Opening hours
18 month old: 09:00 – 12:00 Mon – Fri; 2-3 year old: 09:00 – 14:45 Mon – Wed | 09:00 – 12:00 Thu – Fri; 3-4 year old: 09:00 – 14:45 Mon – Wed | 09:00 – 13:15 Thu – Fri
Parkwood Christian Fellowship Preschool, a well-established childcare setting in Parkwood since May 1969, provides an inclusive and nurturing environment for children aged 18 months to 5 years. The preschool operates during term time, offering dedicated sessions across three rooms: Little Robins, Big Robins, and Squirrels.
They emphasise a play-based approach, incorporating various activities such as expressive arts, physical development, personal, social, and emotional development, communication and language through sand and water play, literacy and maths, and understanding the world through imaginative play in the home corner. The preschool operates a key-person system, ensuring each child has a dedicated staff member to oversee their well-being and development.
Parents are encouraged to be actively involved, with an "Open Door" policy for viewing learning journals and opportunities to volunteer. The preschool focuses on foundational learning skills, socialisation, and emotional development, preparing children for school by fostering problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and basic academic concepts.
They also highlight the importance of parent and caregiver involvement in a child's education, offering various opportunities for participation and communication.
Our ethos
We recognise that parents/carers are the first and most important educators of their children, so we encourage you to come in and help during a session as a volunteer. We believe your child will benefit from your involvement to make our Pre-school a welcoming and stimulating place.
What it's like
Children thrive and make exceptional progress in the truly inspirational environment created by highly professional and knowledgeable staff. They know the children exceptionally well and have detailed knowledge of what children need to achieve next. Staff seamlessly thread children's learning and next steps through everything they do.
Funding accepted
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18 month old: 09:00 – 12:00 Mon – Fri; 2-3 year old: 09:00 – 14:45 Mon – Wed | 09:00 – 12:00 Thu – Fri; 3-4 year old: 09:00 – 14:45 Mon – Wed | 09:00 – 13:15 Thu – Fri
Food
Snack time with healthy and nutritious food provided.
Age range
18 months to 5 years
Term time / All Year
Term Time
Last inspected 4 November 2024 · Janine Scott
What it's like to attend
Children thrive and make exceptional progress in the truly inspirational environment created by highly professional and knowledgeable staff. They know the children exceptionally well and have detailed knowledge of what children need to achieve next. Staff seamlessly thread children's learning and next steps through everything they do.
Inspector highlights
Inclusion & environment
All children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, excel in their development. Staff demonstrate a deep understanding of children's learning needs and consistently deliver high-quality interactions to build on children's speech and language skills effectively, for example, through regular small intervention groups.
Staff work tirelessly to widen the knowledge and experiences children have to help them learn about the local community. They take them out on a regular basis to the park, shops and library.
Date: December 2007
Parkwood Christian Fellowship Preschool registered in 1992. It operates from a church building in Gillingham, Kent. The pre-school opens from 9am to 2.45pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and from 9am to 1.15pm on Thursday and Friday, during term-time only. There are 13 members of childcare staff, with 10 holding a level 3 early years qualification and the manager holding a level 6 qualification.
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