Bright Horizons Kingston Victoria Road Day Nursery and Preschool

The staff is great and my baby loves them. The food and activities are very good too. I am concerned about the yearly fee increases (5% this year for 2018, 3% the previous year) which is not justified and puts enormous pressure on parents like us.

Excellent, caring, helpful services and very friendly. My son is just over 3 years old and has never attended nursery before he started at Active Learning. The staff made him feel right at home and he settled very quickly. He started full time immediately and he is very happy and enjoys Active Learning very much and this is due to the amazing staff and Active Learning as a whole.

A fantastic nursery. The staff are amazing and our little boy truly enjoys going. He learns a lot and has lots of fun.

Active Learning Kingston (Surrey) has been a welcoming, caring, fun and educational nursery for my now 3-year-old to be part of the past 1.5 years. He has now graduated to the preschool class and has loved every teacher and mentor along the way. We really cannot say enough good things about Active Learning, I have recommended it to multiple people since we began here in 2016. There is such an eclectic mix of classes and activities-sports, music, art, ballet, French class....all taught by enthusiastic teachers who manage to capture tiny attention spans. One of the biggest reasons we went with Active Learning after touring many other nurseries was this varied schedule of activity and education. It's also obvious from each room in Active Learning that learning is a hands-on and colourful affair. There are many rooms within Active Learning which was another huge draw for us...our son has never spent his day in just one room. The teachers and staff are exceptional, I am always confident I'm leaving my son with people who truly care about him.

Not the cheapest you'll find, but I consider it money well spent.

The nursery has a lovely space to work with and their garden is fantastic for all kids to play outside without feeling cramped. Activities are engaging and involves all the children. This is a safe environment and we appreciate the security provided for children.

Finally, I can see my child making big progress in her skills overall.

The staff have also given me great advice when it has come to kicking bad habits (throwing food on the floor for example) and how to entertain and encourage him in his play and development. The staff and management act in a professional manner when required but are all also fab with the children. I highly recommend this nursery!

I found all the staff are very good indeed. There is a very pleasant atmosphere and feel to the place. There is a wide range of different rooms and the outdoor areas are great for the kids. I know that my son enjoys his time there very much.

I have two children at this nursery - aged 3years 10 months and 1year 11 months.

Can not praise this nursery enough - I took my children out of another local nursery as I wasn't happy and it's the best decision I made.

All of the staff are so welcoming and happy and my children talk very highly of them. The staff literally bend over backwards to accommodate any needs I ever have.

The day set up is brilliant too - children have the opportunity to move between different rooms at different times in the day, this is not something that I have ever seen in another nursery.

Would highly recommend to parents with children of any age who are looking for somewhere that is trustworthy and child-centred.

The staff are really sweet and caring towards my child and I am grateful for it as it makes a huge difference to me.

My husband and I love the fact that there is a separate sensory room and a sleep room for the babies. We couldn't be happier with our choice and really look forward to experiencing all the other opportunities that the nursery provide.

Literacy and numeracy are part of the nursery day, with a qualified early years teacher providing engaging lessons. There are separate classrooms for some activities such as music and art, with specialist teachers for both. The children get visiting teachers for French and ballet, so no need to traipse off to ballet lessons during our precious weekend together. There is also a sports coach and the children get to do a variety of sporting activities.

We have seen a huge shift in our daughter in the past 4 months. She was a difficult eater and now she eats pretty much anything and is feeding herself, she made lots of friends and she quite literally runs into the breakfast room in the mornings. Her key worker as well as the rest of the staff in the baby room, are all much loved by her. We have complete peace of mind during a working day!

We first used this nursery for our eldest daughter two and a half years ago and now our youngest is here. They've both loved their time here. The staff are caring and genuinely interested in the children as individuals. There's a good balance between encouraging learning and nurturing. I always feel assured about leaving my child here and she is always happy at pick up. Sometimes so much that she doesn't want to leave!!

I highly recommend this nursery, I am a mother of 2 boys, currently at this nursery and they are so happy over there. The staff is absolutely brilliant, so creative in their teaching methods and always kind and patient with children. They make a true difference in my boys' daily life, giving them special attention and confidence. Trust and dialogue are key in a relationship between parents and carers and this nursery truly overachieved their objective in this field. The best nursery you can find in the area, with staff excellence, spacious and very well maintained facilities, and real and proven teaching methods. Not all nurseries are meeting so many criteria, that are the end so fundamental in our children's life. Best nursery and pre-school!

My son loves coming to Active Learning, Kingston. The structured days are a great idea and I feel that my son's progress is regularly monitored. They offer a wide range of activities lead by specific teachers such as art, sport, ballet and French along with all the other sessions you would expect to have in a nursery. There is even a library if you want to borrow a book to share with your child. The structured teaching programme with a dedicated and well-trained teacher is great and my son is progressing well.

All the staff, are friendly and helpful and go out of their way to make sure my son is happy and enjoying nursery. They have also been amazing in supporting us with an additional educational needs assessment and have ensured that all staff in the nursery are aware of my son's needs. This has helped a great deal in terms of his progress, development and overall happiness at the nursery. Parents are also given a full handover by their key worker at the end of a session which is great.

I would recommend it.

We have used this nursery for the past 4.5 years for both our girls and we have always been very impressed with the facilities and the staff employed there. The staff are genuinely interested in the kids as individuals and I have always been confident that my girls would be happy, safe and well looked after during their time there. The facilities are amazing and I love the different dedicated spaces that the nursery offers for different activities such as sport, dance, music, art, science, IT, sleep or sensory time. I also love the fact that there are specialist teachers in addition to the core nursery staff to deliver variation and structure to the kids’ day. Overall, my girls have loved their time at this nursery and it has prepared them well for school. I would recommend it to others.

Fantastic nursery - genuinely caring staff and wonderful learning environment. My little one loves the people and always comes home talking about all the things she's done (they keep the kids busy!) and also I can see her development from her confidence to learning letters of the week and the French lessons. I highly recommend this nursery.