Tiny Oaks Day Nursery
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.4 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Edenbridge for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. £9.00 an hour, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in November 2023. Open since 2016, with 70 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
51 weeks a year.
| Age | Full day | Hourly | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | £100.00Emergency childcare | £9.00Additional Hourly | £6.00These will need to be booked in advance. |
What a funded hour still costs
Funded hours cover the childcare. These are charged alongside them.
- £15.00 a session optional consumable chargeoptional; per 6 hour funded session, includes food, personal care consumable and enrichment/
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
15 or 30 hours nursery education and care per week starting the term after their third birthday; Funding for 2-Year-Olds.
Worth knowing. FEE is stretched over 48 weeks, meaning that the entitlements change to 12 or 24 hours per week respectively. Funded hours are available over 38 weeks – Term Time or over 48 weeks a year stretched. The remaining 3 weeks are charged at our normal hourly/ session rate. There is a optional consumable charge of £15 per 6 hour funded session for children aged 3 months – 3 years, which covers food, personal care consumable and enrichment/ activities.
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
TN8 5ALWhat 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.
- 20 June 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 30 November 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children and their parents receive a warm welcome on arrival. Children separate from their parents with support from staff, enabling them to settle into their agegroup rooms with ease. They develop strong bonds with staff and show that they feel secure in their care. Babies show great interest in role play, using their imaginative skills and demonstrating their awareness of safety. For example, they understand that food brought out of the oven may be hot and to blow on it to cool it down. Children squeal with delight as they play hide and seek with staff. They enjoy involving staff in their play and talk about the rules, agreeing who is going to count to 10 and then come to find them. Children are resilient. If they take a tumble, they pick themselves up and go back to their play.
The manager plans for what children need to learn next and understands the ways in which to enable staff to achieve this. Children receive effective support from staff when it is time for them to move on to the next age-group room. Staff make sure that children are confident and secure in their environment and developmentally ready. The key person accompanies children on their settling-in sessions to enable a smooth transition. Babies and children learn to be independent, and staff gently remind children about good hygiene and safety practices. They talk about making sure that they have finished their snack before leaving the table.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- build on the effective deployment of staff to consistently support children to manage conflict n enhance staff's understanding of how to embrace children's cultures and heritages further.
- 30 November 2023Good
- 22 December 2022Needs improvement
- 30 August 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Tiny Oaks Day 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 £9.00 an hour 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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