Food
Meals are freshly prepared on-site by our own cook.
Apricot Day Nursery, located in St Neots, offers a nurturing and intimate environment that focuses on the holistic development of children. The nursery embraces a Montessori approach within a home-like setting, encouraging learning through play and tailored activities that cater to individual interests.
They are dedicated to preparing children for school through their "Next Stop School" programme, which helps foster confidence, social skills, and independence. The nursery operates across two sites, with a separate pre-school facility a short walk away, ensuring a unique experience for each age group.
They boast three rooms, each with access to a safe and age-appropriate outdoor play area, allowing for continuous exploration regardless of weather conditions. The curriculum, known as the Brighter Learning Approach, goes beyond the Early Years Foundation Stage by promoting hands-on experiences, child-led learning, and critical thinking across six core areas: My Happy and Healthy Self, Wonderful World, Super Steam, Raving Readers, Mini Maths, and Confident Speakers and Communicators.
Apricot Day Nursery also offers various clubs and enhancements such as Cookery, Budding Movers, Artists, Musicians, Gardeners, and Scientists, which complement their curriculum and provide diverse learning opportunities.
Our ethos
Apricot Day Nursery embraces a Montessori approach, encouraging holistic development through play- and child-led activities. Their Brighter Learning Approach goes beyond the EYFS, fostering hands-on experiences, critical thinking, and the development of children in six core areas. They also offer various clubs to complement the curriculum and provide diverse learning opportunities.
What it's like
Children are highly enthusiastic learners and demonstrate high levels of emotional security, confidence and self-esteem. Their interests and love for learning are at the heart of every decision staff make, and relationships between staff, children, and peers are extremely respectful. Staff organise the environment to provide outstanding experiences and activities, indoors and outdoors, to enthral and excite them in their play.
Funding accepted
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Food
Meals are freshly prepared on-site by our own cook.
Opening hours
7:30am - 6:30pm
Term time / All Year
All Year
Session types
Full day, Early start, Late finish
Last inspected 31 August 2022 · Chrissy Cremin
What it's like to attend
Children are highly enthusiastic learners and demonstrate high levels of emotional security, confidence and self-esteem. Their interests and love for learning are at the heart of every decision staff make, and relationships between staff, children, and peers are extremely respectful. Staff organise the environment to provide outstanding experiences and activities, indoors and outdoors, to enthral and excite them in their play.
Inspector highlights
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
very impressed with the detailed reports
Darents told inspectors that staff know my child as well as I do
Inclusion & environment
Staff are ambitious for children and know them exceptionally well. They diligently observe and assess their abilities and swiftly identify and help to close any possible gaps in children's learning.
Staff organise the environment to provide children with outstanding experiences and activities, indoors and outdoors, to enthral and excite them in their play. Children engage in highly motivating activities that capture their curiosity for learning.
I am so grateful my children have attended Wylde green nursery all 5 of my children have had the most amazing experience and still cherish and talk about there memories of nursery still to this day. I couldn’t of wished for a better start for my children, there is a wonderful enthusiasm and energy in all the staff and most importantly love. my children have grown leaps and bounds and watched them blossom with confidence. Which has reflected in there progress going to school. I like how the nursery stimulate learning for when they start school my children was able to hold a pencil in a grasp, and educational activities. It’s an open plan nursery so the children can socialise and free to play. My son really enjoys playing in the garden and especially on the bikes. They have lots of physical and sensory play. The communication is also fantastic, my son also had a diary allergy and the the staff was very competent with this making sure his dietary requirements where met also making sure he had his soya milk ordered in which was very nice. You can also download the nursery app and keep track of ur child’s progress trough out the day what they have eaten and pictures. Also parents evening and workshops. I really can’t Thank Wylde green and all the staff enough for helping my children grow I’m so happy as a mother all my children was at Wylde green. And from day one helping them to settle into nursery and now my son is so excited to go nursery and can’t wait till he goes again you all have helped him grow in so many ways from the bottom of my heart a big thank you
Read on GoogleI cannot recommend Wylde Green Nursery highly enough. It can be tough entrusting your child to someone else's care, but I have had full confidence in the wonderful staff here since the very start. The staff are so warm, caring, friendly and knowledgeable in child development. All the staff are brilliant but I have also been particularly impressed by my child's key worker, she is so sweet, joyful and caring and my son really loves her. The staff organise so many brilliant activities and my child's development has come on in so many areas since he started here. They also have a really good and healthy meal and snack plan. The nursery is clearly very well run, always impressively clean and well staffed too. I also like that the nursery is open plan as this gives my child lots of opportunities to mix with children of different ages and to learn from them too. Most importantly, I feel all the staff really know and care for my child and, even though starting nursery was tough for him (and me!), I can see he feels happy and safe there. .
Read on GoogleWe recently moved our daughter from one Sutton Coldfield Nursery to Wylde Green and I can’t explain just how much she has come out of her shell. She is so much more confident, the warmth and happiness that comes out of Wylde Green is contagious and not only has she made some wonderful friends but the effort, the detail and the care for all the children is wonderful to see. She is thriving and we are so grateful we made the decision to move her here! Amazing staff who can’t do enough to take care of our babies. Thank you always 🙏🏻
Read on GoogleMy 2.5 year old son joined this nursery in September and he has made so much progress in his social and developmental skills. A big thank you to the team for being so patient, nurturing and for genuinely caring about the wellbeing of the children. I know when I leave my son here he is entering an environment that is clean, safe and full of positive energy. 10/10 everytime.
Read on GoogleI visited Wylde Green nursery and can say the children were very engaged participating in activities. The mix of ages of children goes unnoticed as children are so deeply engaged in their play and offer support to one another. The manager is very welcoming and friendly and made us feel very welcome.
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Date: June 2014
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