Kenleys Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.4 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Plymouth for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £88.00 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in June 2024. Open since 2011, with 120 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Price list dated April 2026.
| Age | Full day | Session | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £18.00Children require their own packed lunch £28.00require own packed lunch and tea £88.00 | £6.00Pomphlett primary school £8.00Pomphlett primary school | £10.00minimum of 5 hours per day |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- £40.00 administration feeTo secure a place with us
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £7.00 Early start (7:30am)
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £0.50 SnackDuring your funded hours
- £1.50 BreakfastDuring your funded hours
- £2.00 TeaDuring your funded hours
- £2.50 LunchDuring your funded hours
Funded hours
15/30 hours of childcare, 2yr old funding, funded childcare for working families from 9 months.
Worth knowing. Funding can be taken as 15/30 hours term time only (38 weeks) or 12/24 hours per week for 47.5 weeks. Food charges apply during funded hours. Extra hours charged at 'extra hour' rate, no food charges when paying privately.
What childcare usually costs in Plymouth
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Plymouth 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
PL9 7AZWhat 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.
- 2 April 2024 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 26 June 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff give children and their families a warm welcome at this inclusive nursery.
They provide a broad and interesting curriculum with a wide range of learning experiences, which children enjoy. Children engage in activities that give them a strong sense of belonging and help them to learn the skills they need for later life.
For example, they learn about oral health and the importance of healthy eating.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide more targeted and frequent support throughout the sessions to help children achieve their next steps more swiftly n embed further strategies to develop the youngest children's early spoken language.
- 26 June 2024Good
- 1 February 2024Inadequate
- 8 January 2020Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Kenleys Day Nursery
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- 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.
- Is £88.00 a day still the rate? 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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.
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