Truly Scrumptious Early Years Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 3.8 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Romford for children from birth to 8+, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 February 2024. Open since 2009, with 35 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15-Hour Universal Funding, 30-Hour Extended Funding.
Worth knowing. Additional charge of £3.50 per meal for funded hours. Consumables charges of £7 per session. Only permitted to offer up to 10 hours of funded on one day. Additional hourly charge for time not covered by funding.
What childcare usually costs in Havering
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Havering 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
RM1 4HAWhat 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, 22 February 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff in the nursery are kind and caring towards children. Children settle well and build secure attachments to their key person, including those staff new at the nursery. Staff plan an ambitious curriculum, that enables children to be independent and motivated learners. Children enjoy a range of well-planned activities in a stimulating safe and secure environment. Children thoroughly enjoy small-world activities and develop good early mathematical and writing skills. Staff in the baby room are enthusiastic and responsive to children's needs. Relationships between babies and their key persons are gentle and stimulating.
Staff engage children in meaningful conversations. They use questioning to encourage them to problem solve and think creatively. For example, children work out the resources they could use to make a house linked to a story about three little pigs. Children enjoy listening to stories and staff skilfully use puppets and props to capture their attention. Staff use their voices expressively and invite children to predict what might happen next in the pictures. They also successfully support children's language skills, including children who speak English as an additional language. Staff collaborate with parents and ask them for key words in their child's home language to promote their speech and language development.
Overall, staff support children to understand the nursery's simple rules and behave well. Staff treat children with respect, which supports children's emotional wellbeing effectively.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff's teaching so they promptly respond and regain children's engagement and concentration when they become less focused during their free play n strengthen children's awareness of how they can play even more safely.
- 22 February 2024Good
- 14 March 2018Good
- 24 June 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Truly Scrumptious Early Years Nursery
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
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