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Melrose Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Aug 2025)
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5.0(9 parent reviews)
·18 Burford Road, SALISBURY, SP2 8AN · Wiltshire
Number of places
64 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Aug 2025
Local authority
Wiltshire

About this day nursery

Melrose Nursery, located at 18 Burford Road, SALISBURY SP2 8AN, was registered in 2025 and offers a nurturing environment for children aged 0 to 4. The nursery provides a broad and exciting curriculum, where children confidently explore and lead their own play, fostering independence from a young age.

Staff are commended for their strong bonds with the children, understanding their individual needs and routines. The nursery operates weekdays from 8am to 6pm, 51 weeks a year, and accepts government-funded places.

The dedicated management team actively supports staff development, ensuring high standards in all aspects, including hygiene. The setting emphasises a positive approach to teaching and learning, encouraging children to develop problem-solving skills and resilience.

Parents speak highly of the nursery, noting that their children love attending and benefit from personalised development tailored to their interests.

What it's like

Children form close and loving bonds with staff who know them well and meet their needs and routines with care. They behave very well, showing kindness, caring, sharing, and good manners. Children benefit from a broad and exciting curriculum, exploring the natural environment and engaging in physical challenges in the expansive garden. They confidently explore and lead their own play freely.

Strong bonds with staffBroad curriculumEarly independenceExciting activitiesGood behaviourPersonalised learning

Key facts

Opening hours

weekdays, from 8am to 6pm for 51 weeks of the year

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2025

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Melrose Nursery

Last inspected 6 August 2025

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

Children form close and loving bonds with staff who know them well and meet their needs and routines with care. They behave very well, showing kindness, caring, sharing, and good manners. Children benefit from a broad and exciting curriculum, exploring the natural environment and engaging in physical challenges in the expansive garden. They confidently explore and lead their own play freely.

Inspector highlights

  • Children form close and loving bonds with staff who know them well and meet their needs and routines with care.
  • Children behave very well. They are kind and caring, learn to share with others and have good manners.
  • Children benefit from a broad and exciting curriculum to support their learning and interests.
  • Children confidently explore and lead their own play freely.
  • Staff are clear what they intend children to learn next and help them to build further on their learning. They skilfully use spontaneous moments and children's curiosity to motivate them to learn more.
  • Staff help children to become ready for starting school.
  • Staff encourage babies as they babble, verbalising their communications and helping them to learn their first words, such as with songs and stories.
  • The management team has a very good oversight of the nursery. They value staff and include them in their vision of developing the quality of the provision even further.

Areas to develop

  • 1Provide quieter children with more time and opportunity to answer questions to develop their communication and thinking even further.
Inspection #10409336 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

Outdoor space

Children explore the natural environment on walks and enjoy physical challenges in the expansive garden.

Parent Reviews of Melrose Nursery

5.0
(9)
Stephanie McMenemy
5 months ago

We couldn’t be happier with Melrose Nursery. After a very difficult start elsewhere where my son truly hated going to nursery, the change has been remarkable. From the moment he started at Melrose, the kindness, patience and genuine care shown by the staff made all the difference. The team are absolutely wonderful nurturing, attentive and clearly passionate about what they do. Mel and Rose have put together in my opinion one of the best staffing teams in Salisbury, there is not one single member of staff I could write about because all of them are truly fantastic. They are responsible for my Son now feeling safe, happy and confident, and he is thriving (one of his few words is now his Key workers name!). Seeing him excited to go in each day is something I never thought I’d say, over the last few months I have gone from a screaming child even after 5 months at drop off (at his previous nursery) to a child that now, confidently does not even look back and walks himself in from the front gate! It means more to us than words in a review could express but if we could shout from the rooftops what a wonderful place Melrose is we would.

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Annalisa Cocca
8 months ago

We greatly appreciate the warm and nurturing environment provided to the children. The engaging activities and dedicated staff have created a positive learning experience. We commend the efforts in fostering a sense of community among the families. The progress made by the children is truly remarkable, and we are grateful for the dedication shown. We highly recommend this nursery and pre-school to others seeking a supportive environment.

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M J
9 months ago

This is now under new owners Melrose Nursery, the renovations to the building and garden are fantastic.

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Rhydian Edwards
a year ago

Brilliant, safe nursery with caring, polite staff who really do care about the kids. Our daughter loves her time there and is always happy to tell us what she’s learnt that day. Children get exposed to a wide range of well structured experiences both indoors, outdoors and leading into the school curriculum. Very flexible, take child free credits and open from 0730-1800 every weekday (except bank holidays and Christmas). Good app with regular updates, news and daily photos of what the children have been up too. Also provides a quick way to contact individual staff members.

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natasha mills
3 years ago

I have been using the nursery for a number of years for all three of my children. The staff are friendly and give it a lovely home feeling, lovely fresh cooked food also and very accommodating to working family's.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

6 August 2025

Good

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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