Baby Elephants nursery, Streatham-any feedback from moms?

[Sunflower53]

Hi all

I had a look at Baby Elephants nursery in Leigham Court Road and was wondering if anyone has good/bad feedback from their or friends experiences! It looked homely and cosy.

Am looking into various other nurseries too.

Anyone know of available childminders too?

Tx

Sorry - no experience but was just gripped by the name! Baby elephants - really? That's kind of cute and kind of dreadful at the same time!

To be vaguely helpful though - other peoples experiences are interesting but when picking nurseries you have to go with your gut instinct. Personally I'm not to fussed about the paint work etc rather - were the children you saw mostly happy and engaged? Were the staff a range of ages or did they have a lot of young staff? Is there outside space - and space in general? If you have doubts then walk away because you will never be happy. Good luck - a good nursery is worth a lot - even with a daft name!

Yes rather strange for a nursery esp with all the reported child obesity going around;-))

I compared it to all the other nurseries that I have been to and it looked much 'homey'- based in a house and babies looked happy - one even played with mine while we were there!

Thanks, I am from South Africa and have to somehow get over childcare costs here compared to home!

That sounds nice then - and yes the cost is terrifying! I have one in nursery and two in after school club - at least 75% of the time I'm at work I'm working just to pay for their childcare! Of course I get the career continuity and a huge amount of fulfillment too...still can't wait for dd1 to hit secondary school and cut the bill a bit!

Didn't look at that one - but the nursery I picked I decided on within 5 minutes - it seemed fun, the manager was lovely to me and the kids, and the staff were interacting with them, not just in the same room looking bored.

I think boobz has looked at loads of nurseries that way. And there's some rule that nurseries need cutesy names (rather like retirement homes), just like all baby clothes and gear have to have giraffes on.

Hi notcitrus

Whereabouts is the nursery you picked?