The Children's Workshop
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Sevenoaks for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:00 to 15:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2024. Open since 2016, with 36 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Early Learning for Two Year Olds (EL2) (15 hours per week); The Working Parents Entitlement (30 hours per week); The Universal Entitlement (15 hours per week).
Worth knowing. A child eligible for an Early Learning for Two Year Olds (EL2) place will be exempt from this fee.
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
TN13 1FEWhat 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, 11 September 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Staff provide a warm and welcoming environment, and they spend a lot of time getting to know the children and building secure relationships. As a result, children are happy, settle quickly and confidently explore the environment. Children are developing a love for stories and access a wide range of books. Staff read stories with great enthusiasm. This helps children to develop a passion for reading.
Children are positively influenced by the teamwork that the staff team role models.
Staff have high expectations, and children behave very well. They learn to take turns and share the resources. Even children new to the setting learn to tidy away enthusiastically and listen attentively to instructions.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop the quality of staff interactions with children, to extend children's knowledge and understanding even more during their play experiences n develop further how staff adapt routine transitions in order to limit the amount of time children can spend waiting.
- 11 September 2024Good
- 9 October 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Children's Workshop
- What it costs
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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