About Us
Our nursery is staffed by experienced, qualified and competent persons and you will find a mix of age ranges. We are an equal opportunity provider and are driven by the commitment to providing high quality and affordable childcare.
We are committed to providing outstanding child care and early years education to every child in our nursery.
We measure our performance capabilities against this in 3 monthly and annual appraisals.
We exceed the requirements of Ofsted for minimum 50% qualified.
Our ratio as recommended by Ofsted is 1:3 (0-2 yrs) 1:4 (2 yrs) 1:8 (3 yrs+)
Our policies and procedures are reviewed intermittently but generally on an annual basis by the staff team.
Nursery is Investors in People recognised and currently are working towards Quality care Assurance with Kent County Council.
We offer full and part day care for all children over the age of 2 years, but only full days for under 2 years (no specified number of days although minimum 2 recommended for settling purposes).
We welcome all visitors.
Visits can be spontaneous, or by appointment.
We only request you please to bear in mind the hours of lunch and sleep between 12 noon and 2 pm when the nursery becomes quiet.
Springfield at Dartford have been open since October 1989 and in that time have seen many developments, culminating in our now purpose designed building which was completed in June 2004.
As well as the children’s rooms, we have a large indoor hall,large functions kitchen, staff/training room and ancillary rooms.
Designed to promote independence in the children, they are able to access toilet facilities within the safe confines of the children’s area but our policy is that no child goes anywhere without an adult discreetly in attendance!
One of the play areas has soft safety surfacing for the younger children, whilst the other is a natural tree bark surfacing for the more adventurous.
Our large grassed areas allow us to hold sports day and many other family functions and of course the children can run and ride, safely.
