Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington

York Maze, Elvington Lane, York YO19 5LT
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9.9 128 Reviews
  • Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington, York
Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington boasts a generous 420 square meters of outdoor space, ensuring endless opportunities for exploration and adventure. The nursery offers exceptional care, enriched by unique learning opportunities for your child. One such experience is child-friendly cooking classes, helping to equip children with valuable skills and deeper knowledge of the cooking process.

Inside, the team follow the areas of learning and development set out in the Early Years Foundation stage. Outside, the beautifully landscaped gardens are a daily haven for the children. They can freely ride bicycles, engage in imaginative play in the mud kitchens, traverse willow tunnels, unleash their creativity on giant musical instruments, conquer the expansive wooden play apparatus and joyfully leap into the deepest of puddles!

In Wiggle Worms, the youngest babies embark on a journey of learning and exploration through sensory activities. The dedicated team fosters strong relationships, ensuring a smooth settling-in process for both you and your baby.

In Dancing Dragonflies, children are encouraged to develop independence and curiosity. They can climb the indoor climbing frame, engage in imaginative play within home corners and challenge themselves with puzzles that stretch their mathematical abilities.

In Cheeky Hens, the enhancement of speech, language and understanding of skills is a priority. Daily messy play activities ignite creativity, while focused topics deepen the children's knowledge and understanding of the world around them.

The team foster each child’s development as independent learners, ensuring they are enthusiastic and well-prepared for school when September arrives. At this age, free-flow access makes it possible to spend entire days immersed in the captivating gardens!
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Type of Service

  • Day Nursery
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care

Group/Owner

Person in Charge

  • Andrea Simpkin (Nursery Manager)

Number of Childcare Staff

  • 45

Total Places for Children

  • 98

Age Range

  • from 0 years 3 months
  • to 5 years 0 months

Funding & Fees

  • Full Day Session £83.50

  • A £100 non-refundable registration fee is required to secure a place (£0 for siblings). Exact days of attendance should
    be confirmed no later than 6 weeks prior to the child’s start date. Any changes are subject to availability.

Opening Times

  • Monday 07:30-18:30
    Tuesday 07:30-18:30
    Wednesday 07:30-18:30
    Thursday 07:30-18:30
    Friday 07:30-18:30

When Closed

  • Bank Holidays & Christmas

Parking

  • There is ample parking onsite for pick-up and drop-off. This can be busy during peak periods for York Maze Visitor Attraction (as this is on the same site).

Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington Reviews (128)

9.9

Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington has a Review Score of 9.9 (9.935) out of 10, based on 27 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington has 128 reviews.

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Review from Emma (Mother of Child) published on 26 October 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Both boys thoroughly enjoy nursery and we are very pleased with the level of care they receive. Forest is a massive hit and our eldest would spend every day there if he was allowed! The manager there is obviously very inspirational.
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Review from Laura B (Mother of Child) published on 19 October 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Little Green Rascals Elvington offers a great setting with lots of access to outdoor space. Visits to forest school and the maze are a bonus.
The biggest plus is the food. Cooked on site it always looks lovely and both my girls eat it all (one is a fussy eater).
Most of the staff are really lovely,
especially the lady who is in charge of forest school. The girls really like the staff and they are obviously well cared for while there.
The only (small) issue I have with the nursery is the policy on discipline. No naughty steps/seats here just a "no thank you" which personally I don't think works for persistent biters for example. It would be great if the nursery could work with children on enforcing a consistent discipline for things such a biting/fighting. For me it's not a deal breaker but I would prefer the nursery to support my decision to use naughty step etc. and follow this through at nursery.
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Review from Katy J (Mother of Child) published on 6 October 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My daughter started at Little Green Rascals just after her first birthday. She has struggled with settling in but the staff are fantastic and have taken amazing care of her and even rung me to let me know she has settled in once I had left so that I am not worrying until I pick her up. She loves all
the activities especially exploring outside and helping with the chickens and Guinea pigs. The outside space is excellent and they get to visit the maze to play and see the animals. The food is an excellent standard and they get to try things you possibly wouldn't eat at home.
They also get visits from Tatty Bumpkins so they can participate in yoga etc.
The range of toys and activities they are involved with is invaluable to their learning and my little girl has come on in leaps and bounds since starting at nursery.
The feedback given to parents at the end of the day and at parents evening is fantastic also. I would definitely recommend Little Green Rascals to anyone considering taking their hold there.
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Review from David G (Father of Child) published on 6 October 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Little Green Rascals is a really excellent nursery: I would highly recommend it to other parents. The staff there take particular care to get to know each child: my son has a great bond with his key-worker, but also with other staff in his room, and even staff outside the room seem to know him. There's
a lot of outside space which is well-used, and the nursery benefits from having links to a Forest School and the 'Maize Maze' next door. The food also seems to be excellent, well-prepared, nutritious and inventive - my son eats better than I do!
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Review from Lucy A (Mother of Child) published on 5 October 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My 2 boys have attended Little Green Rascals at Elvington since they were 10 months old...my eldest has just waved goodbye to start big school and what a start they have given him!! The staff are truly fantastic at what they do and the nursery itself really is home from home. I leave my sons there and
know that they will have the most amazing day...forest school, yoga, science, art class...the list goes on!! The food is beyond good, it's delicious, and all home cooked...my sons eat food I never thought they would and show a keen interest in cooking.


