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Stepping Stones Nursery Pembury

Ofsted: Expected standard·St. Anselms Catholic Church & Hall, Lower Green Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4DZ · Kent
Number of places
20 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2025
Local authority
Kent

About this day nursery

Stepping Stones Nursery Pembury Ltd, located in Tunbridge Wells, provides childcare for children aged 1 to 4 years. Registered with Ofsted in 2024, the nursery operates Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM, offering an all-year service.

The dedicated staff establish strong, warm relationships with the children, fostering a happy and secure environment where children confidently explore and play. The nursery places particular emphasis on supporting children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), effectively utilising additional funding for resources and staffing.

Leaders and staff demonstrate a strong understanding of local professionals and services, collaborating closely with parents to ensure each child receives tailored support. While a broad curriculum is in development, staff expertly extend learning opportunities based on children's interests, promoting positive attitudes towards learning, politeness, and strong emotional well-being.

The nursery maintains a strong focus on safeguarding, with clear policies and a culture where safety is a shared responsibility, ensuring children feel safe and secure.

Our ethos

Stepping Stones Nursery Pembury is committed to creating a nurturing and inclusive atmosphere where each child feels seen, safe, and valued. Its curriculum is designed to prepare children for life, cultivating confident, curious, and compassionate individuals who have a strong sense of self and understanding of the world around them.

What it's like

Children are keen to attend the nursery and form close attachments to the warm and friendly staff. They explore their environment confidently and play happily with their friends. While all children take part in a broad range of experiences, leaders do not currently have a clear curriculum in place, so learning is not fully coordinated or sequenced, though staff are skilled at extending learning within children's interests.

Strong SEND provisionNurturing environmentConfident explorersEngaged learnersEffective safeguarding

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday - Friday: 08:00 – 18:00; Saturday - Sunday: Closed

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2024

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Expected standard

Last inspected Dec 2025

Headline: Expected standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
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Expected standard
Needs attention
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

AchievementNeeds attention
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
1 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Stepping Stones Nursery Pembury

Last inspected 2 December 2025

Actions the provider must take

  • implement a broad and suitably challenging curriculum that reflects children's specific learning needs to provide a fully sequenced and coordinated approach to teaching (by 23/01/2026)

What it's like to attend

Children are keen to attend the nursery and form close attachments to the warm and friendly staff. They explore their environment confidently and play happily with their friends. While all children take part in a broad range of experiences, leaders do not currently have a clear curriculum in place, so learning is not fully coordinated or sequenced, though staff are skilled at extending learning within children's interests.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are happy and develop positive attitudes to learning.
  • Children are polite and considerate, following the effective role modelling of staff.
  • Staff prioritise children's safety and well-being well.
  • Staff promote children's emotional wellbeing effectively.
  • The arrangements to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are particularly effective.
  • Staff are skilled at recognising when to build on children's interest in their play to extend their learning.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders need to implement a broad and suitably challenging curriculum that reflects children's specific learning needs to provide a fully sequenced and coordinated approach to teaching.
Inspection #2786751 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

The arrangements to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are particularly effective. Leaders make good use of additional funding to provide the equipment and staffing resource that children need, and they have an effective knowledge of the professionals and services available locally, engaging well with these to provide additional support. There is a very successful focus on supporting children with SEND, with leaders and staff working well with parents and carers and other professionals to ensure children have coordinated support.

Outdoor space

This report does not contain information about outdoor space and physical play.

Inspection history

Most recent inspection

2 December 2025

Expected standard

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

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About the setting

Stepping Stones Nursery Pembury Ltd was registered with Ofsted on 28/06/2024. It is a childcare on non-domestic premises setting located at St. Anselms Catholic Church & Hall, A Lower Green Road, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4DZ.

URN
2786751
Registered person
Stepping Stones Nursery Pembury LTD
Day care type
Childcare on non-domestic premises
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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