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Croft Day Nursery Bexleyheath

Ofsted: Good
(Feb 2025)
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4.6(21 parent reviews) ·The Upton Centre, 14 Upton Road, Bexleyheath, DA6 8LQ · Bexley
Number of places
127 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2025
Local authority
Bexley

About this day nursery

Croft Day Nursery, established in 1991, provides childcare for children aged 3 months to 5 years. This independent nursery focuses on nurturing and encouraging children's learning and progression within a supportive environment.

They pride themselves on offering inclusive rates, ensuring the price quoted is the final price without hidden extras, and all extra-curricular activities are included. The nursery maintains staff-to-child ratios consistently above statutory requirements, aiming to provide each child with abundant attention and support.

Children have ample opportunities for outdoor play, including running, climbing, balancing, digging, growing produce, and engaging in messy play. The Croft also demonstrates a commitment to environmental responsibility, continuously seeking ways to reduce its carbon footprint.

With several locations, including Bexleyheath, the nursery aims to create a home-like atmosphere that supports children's learning, play, and curiosity both indoors and outdoors.

What it's like

Children arrive at nursery happily and separate from their parents at the door with ease, demonstrating independence and a sense of security. Staff plan and provide a broad curriculum, supporting physical skills in babies, mark-making for two-year-olds, and tool learning for older children. They have high expectations for all children, promoting independence in daily routines such as putting on shoes and serving meals.

Established 1991Inclusive RatesHigh Staff-to-Child RatiosOutdoor Play FocusEnvironmentally Responsible

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm.

Age range

3 months to 5 years old

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Croft Day Nursery Bexleyheath

Last inspected 6 February 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 arrive at nursery happily and separate from their parents at the door with ease, demonstrating independence and a sense of security. Staff plan and provide a broad curriculum, supporting physical skills in babies, mark-making for two-year-olds, and tool learning for older children. They have high expectations for all children, promoting independence in daily routines such as putting on shoes and serving meals.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders and managers are passionate about providing all children with a positive early years experience and have a sound oversight of the quality of provision.
  • Leaders and managers have a secure understanding about what they intend for children to learn and focus on prime areas like independence, language, and physical skills.
  • Children are exposed to a range of vocabulary, from listening to songs as babies to older children confidently communicating and reciting phrases from books.
  • Staff provide high levels of support for children with SEND, identifying gaps in learning and working with professionals to help children reach their potential.
  • Children mostly behave well, understanding staff expectations, and developing social skills like sharing and telling friends when their behaviour is upsetting them.

Areas to develop

  • 1strengthen partnership working with parents to share more information about children's care and learning
  • 2monitor the impact of training and professional development opportunities provided to staff to continuously build on their teaching skills.
Inspection #10348982 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

They say that their children enjoy attending and that they have seen noticeable progress in their learning and development.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff have high expectations for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Staff provide high levels of support for children with SEND. They use their regular assessments of children's development and progress to identify gaps in their learning. Any gaps or delays in children's learning and development are acted on swiftly. Staff work closely with other professionals so that children obtain the support they need to reach their potential.

Outdoor space

Babies and young children become independent in taking off their own shoes after playing outdoors. The inspectors observed the quality of teaching indoors and outdoors to assess the impact of this on children’s learning.

Parent Reviews of Croft Day Nursery Bexleyheath

4.6
(21)
Shannon Summerskill
3 months ago

My daughter has recently started at The Croft, and although there was some miscommunication in the build up to her starting (I believe this is due to management/staff changes and not the fault of anyone currently at the nursery) she is settling in really well and I have been happy with the support provided by the team so far. The management/office team have been really helpful in supporting me with any issues or questions I have had. The staff in my daughter’s room have been really friendly, welcoming and have taken a real interest in getting to know my daughter/her current needs/routines and have been in regular communication with me regularly as she settles in which I really appreciate. There is always a warm welcome at the front door which, I believe, says a lot about the ethos of a setting. I am looking forward to continuing my journey with the nursery and am confident that my daughter is being safely looked after and nurtured within her provision.

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Funda
5 months ago

I would like to say a huge thank you to this nursery. A lot has happened over the past year, including some negativity, but I can honestly say that my experience has remained very positive. I have had two of my boys attend this nursery one has now moved on to school, and my youngest is still here. I have been part of this nursery for four years, and the positive turnaround I have seen under the new management, along with the dedicated team in place, has been incredible. Despite the challenges the nursery has faced, I am so glad I chose to keep my son here and witness how a difficult situation has been turned around in such an amazing way. My little boy absolutely loves it here and has come on in leaps and bounds. His development has been outstanding, and he comes home every day having learned something new, which is all thanks to the caring and committed staff. A huge thank you to Jade and Charlie, two of the most incredible staff members, and also a big thank you to the new management for everything they have done. Thank you to the Croft family for all your hard work and dedication.

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Annie T
3 months ago

My son absolutely loves nursery and is always so happy. The staff there are great with him, attentive, and seem genuinely invested in his wellbeing and development. It’s very reassuring how comfortable and settled he is within Baby Bears!

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Riley Williams
7 months ago

Manager doesn’t follow correct policies to safeguard the children and put them at further risk of harm when concerns were raised all because she couldn’t afford to loose staff members no matter how they treated the children. The wellbeing and safeguarding of the children should be the priority at a nursery but unfortunately this is not the case here. Go and search Croft day nursery Bexleyheath ofsted and there is news reports about safeguarding issues in 2024 that were “dealt with effectively” however these haven’t improved if anything have become worse. The manager knows exactly how to sweet talk parents so she’ll tell you what you want to hear to protect the business! So many good, longstanding staff members that the children and parents loved have left for these reasons stated therefore the children’s emotional needs are no longer being met due to inexperienced staff members replacing experienced ones - new staff don’t know the children or their needs as they just get chucked in the room and expected to be able to do/know everything even when they’ve never worked in early years before. The welfare of the children always needs to come first and the Croft is not doing that!

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Richie Collins
5 months ago

Our son absolutely loves it here. Such a smooth transition from being at home with us every day to the care of the nursery. The staff are incredible and we literally couldn’t fault the Croft in any way. Thank you!

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Inspection history

Date: April 2022

  • February 2025Good
  • October 2022Good
  • April 2022Inadequate

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