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Seashells Nursery in Sheerness

Ofsted: Expected standard·
4.3(6 Google reviews) ·Sheerness Children & Families Centre, Seashells, SHEERNESS, ME12 1AW · Kent
Number of places
80 places
Age range
1–5 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2026
Local authority
Kent

About this day nursery

Seashells Nursery, registered with Ofsted in 2005, provides childcare for children aged 1 to 10 years at the Sheerness Children & Families Centre. Operating Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, 50 weeks a year, the day nursery focuses on the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum.

The setting prides itself on its warm and welcoming atmosphere, where children are happy and well-supported. Staff diligently promote independence, with clear expectations across all age groups, and swiftly resolve minor disagreements, fostering cooperative play.

The day nursery offers a wide array of indoor activities and expansive outdoor spaces for physical play, enabling toddlers and pre-schoolers to free-flow between environments. Babies benefit from a dedicated garden for safe play.

The team is proactive in identifying and supporting children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) through early observation, assessment, and effective collaboration with other professionals. For children learning English as an additional language (EAL), leaders work with parents to provide staff with key home language words, facilitating better understanding and communication.

Our ethos

At Seashells Nursery our intent is that every child should have the best opportunities in life. We provide a safe, happy and nurturing environment to ensure all children will enjoy and achieve during their time with us, growing their knowledge to help ensure their future success. We work in partnership with parents to ensure children receive the best all round early learning experience.

What it's like

Children are happy and well supported in this warm and welcoming setting. They enjoy a wide array of activities indoors and have access to large outdoor spaces for physical play. Children develop meaningful bonds with staff and peers, showing a willingness to learn and engage in activities.

Nurturing environmentPromotes independenceCooperative playVaried activitiesOutdoor learningStrong SEND support

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)

We offer FREE places for children aged 9+ months to 4 under the working parents childcare entitlement, FREE places for 2 year olds under Free For 2, and FREE universal entitlement places for all 3 and 4 year olds. You can also pay for privately funded places, for children aged under 9 months, and privately funded places if you need more hours above the free entitlements. All fees are due by the first day of the month to which they relate. Fees are still to be paid if a child is absent. Main Meals need to be provided as a packed lunch which is brought in from home.

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday from 8:00am - 6:00pm, 50 weeks a year (closed between Christmas and New Year)

Age range

0-11 years old

Term time / All Year

All_year

Food

Packed lunch to be provided from home

Registered with Ofsted

2005

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Expected standard

Last inspected Feb 2026

Headline: Expected 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 routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
1 to 10
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted report for Seashells Nursery

Last inspected 20 February 2026 · Amelia Abdullah

Safeguarding effective

What it's like to attend

Children are happy and well supported in this warm and welcoming setting. They enjoy a wide array of activities indoors and have access to large outdoor spaces for physical play. Children develop meaningful bonds with staff and peers, showing a willingness to learn and engage in activities.

Inspector highlights

  • Children's welfare and wellbeing are consistently prioritised, creating a nurturing, calm and predictable environment.
  • Staff actively promote children's independence, with clear progression in expectations across age groups.
  • Children behave well and play cooperatively, with staff responding swiftly and calmly to resolve minor disagreements.
  • All children enjoy a wide variety of activities that support all areas of the curriculum, with staff understanding individual stages of development and interests.
  • Leaders provide clear direction and ensure the setting runs smoothly with a consistent supervision system that supports staff development.
  • Children make steady progress from their starting points and are supported in building foundations for future learning.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should further enhance opportunities for staff to gain more precise knowledge of targeted teaching skills to help them to support all children to learn and develop.
  • 2As teaching is not consistently targeted to individual children's needs they do not always make the progress they are capable of.
  • 3Staff are not always aware of the skills and attitudes that they are encouraging children to learn. This means that children are not always developing positive attitudes to learning as fully as they could be.
  • 4Staff weave a variety of learning through the activities, although this is not always planned and intentional. This means that children are not always learning as much as they could be.
  • 5Leaders have identified that staff would benefit from further training in how to adapt their practice more independently to meet children's individual needs.
Inspection #10249546 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff identify children's needs early through ongoing observation and assessment. They use this information to plan appropriate support that helps children with special educational needs and/or disabilities to make steady progress. Referrals are made promptly when further support is needed, and leaders work effectively with other professionals and use funding to support these children.

Outdoor space

Outdoors, children have access to large play spaces set up with activities that support their physical skills, for example bikes, climbing equipment and sand and water trays. Throughout the day, toddlers and pre-school children free flow between indoors and out, allowing them to choose the environment they are most comfortable in. Babies have a garden dedicated to them, which ensures their safety.

EAL / language support

Leaders work with parents to ensure that staff have a list of home language words for each child that speaks English as an additional language, which helps staff understand children when they are using these key words to communicate.

Google Reviews of Seashells Nursery

4.3
(6 Google reviews)
j jones
2 years ago

Lovely nursery with great staff.Very welcoming and they always go above and beyond for you.

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Ian Townsend-Blazier
8 years ago

Brilliant Nursery - My children love it and staff are very friendly and helpful!

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Haydn Sinclair
3 years ago

My child has repeatedly sustained injuries and staff are unable to tell us how he got them, they left our child in wet and dirty nappies and refused to keep it up when it came to the potty training, raised the concerns with management and was basically palmed off with the same excuses and nothing changed, the safe guarding is not acceptable and I highly recommend to all parents considering this nursery GO ELSEWHERE DO NOT USE THIS NURSERY!! I am filing these complaints to offsted because the nursery had no intentions on resolving the issues raised after multiple attempts raising concerns with the nursery management team.. mum witnessed our child getting kicked in the head, told the staff and rather then addressing the issue told another child to not climb on the apparatus but to wait their turn..

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Inspection history

Date: April 2012

  • February 2026Expected standard
  • September 2022Good
  • January 2022Requires improvement
  • January 2017Good
  • May 2013Good
  • April 2012Good

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About the setting

Seashells Nursery, located in Sheerness Children & Families Centre, Rose Street, SHEERNESS, Kent, ME12 1AW, was registered on 06/04/2005. It is registered on the Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, and Voluntary Childcare Register. The registered person is Children and Families Limited. The nursery operates Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 18:00.

URN
EY297098
Registered person
Children and Families Limited
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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