Nurseries in Chessington

Castle Tots at Castle Hill Primary School publishes current local prices for children from 3 months to 3 years.

For children aged 2 to 3, current prices include:

£33.75 for 7:30am to 12 noon

£22.50 for 9am to 12 noon

£48.75 for 7:30am to 3pm

£52 for 8am to 4pm

£65 for 7:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Thursday

The £65 option provides a 10 hour childcare day. These are actual Chessington provider prices rather than a borough average.

Yes. Castle Tots on Buckland Road currently offers 7:30am to 5:30pm childcare Monday to Thursday for children aged 2 to 3.

Friday is different. The current Friday options finish at 3pm or 4pm rather than 5:30pm.

Parents who work a full Friday should therefore check the weekly timetable carefully rather than assuming the same closing time applies every day.

Breakfast and snacks are included in several Castle Tots sessions.

A hot lunch currently costs an additional £2.50, or parents can provide a packed lunch. Hot food during the extended evening session also costs £2.50, with a packed tea allowed instead.

Parents supply their own nappies, wipes, barrier cream, formula and sun cream.

This makes the published session price easier to compare because the optional food costs are clearly separated.

No. Castle Tots states that its funded hours are used during term time only.

Any holiday sessions booked are charged privately.

This is important for parents who work throughout the year because accepting a funded place does not remove the need to budget for holiday childcare.

Yes. Eligible working parents can receive up to 30 funded hours a week from the term after their child reaches 9 months until school age.

Castle Tots accepts both 15 and 30 hour funding, while Lovelace Primary School also offers 30 hour nursery places for eligible 3 and 4 year olds.

Parents must keep their working family childcare code valid and reconfirm eligibility every 3 months.

No. Lovelace's 30 hour nursery offer currently runs from 9:15am to 3:15pm.

The school also offers an additional paid 2.5 hours a week starting from 8:45am, plus a paid 35 hour nursery option.

For a parent working until 5pm or 6pm, the nursery timetable alone does not cover the full working day, so additional childcare is needed.

Castle Hill's current school timetable lists nursery attendance from 9am to 12 noon or 9am to 3pm.

Its admissions information also states that additional hours beyond a child's funded entitlement are charged at £4 per hour.

This gives parents a lower cost school nursery option, but the school day still ends well before most full time working days.

No.

Castle Hill explicitly states that having a nursery place does not guarantee admission to the school's Reception class. Separate Reception admission criteria apply.

Parents should therefore choose a Chessington nursery because the childcare arrangement works for their child and family, not because they expect it to secure a primary school place.

Chessington Children's Centre is at Castle Hill Primary School, Buckland Road, Chessington, KT9 1JE.

The centre supports expectant parents and families with children under 5. Services include family support, midwife appointments, help with foodbank access and early years activities.

Current sessions generally cost £2.50 per family unless otherwise stated.

Not during the School Street restriction.

Buckland Road is restricted from 8am to 9am and 2:30pm to 3:30pm. Driving through the restriction without an exemption can result in a penalty notice.

This matters when booking morning or afternoon Children's Centre sessions because the centre is located on the Castle Hill Primary School site.

Kingston's Early Years Service provides an Early Years SEND Inclusion Fund for eligible children aged 2 to 4 with emerging or lower level SEND who need additional support in their childcare setting.

The service also provides Portage for children with more complex needs.

Kingston's Portage team is currently based at the Moor Lane Centre in Chessington, making specialist early years SEND support particularly local for Chessington families.

Kingston's local SEND partnership was inspected by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission in June 2026.

The final report, published in September 2026, gave Kingston the strongest possible outcome under the current inspection framework, finding that children and young people with SEND and their families typically experience positive outcomes.

This does not guarantee that every individual service has no waiting time, but it is current evidence about the overall local SEND system.