Opening hours
8.00am to 5.15pm Monday to Thursday
Ashdon Childrens Nursery offers a supportive and stimulating environment where children are encouraged to explore and learn through a variety of engaging activities. The nursery prioritises a broad curriculum that caters to individual learning styles and paces, ensuring each child reaches their full potential.
They champion critical thinking, creativity, and self-discovery, fostering a positive atmosphere where children can take calculated risks, solve problems, and collaborate. Dedicated key workers create personalised development records, tracking progress and tailoring activities to individual needs and interests.
The curriculum is delivered through a balanced approach of adult-led and child-initiated experiences, both indoors and outdoors, and often incorporates children's interests and topical themes like road safety or healthy eating. This dynamic approach aims to excite and engage every child.
Our ethos
Ashdon Childrens Nursery champions critical thinking, creativity, and self-discovery, fostering a positive atmosphere where children can take calculated risks, solve problems, and collaborate. Their curriculum is delivered through a balanced approach of adult-led and child-initiated experiences, incorporating children's interests and topical themes to excite and engage every child.
What it's like
Children flourish in the warm and welcoming nursery and have a genuine thirst for learning because staff plan an enticing curriculum that embraces children's unique interests and preferred patterns of learning. Children are highly independent, confident and excellent communicators who rapidly develop the key skills needed to be ready for school and behave exceptionally well.
The nursery offers funded hours during term time from Monday to Thursday, with no top-up fees. Additional non-funded hours are charged at an hourly rate. Meals and snacks are charged daily per session, though parents have the option to provide a packed lunch instead.
Funding accepted
Good to know
Opening hours
8.00am to 5.15pm Monday to Thursday
Term time / All Year
All Year
Established
2016
Last inspected 3 July 2024 · Lisa Weston
What it's like to attend
Children flourish in the warm and welcoming nursery and have a genuine thirst for learning because staff plan an enticing curriculum that embraces children's unique interests and preferred patterns of learning. Children are highly independent, confident and excellent communicators who rapidly develop the key skills needed to be ready for school and behave exceptionally well.
Inspector highlights
Inclusion & environment
Children benefit from a wealth of rich experiences during forest-school sessions, which provide opportunities to take risks through climbing and exploring natural resources. Staff enrich outdoor curiosity with activities such as measuring height and using water brushes to mark trees.
I have had 2 children go to Ashdon Nursery. It has been a wonderful experience. The staff are kind and attentive and the setting is amazing. There are multiple opportunities for parents to visit from sports days to Mother’s Day mornings. We particularly loved it because of the exposure to nature at the forest. On top of this kids get to watch chicks hatching and go on regular countryside walks. Both my children have ran in happily every day.
Read on GoogleHaving tried several nurseries beforehand, I can hands down say Ashdon Children's Nursery is by far the best. The whole atmosphere the staff create is so friendly and welcoming for both children and their families. They go above and beyond to create a varied itinerary for the children with lots of visitors teaching new skills such as dancing, cooking and hand wasing. I cannot thank the staff enough for their consistent enthusiasm and care. My daughter has loved her time at Ashdon Children's Nursery and has established confidence, skills and friendships she can now carry with her to the next step of primary school.
Read on GoogleI have had two children attend Ashdon Nursery and cannot rate the team there highly enough. The grounds and environment are so enriching for the children and they spend a lot of time outside which is great. Both of my children have been helped with their development and have been well prepared for school. The team make the effort to provide the children with new experiences which have included looking after chicks, spanish and dance lessons and pop up play sessions. The communication has always been great, and most importantly both of my children have expressed feeling safe and cared for when at Ashdon.
Read on GoogleThe best children's nursery around, in such a beautiful setting. The staff are wonderful and kind and always have the children's best interest at heart. The nursery follows lovely traditions with little Christmas shows, special themed days, watching real eggs hatch, forest school, farm animal days there is something for every child. Wish I had more kids to send through, but 4 is probably my limit. I wish you all the best with many more years of happiness for little ones. Thank you for looking after my babies. x
Read on GoogleAshdon nursery has been great for my two kids. Whenever I drop them off or collect them I am always so encouraged hearing how the staff speak to them, the same way I try to (when I’m not frazzled and at the end of my tether). It’s always hard leaving your children in the care of someone but I couldn’t ask for better people than all the fantastic staff at Ashdon Nursery. I highly recommend Ashdon to everyone I speak to.
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Date: August 2018
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