Kindergarten Kids Ltd
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Whitstable for babies from a few weeks old up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 2005, with 48 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 Hours (Universal): For all 3 and 4-year-olds. 15 Hours (Working Parents): For children aged 9 months to 3 years. 15 Hours (2-Year-Olds with Support): For 2-year-olds with specific government support (e.g., Universal Credit). 30 Hours (Working Parents): For children aged 9 months to 4 years.
Worth knowing. Completely Free funded patterns include: No Session Fees, No Additional Charges (No additional hours may be added on top of these funded sessions), Term Time Only option available on this pattern, Parents may provide own meals and snacks, Optional nursery meals available (at an extra cost), No mandatory additional charges, Subject to availability.
What childcare usually costs in Kent
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Kent 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
CT5 1HTWhat 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, 23 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy and settled in this nursery. They develop strong bonds with staff, which successfully promotes their emotional well-being and helps them to feel safe and secure. Children's behaviour is good, and the staff act as positive role models. They encourage children to use their manners, and children are learning how to share and take turns with each other.
Children freely access a wide range of exciting and stimulating activities that generally promote their learning well. Babies explore and experiment during their self-selected activities. They watch intensely as they roll different-sized toy cars down a ramp. Toddlers manipulate dough as they stretch, knead and pull it into the desired shape, making prints with other objects on the dough. This extends their concentration and helps strengthen their hand and finger muscles. Older children experiment, adding weights to their boat creations in water to learn about floating and sinking. Staff give clear explanations to extend children's knowledge and understanding effectively.
Children are very familiar with the routines and respond well to instructions and guidance given to them. This is because staff are consistent in providing children with clear instructions and boundaries throughout the day. For example, children know to thoroughly wash their hands before meals and snacks and older children remember to turn off the light when they finish in the toilet.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide support for staff to hep develop their knowledge and understanding of how to promote children's early literacy skills more effectively - strengthen arrangements to gather and use information about children's background and heritage to be able to reflect these positively in their learning opportunities and enhance children's self-identity.
- 23 March 2023Good
- 31 August 2017Good
- 30 October 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Kindergarten Kids 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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