Townsend Montessori Nursery Faversham
Good★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Faversham for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in April 2023. Open since 2011, with 120 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
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
ME13 8GDWhat 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.
- 2 March 2022 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 24 April 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children come into the nursery happily. They are confident and feel safe and secure in this caring setting. Relationships are warm and trusting. Children frequently go to their key person for reassurance or a hug. Carefully planned activities by staff, help learn to share, take turns and play collaboratively with their friends. Younger children take turns to choose an animal for the song, while older children hold cylinders together for a friend to pour sand into. Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour, and children respond well. Where there are disagreements, staff talk to children about how their behaviour makes others feel.
Children show care for others. For instance, children carefully wrap a baby doll in a blanket and then say, 'Shhhh' because the baby is sleeping. Children have positive attitudes to their learning. They follow the example set by staff, demonstrating good manners and saying 'please' and 'thank you'. Children are supported by staff and this helps them learn to be independent in managing their personal care. The youngest children are shown how to feed themselves and can soon successfully copy the action to perform this task independently. They learn to pour their own drinks and to serve themselves at mealtimes. Children can use simple tools, such as safety knives, to cut up their fruit for snack.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- provide staff with support to help them understand how to more effectively focus curriculum planning on what they want children to learn n strengthen lines of communications with parents and help them to understand what their children need to learn next and how to support their learning at home.
- 24 April 2023Good
- 16 June 2022Needs improvement
- 29 May 2018Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Townsend Montessori Nursery Faversham
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- 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
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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