Meadow Lane Children's Nursery

About this day nursery

Meadow Lane Children's Nursery is situated on an expansive farmland setting in St Ives, offering a unique environment with livestock, allotments, and diverse indoor and outdoor play spaces. This enables numerous Forest School sessions and abundant opportunities for outdoor play and learning, fostering children's connection with nature.

The nursery adheres to the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum while also integrating the Reggio Emilia approach, which promotes learning and development across seven key areas through exploration, discovery, and play, emphasising respect, responsibility, and community. The environment is continuously updated to align with the children's interests, placing them at the core of all activities.

Staff create resources by hand to ignite imagination and curiosity. The nursery encourages lifelong learning by building self-confidence through varied experiences and skills acquired via self-directed play.

Meadow Lane comprises four classrooms—Dandelion’s, Daffodil’s, Daisy’s, and Dahlia’s—where children transition based on their developmental progress. They utilise inquiry-based learning, developing topics and questions that incorporate children's interests to enhance their learning journey, with staff co-learning alongside the children.

Our ethos

Meadow Lane Children's Nursery integrates the Reggio Emilia approach and the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, using inquiry-based learning to place children at the core of all activities. They prioritise children's connection with nature through a Forest School approach and ample outdoor play, fostering curiosity, self-confidence, and a love for lifelong learning through self-directed play and exploration.

What it's like

Children are truly at the heart of this very special, unique and awe-inspiring provision. They thrive as they thoroughly enjoy the huge range of indoor and outdoor learning opportunities. Children are wonderfully muddy, covered in paint and joyfully engaged in their learning and make impressive progress especially those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Pricing & funding