Bumble Bees Day Nursery
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Sevenoaks for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. £85.00 a day for all ages, and they take the funded hours. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 1989, with 14 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Our standard daily fee is £85 per day for sessions between 8:30am and 5:30pm, for children of all ages.
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Funded childcare opportunities for eligible children.
What childcare usually costs in Kent
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Kent 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
TN15 6NEWhat 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, 10 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children's laughter is everywhere as they happily leave their parents to explore the exciting activities in this nursery. Children immediately immerse themselves in learning that captures their interest. Staff give children's feelings and attachment a high priority. For example, children explore the 'emotions tent 'and read books that help them to put a colour to their feelings. Loving staff are so in tune with children's emotions, that they pre-empt children's distress by scooping them up for cuddles.
Children benefit from a highly reflective staff team who follow their interests. For example, the children's interest in dinosaurs leads to making play dough volcanoes.
Children excel at recalling when they made their own footprints, as they make dinosaur footprints in the dough. Children enthusiastically display high levels of enjoyment, explaining 'we made footprints in the snow, and we made snow angels'.
- 10 March 2023Outstanding
- 2 August 2017Good
- 31 July 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Bumble Bees Day Nursery
- 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
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 £85.00 a day 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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