Well Place Day Nursery

The team are nurturing, supportive and very experienced. The setting is homely and based in the grounds of the Penshurst estate and they have an outdoor woodland area. The team are passionate about early discovering and activities include phonics, science, yoga and cooking. Well Place also hosts a sports day in the summer and a Christmas performance/ party. They use Tapestry which keeps us updated on what our son is doing whilst he is there which is lovely to see. They even do things like going to the farm to see the sheep being sheared at Easter. Our son has allergies and the chef is very accommodating of this. Most importantly the team have a excellent ethos of kindness and are understanding of the challenges that young families have with toddlers, especially the lovely manager. Our son loves the Pre-school at Well Place.

Both have attended since they were 11 months old and I’ve been delighted with the care and attention they receive. Both kids really delight in the time they spend there, our eldest consistently talking excitedly about preschool and all the team genuinely care about the kids.
They make outstanding use of their rural setting with muddy explorers, regular outdoor walks often seeing cows and sheep on the way. The in-house cook prepares an outstanding range of meals and snacks and knows the kids by name.
All the kids are polite and courteous showing respect to each other. After having my second kid, childcare centre offered to adjust the hours my eldest attended so that I could recover and look after my newborn. The team have also been a welcome source of advice and journey and work with us to ensure that my kids have had a consistent approach.
I adore reading the online discovering journal entries. I have no hesitation in recommending Well Place. I have two kids, 13 and 35 months.

The team are all outstanding, with a relatively low turnover, and they are genuinely interested in each kid, tailoring activities to them and asking parents for information on likes/ dislikes. They have a large range of different activities and creative ways to make discovering enjoyable. There’s a large outdoor grassy area and also a yard for the kids to playtime outside. The large amount of outdoor space and the rural location was one of the major factors in choosing Well Place and the team encourage the kids to be outside come rain or shine. It’s not the most state of the art, high tech childcare centre compared to some others in Tunbridge Wells that have had more investment but I truly believe that this doesn’t matter at this age and that my kids feeling secure and well looked after is of much greater importance. Both my daughters have been attending Well Place since they were 12 months old and overall I have been very cheerful with the care they have had.

She has a very strong bond with her key worker and it makes it a lot easier for me to leave her, knowing that she will be just fine.
Her development is very well noted and encouraged. I consistently get a detailed description of the things she did during the day. I can highly suggest Well Place and I am really cheerful that we found it. My daughter has been attending Well Place for the past 10 months since she was 8 months old and we could not be happier with our choice of childcare centre.
The location is excellent – away from busy roads with an easy access to country walks which they take advantage of very often.
Healthy cooked meals.
Independent childcare centre with an individual approach to each kid.
Very compassionate, attentive, accommodating team, they made the dreaded settling in process as comfortable for me and my daughter as possible.
My daughter loves going to childcare centre, which I can tell by the way she gets excited when we arrive.

All the team are so welcoming and really do know the kids very well. The home-cooked meals are consistently eaten and the menu is varied. Parents are asked to suggest meal ideas too, which demonstrates just one of the ways the childcare centre tries to engage parents. We receive regular, detailed updates on tapestry on the activities and discovering goals the kids do and reach. We particularly like the outdoors space and the team take kids out for walks around the estate all the time (seeing many animals in the surrounding fields)! We have 2 kids at Well Place, both of whom are very cheerful.

Very cheerful, well cared for and content kids. Outstanding childcare centre!

The team have been outstanding for my two kids who currently attend, so much so that our third kid is already on their books to attend.

The childcare centre team are attentive and affectionate and the pre-school team and structures are really teaching our eldest kid so much. They have science days, a yoga/exercise day, cooking skills, messy playtime day, the list of stimulating activities is endless.

And to cap it all off, there’s a fabulous grassy outside playtime area for exploring and running in, a playground area for quicker bursts of energy and access to remarkable rural country walks on proper farmland.

I talk to our parenting friends who are using other nurseries across Kent and Sussex (some of which are attached to very expensive private schools) and none of them come close to what Well Place offers our family.

Thank you Well Place. Keep up the excellent work. This childcare centre is spectacular both in its team and its settings.