Acorn Day Nursery (Shenley Church End)

My kids love this place and they are always learning loads. The staff are excellent at keeping parents updated.

I would have no hesitation in recommending this nursery (in fact our friend's child has joined the nursery based on our glowing recommendation).

It's in a beautiful location too.

A place where I trust to leave my kids and they are a team with genuine, exceptional care. The manager and staff are extremely passionate about what they do. Children are very happy and self-expressed in the nursery. Will definitely recommend.

This is a fantastic nursery with wonderful staff. Really warm and friendly with a genuine interest in my daughters well being and development. Love the focus on nature and interacting with her environment. The food is prepared on site and is the envy of myself and my wife!

The nursery staff continue to surprise us with imaginative ways to play and engage with our daughter brilliantly. Their obvious patience and professionalism are constant and we couldn't imagine leaving our daughter anywhere else. Until recently leaving for school, our son had spent three fantastic years here and it is reassuring to see that this high level of care is so consistent.

Having looked after my daughter for three years, I knew that the staff at Acorn would provide the same happy experience for my son. It has taken my son a while to get used to parting from us and we have had lots of tears in the mornings. However, the staff have been so wonderful and made the whole experience so much more bearable. We can’t thank them enough for the love and care they have given our son. We would recommend them wholeheartedly to anyone looking for childcare in Milton Keynes.

My daughter started at Acorn Nursery last August and she absolutely loves it. The staff are professional, knowledgeable and caring and it really does feel like a home from home. The nursery really focuses on the outdoor play which is so important and my daughter always has a big smile on her face at the end of the day when I pick her up. All food is prepared on site and it always smells amazing when I drop my daughter off in the morning! I would have no hesitation in recommending the nursery to any parent.

What a fantastic Nursery! We recently moved to the area and I was so nervous as to where we were going to send my three-year-old son. I contacted a few nurseries in the area and quickly received a response from Shenley. We visited the school the next day and my son just went off and started playing! I was so surprised, but equally comforted that he took to this new environment almost immediately. Since then, he adjusted so quickly and just runs off and starts playing with his new friends.

The nursery provides a fantastic bunch of different activities like Forest school, swimming and Zumba, and a great menu of freshly cooked food. My son comes home every day happy and with a story to tell - what more can you ask for!

Acorn nursery is amazing, my second child has just graduated from there. All our children have been in there since 3 months old. Such amazing, caring staff who are honest about how your child's been.

They are a great help to us as a family, by keeping the routine of the house and teaching of the children with their development and manners. I wouldn't know who else to leave our 3 kids with, having 2 gone through and 1 in their final year.

The manager and her team are all surrogate mothers to the children, making parents feel secure that leaving their children with them, they are in safe hands. You get great feedback and eyLog is amazing and receiving 4 years of eyLog photos and comments on a memory stick to keep for ever was a fantastic touch.

They ask if parents want to read to the kids and to go along to forest school which is brilliant, as are open days and of course bacon rolls on Father's Day.

I'd just like to say a big 'thank you' to the manager and all her staff. Try them out, you won't be disappointed.

Excellent nursery with outstanding, professional staff who really care about the children. Wonderful fun activities which are different every day. Lots of outdoor fun including visits to the local woods. Confident, happy children who are treated as individuals. Excellent fresh food cooked on site - always smells delicious!

I cannot recommend this nursery more highly. Our daughter has been there two years and she has thrived in here! The care has been exemplary. We love the varied activities such as swimming, Zumba and forest school. The focus on creative and outdoor play is especially good.

My daughter is truly happy at nursery and looks forward to spending her days there, so much so that I sometimes struggle to convince her to come home! She attends full time, 5 days a week and due to the fantastic care she receives in a warm, happy and friendly environment, I am able to have peace of mind whilst I am at work. The staff are fantastic and although she has a key worker, she is happy, relaxed and at ease with any member of the staff and is met with a warm and loving attitude whoever she has contact with. She has developed a close friendship group and nursery has become a real home from home. I couldn't recommend Acorn Day Nursery (Shenley Church End) high enough.

The outside area is excellent, It is actually the best outside area by far of all the nurseries I checked two years ago. And they do use it a lot, which is fantastic for the children. And their Forest School is amazing!

I cannot rate Acorn Shenley highly enough. I have moved out of the area but couldn't bear to move my daughter to a more convenient local nursery because I love this nursery so much. The staff are wonderful and so caring and my daughter is flourishing. There is a wonderful village feel, lots of fun activities and we are very happy there.

This week the children from the Oaks went to see a performance at the theatre. I also went along. I was very impressed the by the organisation from the staff before the trip and during the trip. As a parent, I could see the children enjoyed the show and were comfortable through the performance. I was also impressed by the level of safeguarding for the children. The children individually had a tag on one item of their clothing that they wore (my daughter wore a dress and it was attached to the label at the back) which said I am lost, if found please call the nursery or head office with the numbers on the tag. The staff also counted the children on a number of occasions. Overall, the children were well looked after and the individual needs thought about in advance.

In terms of the nursery, I am always impressed and have been since 2015 when my daughter started.

My eldest who is 5 is now at school and I feel he wouldn't be as clever or confident as he is now if he didn't have the chance to enjoy nursery life. His younger brother is 14 months and attends nursery and has all this to look forward to. The best nursery by far.

Exceptional provision for my son and daughter previously. Staff are excellent and extremely caring towards my child. They know my child very well and he loves going there. Highly recommend this nursery.

I picked this nursery two years ago based on the good reports I had read at the time and have not been disappointed. My daughter only attends one day a week so I was fearful she wouldn't be involved in as many of the tasks and activities as the children that attend every day but I was wrong. The staff shuffle activities to ensure my daughter gets a turn and is as fully involved as possible. The feedback system used is brilliant and allows pictures and messages to be exchanged between home and the nursery very easily. The staff are amazing and all very welcoming, two years into our relationship with Acorn at Shenley my daughter can't wait for nursery day!

Having visited all the nurseries in Milton Keynes for my child, Acorn at Shenley Church End is the best. The team and key workers are very caring, supportive and encouraging. Within a couple of weeks, my child settled and is always keen to attend her sessions. Key workers are attentive to each individual child's needs and working closely know their temperaments too. Kudos to the team and big thank you for helping us through these early important years in my little one's life. Making learning through play a reality.