Bumble Bees Day Nursery Limited
OutstandingTakes funded hours★ 4.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in November 2024. Open since 2005, with 75 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 hours Funding explained.
Worth knowing. We have stretched funding over 52 weeks of the year. This means that if you are entitled to 30 hours of funding per year (over 38 weeks), you receive 22 hours of funding per week.
What childcare usually costs in Ealing
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Ealing 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
W5 3RJWhat 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.
- 26 October 2024 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 20 November 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The highly skilled and nurturing staff and management team provide exceptional care and education for children. They apply excellent attention to detail in all areas of their practice to ensure best possible outcomes for all children. As a result, all children thrive in the nursery. Staff are well trained and deployed well. They naturally respond to what children do and where they go. Subsequently, children are safe, happy and their needs are met.
Children are very comfortable in their environment. They benefit from rich and meaningful learning experiences, which staff adapt to suit them. Staff approach children with love and positivity. This helps children to be confident to try and have a go without fear of failure. As such, children develop into confident and inquisitive learners.
The nursery adopts a highly ambitious and thoughtful curriculum with children firmly at its heart. The curriculum is embedded and understood across the nursery.
- 20 November 2024Outstanding
- 15 December 2022Outstanding
- 13 January 2017Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Bumble Bees Day Nursery Limited
- What it costs
- 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.
- What does it cost, all in? 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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