Akhter Early Learning Centre Nursery and Pre-School

Receiving regular feedback on a daily basis and child's activity photos uploaded to the secure internet site is a great joy.

My child has recently started at The Akhter ELC and the staff have been so supportive and helpful. They made me and my daughter very welcome.

I have dropped my niece off many times and really like the environment. It's a large setting, with indoor and outdoor play.

My niece enjoys going in 'no tears' and staff are welcoming.

I love this nursery. My daughter is really happy here. Great place.

Excellent setting. My child enjoys coming into nursery. He has made lots of friends and continues learning on a daily basis. The setting is a large, clean environment and staff are welcoming and friendly.

Akhter Early Learning Centre has been a fantastic help in my son's development and success! The staff are friendly yet professional! My son has loved his time at nursery and his personal key workers have left an amazing impression on him.

Highly recommend!

I believe that more could be done than is now. I think this nursery needs focus (in my opinion) on teaching early age children in a playing way like teaching them week days (so for example, introducing all kids every day before they start and say that today is Monday or introduce sitting pillows with different colours so that you can tell the children to sit down on a yellow pillow for a certain child and other children on different colours, so you teach the children many things. Also, I believe that numbers, alphabet, shapes, maybe some animals like rabbits etc. would be nice for the kids to learn. Also, they need more time and space outside sometimes. It feels a little like being locked in the room.

My 2 children attend the holiday club. They are always so excited to come, and they can't wait to see what activities they will be doing. I always get really good feedback and both of my children always tell me how nice their holiday club teachers are. When I come into the setting everyone is always so happy and polite.

We reviewed many settings in Harlow and Epping and found Akhter Early Learning Centre to be the best. It is a well laid out, large, clean, safe, happy environment for my daughter to grow in. She is in the baby room 5 days a week and knowing she enjoys her time there makes it easier for us to go to work.

Akhter has wonderful staff and management. Big rooms and good facilities.

My child comes home happy with new skills and that's the most important thing to me.

Everyone is welcoming and lovely at all times, whenever we have any sort of question or problem it will be resolved quickly. It's to my sister's experience she always comes home happy and satisfied and is never thirsty which in my opinion is very important as children can deteriorate very quickly as they are moving around a lot.

My child always looks forward to going to the nursery and is very comfortable with the staff, she has even called someone mum which in my opinion shows just how much she enjoys her time there if she can feel like home and forget that she is away from her mummy. I always notice that they have several activities for the children which really helps them explore different aspects.

My child has settled in really well into the nursery. He enjoys home cooked meals and his favourite is hot dog pasta. My child has a free taster session followed by three settling sessions before starting on the 9th. I receive updates through Eylog and enjoy seeing what he's been up to.

Fantastic staff and facilities. My son loves going to nursery and always appears as though he has a good day. We can see his progress on the online app and are delighted with the nurturing and care he gets.

My son started at Akhter in August after moving home which means this was his second preschool/nursery he attended. Akhter is very accommodating as they do a settling period for your child, and then assign a key worker to each child. This has really benefited our son and to us, as the school have communicated any concerns regarding our son. Also supporting us and getting the support he needs. We have noticed an approvement in his speech and behaviour. They've haven't just supported our son but also provided parents support. The staff are all very welcoming and will always take the time out to listen. Another positive thing is the EY log being able to see your child's development and progress. We would definitely recommend this nursery setting to other parents.

Recently, having changed nursery manager I couldn't be more pleased with the attention to detail and support received whilst trying to settle my child. They have accepted training to understand her condition and work with me to support my daughters forever changing needs.

My son has been coming to the nursery since he was 9 months old with a short break in between, he loves coming. He has special bonds with the staff that work with him, lately he has been in the school readiness room to help prepare him for his move to school September 2017. I am very happy with the care my son received whilst at the nursery.

My child settled in really well to the nursery. With him only being small I was nervous about sending him but I've had nothing but smiles when bringing him in. The staff have made it a lot easier.