Cheeky Chums Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.5 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Pinner for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2022. Open since 2009, with 88 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Accept all government funding.
What childcare usually costs in Harrow
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Harrow 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
HA5 1HFWhat 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 November 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
On arrival, children are greeted warmly by staff from the area children are based in. All staff demonstrate a genuinely warm welcome. Following the COVID-19
pandemic, parents and carers continue to handover children in set areas.
Information shared at drop off and collection is used to welcome and settle children into the setting. A rich range of languages, including some from specific regions, are known and utilised by staff, to support both parents and children who speak English as an additional language. As a result, parents feel comfortable and children settle very quickly, feeling safe and secure, with an established team of staff. Staff have high expectations of all children. The time spent taking children to their base room is used to chat about what children are going to do and which staff and friends they are going to see. As a result, children feel comfortable and able to join in conversations with familiar staff, sharing thoughts and making plans for their day. Staff are role models for children, demonstrating respectful interactions and communication that children follow. Behaviour is good and staff use praise constantly, although, at times, it is not clear what children are being praised for.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- enhance the support for communication and language to ensure staff engage in meaningful conversations and give children time to think and respond n develop staff's teaching skills to ensure staff make the most of all opportunities to increase children's learning to the highest possible level.
- 10 November 2022Good
- 3 February 2017Good
- 18 February 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Cheeky Chums Day Nursery
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- 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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