judgement is useful, but so are the specific improvement points about children's choices and home languages. For families comfortable with the funded-session charge structure, this is a nursery with concrete outdoor and settling arrangements to assess against their child's needs.