Opening hours
Monday to Friday, from 8.30am until 5pm
First Learners' Nursery
Ofsted: Good
(Jul 2025)
Number of places
20 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2025
Local authority
Kent
About this day nursery
What it's like
All children are happy, confident and settled during their time at the inviting and friendly pre-school. Staff have a good understanding of their chosen curriculum and how to implement it effectively. They challenge children and engage them in their learning successfully.
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
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Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for First Learners' Nursery
Last inspected 16 July 2025
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
All children are happy, confident and settled during their time at the inviting and friendly pre-school. Staff have a good understanding of their chosen curriculum and how to implement it effectively. They challenge children and engage them in their learning successfully.
Inspector highlights
- There is a dedicated team of staff members who work together well.
- The management and staff use additional funding to support the individual needs of children effectively.
- All staff establish positive relationships with all children.
- All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, have a positive attitude towards their learning and make good progress.
- All staff establish positive partnerships with parents and keep them well informed of their children's time at the pre-school.
Areas to develop
- 1support staff to consistently provide children with opportunities to freely express their own creative ideas
- 2extend children's knowledge and understanding of other people's similarities and differences outside of their own communities and experiences.
Inspection #10367295 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
"Parents speak highly of the staff and comment that they have seen noticeable positive changes and that their hard work is incredible."
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, have a positive attitude towards their learning and make good progress. Staff support all children's needs well, including implementing new areas such as a calm space children can independently access if they become overwhelmed.
Outdoor space
Staff provide all children with good opportunities to develop their physical skills. This is demonstrated when children build and negotiate their own obstacles safely, such as balancing on crates and planks of wood.
Parent Reviews of First Learners' Nursery
5.0
(1)
Natasha Taylor
a year ago
A lovely nursery with lovely staff. We looked at a few nurseries, but this was the one was the only one our daughter felt comfortable with from the moment she walked in. Would 100% recommend!
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Inspection history
Improved from Requires improvement → Good in 2025
Date: October 2018
- July 2025Good
- September 2024Requires improvement
- April 2024Inadequate
- October 2018Good
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