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Creative Minds Nursery

Ofsted: Strong standard·
4.7(15 parent reviews) ·25 Stanhope Road, DEAL, CT14 6AD · Kent
Number of places
60 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2026
Local authority
Kent

About this day nursery

Creative Minds Nursery, located in Deal, Kent, offers childcare for children aged 0-4 years. Registered with Ofsted on 12/04/2013, the nursery operates as a childcare on non-domestic premises.

The setting provides a nurturing environment where children are happy and safe, forming special bonds with staff and showing excitement to attend. The nursery places a strong emphasis on outdoor learning, with older children eagerly anticipating their forest school adventures where they learn about risk management and appreciate nature.

For children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), the nursery provides exceptional support. Staff adapt environments, use funding effectively to create sensory spaces, and provide individualised, targeted support, ensuring children with SEND make significant progress from their starting points.

Leaders have high expectations for all children, including those with SEND, and staff are well-trained in the graduated approach, accurately identifying needs and monitoring progress. The nursery fosters a culture of continuous improvement, with leaders proactively seeking training and professional development opportunities for staff.

Parents have expressed high satisfaction, reporting that their children make significant progress and flourish at Creative Minds Nursery.

Our ethos

Creative Minds Nursery is committed to fostering creativity and confidence through purposeful play in a stimulating environment, following the EYFS curriculum to support all areas of child development. They prioritise learning, safety, and healthy lifestyles, working in close partnership with parents to provide a holistic experience.

What it's like

Children are happy and safe at this nurturing setting, developing special bonds with staff and showing excitement to attend. Staff provide a wide range of motivating activities, helping babies learn new words and older children engage with rhymes. These activities successfully support children's understanding and learning.

Nurturing environmentStrong SEND supportOutdoor learning focusPositive behaviour

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
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Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am to 5.30pm

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All_year

Session types

full day care

Established

2013

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Jan 2026

Headline: Strong standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesStrong standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Creative Minds Nursery

Last inspected 30 January 2026 · Victoria Salisbury

Safeguarding effective

What it's like to attend

Children are happy and safe at this nurturing setting, developing special bonds with staff and showing excitement to attend. Staff provide a wide range of motivating activities, helping babies learn new words and older children engage with rhymes. These activities successfully support children's understanding and learning.

Inspector highlights

  • Children benefit from staff who are excellent role models, encouraging consistently very positive behaviour and attitudes.
  • Leaders ensure that children and families receive the help and support they need to continue this at home, especially for children with SEND.
  • Staff promote the benefits of being outdoors, with older children enjoying forest school adventures.
  • Leaders are committed and have made significant strides since their last inspection.
  • Staff praise children frequently, developing their self-esteem and confidence.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should support staff's confidence to identify when they can further extend opportunities for children to develop their growing independence skills.
Inspection #10420345 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Individualised and targeted support is provided for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities successfully. Leaders have high expectations for all children, especially those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Staff are well trained on the graduated approach and identify children's needs swiftly and accurately, working very well together to assess and monitor their progress. Children with SEND make excellent progress from their starting points. Staff adapt environments and use funding effectively to develop sensory spaces to ensure that children with SEND have places to relax and retreat to when needed. Leaders train staff to deliver small-group communication and literacy sessions, supporting children with speech and language needs successfully. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are very well supported; staff use funding effectively to purchase specific equipment to help them join in with activities, leading to significant progress from their starting points.

Outdoor space

Staff promote the benefits of being outdoors, and older children excitedly look forward to their forest school adventures, where they learn to manage risks for themselves and appreciate the natural world. Babies enjoy exploring physical equipment outside. Other children chase bubbles and learn to run and catch. Older children sustain high levels of interest, talking with staff about growing fruits and vegetables later in the year, learning where food comes from.

Parent Reviews of Creative Minds Nursery

4.7
(15)
Victoria Duran
7 months ago

Highly recommend this nursery. Both my children attended and loved every minute. All staff are amazing and very helpful helping them to adjust to nursery and the transition in to primary school. As a parent I always felt confident that my child was being well looked after. I really feel we couldn’t have picked a better nursery for our children - they provided everything and more

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Kirsty Goodwin
7 months ago

Sen child attends here and the nursery couldn’t be more hands on they’ve supported and adapted both myself and my child I couldn’t ask for any more from them. The staff are loving and caring and as a mother of 5 have attended various nurseries over the years this is one of the best!! Also had mainstream child here who was treated just as amazing!!

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Kelly Hawkes
7 months ago

My son had a wonderful time at this nursery. He started when he was just 9 months old and went there until he started school. The staff that work there really care about the children. My son was poorly when he was younger and they really took care of him and understood his needs and all his worries about things. I’m really pleased I chose this nursery.

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Chloe McKay
a year ago

All 3 of my children attended Creative Minds and thoroughly enjoyed their time in this nurturing environment. The practitioners were brilliant across the different rooms and they worked well together to create a space where my children’s curiosity and inquisitiveness could flourish. I felt my children were in very safe hands during such a developmentally important time in their lives.

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Keshia Edwards
a year ago

Creative minds have been absolutely brilliant for both me and my two children, Wendy has always been available to assist me with questions, and promptly replies to email. their SENCO S.H has gone far and beyond to make sure my eldest son got the best support while attending there, and helped with applying for his new school to make sure he got the best start in life, all the teachers are kind, approachable. And supportive. I would highly recommend creative minds.

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Inspection history

Date: November 2013

The most recent inspection point has been hidden because the parsed entry didn't match the headline Ofsted rating (Good). We're re-checking it against the original report.

  • December 2025Inadequate
  • May 2022Good
  • February 2017Good
  • November 2013Good

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