Bambinos Day Nursery LTD
Good★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Croydon for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2024. Open since 2009, with 24 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Croydon
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Croydon from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
CR0 6DJWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 22 February 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children thoroughly enjoy spending time at nursery. They enter happily and are greeted warmly by staff. Children hang their coats up and quickly settle into activities with friends. Staff create a curriculum that is broad, ambitious and supports all children to make good progress in their learning and development.
Children gain a growing curiosity and learn about their local community, such as when they go on outings. They visit local parks, enjoy meals at local cafes and had the opportunity to meet Santa at Christmas.
Children are motivated and show their curiosity in exploring different resources. For example, they enjoy using their imaginations and creativity as they create various melodies with a piano book. Older children work in partnership as they use their fine motor skills to put beads on either ends of a large thread. Staff are positive role models and have high expectations of children. They speak to children sensitively and remind them of the expectations for their behaviour and rules in the nursery. As a result, children behave well and remind each other that 'sharing is caring'. Staff teach children about good table manners as staff remind them not to talk with their mouths full and to say pardon if they burp.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide children with more opportunities to make marks for a purpose to develop their early writing skills n strengthen mathematical activities to promote children's knowledge of wider mathematical concepts.
- 22 February 2024Good
- 29 May 2018Good
- 4 July 2017Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Bambinos Day Nursery LTD
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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