Little Sprouts Day Care Nursery
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Snodland for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £85.80 a day, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2025. Open since 2018, with 36 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
50 weeks a year, minimum 2 days a week, price list dated 2026-27.
| Age | Full day | Session | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £85.80Daily | £45.70s -AM or PM, 5 hrs | £385.00Full week Monday-Friday £404.00Full week Monday-Friday |
Before you start
One-off charges to take a place.
- 50% Depositrefundable when child leaves, subject to invoices paid, refundable
- £45.00 One off admin feedoes not apply to funded children
Extras
Charged on top of the session rate.
- £0.50 a day Snacks per day
- £1.00 per 15 minutes Late collection fee/early drop offper minute per child
- £10.00 a session Breakfast Session
- £10.00 an hour Additional hours
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Funded Early Education and Childcare for babies from 9 months, two, three and four year olds.
Worth knowing. All parents receiving 15 or 30 hours funding must provide their own nappies and wipes. Funded sessions delivered between 9am and 5pm. If requiring continuous childcare throughout the day, you will need to purchase the additional hours/sessions and a hot lunch or the additional hours/sessions and provide a packed lunch and / or light tea for your child.
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
ME6 5HSWhat 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, 4 February 2025 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
All children are settled, confident and very happy during their time at the inviting nursery. All staff have a good understanding of how to support all children to learn through an interesting curriculum. Younger children learn to make marks and develop early writing skills in interesting ways. This is demonstrated when they use foam and paintbrushes on wall mirrors to explore patterns. Staff teach children to be confident to communicate and recall their favourite stories. For example, children excitedly act out a story about a bear hunt when in the garden.
Staff are positive role models. Children are polite and behave well. They are empathetic and understanding of their friends' differing abilities. For example, when their friends become overwhelmed, children allow them time and respect their space with good levels of maturity. They then ask them if they are feeling
'okay' and invite them back to play. Staff teach children of all ages a wide range of physical skills. This is demonstrated when they confidently and safely negotiate challenging equipment, such as using climbing walls and tyre swings. Children learn to move their bodies in different ways. For instance, they enjoy regular yoga sessions.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- build on staff's confidence to be able to identify promptly when children require additional support and encouragement to join in with their learning experiences n support staff to provide children with consistent opportunities to fully understand the importance of following good health and hygiene routines.
- 4 February 2025Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 25 March 2019Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Little Sprouts Day Care Nursery
- 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 £85.80 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.
- 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.
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