Sunshine Fruits Nursery Camberwell
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in London for babies from 8 months up to 5 year olds, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 January 2025. Open since 2017, with 84 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
30 Hours government funding; 15 Hours government funding (Two Year Disadvantaged Funding & Universal 3- & 4-Year Old Funding).
Worth knowing. Customers can attend on a funded-only basis, or choose to take up additional private days. Private days attendance starts at 3 days per week. *Including voluntary charges for consumables, meals, and additional services: £5 per month each.
What childcare usually costs in Southwark
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Southwark 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
SE5 8UAWhat 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.
- 17 October 2023 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
- 13 October 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 29 January 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The nursery provides a calm and nurturing environment where children flourish and feel secure. Staff place a high value on children's emotional well-being and get to know all children well from the start. This helps children to build strong bonds with their key person, settle quickly and develop a sense of belonging. Staff encourage children to make choices and try things for themselves. They provide praise and encouragement, which raises children's self-esteem and extends their independence.
Leaders and staff have high expectations for all children. They provide an ambitious and challenging curriculum, which extends children's curiosity and builds on their existing knowledge. For example, babies show their excitement as they sing and wait to see what is in a box. Toddlers show excellent concentration as they self-select and complete activities that help to develop their fine motor skills, such as using scissors and spanners to undo nuts. Pre-school children demonstrate writing their names and achieve complex sums by counting in tens and units.
Staff support children to recognise a range of emotions and learn respect for their peers. They role model behaviour they expect, and praise kindness and good manners. Children show a positive attitude to their learning, follow instructions and behave well.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- review and strengthen the organisation for group activities to ensure that all children can continue to learn.
- 29 January 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 5 April 2019Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Sunshine Fruits Nursery Camberwell
- 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.
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