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Bubbles Nursery Bexley

Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2025)
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4.5(8 parent reviews) ·68 Crofton Avenue, Bexley, DA5 3AT · Bexley
Number of places
45 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
Bexley

About this day nursery

Bubbles Nursery Bexley is a vibrant and nurturing early years setting committed to providing exceptional care and education for children aged 3 months to 5 years. The nursery focuses on creating a warm, family-like atmosphere where every child feels safe, valued, and encouraged to explore their individual interests.

Staff are dedicated to transforming these interests into stimulating and challenging learning experiences, fostering curiosity, and helping children develop new skills to reach their full potential. Bubbles Nurseries places a strong emphasis on a partnership with parents, recognising its integral role in nursery life.

The team strives to understand each child's unique needs, celebrate their achievements, and support their development. The nursery environment is designed to be rich in language, promoting confident communication, and also features an outdoor space that extends learning opportunities through nature-based play.

A key person system ensures each child has a devoted staff member who builds strong bonds and acts as the main point of contact for parents, ensuring consistent care and a smooth transition between home and nursery. Bubbles Nursery also provides balanced, healthy, home-cooked meals and promotes good hygiene practices to support children's overall well-being and independence.

Our ethos

Bubbles Nursery Bexley is committed to providing exceptional care and education in a warm, family-like atmosphere, fostering curiosity and enabling children to reach their full potential. They focus on transforming children's interests into stimulating learning experiences, in partnership with parents, and through nature-based play in an environment rich in language and communication. They utilise a key person system to ensure consistent care and strong bonds.

What it's like

On arrival at this homely setting, children are very calm and keen to begin their day. There is a welcoming team of staff on hand to support children settling in who are new to the setting, as well as children transitioning to a new room and learning environment. Children are happy, and the setting's curriculum offers opportunities for them to follow their interests in the moment as well as teaching the children the language of feelings and emotional literacy.

Family-feel environmentIndividualised learningStrong parent partnershipOutdoor learning opportunities

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am - 6.30pm

Age range

3 Months to 5 Years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Bubbles Nursery Bexley

Last inspected 2 September 2025

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

On arrival at this homely setting, children are very calm and keen to begin their day. There is a welcoming team of staff on hand to support children settling in who are new to the setting, as well as children transitioning to a new room and learning environment. Children are happy, and the setting's curriculum offers opportunities for them to follow their interests in the moment as well as teaching the children the language of feelings and emotional literacy.

Inspector highlights

  • Children focus on tasks and confidently explore the nursery.
  • Managers encourage children to be creative and think critically through the 'no template' artwork approach.
  • Pre-school children are taught to be risk averse and manage risks competently.
  • Mealtimes provide opportunities for children to interact socially with staff and each other, with self-serving well established.
  • Staff have high expectations for children's behaviour and promote positive behaviour with 'Super Hero' capes.

Areas to develop

  • 1There needs to be more of a focus across the overall setting on the children tidying up the wide range of resources and activities offered to them to reduce unnecessary hazards and avoid potential accidents.
  • 2The clear curriculum intent evident in the pre-school room needs to be embedded fully across the whole setting.
  • 3Toddlers and pre-school children could be encouraged to lay their own tables with their cups, cutlery and personalised placemats.
  • 4The setting could arrange opportunities that consider the cultures and heritage of their current families to promote respect for different people.
  • 5raise teaching to a higher level across all areas of the provision.
  • 6Consistently embed the curriculum across all areas of the provision to raise the quality of teaching to become highly effective.
  • 7supervision strategies require a more timely structure, with planning focusing upon staff involvement and managers providing role-modelling opportunities of good practice, particularly the learning and development of babies, to further support staff's subject knowledge to ensure they are fulfilling their roles effectively.
Inspection #10407300 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

Children engage fully with activities to support physical development outdoors as part of the natural world. For example, pre-school children engage within minibeast hunts using magnifying glasses, and toddlers explore mud kitchens and sand play with various curiosity approach resources, such as kettles and pots.

Parent Reviews of Bubbles Nursery Bexley

4.5
(8)
Jessika Heathcote
7 years ago

This nursery is amazing! After having over a year with just me looking after my daughter she found it a real shock going into nursery so I could go back to work. It took abit longer to settle her in than was planned for but they really reassured me that it will be fine and she will grow to love it there. Well after almost 6 months there she loves it! No tears,she comes home saying new words that she has learnt. All the staff know each child even if they are not in the same room. I am so happy we picked bubbles.

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Hollie Childs
6 years ago

Brilliant nursery, well looked after, staff are amazing couldn't fault them at all! you should definitely consider taking your babies/children here. 5/5 would 100% recommend

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Rachel Douglas
6 years ago

Brilliant nursery would highly recomend. The staff are amazing and the care they provide to the children is A+

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Nicola Richardson
6 years ago

Amazing nursery and friendly environment, would definitely recommend!

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Nicola Richardson
6 years ago

Fantastic nursery, the staff are just amazing.

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Inspection history

Date: January 2020

  • September 2025Good
  • January 2020Good

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