Blossom Trees Nursery Ltd
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Kendal for babies from 4 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:30 to 17:30, 7 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in July 2024. Open since 2009, with 43 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Funded hours are available from 9 months old. Free 30 hours of childcare for 3 and 4 year olds.
What childcare usually costs in Westmorland and Furness
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Westmorland and Furness from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
LA8 9LRWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 24 July 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff work effectively to provide a friendly and welcoming nursery in the centre of a thriving community. Staff are patient and responsive to individual children's needs.
This helps children to settle quickly. Staff interact warmly and positively with children and give them extensive praise for their achievements. Overall, children behave well. They happily approach staff for comfort or reassurance. For example, when babies wake after sleep time, they confidently look for familiar staff before eagerly joining in play. Babies and children show high levels of emotional resilience.
Staff plan an ambitious curriculum with purposeful learning environments that help spark children's imagination. They build on children's interests and what they can do to nurture their creativity. For example, babies giggle and dance as they play peekaboo standing up inside a tube tunnel. Older children make mud spaghetti
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- help staff to consistently support older children's growing understanding of the impact of their behaviour on others to further enhance their knowledge of good behaviour.
- 24 July 2024Good
- 22 August 2018Good
- 26 November 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Blossom Trees Nursery Ltd
- What it costs
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.