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Little Green Rascals Flaxton

Ofsted: Good
(Apr 2025)
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5.0(9 parent reviews) ·Draft Farm, York, YO60 7QP · North Yorkshire
Number of places
47 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Apr 2025
Local authority
North Yorkshire

About this day nursery

Apricot Day Nursery, nestled in St Neots, is dedicated to providing a nurturing environment where children can flourish through a blend of focused education and playful exploration. The nursery adheres to the Montessori approach within a comfortable, home-like atmosphere, offering a variety of activities tailored to individual interests.

They prioritise holistic development, aiming to boost confidence, independence, and school readiness through their 'Next Stop School' programme. The nursery operates across two sites, with a separate pre-school setting just a short walk away for when children are ready for the next stage of their learning journey.

They emphasise outdoor learning with age-appropriate play areas for each of their three rooms, encouraging children to engage with the natural world regardless of the weather. Apricot Day Nursery also prides itself on transparent communication with parents, providing verbal updates and digital reports through a parent app, and ensuring each child has a dedicated key person.

Our ethos

At Apricot Day Nursery, we believe that nursery education offers numerous benefits, contributing significantly to a child's cognitive, social, and physical development. We aim to boost confidence and independence, helping children prepare for school. Our philosophy centres on creating a supportive environment that fosters individual growth and a lifelong love of learning.

What it's like

Staff provide a calm, nurturing environment for children, meeting their care needs and building secure relationships, which helps children to feel safe and settled. Children make good progress across all areas of their development, well-prepared for the next stages in learning. The manager and staff team have a clear vision for the curriculum, focusing on communication skills and broadening experiences through activities like rugby and football.

Montessori approachOutdoor learningCookery programmesNext Stop School programmeChild-led learning

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

Tax-Free Childcare15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)
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Key facts

Food

Meals are freshly prepared on-site using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Dietary preferences, intolerances, and allergies are catered for.

Session types

Full day (8am to 6pm), Early start (7:30am to 8am), Late finish (6pm to 6:30pm)

Opening hours

7.30am - 6.30pm, open 51 weeks a year

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Little Green Rascals Flaxton

Last inspected 29 April 2025

Safeguarding effective
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 calm, nurturing environment for children, meeting their care needs and building secure relationships, which helps children to feel safe and settled. Children make good progress across all areas of their development, well-prepared for the next stages in learning. The manager and staff team have a clear vision for the curriculum, focusing on communication skills and broadening experiences through activities like rugby and football.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff provide a range of exciting activities for children, carefully preparing environments inside and outside to meet individual learning needs.
  • Children have opportunities to learn outdoors, with purposeful learning and access to the full curriculum, including a forest school provision for older children.
  • Staff help children to develop good communication and language skills through regular group sessions and initiatives to build vocabulary.
  • Staff consistently promote children's independence and self-care, with young children putting on their own sun hats and shoes, and older children beginning to self-serve at lunch.
  • The leadership team is strong, implementing positive changes like a newly embedded curriculum and reflecting on staff workload to ensure effective support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Areas to develop

  • 1help staff to consider how they provide support to other staff during focused group time activities, to maintain highest levels of engagement for children
  • 2reflect on lunchtime arrangements to ensure that young children and babies do not wait for too long.
Inspection #10395900 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

they are thrilled with the 'amazing approach to learning'

give special thanks to the chef who provides 'wonderful, nutritious food'

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders have reflected on staff's workload and ensured they have time to manage their roles. This means children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported effectively.

Outdoor space

A strength of the nursery are the opportunities for children to learn outdoors. Staff ensure that children have access to the full curriculum and their learning is purposeful. Toddlers thoroughly enjoy activities outside and practise throwing coloured beanbags into the hoops. Older children use the nursery's forest school provision and develop their understanding of the world.

Parent Reviews of Little Green Rascals Flaxton

5.0
(9)
L H
11 months ago

A truly wonderful nursery with an incredible Forest School for the children to enjoy and explore. The staff are warm, caring and professional...always a smile to greet us in the morning! I would highly recommend Little Green Rascals Flaxton to anyone, it really is a special place that is so unique with it's beautiful on site Forest School.

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Helen Swallow
9 months ago

We would highly recommend Little Green Rascals Flaxton. We have recently joined the nursery and are first time parents. The team are kind, helpful and really supportive in answering any questions you have, plus providing clear guidance and helpful links to wider information. The settle in days are a great way for both you and your baby to get used to nursery. The team go the extra mile hosting parent and grandparent days, sports days, alongside themed charity days. The nursery is friendly, stimulating and what sets it apart is the amazing outside facilities for your little ones to grow and develop. Lastly we cannot forget Terry and the delicious food he creates. A huge thank you to the whole team for making us so welcome!!

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Emma Raye Photography
a year ago

I've worked with the team at Little Green Rascals Flaxton for over 8 years to capture their children's portraits. I'm always blown away with the setting which is not only beautiful for the children's portraits but a calming and nuturing environment in which the little ones can learn, explore and play. The on-site Forest School is a wonderful resource which has been thoughtfully curated with even its own fire pit for making hot chocolate and toasting marshmallows on cooler days. The team at Flaxton are fantastic and are a real credit to the nursery. Highly recommended!

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Tim Kitching
11 months ago

We recently moved into the area which meant that our Son was in the middle of a Pre-school year and having left his old friends at his previous Pre-school was having to settle into a new house a new area and a new Pre-school. He couldn't have been happier from the start and felt welcomed and happy in the new environment and loved the fantastic areas LGR Flaxton has for the children to play and interact in. The staff have been wonderful and helped immensely in ensuring our Son was welcomed and settled in quickly, whilst fully understanding the potential challenges he was facing with the move. He particularly loves the outdoor areas and comes home each day happy, having clearly embraced (literally) every single bit of the outdoor areas. Highly recommend.

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Amanda Cordingley
a year ago

Such a beautiful nursery is a wonderful location. The staff team are all so warm and welcoming, it has a really lovely family feel from th minute you enter thr building, the staff go above and beyond. The activities on offer to extend children learning and development are fantastic, each child learning is taylored for individually. With the added bibus of extra curricular activities on offer daily this includes baby band, yoga, kixc, rugby, French and not to mention thr wonderful on-site forest school. An amazing setting.

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Inspection history

Date: December 2019

  • April 2025Good
  • December 2019Outstanding

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