Kingswood Pre School Group
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A pre-school in Maidstone for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:00 to 15:00, 5 days a week. £21.50 a session, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2022. Open since 1991, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
3 hour session (9-12 12-3) · £21.50
One published rate. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Eligible 2-year-olds; Eligible 3- and 4-year-olds (universal and extended funding).
Worth knowing. Each child will be funded to a maximum of fifteen hours per week over a minimum of two days. No session is to be shorter than three hours per day for 38 weeks per year. Children attending non-funded days/sessions in addition to their FEE will be charged at our current rates. A packed lunch must also be provided by parents.
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
ME17 3PXWhat 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, 16 March 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children of all ages are happy, confident and settled at the setting. They are excited to participate in the challenging and interesting activities that staff carefully plan for them. For example, children are eager to explore starchy material from plant roots called tapioca and food colouring to create 'frog spawn'. They go on to learn about the life cycle of a frog. Children enjoy a wide range of role play and become 'builders'. They use 'tools' to build their own 'houses'. Children are polite and behave well. They build meaningful friendships and enjoy each other's company. Children take turns with equipment with good maturity. For example, they use a timer to indicate when their time is up on a resource and kindly pass it on to their friends.
Children learn about the importance of healthy lifestyles. For example, they talk about the importance of washing their hands and how to keep their teeth and gums clean and healthy. All children develop good physical skills. They learn about the different ways that they can move their bodies. Children confidently balance on balancing beams, manoeuvre bikes around cones and play games, such as tennis.
Staff use additional funding effectively to meet the individual learning needs of children. For instance, they provide children with additional sessions over lunchtime to help them build on their social skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide guidance for staff to identify when children would benefit from adult interaction to encourage their enjoyment in learning even further n support staff to encourage children to be consistently independent and complete their own tasks.
- 16 March 2022Good
- 19 September 2016Good
- 28 February 2013Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Kingswood Pre School Group
- 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.
- Is £21.50 a session 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.
- 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.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
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