Leaving your child at nursery is never an easy thing to do but what Little Green Rascals offer makes it so much easier...highly, highly recommend it!!

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Review from Andrew F (Father of Child) published on 11 September 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
This is a fantastic nursery with wonderful resources - our son particularly loves all the outdoor space they have! The Elvington Lane site has two wonderful gardens with loads of outdoors activities, and the Forest School is a wonderful part of the nursery. For Forest School, the children are taken
out into some safe woods nearby, where they study nature and outdoor crafts. Our son always comes back buzzing after a Forest School session!


Food is freshly prepared onsite and is a wonderful high standard; we are often jealous of the menus on offer!


The staff are wonderful and look after children attentively and thoughtfully. There is a great gentle ethos at the nursery which involves solving disputes by listening to the children, discussing the problem, and looking for solutions together. Our son loves the staff, and they have been brilliant with him, in particular with his own needs - he suffers from glue ear which affects his hearing, and when it is bad the staff are great at giving him more one-on-one time to help him and make sure he's involved with everything.


The nursery community is lovely, there is great interaction with the parents and regular activities for parents and children to get involved with together. Any issues we have raised have been addressed promptly and respectfully. We are delighted with this nursery and would not hesitate to recommend it.

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Review from Emma F (Mother of Child) published on 15 July 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
We love Little Green Rascals! Our son was very reluctant to be away from us at first, and the staff were fantastic at helping him to settle in. He's been at LGR for about 8 months now and loves it.


The resources are brilliant, both indoor and outdoor. The outside space was the winner for us; they

spend so much time outside being active.


My son's favourite part of LGR is being outside. Mine is that the staff are engaged with the children, and don't do tough love. Cuddles all round, which is lovely!

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Review from Nicki S (Mother of Child) published on 15 July 2015 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Myself an my husband where nervous about sending our son to nursery for the first time, and feeling guilty. We first walked around LGR when our son was 2 weeks old and booked him in a week later to join from the age of one. Well he is now 3! And the LGR,s team really do feel like part of our family.
They provide everything for our son we would want for those days we do have to work. Everything they do is for the kids with their development, health and well being in mind. I truly and honestly can not recommend them highly enough! What a great team and environment of our amazing little special bundles to grow and develop!
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Current Review Score: 9.9 (9.935)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.9 (9.935) out of 10 for Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  1. The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 27 Reviews in the last 24 months.
  2. The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 27 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  1. 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months. The Average Rating of 4.935 for Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington is calculated as follows: ( (306 Excellents x 5) + (15 Goods x 4) + (3 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 324 Ratings = 4.935
  2. 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5'). The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Little Green Rascals Day Nursery Elvington is based on 27 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    1. 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4
    2. 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 98 number of registered child places is 19.6, which has been reached with 27 Positive reviews. Points = 1
  3. When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
  4. If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Meet the Team (1)

Andrea

Andrea Simpkin

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Hi! I'm Andrea, and I'm the Nursery Manager here at Elvington.


I have over 20 years of experience in early years now and I still feel that it is extremely important to read and research as best practice evolves - this is something I am very passionate about.? I feel very privileged to be a part of Little Green Rascals and the vision that they have, which is truly outstanding.


We look forward to welcoming you to our nursery!

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