Growing Beans Tooting Nursery Preschool

Lucky Beans Childcare is South London’s leading Child Care Provider and Nursery. They have nurseries across Norbury, Balham, Tooting, and Streatham, with spaces available at each of them. Their approach to childcare is bespoke and child-centered, provi…Lucky Beans Childcare has a group of nurseries in South West London. We have childminders in Balham, Tooting, Streatham and Norbury.Lucky Beans Childcare was founded at Caroline Curtis’s home in Balham September in 2016 when she started her childminding business. Since then we have had nothing but happy parents and a record of helping children develop. By operating a forest school ethos within our nurseries this means we focus on developing children’s curiosity and skills through learning outdoors. As a positive psychologist Caroline also places a lot of emphasis on children personal and emotional development.
From the outset, Caroline had a clear vision of providing excellent care, positive parenting and strengths based methods for nurturing children and enabling them to thrive, gain life-skills and be happy.
Due to the success over the past 8 years and the growing demand from parents for places at Little Beans Balham Childminding, she was able to grow the business. We now have eight nurseries (her childminding business has now closed):
-Little Beans Balham Nursery – Not to be confused with childminding at Caroline’s home, this is a boutique nursery around the corner she opened to offer a similar type of home from home care in a small setting. It opened in September 2021.
– Little Beans Tooting is a boutique nursery offering childcare in Tooting, similar to the childminding setting in Balham. This was opened in January 2019 and caters for children from the age of 0 to 2 years. 
– Growing Beans Tooting Nursery caters for children aged 0 to 3 years, which opened it’s doors in September 2020. 
– Growing Beans Tooting Preschool offers care for children aged 3 to 5 years, which started in doors in September 2024. – This setting
– Growing Beans Streatham Nursery was opened in September 2018 and caters for children from the age of 0 to 3 years
– Growing Beans Streatham Preschool, which cares for children from 3-5 and opened in January 2023
– Growing Beans Norbury is also a nursery which caters for children from 0 to 3 years, this setting opened in January 2020
– Growing Beans Norbury Preschool is a preschool which provides care for children aged 3-5 and opened in January 2022
Each of our settings in Norbury, Streatham and Tooting have dedicated, hard-working staff who are all passionate about creating a home away from home, all our children are thriving and excelling, but most importantly they are all loved and treasured by Caroline and her team.
If this sounds like what you need please don’t hesitate to contact us for a chat or visit our website which has more information about Lucky Beans Childcare: https://www.luckybeanschildcare.com/.
Growing Beans Tooting Preschool
Growing Beans Tooting Preschool has been operating since 2020 and has a ‘home from home’ feel for a children aged 3-5. As well as large amounts of books and toys and safety-conscious modifications, the setting has extensive arts and crafts and ICT facilities for the children. There are also classes from external providers, including Baby Ballet, Spanish, Tennis and Adventurebox. We also make frequent trips to Tooting Bec Common, Balham Library and Triangle Playground, local shops and markets, as well as the onsite garden of our sister nursery just across the road.
We create a My Learning Story folder for each child so you can see the progress your child is making and we hold regular catch-up and development meetings to discuss your child’s progress. We create individual family Whatsapp groups so we can keep you up to date with your child’s achievements.
We are fully Ofsted registered and a member of the NDNA (National Day Nurseries Association) and all our staff are first aid trained.
Please contact us for any more information or visit our website https://www.luckybeanschildcare.com/ and select ‘Growing Beans Tooting Nursery’ to read more and download a prospectus.
Here’s some of things your little one will be doing at this preschool:
Learning
Circle Time – we use singing and finger rhymes to develop children’s vocabulary
Free Play – with nudging and encouragement, this allows the children to explore their own interests and instincts
Messy play – working with water, cornflower etc discovering textures and shapes
Story Time – by following along with the pictures they begin to grasp the fun of written words
Spanish teacher – this gives the children a different perspective, even if they’re not speaking yet
Phonics lessons – we offer phonics lessons to all children in order to help develop their speaking and pronunciation.
Nurturing
Caring For Others – we put a great emphasis on learning to appreciate other people, their space, wants and needs, through play and example
Gardening – tending to plants helps inculcate a gentle nature
Arts & Crafts And Musical Instruments – by giving children encouragement to develop their artistic side and to have fun and be messy we nurture the soul as well as the mind
Life-skills
Cooking – learning to associate cooking with pleasure early stands children in very good stead later on in terms of their health
Books Everywhere – the love of reading is probably the most valuable life skill a child can have, and it all starts with associating simple books with fun stories
Sport – games in the garden and the park help them learn to cooperate with others
Our greatest strength – our child-carers
The nursery assistants and managers that Caroline has assembled have a huge range of childcare skills and have been trained and developed extensively. They are as committed to caring for your children and you will see that your child will have a lot of attention from a dedicated, caring team.
Food and nutrition
The importance of good nutrition to children can’t be overestimated. Quite apart from the fact that it’s necessary for healthy physical development a healthy balanced diet gives them the energy and concentration to learn and play well. The food we provide is healthy and nutritious and mostly organic, and we work with you to accommodate any allergies or intolerances your child has. If it would make you feel more comfortable you are of course also welcome to bring your own food for your child when you drop them off in the morning. We have rotating weekly menu’s that change throughout the year.

And how do we manage all this? With our little helpers of course! You can involve young children in cooking in many different ways by letting them help you mix things, measure out ingredients, add herbs and spices and ice cakes, to name but a few. Our first concern is obviously safety so we would never allow children near knives or hot pots and pans.
We am also very aware of allergies and we take great care to work around any allergies that your child has. If it would make you feel more comfortable you are of course also welcome to bring your own food for your child when you drop them off in the morning. 
There is also water available all day of course. If your child is weaning don’t worry, we can work with you on this.
Involving you
As mentioned earlier we want you to be as involved as possible. Apart from liaising with you about any health/dietary issues and chatting when you pick up your children there are several others ways we will endeavour to get your input:
See what your little one is doing in their My Learning Story folder – Every child gets a folder with pictures that documents the progress they make and the things they enjoy. Through this you get a good idea of what your child is enjoying and how they are making those daily little breakthroughs. By going through this with me at our catch up sessions (see below) we can work together to reinforce your child’s progress.
Regular catch-up/development meetings – While we would be delighted if you wanted to come and have a quick chat with our staff when picking up your children if you have any particular idea or concern, we will be having regular catch-up meetings every couple of months to review your child’s progress, work on their individual development plans together and ensure that you are happy and make sure that we’re all on the same page.
Meet everyone at our parents parties – Your child will be interacting daily with other children we’re caring for, so why not come and meet us all? We will hold occasional casual get-togethers so we can all get to know the other important people in our children’s lives .
A Whatsapp group – for each family we have a Whatsapp group for you and me where I can keep you up to date with your little ones triumphs and accomplishments and so you can quickly let us all know anything important for that day you forgot to mention at drop-offs.