Organic & Sustainable Private Nursery. Places Available for January 2026
In the Pea Pod
The Little Pea Pod Nursery is a private, independent family nursery in central Oxted, Surrey. Our wonderful house is home to children aged from 3 months to 4 years old each day. We are open full time from 7.30am – 6:30pm, Monday to Friday, 50 weeks of the year.
We encourage all aspects of development from social to physical. We provide a loving and nurturing home-from-home experience for all of our children at our nursery. Most importantly, we celebrate every child’s individuality to build confidence, creativity and independence through their early years learning. Our size means we can offer a more personal care for your child without the fear of them being overawed or lost in a large setting.
The Little Pea Pod Nursery is a private, independent family nursery in central Oxted, Surrey. Our wonderful house is home to children aged from 3 months to 4 years old each day. We are open full time from 7.30am – 6:30pm, Monday to Friday, 50 weeks of the year.
We encourage all aspects of development from social to physical. We provide a loving and nurturing home-from-home experience for all of our children at our nursery. Most importantly, we celebrate every child’s individuality to build confidence, creativity and independence through their early years learning. Our size means we can offer a more personal care for your child without the fear of them being overawed or lost in a large setting.
Open Days 2026
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Please keep checking for updates on our Open Days
Our Setting
We are located in central Oxted, a 4 minute walk away from the train station giving links to London. From the moment your child is dropped off we are dedicated to providing a stimulating and entertaining environment in which they can learn, grow, experience the world around them whilst having fun and making new friends
At The Little Pea Pod Nursery we are proud to be passionate about child nutrition, child development and our environment.
The Nursery offers interchangeable spaces with carefully planned free-flow areas affording children freedom of movement, space, and social interaction.
The Little Pea Pod has a special garden which is secure and entirely child-friendly. It allows an integration between the rooms and outside play in all weathers. All children, including babies, benefit from regular outside activities.
Our enclosed space is use to promote Forestry play, whether building dens, learning about maths and literacy or making pretend camp fires.
At The Little Pea Pod Nursery we are proud to be passionate about child nutrition, child development and our environment.
The Nursery offers interchangeable spaces with carefully planned free-flow areas affording children freedom of movement, space, and social interaction.
The Little Pea Pod has a special garden which is secure and entirely child-friendly. It allows an integration between the rooms and outside play in all weathers. All children, including babies, benefit from regular outside activities.
Our enclosed space is use to promote Forestry play, whether building dens, learning about maths and literacy or making pretend camp fires.
Why Organic & Sustainable?
At The Little Pea Pod Nursery, you can be assured that your child will receive a healthy & organic, balanced diet.
Our organic food:
Additive free, with no genetically modified ingredients
Freshly made daily in our kitchen.
Sourcing organic meat, fruit and vegetables where possible
Balance of nutrients – all meals contain a range of different foods to ensure children receive a balance of nutrients, but also a range of colours and textures to make the food interesting and enjoyable.
All meals are carefully planned and prepared in our own kitchen, to suit every child’s palate. They are nutritionally balanced and provide a healthy start to developing taste buds.
We believe eating organically is the best way to ensure a healthy life balance, and also helps to install healthy eating practices in your child. Every effort is made to source organic produce. ( please be advised sometimes we may need to use alternatives)
There is always plenty of healthy food on the table (many of the choices are irresistible) and children are encouraged to be adventurous and sample new foods.
Food culture and routine is an important part of life at The Little Pea Pod. As well as a chance to enjoy tasty and tempting dishes, meal times provide the ideal opportunity to promote children’s social development.
Our organic food:
Additive free, with no genetically modified ingredients
Freshly made daily in our kitchen.
Sourcing organic meat, fruit and vegetables where possible
Balance of nutrients – all meals contain a range of different foods to ensure children receive a balance of nutrients, but also a range of colours and textures to make the food interesting and enjoyable.
All meals are carefully planned and prepared in our own kitchen, to suit every child’s palate. They are nutritionally balanced and provide a healthy start to developing taste buds.
We believe eating organically is the best way to ensure a healthy life balance, and also helps to install healthy eating practices in your child. Every effort is made to source organic produce. ( please be advised sometimes we may need to use alternatives)
There is always plenty of healthy food on the table (many of the choices are irresistible) and children are encouraged to be adventurous and sample new foods.
Food culture and routine is an important part of life at The Little Pea Pod. As well as a chance to enjoy tasty and tempting dishes, meal times provide the ideal opportunity to promote children’s social development.
Sustainability
At The Little Pea Pod, we understand the impact that we have on our planet and how our actions impact future generations. We can help introduce children to the concepts of sustainability, and caring for our environment, throughout our daily routines. At nursery we introduce the concept of recycling through play. The earlier children learn the habits of recycling, the more likely they are to have ingrained recycling behaviour.
We encourage gardening and planting our own food. The children love to observe daily how the plants have grown, as well as eating from our herb garden!
We re-use recyclable items for craft activities. Everyday materials like cereal boxes, toilet rolls & aluminium cans are used in our mud kitchen and alternatively used as a container for planting our seeds in.
We are in the process of changing the majority of our resources to more sustainable choices like wooden tots rather than plastics.
Each day we make our own organic oat milk to lower our carbon footprint, by using 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than cow’s milk.
90% of baby wipes sold in the UK contain hidden plastic. Taking this into account we have lowered our carbon footprint once again by making our own organic paper wipes using organic soaps & oils.
We encourage gardening and planting our own food. The children love to observe daily how the plants have grown, as well as eating from our herb garden!
We re-use recyclable items for craft activities. Everyday materials like cereal boxes, toilet rolls & aluminium cans are used in our mud kitchen and alternatively used as a container for planting our seeds in.
