Bumble Bees/ Coccinelle
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.9 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Wimbledon for from 1 year 6 months up to school age, open 09:00 to 15:00, 5 days a week. £15.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2021. Open since 2012, with 29 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Parents can pay for adhoc hours if necessary. Fees as follows: £15 per hour
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
FREE 15 & 30 hours funding for children aged 2, 3 & 4 years.
Worth knowing. We provide free funded places only. 15 hours funding: Monday – Friday 0900-1200 or 1200 – 1500 ( 3 hours per day). 30 hours funding: Monday – Friday 0900-1500 ( 6 hours per day). We do not charge deposits. Parents/Carers provide their own meals and/or snacks. We do not charge for meals and/or snacks.
What childcare usually costs in Merton
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Merton 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
SW19 1HQWhat 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.
- 21 July 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 5 November 2021 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children develop strong relationships with the staff and they settle quickly on arrival. Older children demonstrate high levels of confidence and independence as they move around the playroom to explore the wide range of resources accessible to them. Children display very keen interests in their play and they also learn to make decisions about what they want to do. For example, children spend a long time making marks on paper, developing their imagination as they give meanings to the marks they make.
Children are happy and have enjoyable and valuable play and learning experiences.
They show a positive attitude to learning and are motivated to explore. For example, children use a range of tools to manipulate dough, confidently talking about what they are making and how they are doing it. Children make good progress. However, staff are not fully confident in their curriculum to ensure children make the best possible progress.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- build on staffs' understanding of the curriculum to ensure activities are tailored to children's individual needs, so they can make the best possible progress n develop further the exchange of information with parents about how they can appropriately support their child's learning at home.
- 5 November 2021Good
- 9 November 2018Good
- 13 May 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Bumble Bees/ Coccinelle
- 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
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- Is £15.00 an hour still the rate? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? 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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