Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (48 weeks a year)
Les Petits Sunshine Day Nursery is a privately owned nursery located in London, SE12 9DP, near Lee, Hither Green, Grove Park, and Blackheath Train Station within the borough of Greenwich. Established with a vision to deliver outstanding early years provision, the nursery strives to be a nurturing and inspiring environment where children are valued, supported, and encouraged to reach their full potential.
They aim to foster a culture of curiosity, independence, and resilience, preparing children for their next stage of education through play, curiosity, and meaningful experiences. The nursery operates with a child-centred approach, tailoring learning to each child's interests and abilities, while maintaining high expectations for all.
They emphasise warm, responsive care, inclusive practices, and strong partnerships with parents to ensure consistency and progress in each child's development. Les Petits Sunshine offers a "home from home" environment for children aged 6 months to 5 years, with dedicated rooms for babies (6-23 months), toddlers (24-36 months), and preschoolers (3-5 years).
The nursery provides services focused on safeguarding, wellbeing, and care, with highly trained staff proactively ensuring every child feels safe and listened to. Operating 48 weeks a year, they offer full-day, morning, and afternoon sessions, with all main meals and snacks prepared on-site.
Our ethos
The nursery aims to foster a culture of curiosity, independence, and resilience through a child-centred approach, tailoring learning to each child's interests and abilities. They strive to create a nurturing and inspiring environment where children are valued, supported, and encouraged to reach their full potential, preparing them for their next stage of education through play and meaningful experiences.
What it's like
Children receive warm and nurturing care from adults, which helps them to form secure relationships with them. Staff work in close partnership with parents, sharing information and keeping them updated on what children are doing at nursery. They plan an appropriate curriculum for children, helping them to make good progress in their learning and development.
Funding accepted
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (48 weeks a year)
Session types
Full day sessions (8:00 AM to 6:00 PM), Morning sessions (8:00 AM to 1:00 PM), Afternoon sessions (1:15 PM to 6:00 PM)
Food
Breakfast, morning snack, homemade lunch, afternoon snack, and a light tea are included and prepared on-site.
Age range
6 months to 5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 28 November 2024
What it's like to attend
Children receive warm and nurturing care from adults, which helps them to form secure relationships with them. Staff work in close partnership with parents, sharing information and keeping them updated on what children are doing at nursery. They plan an appropriate curriculum for children, helping them to make good progress in their learning and development.
Inspector highlights
Areas to develop
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents value the individualised support their children receive and explain that their children are happy and stimulated at nursery.
They explain that the nursery is like a home- from-home for their children.
They welcome the strategies and suggestions that the nursery makes to help their children's learning and development.
Inclusion & environment
Staff act appropriately if they have concerns about a child. They observe and note what they are seeing and work with parents to share strategies. For example, they use signs to support non-verbal children, which helps them to communicate their needs. The nursery requests support from external agencies, as needed, in a timely manner.
Younger children are provided with resources to develop their strength, balance and coordination. With encouragement and support, they go through tunnels, kick balls and pull themselves up on large play equipment. This helps them to develop their large physical skills. Older children take part in races, jumping in hoops and running around obstacles.
This is the best nursery. Caring staff, amazing management who put the babies and children’s needs first. Both of my children have/are going to this nursery and we rave about them to everyone! Thank you to all the staff at Les Petits Sunshine Day Nursery
Read on GoogleI chose Les Petits Sunshine after seeing many nurseries in the local area because of the lovely team, the bright and spacious rooms and generous outside space and I cannot speak highly enough of the experience. My daughter attended from around 12 months and absolutely loved her time here. Right from the start, the team were so skilled at tailoring her settling based on her temperament and guided me through the process. My daughter built strong bonds with not only her key worker but with all of the staff and would happily babble about all of the activities that she’d been doing. Her confidence, language, social skills and coordination all came on in leaps and bounds once she started. All of the team are clearly so passionate about the children that they look after and make them feel loved, safe and happy. I loved the frequent updates showing both the milestones and the curriculum that the nursery covers. My daughter particularly loved the dance and drama classes, and the Montessori approach helped her with her independence. We only reluctantly changed nurseries after leaving the area. I would recommend Les Petits Sunshine to any parents, it was a lovely experience and I feel very lucky to have found such a gem!
Read on GoogleLes Petits Sunshine Day Nursery has been absolutely amazing for my son—he’s loved every minute! He’s made lifelong friends and had incredible teachers like Lucy, Laura, Connie, and especially Sev (sorry if I missed anyone from his baby days!) Daisy and Nathyva. The summer and Christmas events, plus the graduation, are just the cherry on top of an already wonderful experience.
Read on GoogleAs a parent I am very happy with the progress my son has made after joining Les Petits Sunshine Day Nursery. I can not thank the staff enough, especially his key worker Laura, for their hard work and commitment towards my son’s education and not only. It has been a great experience overall, starting from their doorstep when I dropped my son for the first time and through out. The staff are very welcoming, very attentive to details, keen to inform about the activities they do on a daily basis. They have a varied lunch menu and are keen on providing healthy snacks. Overall my son has thrived there in the social and educational aspect and I wish he gets the same experience at school.
Read on GoogleMy eldest daughter had a great time at this nursery. The level of individual care was superb in regards to her stages of development. She made many friends and continues to grow into an intelligent, eloquent, empathetic team player/leader. Communication with staff was always clear and engaging. Also the use of "Tapestry" to report weekly activities in visual form helped to put my mind at ease rapidly from the get go in terms of leaving my baby with professionals but initially strangers. I will definitely be sending my youngest daughter here soon!
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Date: March 2018
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