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The Nursery At Broadstairs College

Ofsted: Good
(Feb 2025)
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3.5(78 Google reviews)
·East Kent College, Ramsgate Road, Broadstairs, CT10 1PN · Kent
Number of places
57 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2025
Local authority
Kent

About this day nursery

The day nursery at Broadstairs College offers a nurturing and supportive environment for children from 3 months to 5 years old, focusing on providing a strong educational foundation. The day nursery boasts high-quality facilities, a spacious play area, and is committed to fostering growth through both structured activities and free play, indoors and outdoors.

Children are encouraged to build relationships and learn together within age-specific learning areas. The experienced, qualified, and DBS-checked staff ensure a stimulating and safe setting for all children across 50 weeks of the year.

The nursery also provides comprehensive meal provisions as part of its session fees.

What it's like

Children are settled and enjoy the resources on offer, showing strong bonds with staff. Leaders effectively consider and adapt the environment to ensure children feel safe and settled. Staff provide good-quality learning interactions, helping most children make good progress from their starting points.

Nurturing and supportive environmentAges 3 months to 5 yearsHigh-quality facilities and spacious play areaExperienced and qualified staff50 weeks of enriching activities

Pricing & funding

Fees are structured by age band (Babies, Toddlers, and Pre-School) across morning, afternoon, school day, and full day sessions. Standard rates bundle childcare hours and meals. Fully funded children only pay for the cost of meals, while additional hours are billed at a flat hourly rate.

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)

Good to know

  • Fees stated are effective from September 2025 onwards.
  • Session fees include both hourly childcare rates and meal costs.
  • Fully funded children only need to pay for the cost of meals during their sessions.
  • Additional hours added to funded sessions are charged at the standard hourly rate.
  • Children without funding are charged the full session price.

Key facts

Opening hours

Full day session (8am-6pm), Morning session (8am-1pm), Afternoon session (1pm-6pm), School day session (9am-3pm)

Food

Breakfast, snack, lunch, and tea provided depending on the session.

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Registered with Ofsted

2014

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for The Nursery At Broadstairs College

Last inspected 11 February 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

Children are settled and enjoy the resources on offer, showing strong bonds with staff. Leaders effectively consider and adapt the environment to ensure children feel safe and settled. Staff provide good-quality learning interactions, helping most children make good progress from their starting points.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are settled and enjoy the resources on offer, showing strong bonds with staff, going to them throughout the day for cuddles and reassurance.
  • Leaders are good at considering the environment and they make any necessary changes to support children to feel safe and settled.
  • Staff plan a curriculum that sequentially builds on children's knowledge and skills, focusing well on supporting children's language and communication skills.
  • Leaders and staff place an emphasis on supporting children's well-being and an effective key-person system supports children to settle well.
  • Leaders have developed good relationships with parents, who report feeling supported and kept well informed about their child's learning journey.

Areas to develop

  • 1strengthen monitoring of staff practice so that any areas for improvement are swiftly identified and addressed
  • 2build on staff's skills in consistently supporting all children to fully engage with the learning experiences offered, including quieter children
  • 3improve the organisation of transitions and routines to reduce the amount of time children spend waiting.
Inspection #10372512 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

When getting children ready to play outside, transition times can become disorganised, leaving children waiting for a long time without anything to do and becoming bored.

Google Reviews of The Nursery At Broadstairs College

3.5
(78 Google reviews)
Joshua Martin
a year ago

I would not recommend this college to anyone looking for a well-structured and properly delivered course. I completed the Computing T Level course, and it was nothing like what was advertised. Lecturers frequently failed to turn up, leaving students without guidance. The work experience component was supposed to be 315 hours, yet we were only given three weeks to complete it, forcing us to rush through it with little benefit. The T Level exam was cancelled multiple times due to poor planning, as the college failed to check the system before exam day. Even worse, the same issue caused the exam to be cancelled again the following year. This level of disorganization is unacceptable. A major part of the course involved coding, yet we were not taught this aspect at all. This had a significant impact on our grades, and many students ended up failing because of the college’s negligence. Most lecturers did their best with the limited resources they had, but there was no structure or clear planning in place. The only positive was that the staff were friendly, but they were far too laid-back. This lack of discipline led to students losing focus, with some skipping sessions altogether. Overall, this college failed to deliver on its promises, and I feel like my time was completely wasted.

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Janiqz
a year ago

I recently completed the T Level Computing course (Digital Production, Development, and Design) at Broadstairs College, and unfortunately, my experience was disappointing. While the lecturers were nice, friendly, and genuinely tried their best with the resources they had, the course itself suffered from significant issues. The program was plagued by constant staff changes, poor management, and a lack of resources, which severely impacted the quality of learning. The exams were also poorly organized, making the overall experience messy and frustrating. I believe the course has potential and each course is different, but it requires better planning, consistent staffing, and adequate resources to provide students with the education they deserve.

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pos pos
12 months ago

I had a pretty ok experience here. it was not the actual students at this college. but a teacher who disrupted a hair treatment i was receiving from a level 3 student who did an amazing job by the way. even though i had gotten my hair done many times before and had already pat tested to see if i was allergic to the hair dye, the teacher decided to interupt her as shes put the dye on my head and screamed at her to put it down in her notes even though she had already done it before. she’d already put the hair due on and then made me wait for 10 minutes at most. a couple teachers in the salon are clearly unprofessional and the students are so much more kinder then them. However, i do have a positive experience with the teacher anne marie, she was very poliet and friendly and made me feel quite welcome while the others were very gossipy and rude towards people.

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Daniel
a year ago

I recently finished 3 years doing a poorly run IT course. I felt that lecturers expected students to know everything. On some days the lecturers were late or wouldn't turn up at all. The best part of the day would be going to the fish and chip shop for lunch. I was truly shocked when they said that we had to get 315 hours of work experience done in like 4 or 6 weeks and there is actually more of a chance to communicate with a ghost than anyone at the college.

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Rahim Babul
8 months ago

Safe reliable collage , studdied here for 3 years , sue from carers helped me get in chased up with universities and helped me get to university and the tutors here are very helpful and friendly with a diverse background of experience, highly recommend

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Inspection history

Date: May 2016

  • February 2025Good
  • April 2019Good
  • May 2016Good

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