Food
Children are served seasonal, healthy lunches and snacks daily. Cater for any dietary requirements as well as support the weaning process for babies. Breakfast and healthy snacks are provided, with lunch and tea as well.
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Orton Southgate
Ofsted: Strong standard·
5.0(14 parent reviews)
·Brightfield Business Hub, Bakewell Road, Peterborough, PE2 6XU · Peterborough
Number of places
57 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2026
Local authority
Peterborough
About this day nursery
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Orton Southgate in Peterborough, established in 2023, provides childcare for children aged 1 to 4 years. The nursery operates Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 6 pm, all year round.
Children at the nursery enjoy a warm and welcoming environment, facilitated by a highly effective key-person system that fosters positive relationships and a strong sense of belonging. The dedicated Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCO) works passionately to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring tailored support and regular meetings with key persons to help every child achieve their potential.
The nursery also highly values children who speak English as an additional language, with staff making efforts to learn their home languages and customs. While children confidently engage in outdoor activities, the nursery acknowledges that the outdoor learning environment, particularly for babies, is an area they plan to enhance by providing a dedicated space for them.
Our ethos
At our nursery in Orton Southgate Peterborough we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, supporting all areas of your child’s development from three months until they are ready to go to school. Our early years practitioners monitor each child’s progress and plan a variety of enrichment experiences to support individual development in all areas of learning. Children learn best from real experiences of textures, smells etc. and we find the best place to experience all this is the outside. Activities are planned around our children’s interests so they are engaged and learning along the way.
What it's like
Children enjoy their time in this warm and welcoming nursery. They and their families are warmly greeted on arrival by familiar adults, which helps children to quickly settle in their base rooms and engage in purposeful play. The highly effective key-person system helps children to form positive relationships and develop a true sense of belonging.
Warm & welcomingEffective key-person systemStrong SEND supportValues EAL childrenGood progressOutdoor play
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
Tax-Free Childcare
Pricing on request
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Key facts
Opening hours
Monday – Friday: 8am to 6pm
Term time / All Year
All_year
Established
2023
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Strong standard
Last inspected Feb 2026
Grade summary
Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.
Category grades
AchievementStrong standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
1 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Orton Southgate
Last inspected 20 February 2026
What it's like to attend
Children enjoy their time in this warm and welcoming nursery. They and their families are warmly greeted on arrival by familiar adults, which helps children to quickly settle in their base rooms and engage in purposeful play. The highly effective key-person system helps children to form positive relationships and develop a true sense of belonging.
Inspector highlights
- Children progress very well from their individual starting points, including those with SEND.
- Children develop their large movements and coordination effectively in the garden.
- Leaders provide an environment where children feel safe and secure.
- The nursery SENDCO is dedicated and passionate about helping children with SEND to achieve their potential.
- Leaders and staff are fully committed to providing the very best childcare and education for all children.
Areas to develop
- 1Leaders should continue to strengthen staff practice to embed newly developed routines, particularly at mealtimes.
- 2Leaders should enhance the curriculum and teaching outdoors, especially for babies.
Inspection #2767636 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Children progress very well from their individual starting points, including those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who may face additional barriers to their learning. The nursery special educational needs coordinator is dedicated and passionate about helping children with SEND to achieve their potential. She holds regular meetings with children's key persons to ensure support for children's learning is precisely tailored to their need.
Outdoor space
Children develop their large movements and coordination effectively in the garden as they ride, scoot and run around. Children's learning environment and experiences in the outdoor environment, especially for babies, are not as well developed. Leaders acknowledge this and plan to provide babies with their own dedicated space.
EAL / language support
Children who speak English as an additional language are highly valued and appreciated. Staff make every effort to learn children's home languages and customs.
Parent Reviews of Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Orton Southgate
5.0
(14)
Karina Grimes
7 months ago
We are so happy with the nursery and staff. We were really nervous and unsure if nursery in general was going to be the right choice for us (after hearing some horror stories). But we looked around and spoke in depth to nursery staff. My little boy has started and although there has been tears (from both of us) he has adjusted so well. He really enjoys his time there and they tailor his learning to his interests. His confidence is building so nicely and we have seen a massive difference at home in his language skills and imaginative play. A massive win for us is also the food, he has tried so many new foods and eaten them compared to home. We love the fact that they do school readiness, especially as he’ll be a young one in his year. The staff are really lovely and very caring, we always get a full run down of his day which I like. Highly recommend when looking at nursery’s in Peterborough.
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Mohan Babu
5 months ago
Really a great nursery for my daughter!! We were really clueless in the beginning while searching a nursery for our daughter who has learning disability and struggling with her walking . But Ashbourne has been a blessing and whatever support the 2 days they are providing is phenomenal . The staff here are very helpful kind and really passionate about what they are doing. Really a five star nursery
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Linda Greener
7 months ago
My son recently left Ashbourne to go to ‘big school’ and the nursery couldn’t have prepared him better. Although he was sad to leave, he was also so excited to go to school and confidently walked straight in on his first day which was largely due to the transition work put in by the staff at Ashbourne. My daughter is still at the nursery and literally runs in every day. The staff genuinely care for the children and offer both children and parents a lot of support. I would definitely recommend!
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Manish Patel
7 months ago
My daughter has been going to this nursery for 5 Months and she loves it, she is our only child and it was daunting thinking about sending her to any nursery. We visited many nurseries and we found Ashbourne to be brilliant from the first interaction, to the settling in sessions and my daughters first day there. The team are so friendly, knowledgable and caring. They have been as supportive to myself and my wife as much as our daughter. I can't thank all the team from those in the settings to those in the main office, there is genuine warmth, patience and a love of children here. Our daughter loves all the resources, outside play and other children, we have seen a real growth in her (including learning to walk from being around the other children who were walking). Honestly can't recommend the team and Ashbourne enough, we have since been putting our daughter in for extra days too.
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Siobhan O'sullivan
7 months ago
My little boy loves it here. Rarely wants to come home at the end of the day! He’s made so many friends and from not being able to talk words into forming sentences has been a huge step! We looked at a lot of nursery's and we just got this homely vibe from the staff and management are quick to address any issues and solve the concerns you have. The se do has been fantastic at putting in extra support with other external professionals to push for speach therapy for our little one! Cant wait to entrol my baby girl here next year!
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Inspection history
Most recent inspection
20 February 2026
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
View full Ofsted reportFrequently asked about Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Orton Southgate
About the setting
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Orton Southgate was registered with Ofsted on 07/12/2023. It is a childcare on non-domestic premises type of setting. It is operated by Ashbourne Day Nurseries Limited. The setting accepts children aged 1 to 4 years old. It is open Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 18:00.
- URN
- 2767636
- Registered person
- Ashbourne Day Nurseries Limited
- Day care type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
- Register
- Early Years Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
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