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Little Treacle's Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2025)
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5.0(5 parent reviews) ·Otford Church Hall, High Street, Sevenoaks, TN14 5PQ · Kent
Number of places
36 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
Kent

About this day nursery

Little Treacles Nursery, located in Otford, Sevenoaks, provides a nurturing and secure environment for children, operating Monday to Friday from 7:30 AM to 6 PM for 51 weeks annually. Dedicated to personalised care, the nursery focuses on meeting each child's individual needs and fostering their natural curiosity.

Children are encouraged to learn through diverse activities, promoting confidence in a safe space where they can acquire new skills. The nursery's facilities include a small garden with free-flow access from the preschool room, allowing for seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor play.

Little Treacles Nursery emphasises a 'home from home' atmosphere, aiming to make every child feel comfortable and supported throughout their developmental journey. The team is highly experienced, with over 100 years of combined childcare expertise, and all staff members are paediatric first aid trained and have undergone thorough background checks.

The nursery actively supports staff development, with 75% currently pursuing apprenticeships in childcare, from Level 2 to postgraduate levels, ensuring a continuously improving standard of care and education for the children.

What it's like

Staff welcome children and their families with smiles, and children enter eagerly, excited to explore the toys. Staff provide new babies with cuddles and comfort, supporting their emotional well-being. Staff plan interesting and motivating experiences for children, such as a bear hunt, which helps them to develop communication and language effectively.

Home from home environmentPersonalised careIndoor and outdoor accessExperienced and qualified staffSupports staff development

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

Tax-Free Childcare15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
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Key facts

Opening hours

7:30am till 6pm, Monday to Friday 51 weeks of the year

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2023

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Treacle's Nursery

Last inspected 30 September 2025

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Staff welcome children and their families with smiles, and children enter eagerly, excited to explore the toys. Staff provide new babies with cuddles and comfort, supporting their emotional well-being. Staff plan interesting and motivating experiences for children, such as a bear hunt, which helps them to develop communication and language effectively.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders and managers work hard to ensure they offer quality care and education, providing staff with training and offering additional dance and sport sessions to children.
  • Staff support children's behaviour well, displaying achievements and interacting gently and calmly to help children manage emotions.
  • Children benefit from nutritious meals developed by the in-house catering team and learn about keeping healthy and safe.
  • Staff plan activities that develop children's wider understanding, encouraging them to write to settings around the world and donate to the local foodbank.
  • Staff help children to learn about caring for things, through activities like growing vegetables and caring for ducklings, and develop key mathematical skills using words like "equilateral" and counting steps.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff's confidence to recognise when they can extend activities to further enhance children's engagement
  • 2help staff to identify when children can do things for themselves, providing consistent support to help them to further develop their independence skills.
Inspection #10417531 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff learn sign language to help children to communicate. They set up activities to help children to remember favourite books, supporting their speech and language skills.

Outdoor space

The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact on children's learning.

Parent Reviews of Little Treacle's Nursery

5.0
(5)
Pippa Rudling
a year ago

We couldn't be more delighted with Little Treacles. My daughter (3) is clearly very happy there. All the staff are so open and welcoming, and we always get a run-down of what they've been doing that day. We receive regular updates & photos via the app. The nursery has its own allotment, so the children have been going over there this summer. They regularly go to the Otford playground & library. My daughter even went on a trip on the train to Sevenoaks to deliver some donations to a foodbank. She was so excited to go on her first "school trip". They also had some (ethically sourced) duck eggs which hatched and the children just loved watching them grow and looking after them until they were then re-homed. My older daughter (6) has also attended the Little Treacles holiday club and she absolutely loves it and always asks to go back. For anyone that was familiar with the previous nursery at this site, the two business couldn't be more different. After Kelly took it over, the hall has been totally re-painted and they have far better toys and resources for the children, and are much better at communication. I had a good feeling about Little Treacles from the outset, but nearly a year later we are still super happy with them. Definitely recommend!

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K H
2 years ago

We couldn’t be happier and more relieved about the high quality provision and care our 2 year old receives. She loves attending Little Treacles and talks fondly about the staff and her friends there, even on the days she doesn’t attend. They are incredibly welcoming, friendly, patient and accommodating (to name but a few!) We are so grateful that our daughter goes in happily and without any hesitation. She is provided wonderful experiences to support her development and the communication from staff about her day is great. Her independence is nurtured and key skills are promoted daily. We were thrilled that they offered after school care and holiday clubs - our eldest equally loves being at Little Treacles! The nursery just radiates warmth and care in wanting to give all children there the best opportunities, as well as supporting busy, working parents!

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M GGG
2 years ago

We have two kids at Little Treacles after school club and they love it! They are very well taken care of, the inside of the building has been repainted and cleaned beautifully and filled with lots of things for the kids to do and play with. The staff are fantastic and the kids really enjoy their time there after school. They also offer tea for the kids which saves us as parents a lot of time after collection. Excellent nursery and I wouldn't highly reccomend it.

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Lucy Hackett
9 months ago

I absolutely love the team at Little Treacle’s, my little one always comes home tired from lots of activities and well fed. Couldnt recommend them more 🥰

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

30 September 2025

Good

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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