£16 per hour standard fee for any un-funded hours.
We accept Working Parents funding - find out if you are eligible at Childcare Choices.
We accept 15 hours 3+ funding.
All funded hours attract an additional services charge of £10 per hour.
For more information, please see our website.
What are Additional Services Charges?
The government has a scheme to help working parents with childcare costs by offering Publicly Funded hours of childcare. Here at The Elmwood Montessori School we are keen to offer you the benefits of this offer, as well as the standard 15 hours funding offer.
As the funding rate the government pays us is not enough to cover our costs, we will only be able to offer two fully funded places at any one time.
We offer our remaining places with a small ‘additional services’ charge for the many services that we offer you over and above those that we are required to offer.
Although we are required to tell you that the government hours are ‘free’ it is much more useful to view them as a subsidy, which is what they are in reality.
The Additional Services’ that your fee will be paying for include the following:
• One-to-one Montessori teaching workshops every day, tailored to the unique needs of your individual child, allowing them to excel quickly
• Staff qualified well in excess of that required, including Montessori qualified teachers, and an Early Years Professional
• A staff ratio that is always much higher than we are required to provide, so key persons have just 6 or so key children to focus on
• A staff team accredited in the delivery of the ‘Let’s Talk Together’ programme each and every day, all day, ensuring that your child has quality speech and language development input every time they interact with a staff member,
• A staff team accredited in the delivery of the ‘Healthy Early Years’ programme each and every day, all day, focusing on making healthy eating, physical activity, personal, social and emotional development and wellbeing an integral part of all we do,
• Forest School sessions for every child,
• Weekly specialist sessions in Art, Cookery and Drama.
Elmwood Montessori School has a Review Score of 8.0 (8.000) out of 10, based on 2 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Elmwood Montessori School has 2 reviews.
Review from O J (Mother of Child) published on 2 July 2025
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5.0 out of 5
Reply from C de Lacey, Manager at Elmwood Montessori School
Thank you very much for this wonderful review, it has been our pleasure to teach and care for your lovely boys, they have been such a big part of our year, and they will be very much missed when thry go on to Reception class. Thank you very much for choosing us.
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Review from Salvatore P (Father of Child) published on 22 May 2025
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5.0 out of 5
English is not his first language, and we were initially a little anxious about how he would settle in. However, thanks to the nurturing environment and the excellent support he received, he has made incredible progress with his English and communication skills. It's been amazing to see how confident and happy he has become.
What we love most is how much fun he has every single day. He looks forward to going to nursery, and it's clear he feels safe, loved, and excited to learn. As parents, that's all we could ask for.
We are so impressed with the care and quality of the nursery that we are planning to send our daughter there as well
Reply from C Windows, Manager at Elmwood Montessori School
Thank you very very much for this lovely review, it means the world to us! It is our pleasure to care for and teach all of our children, and your son has always been so well liked by staff and children alike.
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The Review Score of 8.0 (8.000) out of 10 for Elmwood Montessori School is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.
a) The Average Rating is 4.6 out of 5 from 2 Reviews in the last 24 months.
b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 3.4 out of 5 from 2 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.
The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:
a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.
The Average Rating of 4.625 for Elmwood Montessori School is calculated as follows: ( (15 Excellents x 5) + (9 Goods x 4) ) ÷ 24 Ratings = 4.625
b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').
The 3.375 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Elmwood Montessori School is based on 2 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:
The 5 points available are broken down as follows:
i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 = 3.125
ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 40 number of registered child places is 8. 2 Positive Reviews ÷ 8 = 0.25
When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.
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