The Cottage Nursery

The Cottage, Lower Station Road, Crayford, Dartford DA1 3PY
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8.8 24 Reviews
  • The Cottage Nursery, Dartford
The Cottage Nursery is located in Crayford in Kent. The nursery is a converted large Victorian house, situated in an acre of open space with its four gardens including a forest school and is located next to the Braeburn Nature Reserve.

The Cottage Nursery & Pre-school uses a web-based system to communicate a detailed daily account of each child's day to their parents, enabling them to track and learn about their child's development. The nursery also has full CCTV monitoring installed throughout.

Providing care for children aged from three months old to four-years-old. Children have access to separate rooms with age-appropriate toys and activities, including reading, building blocks, arts and crafts and role play. In addition, children are able to participate in a range of activities, specially planned by a team of skilled staff.

The Cottage Nursery has three rooms, a baby room, toddler room and preschool room.

Staff at the nursery pride themselves on providing high quality learning and development opportunities for children. The nursery follows an in-depth awareness calendar which provides different themes of learning, special events and celebrations which they take part in every morning and afternoon.

The nursery boasts fantastic outdoor facilities and spacious open plan rooms which benefit from CCTV mentoring. The reception area offers a space where parents can take a look at the footage to make sure their child is settled and happy.

The nursery also benefits from:

Online software and system access
Ofsted registered, graded “Good” (March 2019)
Forest School onsite
Fresh food prepared onsite with Excellent Food Hygiene Rating of "5" (September 2023)
Millie Mark Accredited
Healthy Catering Mark Award

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Care Provided by The Cottage Nursery

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Privately Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Katie Davies (Acting Nursery Manager/DSL)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 14
  • Total Places for Children
  • 65
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:30-18:30
    Tuesday 07:30-18:30
    Wednesday 07:30-18:30
    Thursday 07:30-18:30
    Friday 07:30-18:30
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays, 3 staff training days & 1 week between Christmas Eve & New Year Day

Funding & Fees Guide for The Cottage Nursery

  • Session Charges – used for your planned weekly attendance -


    Full Day from 7:30am till 6:30pm:
    Under 2 year olds - £82
    2 to 3 year olds - £80
    Over 3 Year Olds - £ 76

  • Extra childcare sessions are £90 for extra full days and £55 for Half days.
    Full time all week attendance below attracts a discount of 5%.


    We are an all year nursery and closed only for Christmas and New Year Holidays and Bank Holidays & up to 4 staff training days each year. Fees are charged on a monthly equivalent of weekly planned attendance for all year through 51 weeks of the year.


    We accept funding, using it towards the fees. Stretching it to ensure Parents / Carers have access to it all year through.
  • Parking

  • There is plenty of parking at the nursery when visiting, for bringing children to nursery and when collecting children.


The Cottage Nursery Reviews (24)

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8.8

The Cottage Nursery has a Review Score of 8.8 (8.837) out of 10, based on 6 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time The Cottage Nursery has 24 reviews.

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Review from J E (Mother of Child) published on 9 November 2015
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Very competent staff, very friendly and trustworthy staff. Very happy with their ability. they have look after my son for over 5 months now and he is developing from grace to grace. couldn't be happier.

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Review from Afua S (Mother of Child) published on 26 October 2015
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

We are happy with this nursery. Our son started in April and it's been fantastic. The staff in particular are really nice and friendly and very professional. My son's key worker got him to sit on the big chair and no more highchair. We now have meal times with him sitting at table with us. Fantastic
job. She is so great with him. Also helps him with his speech. The nursery manager has helped so much with keeping up with ways to help with my son's speech and language. Overall, I think they are doing a fab job.

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Review from Fiona S (Mother of Child) published on 28 August 2015
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Since our son started at Gaggle Nursery, we have been extremely impressed by the level of care he receives. The staff are fantastic: engaged, expert and caring. The Director is progressive in her approach and is concerned with every aspect of a child's development. In this regard, we were particularly
pleased to see the planned introduction of Jolly Phonics. I feel safe and confident leaving him in the capable hands of the nursery staff, and as a new and anxious mum, that's the highest commendation I can give.

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Review from Hazel B (Mother of Child) published on 26 August 2015
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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Absolutely fantastic nursery, the staff are genuinely interested in the children's development, bringing out the best in the child.
My daughter has flourished beautifully, thank you Gaggles.
Always a pleasure to take my daughter to nursery and she seems to enjoy going too.

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Current Review Score: 8.8 (8.837)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 8.8 (8.837) out of 10 for The Cottage Nursery is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.8 out of 5 from 6 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.1 out of 5 from 6 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.775 for The Cottage Nursery is calculated as follows: ( (57 Excellents x 5) + (12 Goods x 4) + (2 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 71 Ratings = 4.775

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 4.062 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for The Cottage Nursery is based on 6 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 = 3.6

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 65 number of registered child places is 13. 6 Positive Reviews ÷ 13 = 0.462

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Meet the Team (10)

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Katie Davies

Job Title: Acting Manager

Joined: 2023

Acting Manager


Magda

Magda Miscoir

Job Title: Early Years Teacher

Joined: 2020

Working in the Preschool room


Karen

Karen Taylor

Job Title: Senior Early Years Educator/DSL/SENCO (Acting Deputy Manager)

Joined: 2019

Working in the Preschool room.


Kelsey

Kelsey Tiller

Job Title: Level 3 Practitioner

Joined: 2022

Working in the toddler and preschool room


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Emma Lilley

Job Title: Senior Early Years Educator

Joined: 2024

Senior Early Years Educator


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Lily-Bo Couchman

Job Title: Apprentice

Joined: 2024

Apprentice


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Sidonie Ewen

Job Title: Senior Early Years Educator

Joined: 2024

Senior Early Years Educator


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Kayleigh Mabey

Job Title: Apprentice

Joined: 2023

Apprentice


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Delcee-Rose Coshall

Job Title: Early Years Educator

Joined: 2024

Early Years Educator


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Rachel Power

Job Title: Senior Early Years Educator

Joined: 2022

Senior Early Years Educator


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