Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Sidcup
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.2 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Sidcup for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2024. Open since 2016, with 105 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Eligible families can access 15 or 30 hours funded childcare and may also use Tax-Free Childcare.
Worth knowing. Additional charges apply for meals, consumables (such as nappies, wipes, and sunscreen), trips, and any extra hours beyond the funded entitlement.
What childcare usually costs in Bexley
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bexley 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
DA15 7DRWhat 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, 9 October 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff greet children warmly as they arrive at the nursery. This helps children to separate from their parents with ease and settle into their learning. Staff support children to become familiar with routines well. For example, children confidently put their coats away and engage in the rich variety of activities on offer. Staff use their knowledge of their key children to plan a curriculum that considers children's interests and enables them to practise their developing skills across all areas of the curriculum. Staff join children in their play and support them to develop positive attitudes towards their learning.
Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour. They act as positive role models and consistently remind children of the rules in the nursery. Children demonstrate good behaviour. They benefit from the wide range of experiences that staff plan to teach children to develop respect and understanding of diversity.
Children have access to a range of books that broaden their knowledge of people with different backgrounds to themselves. This supports children to develop respect for others and builds their self-esteem well.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the teaching of different mathematical concepts, with a key focus on developing children's language around capacity.
- 9 October 2024Good
- 18 December 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Sidcup
- What it costs
- 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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