Bright Horizons Lewisham Day Nursery and Preschool

We're delighted we Bright Horizons and our son loves it.

Overall the nursery is overpriced. This year’s annual fee increase has been brought forward from June to April, with no explanation. This means we’ve had 2 big fee increases in less than 12 months. The nursery is now more expensive than other local nurseries that are all rated outstanding. I know that fees are set centrally by Bright Horizons but I don’t see how this can be justified.

Staff are lovely and children very happy here.

We are so pleased that our son is happy and would definitely recommend. Thank you for your help to date.

Excellent nursery. Lots of equipment appropriate to different ages. Friendly and competent staff who relate very well to all the children.

I feel confident leaving my daughter in the care of the staff. I know they always act with her best interest and are very fond of her.

My daughter has been very happy at the school. The teachers are very kind.

My son has mostly had an excellent experience in the baby room. The permanent staff are very kind and caring. We had a very shaky and upsetting first few weeks with terrible management, constant staff changes and a terrible atmosphere. The current room leader has turned things around and deserves a lot of credit for working with existing and new, excellent staff to create a lovely environment for the babies. The new manager is also excellent and is making very positive changes to the nursery.

Very happy with the nursery, nice staff, nice garden. Mainly get a report card but not at every pickup. Baby seems happy with the food served.

Had great experience since my son started, all staff have been helpful and polite and my son enjoys being at nursery.

My boys have been in this Nursery for 1 year now, and I can see big development in their speech, reflections, comments... There are exceptional and committed staffs working in order to bring our children in excellence.

In general the nursery has a good standard, very clean, nice and welcoming.

I am sure every parent worries about putting their children into day nursery but I can 100% say that staff here will look after you children, help them develop and have a lot of fun on the way.

My son loves being at the nursery. Nursery staff are looking after him well and we are happy about that. However we are concerned about some areas. We've noticed high staff turnover last year especially in the baby room. There could be some improvement in staff management. Also children seem to be given ipad sometimes in toddler room. We understand developing IT skills is important but prefer children to be exposed to other activities that they can't experience at home.

The room staff are what really make this nursery. Friendly and caring, I really feel they have my daughters best interests at heart and have done so for the two years she has been there. My daughter loves the yoga and French and the large garden, as mentioned by previous reviewer. I think the garden in particular is great at bringing all the children of different ages together and there's a definite sense of Head Start community.

To make it even better, I'd like the nursery to find ways to link what the children do there with what they do at home; to structure regular feedback and help parents to build on children's learning at home more.

Thanks to them all for their hard work.