Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm, all year round.
Apricot Nursery and Jumping Jacks After School and Holiday Club
Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2024)
Number of places
83 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2024
Local authority
Peterborough
About this day nursery
Apricot Nursery & Pre-School, located in Orton Longueville, Peterborough, offers high-quality childcare for infants from 3 months old through to pre-school age. The nursery is thoughtfully designed to cater to children's developmental needs, featuring calm and neutral rooms equipped with modern resources, complemented by a spacious outdoor play area.
The dedicated team of practitioners provides nurturing care, fostering positive relationships and encouraging learning through purposeful play. Apricot Nursery also extends its services to include activity clubs for older children up to 11 years old.
Emphasising the significance of early childhood, the nursery aims to inspire and develop each child through engaging experiences, promoting cognitive growth, language development, and essential motor skills. Healthy eating is a core principle, ensuring children are well-nourished and energetic.
The nursery actively supports various government-funded childcare initiatives to assist parents with costs.
Our ethos
Apricot Nursery aims to inspire and develop each child through engaging experiences, promoting cognitive growth, language development, and essential motor skills. They foster positive relationships and encourage learning through purposeful play, with healthy eating as a core principle.
What it's like
Staff provide a wide range of inspiring activities designed to meet the children's interests and needs, with children spending long periods of time immersed in their learning. Children have fun developing their physical skills and independence, with staff ensuring all children have access to daily fresh air and exercise and encouraging them to do things for themselves.
High quality childcareLearning through purposeful playHealthy eating focusGovernment funded hours acceptedBaby, toddler, and pre-school rooms
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
Tax-Free Childcare
- Discount on fees for 3 months£5 / session
Key facts
Age range
3 months to 11 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating
Last inspected 19 September 2024
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
Staff provide a wide range of inspiring activities designed to meet the children's interests and needs, with children spending long periods of time immersed in their learning. Children have fun developing their physical skills and independence, with staff ensuring all children have access to daily fresh air and exercise and encouraging them to do things for themselves.
Inspector highlights
- Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum tailored to support all children to make good progress in their development.
- Staff promote children's language development across every activity and routines, including for children who speak English as an additional language.
- Leaders and staff team have the same ambition for all children, assessing development and identifying gaps or delays, and working with parents and other professionals to provide support.
- Children benefit from a well-planned settling-in period and staff show genuine interest and support children's emotional well-being.
Areas to develop
- 1To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should consider ways to ensure that staff check what children have learned and understood from planned activities, to make sure that they continue to build on what they already know and can do.
Inspection #10316646 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents say their children enjoy coming to the nursery and are making good progress.
They say they feel well informed about their child's time at the nursery.
Parents say they are impressed with the progress their children make.
They commend staff on how well they support their children to speak English.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Leaders and staff team have the same ambition for all children. They assess children's development and identify any gaps or delays. Leaders work with parents and other professionals to provide children with the support they need to succeed at the nursery. Leaders use additional funding to support children's individual needs, purchasing specific resources and having extra staff.
Outdoor space
Children have fun developing their physical skills. Staff ensure all children have access to daily fresh air and exercise. Babies build on their walking skills as they hold staff members' hands. Younger children explore the garden.
Parent Reviews
5.0
(19)
Paul Robinson
5 years ago
All three of my children have attended either Apricot nursery or the holiday club since 2017. The staff have always been very accommodating, trustworthy and have treated the children as individuals. Out of the various settings we have tried over the years this has been the most successful and my youngest daughter has here since being in the baby room and is about to start school in September. We have missed the holiday club very much as have my older 2. All the very best....
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Coco's boutique
5 years ago
My sons been at apricot nursery for a few months now. His speech has come along so well and he’s not even 2 yet. He’s a proper character now since being there and I’m so glad I put him in. I would recommend to any parent wanting to put children into nursery. Staff are lovely. My son is always happy to be there. Thank you very much staff at apricot nursery:)
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Michaela Whiteman
3 years ago
My daughter has attended nursery all the way through from babies to preschool the staff members that have supported her have been amazing she has had exceptional care and support throughout her journey there. I will be sad not to see the wonderful staff there as she moves on to her next chapter with school. Thank you for absolutely everything, forever grateful highly recommend this nursery!
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George Turnell
7 years ago
my child attended apricot nursery from 8 months old and has enjoyed it so much she now attends their out of school club. The staff are amazing with the children and have an amazing bond with all children and parents. The nursery management are always available and cater to all needs of the children and their families. I would highly reccommend this nursery to any parent considering childcare.
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Lloyd Thompson
5 years ago
My child had attended Apricot Nursery for nearly 3 years now. He loves all of the staff and all of the children. Apricot have been great and supporting my child and me through the early years of development. I would thoroughly recommend them and I dread the day we have to move on and leave them behind!
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Inspection history
Improved from Requires improvement → Good in 2024
Date: March 2018
- September 2024Good
- October 2023Requires improvement
- March 2018Good
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