Little Pumpkins Nursery Ltd
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2024. Open since 2013, with 72 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 & 30 hour funded childcare for children aged 9 months to 4 years from the September 2026 term.
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
SE25 5QWWhat 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, 28 March 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Leaders, managers and staff have made good progress and successfully met all actions raised at the last inspection. They have introduced new methods of planning so that staff now capture children's interests and learning needs. They have reviewed the curriculum and resources and rearranged some group rooms.
This enables children to follow their own interests during play and benefit from a broad range of activities that promote all areas of learning. New staff have been employed to ensure that required ratios are maintained. Staff are embedding the key-person system well to ensure children's individual needs are met. More robust systems of induction and regular appraisals are now in place, resulting in staff understanding their roles and responsibilities. Staff acknowledge the successful changes they have made and say they have all pulled together as a team. Children enjoy a calm and well-organised learning environment where they are building strong relationships with staff and each other.
Younger children's communication and language skills are successfully promoted during group circle times. They become fully engaged as they giggle and hum along to familiar songs with staff. They identify which song they have been humming and then enthusiastically sing the songs and join in the actions together.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen risk assessments of resources to ensure that books are regularly checked and repaired so that children's love of books and reading is fully enhanced n develop opportunities for children to further celebrate their achievements and build on their sense of belonging.
- 28 March 2024Good
- 31 October 2023Inadequate
- 20 February 2020Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Pumpkins Nursery Ltd
- What it costs
- 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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