Snowden Hill Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.7 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Gravesend for babies from 9 months 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 2022. Open since 2015, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 funded hours per week: The 'universal entitlement' for all children available from the term after they turned 3 years old and Available for Families with children aged 2 years receiving some form of assistance. 30 funded hours per week - Working Parents' entitlement: Available for children from 9 months old meeting Working Parents' eligibility criteria.
Worth knowing. The funded hours are available from the term after the child's relevant birthday. These are for 38 weeks per academic year ('Term Time attendance'), alternatively the hours can be stretched with reduced weekly funded hours across all full weeks of our operating year ('Stretched or Full Year attendance').
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
DA11 9AEWhat 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, 24 March 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are very happy and settle extremely well at this warm and welcoming nursery. They show that they feel safe and secure and establish close bonds with their key person. Staff work closely with other professionals involved in children's care and development. This helps to ensure children with special educational needs and/or disabilities promptly receive the targeted support they need to support them to reach their full potential. Staff use additional funding effectively, such as early years pupil premium, to support children's needs. Children benefit from a wide range of exciting experiences. They enjoy activities that staff tailor to their current likes and interests. Older children listen to stories and learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. Younger children enjoy exploring different textures and learn new words such as 'soft', 'smooth' and 'squashy'. Communication and language development are a clear focus throughout the nursery. Children learn how to express their needs and wishes. For example, younger children learn to sign key words, and older children confidently talk about their personal interests and engage in purposeful conversation.
Children's behaviour is good. They learn about the nursery rules and what is expected of them. Children are kind and caring and establish close friendships where they help and support each other. Staff regularly praise children for sharing and taking turns, which helps to build children's self-esteem and confidence.
Children receive effective support to develop independence skills in readiness for the next stage in their learning.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- use information more precisely from monitoring staff's practice to build staff's skills to help extend children's learning further n strengthen the partnerships with parents to ensure that all parents receive detailed information about their children's learning at the nursery, and ways to support learning at home.
- 24 March 2022Good
- 5 September 2016Good
- 9 November 2015Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Snowden Hill Nursery
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
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.
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