About us

Little Cherubs opened its first nursery in Sydenham in January 2000. Following its continued growth and success, we later expanded to Shortlands, Bromley, allowing us to support even more families within our local community.

Both of our nurseries are led by a dedicated Management and Staff Team, many of whom have been with us for over 20 years, having supported the nursery since its early days. This continuity helps us provide consistent, high-quality care and build strong, trusted relationships with families.

We are committed to recruiting and developing the very best staff to give parents complete peace of mind, knowing that their child is cared for in a safe, healthy, nurturing, and loving environment where they can learn, grow, and thrive.

The environment

At Little Cherubs, our nursery environment is carefully designed to encourage children’s growing independence and confidence in making their own choices, supporting their learning and development.

One of our core principles is that Active Learning and Learning Through Play are vital to helping every child reach their full potential. Through meaningful play experiences, children are encouraged to explore, investigate, and develop essential life skills.

Our experienced staff understand the importance of creating a positive, inclusive, and stimulating play environment where children can build strong social skills and develop an appreciation of our diverse, multi-cultural society. Learning experiences are thoughtfully planned to promote equality of opportunity for all children and to celebrate individuality and diversity.
We provide a balanced programme of activities that includes:

Child-initiated play
Adult-led learning experiences
Indoor and outdoor learning opportunities

This ensures children benefit from a wide range of engaging and developmentally appropriate activities each day.

Children’s creativity and achievements are valued and celebrated through meaningful discussions, classroom displays, and regular recognition of their work and efforts.

To support strong partnerships with families, staff share daily updates through our Connect Childcare ‘Parent Zone’ app. Our “Snapshots” keep parents and carers informed about their child’s activities and experiences, including photos, videos, learning observations, and important daily care information such as meals, bottles, sleep, and toileting routines.

This open communication helps families feel connected, confident, and involved in their child’s learning journey.

Why choose Little Cherubs?

A Home from Home

Our nurseries offer a calm, welcoming, and stimulating environment where children feel secure and excited to learn. We aim to create a true “home from home” experience where every child is encouraged to flourish.
At Little Cherubs Nursery & Preschool, we are passionate about providing high-quality early years education and childcare within a warm, supportive, and family-focused environment.

Our Ethos

We place the welfare, happiness, and individual development of every child at the heart of everything we do. Our nurturing approach helps children feel safe, confident, and valued, enabling them to build strong foundations for lifelong learning.

EYFS-Focused Learning

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, delivering a balanced curriculum through purposeful play and carefully planned activities. This supports children’s development across communication and language, physical development, personal, social and emotional development, and the wider areas of learning — ensuring every child is well prepared for school.

Strong Safeguarding & Wellbeing

Children’s safety is our highest priority. All staff receive regular safeguarding, first aid, and child protection training and follow clear policies and procedures in line with statutory guidance. We work closely with external professionals and families to ensure every child is protected, supported, and respected.

Experienced, Dedicated Team

Our highly skilled Management and Staff Team includes long-serving practitioners who bring consistency, care, and expertise to our nurseries. Many of our team members have supported families for over 20 years, helping us build strong, trusted relationships within our community.

Partnership with Parents

We believe that children thrive best when nurseries and families work together. We maintain open, honest communication and actively involve parents in their child’s learning journey through regular updates, meetings, and shared activities.

Committed to Quality & Ofsted Standards

We continuously reflect on and improve our practice in line with Ofsted expectations and best early years guidance. Through ongoing training, supervision, and quality assurance, we strive to provide outstanding care and education at all times.

Little Cherubs Library

At Little Cherubs, we recognise the importance of children reading books from a young age. Creating a language rich environment, helps to build confidence and self-esteem. Aiding

cognitive development, good mental health & wellbeing. This brings pleasure & builds a great bond between family groups.

Little Cherubs have created a library system that will provide families with the tools to start a partnership between the nursery learning & a child’s home. Our system is interactive for both parents & children to allow focus on promoting elements of British values. Children can take ‘ownership’ & responsibility of books, multimedia & having their very own Little Cherubs library card.

Parents are also able to access our online library system and can reserve books & home learning packs from our online catalogue. These are ready for your child to take away at the end of the day with them. We also can offer a ‘click & collect’ if your child or family cannot attend for any reason.

Partnership with Parents

As part of our partnership with parents and keeping that ‘Family feel’ we hold Friends of Little Cherubs meetings 2- 3 times a year virtually with our management team.

It is an ideal opportunity for parents/carers, staff and other parties connected with the nursery to meet informally to discuss forthcoming events, current topics and any updates on child development. This is also a good time for parents to get to know the staff and other families; sharing ideas and experiences.

Monthly Workshops & Talks

Little Cherubs try to provide all parents with up-to-date information on different topics during the lockdown.

Parents will have access to workshops, webinars and talks with many Early Years professionals from different sectors. We hope this helps all our Little Cherubs families keep in touch and feel like we are all part of a wider family here to provide the outstanding care our children deserve.

These include a range of topics such as: