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Cosy Cottage Daycare

Ofsted: Good
(May 2025)
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5.0(6 parent reviews) ·63 Green Wrythe Lane, Carshalton, SM5 2EF · Sutton
Number of places
22 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
May 2025
Local authority
Sutton

About this day nursery

Established in 2022, Cosy Cottage Daycare Ltd in Carshalton provides a nurturing and homely environment for children aged 1 to 4 years. Open Monday to Friday, from 8am to 6pm, for 50 weeks of the year, excluding bank holidays, the nursery ensures children settle happily and receive consistent, warm interactions.

The dedicated staff team, with four members holding Level 3 childcare qualifications, focuses on building strong foundations for babies through a stimulating curriculum that incorporates individual care routines from home. The curriculum is wide and varied, ensuring all children make good progress in their development.

Staff effectively support children's creative development, encouraging exploration of textures and sounds, and foster problem-solving skills through engaging activities like rescuing toy animals from cornflour. Mathematical skills are also nurtured through activities such as matching numbered bean bags and singing counting songs.

The nursery prioritises physical development, offering a range of stimulating resources and activities, including climbing frames and stepping stones, to enhance gross motor skills. Staff excel in promoting good communication, language, and literacy skills through effective questioning, introducing new vocabulary, and incorporating action songs and rhymes.

For children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, staff are adept at seeking support and working closely with parents, carers, and professionals to achieve the best outcomes. Regular updates on children's progress are provided to parents through flexible and effective channels, including meetings, to support learning at home.

Leaders continuously reflect on and improve the provision, ensuring staff have opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge, as evidenced by training in supporting babies' development. Children are also encouraged to develop good independence skills, learning to put on their shoes and coats, pour drinks, and tidy away toys, all contributing to their readiness for school.

The provision holds an overall "Good" rating from its Ofsted inspection on 28th May 2025, reflecting its commitment to high-quality early years education and care.

What it's like

Children settle happily in this small and homely nursery. Staff build strong foundations for babies through a stimulating curriculum and very consistent and warm interactions. They include babies' care routines from home into their daily practice to support babies' well-being effectively.

Good Ofsted ratingStimulating curriculumStrong parent partnershipsSupports physical developmentFocus on communication and literacySupport for SENDPromotes independence

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 8am to 6pm, for 50 weeks of the year, except for bank holidays.

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Cosy Cottage Daycare

Last inspected 28 May 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

Children settle happily in this small and homely nursery. Staff build strong foundations for babies through a stimulating curriculum and very consistent and warm interactions. They include babies' care routines from home into their daily practice to support babies' well-being effectively.

Inspector highlights

  • Children enjoy challenge of climbing across different types of frames.
  • Children gain good communication, language and literacy skills.
  • Staff know how to seek support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
  • Staff work effectively with parents and give them regular updates on their children's progress.
  • Children gain good independence skills.

Areas to develop

  • 1extend knowledge of how to enhance the development of children aged two and three years, particularly when organising group activities
  • 2strengthen the curriculum to enhance children's understanding of feelings to support their understanding of themselves and others.
Inspection #10380392 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff know how to seek support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities to promote the best outcomes for their learning. They understand the value of working closely with parents and carers and professionals to support children's needs.

Outdoor space

Staff provide a wide range of stimulating resources and activities to support children's physical development well. For instance, children enjoy the challenge of climbing across different types of frames. They balance skilfully across stepping stones, steer wheeled toys carefully and gain good physical skills.

Parent Reviews of Cosy Cottage Daycare

5.0
(6)
Lea Coimbra
2 years ago

Lovely place, caring staff! What can I say? It really is a 'home away from home' and staff goes the extra mile to accommodate for any specific requests. As a first time mum, it was daunting for me to have to be away from my little one from 6 months of age but the team at Cosy Cottage made the transition as smooth as possible! They helped reassure my worried heart and kept me updated throughout the day with lovely pictures. I miss them and I am sure L misses them too! Keep up the amazing work! 😘

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Chloe Kanaka-Skinner
3 years ago

My daughter has been attending the nursery since September 2022 at their other site Hidden Gems, she then moved over to this site in January 2023. Cannot thank the staff enough for all the do, her progress has really shown & she absolutely loves going to nursery

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Anna Carolina Victoria Campelo Britto Lemos
in the last week

A home away from home. Cosy cottage has become part of our lives and our history. My daughter has flourished during her time there and all the staff has become like a member of the family. The love and care she received from them is amazing. I felt so at easy knowing I was dropping her off somewhere she was loved and appreciated. I honestly miss going to the nursery and meeting all the staff, catching up and seeing how she is received when she arrives and how loving she is with her teachers when it's time to come home. She would always tell lovely stories, about how a teacher soothed her, cuddled her, called her "my darling" and how much she loves them.

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Soji & Tayo
2 weeks ago

The Cosy Cottage team took care of our little boy from 9 months until he turned 3. They were amazing every step of the way (our LO was/is a picky eater!) and I can’t recommend enough. Huge shout out to the staff in the baby room and in the toddler room. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. x

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Emily McCarthy
a month ago

Highly recommend cosy cottage, my daughter attended from 9 months to 3 years and we only left because for an entire year I was driving from Old Coulsdon to Carshalton as we loved it so much, the commute just became too much in the end with a new baby but if I could I would have had her stay until she went to school! The team are all fabulous especially Kerry, Charlotte, Grace, Alda and Sousou - really wonderful team all round but more importantly they all really care for the children and build such great relationships with them. The learning my daughter did whilst in attendance was surreal, they helped massively with potty training too giving us tips and following our schedule so that the transition from home to nursery was easier for her to grasp. Overall wouldn’t suggest anywhere else, the new nursery my daughter is in is no comparison that’s for sure!

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

28 May 2025

Good

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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