Maison Dieu Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Dover for from 2 years up to school age, open 08:30 to 17:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2022. Open since 1992, with 50 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Free Funded Early Years Education.
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
CT16 1RUWhat 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, 10 February 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy to come into nursery. They are excited to see their key person and their friends. They have cuddles and wave goodbye to parents. Staff hold their hands to guide them in safely. Children know that their favourite toys will be set out waiting for them, such as diggers and cars in the sand and animals to play with. They often seek out their favourite adults to play with them, they smile and laugh and enjoy dancing in their arms. Children also build good peer friendships and thoroughly enjoy engaging in imaginative play. For example, they build houses for princesses and feed leaves to hungry dinosaurs.
Children take part in a range of exciting activities. For instance, they enjoy shaving foam car washes, singing and dancing with musical instruments and role playing favourite stories like 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. The skilled staff include all children in learning and are good at supporting children who speak English as an additional language to access all activities. The curriculum is carefully planned to build on what children already know and takes into account their current interests.
For example, staff use pirate maps and treasure chests to support number and language development.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen staff's ability to more consistently extend and model language for older children to further promote their communication and language development n improve staff understanding of how to embrace children's cultural backgrounds and how to plan more effectively for this.
- 10 February 2022Good
- 9 December 2015Outstanding
- 27 September 2011Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Maison Dieu Nursery
- 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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