Green Gables Montessori Nursery

About this day nursery

Green Gables Montessori Nursery, established in April 1996, provides a nurturing and stimulating environment for children aged 3 months to 5 years. Located on The Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, the nursery focuses on a Montessori approach to education, aiming to foster a love for learning and prepare children for school.

The facility boasts a 74-place capacity and is dedicated to offering high-quality childcare within a home-like setting. The nursery emphasises a holistic approach to child development, working closely with families to support each child's individual needs and preferences.

Green Gables Montessori Nursery is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and engaging experience for children, promoting exploration, creativity, and a strong sense of community. The 2019 expansion to include "Farmers Den" provides a bespoke learning environment for preschool children, further enhancing their educational offerings.

Our ethos

To treat each child like our own precious family by asking the question “is this outstanding?” Our vision is to offer a warm, friendly, clean, relaxed, enabling, inclusive environment that is a home from home for your child and welcomes the whole family. To offer a high standard of quality childcare, security, stability, education and curriculum that is fun, building on each child’s emotional wellbeing. We provide a holistic approach starting with the child at the centre and covering every facet of the child’s life. We work closely with families and value them as being the experts in their child, working in respectful partnership, thus setting the scene for your child to thrive. We use on-line systems to effectively celebrate each child’s development with their families and respect observations that come from home to build a holistic picture of each child. To offer a safe, non-judgemental place for children when the unexpected happens, that is safe, consistent loving care for the child and support the whole family. We respect every child for their uniqueness, and experiences to get the very best out of their time at nursery. We ensure that every child is included in nursery life. We fully support each child’s development. We implement a pedagogical approach that takes the best from all cultures to provide a wide range of language rich opportunities and experiences that encourage outward looking to their place in society. We understand that nursery is the foundation for the rest of a child’s life.

What it's like

Children clearly enjoy their time in the setting, forming close bonds with staff and confidently separating from parents. The stimulating indoor and outdoor learning environments offer children good opportunities to make safe and independent choices. They develop physical skills and awareness in the forest area and show concentration and curiosity when exploring minibeasts.