We are in the process of changing the majority of our resources to more sustainable choices like wooden tots rather than plastics.
Each day we make our own organic oat milk to lower our carbon footprint, by using 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than cow’s milk.
90% of baby wipes sold in the UK contain hidden plastic. Taking this into account we have lowered our carbon footprint once again by making our own organic paper wipes using organic soaps & oils.
Early Years Foundation Stage
EYFS
EYFS Framework
The early years foundation stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of your child from birth to 5 years old.
All schools and Ofsted-registered early years providers must follow the EYFS, including childminders, preschools, daycares, nurseries and school reception classes.
The revised framework was introduced in September 2012 with further changes taking effect from September 2014 & 2021
Its aim is to ensure that all children are given the opportunity to learn and develop through high quality play experiences allowing them to be inquisitive, imaginative and experimental empowering them to lead their own play and learning.
Play is essential for children development, children learn through play which helps them to grow in confidence, support decision making and understanding and overcoming problems.
At The Little Pea Pod Nursery we provide a balance of child and adult initiated purposeful activities taking into account children’s interests and developmental stages.
The EYFS is separated into 7 key areas.
The 3 prime areas are :-
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We ensure that children feel secure, valued and eager to learn, whilst developing respect for others and an understanding of appropriate behaviour. - Physical Development
We encourage young children to be active and interactive; helping to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement and as they get older, aware of their own self care encouraging independence. We also teach children to understand the importance of physical activity, and to make healthy food choices. - Communication & Language
Children learn to be good communicators and staff lay down early skills for them to become confident writers, thinkers and readers by providing good role modelling and lots of opportunities to talk and hear language through storytelling and song as well as resources to explore early mark making.
- Mathematics
We encourage children learn to use maths in a practical way; they work things out by using shapes, counting and measuring. - Understanding the World
We help children to make sense of the world by investigating and exploring and supporting pretend play. - Literacy
Children are encouraged to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. The Day care offers children access to an extensive range of reading materials and enthusiastic staff to foster interest in the written word/books from a young age. - Expressive Arts and Design
By providing resources which allow children to explore using different materials and media they can express their original ideas through activities such as messy play, music and movement and role play.
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Sensory play
All children at The Little Pea Pod have the opportunity to explore multi sensory play either inside or outside in the garden. Our mud kitchen gives the children opportunities to explore the textures of our wooded and secluded garden. They love to collect leaves along with other treasures to incororate into their exploration and play. Our sensory veggie patch is a lovely addition in the garden. The children love to dig for vegetables whilst they are learning about how things grow and our environment.
Children have access to all sorts of exciting and stimulating resources from water play to an outdoor climbing wall for their physical development.
Children have access to all sorts of exciting and stimulating resources from water play to an outdoor climbing wall for their physical development.
Our staff
Our dedicated Nursery staff are highly qualified, friendly and caring professionals who share our passion for excellence and respect in childcare, making a real difference to every child who attends our Nursery. A number of our staff are trained in specialist areas such as behaviour and Special Educational needs and are on hand to offer you support, advice and guidance.
Our staff are selected not only for their qualifications and experience but also for their personality and attributes. We like to offer our children a stimulating and purposeful environment; being cared for by special individuals who support our ethos.
The safeguarding and welfare of your child is of major importance to us. Therefore, we ensure that:
- All our staff have been cleared by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
- They have also passed our own, extra security, Vetting and Barring Scheme
- We thoroughly investigate their personal and employment references.
- All staff are qualified in early years childcare and/or early years education, and they receive continuing professional development.
- All staff members are paediatric first aid trained.
- All staff members are trained in safeguarding children in all aspects.
- In order to maintain a high level of quality and childcare standards, performance is continually monitored and all staff have the opportunity to participate in continual professional development and training throughout the year.
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Fees
Childcare Fees
Our standard hourly rate is £9.50.
We charge a deposit of £250, which is refunded with the first childcare payment.
We charge a non-refundable registration fee of £75.
We have a minimum requirement of 2 days attended per week, and all fees are payable monthly (in advance to the month ahead of childcare).
Food and consumables fees:
- £2.00 for snacks per day
- £3.00 for lunch per day
- £4.00 for dinner per day
Fees and funding policy 202526.docx
We accept FEET (for eligible 2 year olds), Universal (for all 3 and 4 year olds), and Extended funding (for eligible 3 and 4 year olds). For more information and to check eligibility, please refer to:
https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/
We are also approved for Tax-Free childcare. For more information, please refer to:
www.childcarechoices.gov.uk.
We are term time funded hours across 38 weeks of the year, and our funded hours are 9am-3pm each day Monday to Friday. Any additional hours will need to be fee-paid at our standard hourly rate, including those outside of term-time.
Please note: To remain eligible for the 30 hours scheme, parents must reconfirm their eligibility with HMRC every 3 months, or when prompted.
Additional Voluntary Charges
It is important to know that the government funding only covers the cost of attendance between the hours of 9am and 3pm, and does not cover the cost of consumable items, such as meals, nappies, wipes, and creams. You can either supply these items yourself and there is no further charge, or you can opt-in to a voluntary additional charge for us to provide these items. The applicable rates are:
- £5.00 for food per day
- £1.50 for consumables per day
Food outside of these hours will be charged at the normal rates:
- Dinner £4.00 per day.
Contact Us
- Honeywood House Woodhurst Lane Oxted RH8 9HL
- +44-07903679849 - The Little Pea Pod Daycare Oxted
- thelittlepeapoddaycare@gmail.com
- 7:30am – 6:30pm Monday to Friday, 50 weeks of the year
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